'The Christmas Song' Takes Top Spot As Last Week's Most-Played Holiday Song

'The Christmas Song' Takes Top Spot As Last Week's Most-Played Holiday Song

Mediaguide Charts the Nation's Top Holiday Songs For the Week Following Thanksgiving

NEW YORK, Dec. 5 /PRNewswire/ -- Thanksgiving put many Americans in a festive mood, as evidenced by the flood of holiday-themed songs hitting radio stations across the nation.

In the last seven days alone, "The Christmas Song" aired on U.S. radio stations over 14,500 times -- making it the most-played holiday song nationwide, according to radio airplay monitoring service Mediaguide, Inc.

Mediaguide was launched in 2002 by ASCAP (the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers) to monitor radio broadcast music in real-time and facilitate the accurate distribution of royalty payments to music composers and publishers. Its proprietary technology and network of 2,500 radio stations currently tracks more stations and total airplay than any other monitoring service in the U.S.

Below is Mediaguide's list of the most-played holiday song titles nationwide over the past seven days (measured from Monday November 28, 2005, through Sunday December 4, 2005):

1. "The Christmas Song" - 14,523 times
2. "White Christmas" - 10,582 times
3. "Silver Bells" - 8,261 times
4. "It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas" - 6,953 times
5. "Feliz Navidad" - 5,916 times
6. "Jingle Bells" - 4,814 times
7. "Wonderful Christmastime" - 4,035 times
8. "Have A Holly Jolly Christmas" - 1,060 times
9. "Little Drummer Boy" - 786 times
10. "El Burrito De Belen" - 242 times

* Note: The above list represents an aggregation of all different artist versions of each cited holiday song.

Reporters who would like to request a custom Mediaguide run of holiday song airplay on their region's radio stations can contact Kathleen Deegan (CooperKatz for Mediaguide) at 212-455-8062 or kdeegan@cooperkatz.com.

About Mediaguide:

Mediaguide provides the world's most comprehensive, accurate, timely, and reliable airplay data products. The company's information products, which span all media types, provide performers, publishers and the recording, advertising, radio, and television industries deep insight into what is being broadcast across America, in order to deliver better products that create broader consumer demand among audiences. Mediaguide, based in Berwyn, Pa., is a joint venture of the American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (ASCAP) and ConneXus Corporation. Learn more about Mediaguide at http://www.mediaguide.com/.

Source: Mediaguide

CONTACT: Kathleen Deegan of CooperKatz for Mediaguide, +1-212-455-8062,
kdeegan@cooperkatz.com

Web site: http://www.mediaguide.com/

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