Pandora Reveals the Holiday Top Thumb Hundred
Adds Christmas Listening Modes to top stations: Classic Rock, Pop Latino, Today’s Country and more
Pandora reveals its Holiday Top Thumb Hundred today, compiling all of its listeners’ festive favorites in one spot, as a Mode on its popular Christmas Radio station. Holiday Top Thumb Hundred Mode highlights the most thumbed up holiday songs of all time on Pandora, with special audio drops featuring fun facts about the list. From She & Him, whose version of “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” tops the list, to Thomas Rhett, Eartha Kitt, Nat King Cole, Michael Buble, and of course, Mariah Carey, you can see where your favorite artist ranks. Full list of tracks below. Click HERE and select Holiday Top Thumb Hundred Mode where it says “My Station” at the top to listen. Click HERE for some fun facts about the songs on the list.
Pandora has also enhanced two of its most popular holiday stations, Holiday Hits and Christmas Radio. Both stations now feature Modes, a popular feature that allows you to customize your station listening experience based on a musical theme. Whether you want to tune into favorites from Christmas past or present, instrumentals or ensembles, covers or duets, Pandora has a Mode for every warm holiday feel. Additionally, if you’re only into a certain genre of holiday music, Pandora’s got you. They’ve added a seasonal Mode to a variety of popular stations including Today’s Hits, Today’s Country, Today’s R&B and Old School, Classic Rock, Pop Latino, Tropical de Hoy, and more. Listeners can stay tuned to their usual favorite Pandora genre stations and select the Holiday or Christmas mode where it says “My Station” at the top to listen. Full list of stations with these festive, seasonal Modes is below.
Read more about all of Pandora’s holiday offerings HERE.
Christmas Radio Modes:
Christmas Past: Holiday favorites from the 70s 80s and 90s
Christmas Present: Holiday favorites from the 2000s and Today
Grandma’s Holiday Favorites: Holiday favorites from the 40s 50s and 60s
Peaceful Instrumentals: Peaceful songs to sooth your holiday stress
Christmas Ensemble: Holiday Hymns and Choirs
Holiday Top Thumb Hundred: The most thumbed up Holiday songs on Pandora
Holiday Hits Modes:
Pop Holiday: Holiday Pop songs from yesterday and today
Mistletoe Duets: Timeless Holiday duets and collaborations
By the Fire: Warm Holiday feels
Acoustic Holiday: Holiday music unplugged
Classic Holiday Covers: Classic Covers from today’s top artists
Holiday Originals: Holiday Originals from your favorite artists
Holiday Party: Celebrate the season
Holiday Mode on popular genre stations:
Today’s Hits: Hits for the Holidays Mode
Today’s Adult Hits: At Home for the Holidays Mode
Today’s Country: Today’s Country Christmas Mode
Today’s Christian Hits: Christmas Spirit Mode
Today’s R&B and Old School: Classic R&B Christmas Mode
Today’s Alternative: Your Alternative Holiday Mode
Classic Rock: A Classic Rock Christmas Mode
Classic Country: Honky Tonk Christmas Mode
Americana: A Very Americana Christmas Mode
Pop Latino: Ya Llego la Navidad Mode
Tropical de Hoy: Rumbón Navideño Mode
Pandora’s Holiday Top Thumb Hundred
- Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree — She & Him
- Christmas Eve / Sarajevo 12/24 — Trans-Siberian Orchestra
- All I Want For Christmas Is You — Mariah Carey
- Like It’s Christmas — Jonas Brothers
- We Three Gentlemen (Medley) — Lindsey Stirling
- Underneath the Tree — Kelly Clarkson
- It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas — Perry Como & The Fontane Sisters
- When You Believe (with Maren Morris) — Pentatonix & Maren Morris
- You’re A Mean One, Mr. Grinch — Thurl Ravenscroft
- Please Come Home For Christmas — Eagles
- Winter Wonderland — Michael Bublé
- Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) — Darlene Love
- Where Are You Christmas — Faith Hill
- Happy Holiday/The Holiday Season — Andy Williams
- Baby It’s Cold Outside (Duet With Michael Buble) — Idina Menzel
- Sleigh Ride, For Orchestra (or String Orchestra) — Arthur Fiedler
- Carol Of The Bells/Sing We Now Of Christmas — Barlowgirl
- Santa Tell Me — Ariana Grande
- Oh Holy Night — Katharine McPhee
- Believe — Josh Groban
- Baby, It’s Cold Outside — Zooey Deschanel & Leon Redbone
- Christmas In The Country — Thomas Rhett
- The Christmas Song (Merry Christmas To You) — Nat King Cole
- Up On The Housetop — Gene Autry
- Someday At Christmas — Stevie Wonder & Andra Day
- Home For The Holidays — Perry Como
- I’ll Be Your Santa Tonight — Keith Urban
- Jingle Bell Rock — Daryl Hall & John Oates
- What Child Is This? (First Noel Prelude) — Francesca Battistelli
- The First Noel — Lady A
- Somewhere In My Memory — John Williams
- Last Christmas — Wham!
