Christmas Caroling: 2024 Edition

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 This will be updated throughout the month as I'm going to include as many of the new holiday or winter songs as are released as I can find. If I missed any, which is likely, please yell at me. I'm also going to include ten "oldies" just for a little bit of variety in age in no particular order. Hope you find one you haven't heard before. (Also, the Country Kko Kko album that song comes from has Feliz Navidad in Korean on it and when I tell you that I giggled, my dog was worried because I haven't laughed that hard in a while. It's a glorious song and breaks my brain a little.)

This is just a bunch of music! Enjoy!



The Old

HELLO VENUS, ASTRO, Weki Meki
All I Want


aespa
Jingle Bell Rock


EXO
December, 2014

Country Kko Kko
Happy Christmas


NINE.i
Back to Christmas



THE BOYZ
White


Apink
PINK CHRISTMAS


2021 SBS Gayo Daejun
All I Want For Christmas Is You


Crayon Pop
Lonely Christmas


TVXQ!
Duet -winter ver.-



JUST KIDDING! I'm actually including a bonus 11th because I've been very good about not blabbing about NU'EST constantly, and I'm going to reward myself with sharing the Christmas song they did with Orange Caramel. Babies. It was the year they debuted, and they were all seventeen except for the elderly Aron at the ripe age of nineteen. This will be a staple in all of the Christmas posts because I love it so much, and it's my Christmas gift to me and you.

Orange Caramel, NU'EST
Dashing through the snow in highheels



Now, that I've gotten that out of my system here are the Christmas/holiday/winter songs released in (mostly) December 2024. If I did a review of it, I'll also include it just for sake of ease and completion's sake.




The New

Stray Kids
Christmas Love



NCT Wish
Wishful Winter


V (BTS), Park Hyo Shin



M.O.N.T


Chung Ha
Sleigh


Bing Crosby, V (BTS)

FIFTY FIFTY

FIFTY FIFTY
Naughty or Nice


Oneus

B.D.U

100RED (Lee Seung Gi, Taemin, Baekhyun, Chen, Xiumin, Ha Sungwoon, VIVIZ, Lee Mujin, 

One N' Only
Ring the Bells


ORβIT
Xmas-time


Jay Park
Merry Merry Christmas

Fave1
Christmas Kiss


BANG&JUNG&YOO&MOON (B.A.P)


Aimers
Confetti

HyoJung (OH MY GIRL)
Hot December

Dreamcatcher

Super Junior D&E
Jingle Jingle
Hyun Seong
White Night

Moonbyul (Mamamoo)
Make It Christmas

ONEWE
We X Mas


Chung Ha
There Goes Santa Claus

TWS
Highlight (Holiday ver.)



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