People In The UK Have Started Streaming Christmas Songs Earlier Than Ever

I love Christmas and will usually allow myself a cheeky listen to some festive tunes once we get towards the more blustery end of September.

This year, more than ever, we deserve to wrap ourselves up in the tinselly, magical notes of Brenda Lee and Darlene Love, or belt out a tuneless rendition of Driving Home For Christmas or Fairytale Of New York.

And it would seem we’ve been getting on it early if Spotify is anything to go by, with Mariah Carey’s snow cold classic, All I Want For Christmas having sledged into the audio streaming platform’s top 40 as of Sunday, November 8. A full two weeks earlier than it did just three years ago.

Get yourself in the Christmas spirit by blasting out the following iconic music vid like you absolutely know you want to:

In our eyes, a country has officially started the jingle bell rocking once festive tunes make up more than 2 percent of all listening in the region. On average, most countries start hitting play on holiday hits towards the end of November.

However, these stats show that how early we begin whacking on our Christmas playlists very much depends on whereabouts we’re living in the world.

For example, those in the Philippines start listening to merry tunes as early as September, while Argentina and Uruguay wait until Christmas Day itself. How do they have such restraint?

Interestingly, as per Spotify, ‘no one gets quite into the Christmas spirit like Liechtenstein’, even though they do tend to kick things off late in the season:

Though off to a slow start, in the few days before December 25th, almost 70% of all listening is exclusively Christmas music — triple the global average for Christmas listening.

Right, with Mariah firmly back in the charts, I’d say that makes it completely okay, and even essential, to put the tree up…