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    What Is the Most Popular Christmas Song?

    …being the most recorded Christmas song of all time—at least in the United States. In 2014 Time magazine examined U.S. copyright registration data and determined that the German carol had been recorded more than 700 times since 1978. (“Joy to the World” was a distant runner-up, with just under 400…

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    …being the most recorded Christmas song of all time—at least in the United States. In 2014 Time magazine examined U.S. copyright registration data and determined that the German carol had been recorded more than 700 times since 1978. (“Joy to the World” was a distant runner-up, with just under 400…

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