Some Christmas songs are such classics that they come around, time and again. Maybe you’ve heard the Michael Bublé cover more recently, but you can’t help feeling like a kid on Christmas morning when this Perry Como original starts playing.

Do you know it’s Christmas if you don’t hear Bing Crosby’s best-selling masterpiece, “White Christmas,” at least once? Even if you don’t know some of the lyrics past the first verse, that doesn’t mean you won’t be singing along.

Gone, but never forgotten, Wham! blessed us with “Last Christmas” in 1984. With its merry jingle and eternally memorable chorus, it can be easy to overlook the sad beauty in this song’s lyrics.

Christmas is about getting together with loved ones, so Darlene Love’s ode to loss really hits home for those missing someone around the holiday season.

We might not call them “party hops” anymore, but Brenda Lee changed office parties forever in 1958 when she released this Christmas song.

If there ever was a way of summing up Christmas in one sentence it would be this, wouldn’t it? It’s the most wonderful time of the year!

If we had to crown a queen of Christmas, after this song, there’s no doubt it would be Mariah Carey… ’nuff said.

Some Christmas songs’ lyrics are master classes in extensive poeticism, but “Feliz Navidad” proves simplicity can be even more powerful to let people know how you feel.

There has never been, and never will again be, a song that so clearly demonstrates the sheer power of people coming together for Christmas.

Rounding off the list is the crooner of all crooners saying what we’re all thinking, because really, what else do we want but a white Christmas?