Simply Disagreeing

I'd like to start this week with a very controversial pseudo-opinion: Wonderful Christmastime is simply the best Christmas song. No other song can generate as much buzz as this one.

All other Christmas songs are fine and dandy, they play on the radio and you listen contently. Sometimes you will find yourself singing along or tapping your feet. But when Wonderful Christmas song comes on, you either rush to the radio and desperately seek out a new station ala Jack and Diane or you leave it on and belt out the inimitably contagious chorus. No other Christmas song has caused such strongly passionate opinions. That's not even mentioning the niche it fills as the most popular Christmas jingle featuring a synthesizer. Nor does it take into account that a revered songwriter wrote this gem of a tune in several minutes and cashed in on some serious fat stacks.

Including royalties from cover versions, it is estimated that Paul McCartney makes $400,000 a year from this song, which puts its cumulative earnings at near $15 million.

Apparently, the likes of Hillary Duff and the Shins have covered this song as well.