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Your Favourite Christmas Carols, Songs, Shows & Movies
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So... the results are in from our Christmas Survey (in December 2023) and we received exactly 1,000 votes (although we can only presume those for "Jungle Balls", "that Ding Dong song" and "While Shepherds Washed Their Socks at Night" were meant to be for "Jingle Bells", "Ding Dong Merrily on High" and "While Shepherds Watched Their Flocks By Night" and we trust you knew the difference between Shakin' Stevens' Merry Christmas Everyone and Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody).
After revealing the results each day, in the run up to Christmas in the form of an advert calendar (one of those 25 day ones you used to get as a kid), we can finally now reveal the full results.
Also take a listen to our incredible Christmas Playlist compiled from the votes for your favourite festive tunes...
Your Favourite Festive Shows:
1 ~ Elf - The Musical - [Leeds Tickets]
2 ~ A Christmas Carol - [Tickets]
3 ~ The Nutcracker - [Tickets]
4 ~ White Christmas
5 ~ Cinderella (panto) - [Tickets]
6 ~ Snow White & The Seven Dwarfs (panto) [Tickets]
7 ~ Edward Scissorhands.
8 ~ The Snowman - [London Tickets] - [Watch with the Hallé]
9 ~ Peter Pan (panto) - [Tickets]
10 ~ Jack and The Beanstalk (panto) - [Tickets]
11 ~ Cinderella - [Ballet Tickets]
12 ~ Scrooge: The Musical
13 ~ Aladdin (panto) - [Tickets]
14 ~ Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas! The Musical
15 ~ Slava's Snowshow [London Tickets]
16 ~ The Snow Queen - [Portsmouth Tickets]
17 ~ Nativity! The Musical
18 ~ Dick Whittington (panto) - [Stoke Tickets]
19 ~ Jesus Christ Superstar
20 ~ The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
21 ~ Meredith Wilson's Miracle on 34th Street - The Musical - [Tickets]
22 ~ Frozen - The Musical
23 ~ The Muppet Christmas Carol in Concert
24 ~ Peter Pan Goes Wrong
25 ~ Disney on Ice - [London Tickets]
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Your Favourite Christmas Movies:
1 ~ Elf - [Sky Cinema]
2 ~ Home Alone - [Disney+]
3 ~ Love Actually
4 ~ It's a Wonderful Life - [HOME] - [Amazon Prime]
5 ~ The Holiday - [Live in Concert] - [Amazon Prime]
6 ~ Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version) - [Disney+]
7 ~ Die Hard - [Disney+]
8 ~ The Muppet Christmas Carol - [Live in Concert] - [Disney+]
9 ~ The Polar Express - [Sky Cinema]
10 ~ White Christmas - [Amazon Prime] - [Sky Cinema]
11 ~ National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - [Sky Cinema]
12 ~ Disney's A Christmas Carol - [Disney+]
13 ~ The Grinch - [Amazon Prime] - [Netflix]
14 ~ Scrooge - [Amazon Prime]
15 ~ Gremlins
16 ~ The Nightmare Before Christmas - [Disney+]
17 ~ The Santa Clause - [Disney+]
18 ~ Santa Claus: The Movie - [Amazon Prime]
19 ~ Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - [Disney+]
20 ~ Christmas With The Kranks
21 ~ The Christmas Toy - [Amazon] - [YouTube]
22 ~ The Snowman - [Watch with the Hallé] - [Channel 4]
23 ~ Meet Me in St. Louis - [Amazon]
24 ~ Klaus - [Netflix]
25 ~ Nativity! - [BBC iPlayer] - [Netflix]
Your Favourite Christmas Songs:
1 ~ Last Christmas - Wham! - [Playlist]
2 ~ All I Want for Christmas is You - Mariah Carey - [Playlist]
3 ~ Fairytale of New York - The Pogues - [Playlist]
4 ~ Merry Xmas Everybody - Slade - [Playlist]
5 ~ Driving Home for Christmas - Chris Rea - [Playlist]
6 ~ Merry Christmas Everyone - Shakin' Stevens - [Playlist]
7 ~ I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday - Wizzard - [Playlist]
8 ~ Do They Know it's Christmas? - Band Aid - [Playlist]
9 ~ It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas - Perry Como & The Fontaine Sisters - [Playlist]
10 ~ A Winter's Tale - Queen - [Playlist]
11 ~ Santa Baby - Eartha Kitt - [Playlist]
