Whether people in the Sunflower State are placing wagers at Kansas sports betting sites or rushing around to buy the last of their holiday gifts, one thing seems certain: They will be listening to plenty of Christmas music at this time of year.
If youâre listening to KCKC (102.1 FM in Kansas City, Missouri) you wonât have a choice. The station, which usually has an adult contemporary format, bills itself as âKCâs Christmas Stationâ at this time of year and switches to an all-Christmas music format for the holidays.
At BetKansas.com, where our year-round gift to you is real money Kansas sportsbook promos, we were curious which Christmas songs were favorites in Kansas. Using Google Trends, we found the top five most popular Christmas songs based on search interest scores from a timeframe of Dec. 17, 2004, to Dec. 17, 2024.
Rank | Song | Search Interest Score |
T1 | âSanta Babyâ | 10 |
T1 | âAll I Want For Christmas Is Youâ | 10 |
3 | âLast Christmasâ | 8 |
4 | âJingle Bell Rocksâ | 7 |
5 | âSilent Nightâ | 5 |
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Two songs earned a search interest score of 10 to top our rankings: The classic âSanta Babyâ and the newer seasonal hit, Mariah Careyâs âAll I Want For Christmas Is You.â
The original âSanta Babyâ was recorded by the late Eartha Kitt and released in 1953. The lyrics made no bones about the narratorâs expensive tastes. The first line is âSanta baby, just slip a sable under the tree for meâ and goes on to wish for âA â54 convertible too, light blueâ and a yacht as well.
The other song tied at the top, Careyâs âAll I Want For Christmas Is You,â first reached the charts in 2000 â years after its initial 1994 release â but took nearly two decades to reach No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the first time. It has been ubiquitous around the holidays ever since. âAll I Want For Christmas Is Youâ is once again No. 1 on the singles chart as of this writing (on Dec. 18, 2024). It is the first song ever to have six different reigns as the No. 1 song in the country, having re-ascended the charts to top the list each December since 2019.
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