Most people would think Chicago's most played song is Mariah Carey's 'All I want for Christmas is You.' However, you'd be surprised.
"There's such a meme of everybody saying, 'oh I listen to 'All I want for Christmas is You' 500 times a year!' and I wanted to see if that was actually true," said Matthew Fitzgerald.
So, starting on November 1st — the day 93.9 Lite FM started playing Christmas music — Fitzgerald set up what's called a web scraper to pull data from the station's archive page.He tracked every song played on 93.9 between November 1 and December 26 at 6:00 a.m., which is when 93.9 returned to regular programming, to find out the top artists, songs, and song titles.With Christmas Day now in the rearview mirror, the results are in.
According to Fitzgerald, the most played song was the Mannheim Steamroller version of 'Carol of the Bells,' which was played 224 times. That was followed by Andy Williams' 'It's the Most Wonderful Time of the Year' with 222 plays, then 'Feliz Navidad' by Jose Feliciano coming in third with 218 plays.His research also found Andy Williams to be the top overall artist and 'Sleigh Ride' to be the top song title played with 635 plays.
"Keep it up!" said Fitzgerald about 93.9's song selection. "They're doing a good job of keeping the spirits bright and everything happy for Christmas. And I think that's really the point of what a radio station should have for Christmastime."
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