This quiz asks you to name 50 popular Christmas songs: 48 hit recordings and 2 carols.
The board shows one card for each song, with the newest song first. Each card shows the artist of the best-known recording, or the writer of a carol. The year is the hint under the card.
Every song on the board is less than 150 years old. The first cards are hits from this century. The last card is a carol from 1885.
How to play
Just start typing. The quiz checks your answer at every keystroke. There is no submit button.
A correct title flips its card. You can answer in any order.
The short title that people use counts. Brackets and punctuation in a title are ignored.
Many titles also accept "Xmas" in place of "Christmas".
Spelling is forgiving. Capitals and accents are ignored, and frequent misspellings are accepted.
A Christmas song that is not on the board clears the input, so you know that the quiz read the guess.
The timer starts at your first keystroke and counts up. Give Up ends the run and shows every song that you missed. Progress saves automatically.
What counts in this quiz
The 48 recordings are the Christmas songs with the most all-time streams on Spotify, plus the classics that radio stations play every December in the US and the UK.
A song with many famous versions shows the version that most people know.
The 2 carols show the writer of the music, or the country of the carol when the writer is not known. The year is the year of the words or of the music.
What's not included, and why
There is one card for each song, not one for each version.
Some well-known Christmas songs are not here, because the board has 50 cards.
Carols that are older than 150 years are not on the board. Silent Night and Joy to the World are two examples. They clear the input like any other song that is not on the board.
Good to know
The oldest song on the board is Away in a Manger. Its words were first printed in 1885, in a book for children in Philadelphia.
Mariah Carey's 1994 hit first reached number one on the Billboard Hot 100 in 2019, 25 years after its release.
Bing Crosby sings on four cards on this board, one of them a duet. That is more than any other artist. Gene Autry has three cards.
In the UK, the Christmas number one is the single at the top of the chart in the week of Christmas. Several songs on this board were written to win that place.