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Section sizes

Section size for Christmas music (45 sections)
Section name	Byte count	Section total
(Top)	5,155	5,155
History	36	12,647
Early music	3,905	3,905
Puritan prohibition	1,897	1,897
Royal restoration	3,478	3,478
Alms	2,165	2,165
Church feasts	1,166	1,166
Classical music	5,484	5,484
Christmas carols	579	10,159
Standards	3,317	3,317
Early secular Christmas songs	1,088	1,088
Published Christmas music	3,193	3,193
Choirmasters poll	1,982	1,982
Popular Christmas songs	28	83,202
United States	3,513	15,558
Most-performed Christmas songs	12,045	12,045
Christmas song surveys	4,505	5,051
Pinnacle Media Worldwide survey	546	546
United Kingdom and Ireland	33	14,486
Most played songs	8,325	8,325
Christmas Number Ones	6,128	6,128
Australia	6,565	6,565
Philippines	3,031	3,031
Other popular Christmas songs	2,107	25,105
1950s	3,089	3,089
1960s	5,659	5,659
1970s	3,603	3,603
1980s	3,838	3,838
1990s	2,098	2,098
2000s	1,358	1,358
2010s	1,979	1,979
2020s	1,374	1,374
Christmas songs from musicals	1,715	1,715
Christmas novelty songs	5,015	7,284
Juvenile	2,269	2,269
Non-Christian writers	4,379	4,379
Adopted Christmas music	7,276	7,276
Radio broadcasting of Christmas music	12,159	28,263
As a stunt format	4,362	4,362
Outside the United States	9,639	9,639
Christmas music on satellite and Internet radio	2,103	2,103
See also	606	606
References	28	28
Further reading	910	910
External links	23	23
Total	153,753	153,753

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Popular songs

Not sure these two have become all that popular:

1961: "Seven Shades of Snow" by June Christy on This Time of Year
1961: "Blue Holiday" by The Shirelles--Artaxerxes (talk) 05:43, 29 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Not sure this is any sort of definitive recording:

1964: "Deck The Hall" recorded by Jo Stafford on the album The Joyful Season.--Artaxerxes (talk) 20:46, 30 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Removed for not being considered "in any way popular":Artaxerxes (talk) 17:27, 2 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1994: "Merry Christmas from the Family", written by Robert Earl Keen; released on his Gringo Honeymoon.
1994: "There's a New Kid in Town",^[1] written by Don Cook, Curly Putman, and Keith Whitley; released by Trisha Yearwood on ''The Sweetest Gift''.^[2]

Maybe not big enough for article:--Artaxerxes (talk) 16:12, 8 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

1951: "Some Children See Him" written by Alfred Burt.

References

Adopted music

Removed from article (Christmas Eve close enough):--Artaxerxes (talk) 19:16, 6 January 2020 (UTC)[reply]

Borrowing from the title of the Robert Burns standard "Auld Lang Syne," Dan Fogelberg's "Same Old Lang Syne" (1980) tells a Christmas Eve story.

Capitalisation of "internet"

A small issue, but hey, let's discuss. An IP editor has changed "internet" to "Internet" with the (factually wrong) edit summary "always capitalized". I undid that, relying on MOS:CAPS, to which the response was a re-revert, now referring to usage in the Internet article and Talk:Internet#Capitalisation which says nothing. This is evidently a somewhat contentious issue, with the November 2020 RFC being closed as no consensus. The IP editor has not followed WP:BRD, but I don't agree with changing the long-term usage on this page absent consensus to do so, and am bringing it here for wider discussion. MichaelMaggs (talk) 13:22, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Historically there's been no consensus for capitalizing either way, so I would revert per WP:STATUSQUO; the change isn't required. (psst: capitalizing "internet" is dumb anyway.) Popcornfud (talk) 14:06, 28 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]

References gone wild

"Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1 at line 1392: bad argument #1 to 'pairs' (table expected, got nil)." What? Artaxerxes (talk) 13:00, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Looks OK now. Probably a central script got messed up momentarily. Cnbrb (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Phillipines

To this point the article has highlighted notable anglophone countries. Do the Phillipines fit here? Artaxerxes (talk) 17:05, 6 December 2023 (UTC)[reply]

Provided adequate sourcing and due weight, yes. (I was wondering who keeps adding Filipino-related content to a lot of these articles!) Obviously the UK/US (and to an extent Canadian and Australian) sourcing is more widely accessible given this IS the English Wikipedia but as long as the content follows standard guidelines, I'd say Wikipedia actively encourages its addition. J. Myrle Fuller (talk) 22:21, 28 February 2024 (UTC)[reply]

[1] ttps://www.discogs.com/Michael-Johnson-Theres-A-New-Kid-In-Town/release/14234235

[2] ttps://secondhandsongs.com/work/140742/versions#nav-entity

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