Here's RI's Favorite Christmas Song: Spotify

It's that time again: The your go-to radio station is playing Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” into the ground. That’s likely because it was the No. 1 Christmas song in the world last year, according to the popular streaming service Spotify. In fact, it ranked tops in every country except two — Iceland and Denmark.

Not in Rhode Island, where we apparently like to rock out to our Christmas tunes. According to Spotify, the hottest Christmas song here was Trans-Siberian Orchestra – Christmas Eve / Sarajevo (Instrumental). This is the one we envision Santa using to pump himself up before an exhaustive night of gift giving.

Spotify said its analysis was based on Christmas music each state listened to most relative to the rest of the country. Users of the streaming service created more than 18 million Christmas-themed playlists, so they certainly had plenty of data to analyze.

“In a way, this is the Christmas song that most defines each state, like the state bird or motto,” the authors wrote.

One of their more interesting findings — a lot of people seem to love hearing Nat King Cole sing about chestnuts roasting over an open fire. “The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You)” was the top song in six states: Hawaii, Maine, Mississippi, Nevada, New Hampshire and New Mexico.

Mariah Carey was the single most-streamed Christmas song of all-time with more than 217 million streams worldwide, (followed by “Last Christmas” by Wham! And Michael Bublé’s “It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas”) but it wasn’t any state’s official Christmas anthem.

“The Drifters” appeared twice on the list — in both Dakotas — with their hit “White Christmas,” and the Trans-Siberian Orchestra trended most in Rhode Island, Delaware and Michigan for two of their songs.

Here were the top 10 songs across the globe:

1. Mariah Carey – All I Want for Christmas Is You
2. Wham! – Last Christmas
3. Michael Bublé – It’s Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas
4. Justin Bieber – Mistletoe
5. Ariana Grande – Santa Tell Me
6. Andy Williams – It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year
7. Band Aid – Do They Know It’s Christmas? (1984 Version)
8. The Pogues – Fairytale of New York (feat. Kirsty MacColl)
9. Bing Crosby – White Christmas
10. Frank Sinatra – Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!

Patch national staffer Dan Hampton contributed to this report.

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