It really might end up feeling like Christmas every day - at least when it comes to hearing the same festive songs, a study suggests. Many hits appear 'on repeat' Many of us will hear the same old songs again (Image: Getty Images)

Fairytale of New York has made it into the Christmas top 40 for the past 20 years in a row.

The Pogues’ 1987 festive hit, featuring Shane MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl, is set to make its 21st consecutive appearance in the Yuletide charts this year. It’s among a string of Christmas songs that now appear in the rundown “on repeat”, found researchers.

They discovered 63% of tracks in the 2024 Christmas top 40 were exactly the same as the year before. The trend from the past two decades is completely different to 20 years earlier when there was a brand ne

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