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Old 03-12-2015, 20:09
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Pretty much every artist that you would consider to be iconic released a Christmas song back in their heyday. Lennon, McCartney, Elvis, Elton, The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Whitney, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Wham! and many others had Christmas hits back in the day

But why don't modern artists release Christmas songs? Especially as they will get considerably royalties from them. Or is Christmas just not as popular as it once was?
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Old 03-12-2015, 20:39
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Actually it's down to the record label, not the artist, deciding whether enough people would buy the record to make making one a profitable exercise. So obviously not.
There's enough Christmas songs now and the interest in them dies immediately after Christmas.
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Old 03-12-2015, 20:45
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Because people download Mariah's All I Want For Christmas Is You in December, then delete the song from their library early on in the new year. Then the following December they download the song again from a brand new compilation album. Same with Fairytale Of New York.

Oh, and maybe because they're seen a tacky novelty fluff by UK media hence why songs like Christmas Lights by Coldplay fail to benefit every December.

Katy Perry and Kylie Minogue have both got new christmas songs. Neither are going to be regarded as a classic, so 12 months from now nobody is going to be playing Every Day Is A Holiday, or Every Day's Like Christmas.

All I Want For Christmas, on the other hand, is guaranteed to be played en masse every December for the rest of time.
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Old 03-12-2015, 21:57
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Erm, Kylie has just released a Xmas album and Enya released one just a few years ago, 2011 I think.
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Old 03-12-2015, 22:23
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Its hard to do so now without losing credibility. I think only certain artists can get away with it.
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Old 03-12-2015, 23:34
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Kylie just released a Christmas album and Leona Lewis and Kelly Clarkson also released some in recent years. Britney Spears did a song called My Only Wish (This Year) and Girls Aloud had some Christmas songs on a bonus disc with their Chemistry album. Lady Gaga also did a song called Christmas Tree back in 2008/2009 or so.
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Old 03-12-2015, 23:37
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I don't care whether any so called 'celebrity' releases a Christmas song, especially artists like Kylie. I fkin hate pop.
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Old 04-12-2015, 10:46
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I don't care whether any so called 'celebrity' releases a Christmas song, especially artists like Kylie. I fkin hate pop.
That's a great contribution, thanks.
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Old 04-12-2015, 11:41
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Kylie just released a Christmas album and Leona Lewis and Kelly Clarkson also released some in recent years. Britney Spears did a song called My Only Wish (This Year) and Girls Aloud had some Christmas songs on a bonus disc with their Chemistry album. Lady Gaga also did a song called Christmas Tree back in 2008/2009 or so.
Others I can think of that have released Christmas albums are CeeLo Green, Michael Buble, Idina Menzel and Rod Stewart.

The Killers, on the other hand, have been releasing new Christmas songs annually for the last couple of years. They have a new song that has just come out called "Dirty Sledding".

I also know that The Darkness have brought out a new Christmas song this year. Pixie Lott - who absolutely loves Christmas - did her own cover of "Silent Night" complete with a harmonica playing - I just know she was thinking of Stevie Wonder in mind for that at the time of recording - on her debut album and two songs last year: a cover of "Caravan of Love" to raise money for the new Alder Hey Children's Hospital in Liverpool and a new song called "I Got Love for Xmas" on her greatest hits album last year.

I just generally think it depends on interest from the fans and the artists' themselves whether or not they actually love doing them or not.
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Old 04-12-2015, 11:56
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Carly Rae Jepsen-'Last Chistmas'
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Old 04-12-2015, 12:41
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I don't care whether any so called 'celebrity' releases a Christmas song, especially artists like Kylie. I fkin hate pop.
The fact you say this, tells me you probably believe pop music to be the usual chart fodder, when in fact pop music transcends most genres.

