Gideon Resnick

By December 1st, 30 Christmas songs were in Spotify's top 50 U.S.

tracks.

That's compared to just 14 at the same point in time in 2019.

The only songs not able to edge out the Christmas ones are mega hits like The Fate of Ophelia by Taylor Swift.

The journal notes that holiday songs being everywhere right now represents a rare monocultural musical moment.

Even though listeners are spread across streaming services and formats, maybe all of us are, in fact, mainlining the same songs.

That famous one we just played by Mariah Carey?

Well, it was named the longest-running number one song in Billboard history this week.

So good luck getting it out of your head.

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Good morning.

It's Tuesday, December 16th.

I'm Gideon Resnick in for Shamita Basu.

This is Apple News Today.

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