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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/carey-christmas-hit-has-most-plays.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="Mariah Carey sings the most-played Christmas track according to research" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/12/min-carey-christmas-hit-has-most-plays.jpg" alt="Mariah Carey sings the most-played Christmas track according to research"/></a></p>
<p>Mariah Carey hit All I Want For Christmas Is You has beaten old chestnuts by Wham! and Slade to become the most played festive song of the past decade.</p>
<p>US singer Mariah&#8217;s 1994 recording was found to have dominated play in shops and on radio in a study by music industry body PPL.</p>
<p>Wham!&#8217;s Last Christmas came second while The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl&#8217;s single Fairytale Of New York was third.</p>
<p>None of the top three tracks have ever topped the singles chart, with each song stalling at number two.</p>
<p>The rest of the top 10 is made up of Merry Xmas Everybody by Slade in fourth place, followed by I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday (Wizzard), Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas? (Band Aid), Driving Home For Christmas (Chris Rea), Stop The Cavalry (Jona Lewie), White Christmas (Bing Crosby) and Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow! (Dean Martin).</p>
<p>The Wham! track was famously held from the top of the charts by Do They Know It&#8217;s Christmas?, which is one of the biggest-selling singles of all time.</p>
<p>The word &#8220;Christmas&#8221; &#8211; shortened to Xmas in the case of the Slade song &#8211; features in seven of the top ten tracks.</p>
<p>Half of the top 10 date from the 1980s, according to the study. The oldest recording is at number nine, White Christmas by Bing Crosby from 1942.</p>
<p>PPL spokesman Jonathan Morrish said: &#8220;Music really helps define this time of year &#8211; be it songs that radio broadcasts because that&#8217;s what people want to hear or the songs retail use in store because of their mood-enhancing power.</p>
<p>&#8220;Christmas without Christmas music would be unimaginable.&#8221;</p>
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