- Hark! The Herald Angels Sing/Angels We Have Heard On High — Straight No Chaser
- Carol Of The Bells — Cimorelli
- Sleigh Ride — Runaway June
- Merry Little Christmas — Robin Thicke
- Silver And Gold (Soundtrack Version) — Burl Ives
- Try A Little Tenderness — Chris Brown
- Christmas Tree Farm — Taylor Swift
- Present Without A Bow (feat. Leon Bridges) — Kacey Musgraves
- Nutcracker-Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy — The National Philharmonic Orchestra & Richard Bonynge
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen/Joy To The World — The Celts
- Santa Baby — Eartha Kitt
- Silver Bells — Johnny Mathis
- God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen — Glee Cast
- I Heard The Bells On Christmas Day — Casting Crowns
- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas — Sam Smith
- Precious Moments — Erich Kunzel
- O Holy Night — Ellie Goulding
- Christmas Medley — Jon Schmidt
- When Christmas Comes to Town — Matthew Hall And Meagan Moore
- Christmas, Why Can’t I Find You? — James Horner & Taylor Momsen
- A Holly Jolly Christmas — Brett Eldredge
- All I Want (For Christmas) — Liam Payne
- Jingle Jingle Jingle (Soundtrack Version) — Stan Francis
- Joyful, Joyful — Pentatonix & Jazmine Sullivan
- Run Rudolph Run — Chuck Berry
- Little Saint Nick — The Beach Boys
- Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays — *NSync
- Christmas Without You — DNCE
- What Christmas Means to Me — CeeLo Green
- White Christmas — OneRepublic
- We Three Kings — Jackson Berkey
- Stille Nacht — Mannheim Steamroller
- Sugar Plum Fantasy — Cecil Scaife
- Once Upon a Christmas — Wade Bowen
- I’ll Be Home for Christmas — Cam
- Happy Xmas (War Is Over) (feat. Sean Ono Lennon) — Miley Cyrus & Mark Ronson
- Happy Christmas (War Is Over) — King Calaway
- This Christmas — Donny Hathaway
- Let It Be Christmas — Alan Jackson
- Cozy Little Christmas — Katy Perry
- I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus — Jackson 5
- It Is Christmas — Chris Janson
- Favorite Time Of Year (Feat. Tori Kelly) — India.Arie & Joe Sample
- All I Really Want For Christmas (feat. Kool-Aid Man) — Lil Jon
- Greensleeves — Michele McLaughlin
- Blue Christmas — The Lumineers
- Welcome Christmas — Dr. Seuss & Boris Karloff
- Suite from the Polar Express — Alan Silvestri
- O Come, O Come, Emmanuel — Steven Sharp Nelson
- Christmas Is Here — Meral Guneyman
- Angels We Have Heard On High — For King & Country
- Breath Of Heaven — Amy Grant
- At Christmas Time — Luther Vandross
- Veni Veni Emmanuel — Hayley Westenra
- Do You Hear What I Hear — Idina Menzel
- Bring A Torch, Jeannette, Isabella — Jackson Berkey
- March — Czecho-Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra
- White Christmas Makes Me Blue — Randall King
- Let it Snow! Let it Snow! Let it Snow! — Mitchell Tenpenny
- The Nutcracker – Dance Of The Sugar-Plum Fairy — Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
- Fur Elise — David Benoit
- A Christmas Festival, For Orchestra (original Version) — The Boston Pops Orchestra & Arthur Fiedler
- Tristes Navidades — Los Dos Carnales
- Walking In The Air (From The Snowman) — Crouch End Festival Chorus
- I Can Hardly Wait ‘Till Christmas — The O’Jays
- O Christmas Tree — Chad Lawson Trio
- It Must Be Christmas — Chris Young
- Christmas Time Is Here (Instrumental) — Vince Guaraldi Trio