12 ~ Mistletoe & Wine - Cliff Richard - [Playlist]
13 ~ White Christmas - Bing Crosby - [Playlist]
14 ~ Santa Tell Me - Ariana Grande - [Playlist]
15 ~ Step Into Christmas - Elton John - [Playlist]
16 ~ Stop The Cavalry - Jona Lewie - [Playlist]
17 ~ Feliz Navidad - José Feliciano - [Playlist]
18 ~ A Spaceman Came Travelling - Chris de Burgh - [Playlist]
19 ~ Christmas Wrapping - The Waitresses - [Playlist]
20 ~ Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree - Brenda Lee - [Playlist]
21 ~ A Winter's Tale - David Essex - [Playlist]
22 ~ Wonderful Christmastime - Paul McCartney - [Playlist]
23 ~ Happy Xmas (War is Over) - John Lennon & Yoko Ono - [Playlist]
24 ~ In Dulci Jubilo - Mike Oldfield - [Playlist]
25 ~ The Christmas Song - Nat King Cole - [Playlist]
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Your Favourite Christmas Carols:
1 ~ Silent Night - [Playlist]
2 ~ Away in a Manger - [Playlist]
3 ~ O Holy Night - [Playlist]
4 ~ Oh Come, All Ye Faithful - [Playlist]
5 ~ In the Bleak Midwinter - [Playlist]
6 ~ O Little Town of Bethlehem - [Playlist]
7 ~ Jingle Bells - [Playlist]
8 ~ Deck the Halls - [Playlist]
9 ~ Good King Wenceslas - [Playlist]
10 ~ Carol of the Bells - [Playlist]
11 ~ Hark! The Herald Angels Sing - [Playlist]
12 ~ Once in Royal David's City - [Playlist]
13 ~ Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer - [Playlist]
14 ~ Ding Dong Merrily On High - [Playlist]
15 ~ Little Donkey - [Playlist]
16 ~ God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - [Playlist]
17 ~ The Holly & The Ivy - [Playlist]
18 ~ We Wish You a Merry Christmas - [Playlist]
19 ~ We Three Kings - [Playlist]
20 ~ Calypso Carol - [Playlist]
21 ~ Past Three O'Clock - [Playlist]
22 ~ The First Noël - [Playlist]
23 ~ Do You Hear What I Hear? - [Playlist]
24 ~ Gaudete - [Playlist]
25 ~ 12 Days of Christmas - [Playlist]
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Your Favourite Festive Classical Tracks:
1 ~ The Nutcracker Suite - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Playlist]
2 ~ White Christmas - Irving Berlin - [Playlist]
3 ~ Stille Nacht, heilige Nacht (Silent Night) - Franz Xaver Gruber - [Playlist]
4 ~ Lieutenant Kijé - Troika - Sergei Prokofiev - [Playlist]
5 ~ Walking in the Air - Howard Blake - [Playlist]
6 ~ Sleigh Ride - Leroy Anderson - [Playlist]
7 ~ Cantique de Noël (Oh Holy Night) - Adolphe Adam - [Playlist]
8 ~ Shchedryk (Carol of the Bells) - Mykola Leontovych - [Playlist]
9 ~ Messiah - Hallelujah - George Frideric Handel - [Playlist]
10 ~ The Nutcracker - Dance of the Sugar-Plum Fairy - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Playlist]
11 ~ Messiah - Overture - George Frideric Handel - [Playlist]
12 ~ Jingle Bells - James Lord Pierpont - [Playlist]
13 ~ Joy to the World - Lowell Mason - [Playlist]
14 ~ Ice Dance - Danny Elfman - [Playlist]
15 ~ The Four Seasons - Winter - Antonio Vivaldi - [Playlist]
16 ~ The Seasons - December: Christmas - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky - [Playlist]
17 ~ Ave Maria - Franz Schubert - [Playlist]
18 ~ Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! - Jule Styne & Sammy Cahn - [Playlist]
19 ~ Winter Wonderland - Felix Bernard & Richard B. Smith - [Playlist]
20 ~ Soleado (When A Child is Born) - Ciro "Zacar" Dammicco - [Playlist]
21 ~ Somewhere in My Memory - John Williams - [Playlist]
22 ~ Requiem - Lacrymosa - Amadeus Mozart - [Playlist]
23 ~ Highland Cathedral - Ulrich Roever & Michael Korb - [Playlist]
24 ~ Christmas at Hogwarts - John Williams - [Playlist]
25 ~ Festgesang (Hark! The Herald Angels Sing) - Felix Mendelssohn - [Playlist]
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The winner of our prize of 2 tickets to any Christmas show of their choice is Hazel James who went to see Jack & The Beanstalk at the Opera House.