WOULD YOU SAY THESE ARE THE 10 BEST COUNTRY CHRISTMAS SONGS?

There are Christmas songs a plenty out there. Version after version of the classics can be heard on several stations that fits there style whether it’s classic hits, rock, pop, and – of course country. Some versions are way better than others with some remakes better than the original, and some classics that never should have touched. Newer Christmas songs come out every so often that can be hit or miss. Taste Of Country decided to break down all the COUNTRY versions of songs whether classics or originals to rank them. I think Kenny Chesney’s “All I Want For Christmas Is A Real Good Tan” is too high and Brett Eldredge’s “Glow” should be top 10 even if it doesn’t exactly have a country sound. What do you think?

Here are their picks for the top ten country Christmas songs of all time . . .

1.  “Hard Candy Christmas” by Dolly Parton. 

2.  “Let It Be Christmas” by Alan Jackson.  It was the title track of his Christmas album in 2002.

3.  “All I Want for Christmas Is You” by Vince Vance and the Valiants.  He sued Mariah Carey this year for $20 MILLION over her song with the same name that came out five years later.  But he just dropped the lawsuit last month.

4.  “Where Are You Christmas” by Faith Hill.  It was on the “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” soundtrack in 2000.  Mariah Carey co-wrote it and planned to do it herself.  But she was in a lawsuit with her ex-husband, so Faith got the nod.

5.  “Pretty Paper” by Willie Nelson.  Roy Orbison originally released it in 1963, but Willie wrote it.

6.  “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” by Brenda Lee.  She was only 13 when she recorded it in 1958.  Tons of other artists have covered it since then, including Toby Keith and LeAnn Rimes.

7.  “Mary, Did You Know?” by Kenny Rogers and Wynonna Judd.  They released their version in 1996.

8.  “Christmas Cookies” by George Strait.  It was on the compilation album “A Country Christmas” in 1999.

9.  “All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan” by Kenny Chesney.  It was the title track of his holiday album in 2003.

10.  Brett Eldredge’s version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” from 2016. 

Check out the full Top 50 list at TasteOfCountry.com