TikTok's Final Holiday Season? Platform Celebrates Christmas with Mariah Carey, WHAM! & Top Artists

TikTok's Final Holiday Season? Platform Celebrates Christmas with Mariah Carey, WHAM! & Top Artists

By Marcus Stevenson

December 20, 2024 at 10:54 PM

TikTok launches its festive #HolidayMusic hub, offering users exclusive holiday content and revealing 2024's top Christmas songs on the platform.

TikTok Christmas hashtag celebration

TikTok Christmas hashtag celebration

The new in-app experience includes enhanced search results for #HolidayMusic and #ChristmasMusic, festive profile frames featuring Santa hats and gingerbread men, and curated holiday playlists. Users can easily save discovered tracks to their preferred music streaming services using the "Add to Music App" feature.

Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You" leads the platform's holiday rankings with over 20 million video creations, followed closely by WHAM!'s "Last Christmas" with 18 million creations.

Top 5 Christmas Tracks of 2024 on TikTok:

  • Mariah Carey – "All I Want For Christmas Is You"
  • WHAM! – "Last Christmas"
  • Brenda Lee – "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"
  • Michael Bublé – "It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas"
  • Bobby Helms – "Jingle Bell Rock"

New trending holiday songs include Laufey's "Santa Baby" (600k+ creations), BTS' V and Park Hyo Shin's "Winter Ahead" (60k creations with a new dance trend), and Bleachers' "Merry Christmas, Please Don't Call" (30k+ creations).

As TikTok celebrates the holiday season, the platform faces uncertainty in the U.S. with a potential federal ban looming on January 19, though appeals are in progress and incoming President-elect Trump has suggested he may review the decision.

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