Only snobbery can stop a person appreciating pop music.
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Old 04-12-2015, 12:55
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Their songs are bad enough the rest of the year.
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Old 04-12-2015, 13:42
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Songs may still get released for Christmas but there isn't anywhere near the focus and (depending on your point of view) magic about the race for "the Christmas number 1" as there used to be. People may cringe at Slade/Wizzard/Shakin Stevens/Wham/Boney M/etc etc but that was the golden era for Christmas songs from a chart perspective and confirmed by their relentless radio replays year after year.

Part of it is that the charts aren't seen in the same way by the public at large and so some of the meaning is lost, and certainly X Factor must take some of the blame over the last decade for hijacking the tradition and replacing seasonal cute and mostly bland with absolute and definitely........ bland.
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Old 06-12-2015, 09:57
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Pretty much every artist that you would consider to be iconic released a Christmas song back in their heyday. Lennon, McCartney, Elvis, Elton, The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Whitney, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Wham! and many others had Christmas hits back in the day

But why don't modern artists release Christmas songs? Especially as they will get considerably royalties from them. Or is Christmas just not as popular as it once was?
modern artists do release christmas songs
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Old 06-12-2015, 10:56
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Pretty much every artist that you would consider to be iconic released a Christmas song back in their heyday. Lennon, McCartney, Elvis, Elton, The Carpenters, Stevie Wonder, Whitney, Lionel Ritchie, Rod Stewart, Wham!
i don't think they did, i think you've about exhausted the list there
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Old 06-12-2015, 11:06
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There's enough of them running around.
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Old 06-12-2015, 15:01
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There have been plenty of "new" Christmas songs released in recent years.

What we could really do with is a compilation album of the best of them.
This should then be issued free to all shops, so that I can do my Christmas shopping without having to listen to the sameold sameold.
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Old 06-12-2015, 16:58
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The SAW remix of Kylie's Everyday's Like Christmas is a blast! Then again I'm biased.

Lack of airplay is choking off Kylie's sales.
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Old 06-12-2015, 17:12
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The SAW remix of Kylie's Everyday's Like Christmas is a blast! Then again I'm biased.

Lack of airplay is choking off Kylie's sales.
i saw Kylie on TV on Friday, and she was also singing live on the Chris Evans radio show. And the thought that came to me was how the **** has this woman managed to eke out a career in music? She sang 'Bette Davis eyes' and it sounded like some child singing in their bedroom would have sounded. Absolutely awful singing voice.

If lack of airplay is finally killing her off, it's not before time frankly
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Old 06-12-2015, 21:06
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i saw Kylie on TV on Friday, and she was also singing live on the Chris Evans radio show. And the thought that came to me was how the **** has this woman managed to eke out a career in music? She sang 'Bette Davis eyes' and it sounded like some child singing in their bedroom would have sounded. Absolutely awful singing voice.

If lack of airplay is finally killing her off, it's not before time frankly
Agreed
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Old 07-12-2015, 05:05
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Country music is rife with Christmas albums, even the biggest stars release christmas albums.
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Old 07-12-2015, 10:25
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Because Christmas albums are a waste of time if your current in the charts as people want to listen to your music everyday of the year and need to release music all throughout the year.

They are fine when your released a few albums like Kylie etc and need to do different ventures instead and have built up a fan base who will buy the album.

I think now as well, Christmas albums have been done to death over the years and it's the same songs being churned out year after year by various artists.
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Old 07-12-2015, 12:14
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Coldplay's 'Christmas Lights', Leona's 'One More Sleep' and Kelly Clarkson's 'Underneath the Tree' are three of the best christmas songs going but unfortunately they just don't get the recognition they should.
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Old 07-12-2015, 13:27
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TLC and Destiny's Child both did their own Xmas songs back in the day
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Old 07-12-2015, 13:41
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Coldplay's 'Christmas Lights', Leona's 'One More Sleep' and Kelly Clarkson's 'Underneath the Tree' are three of the best christmas songs going but unfortunately they just don't get the recognition they should.
Agreed, they're all on my Christmas spotify playlist. Plus, x factor has killed the Christmas no1 stone dead so no point releasing these type of songs.
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