How many Christmas songs were written?

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Tom

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Rummaging through my music bookshelf at our place here in OH, I came across a 'Christmas Ukulele Fake Book' containing 412 songs. I had no idea that so many Christmas songs had been written  ??? Despite the name, it contains all scores, not just lead sheets.
 
Maybe this will answer your question......

https://musicmachinery.com/2014/12/17/the-million-songs-of-christmas/
 
My wife has collected more than a few Christmas albums.  I have stored most all of them in digital by now and last I looked, there were 48:45 in total.  That caused me to look at the list for repeats.  There were some.  So, I set it as a playlist and deleted the duplicates that I could actually find. that cut the playing time down to a little less than 45 hours.  This is without "Songs of the Season". 

That is a lot.

Matt
 
Looks like the 'million Christmas songs' include a lot of arrangements of the same songs, but it says there are "180,660 unique songs" (still a lot).
 
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