{"id":106685,"date":"2025-12-22T11:08:58","date_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:08:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/?p=106685"},"modified":"2025-12-22T11:09:01","modified_gmt":"2025-12-22T11:09:01","slug":"the-challnges-and-opportunites-of-writing-a-modern-christmas-track","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/routenote.com\/blog\/the-challnges-and-opportunites-of-writing-a-modern-christmas-track\/","title":{"rendered":"Why writing a Christmas hit is like hitting the jackpot (and why it\u2019s so hard to write a modern festive classic)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Christmas songs can deliver lifelong royalties and chart domination, but writing a modern festive classic isn\u2019t easy.<\/span><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Writing a Christmas song is the \u201choly grail\u201d<\/h3>\n\n\n\n

Christmas music is a huge deal for the music industry. Every year, the same handful of holiday classics top the charts and generate serious revenue. In fact, Billboard estimated in 2022<\/a> that festive tracks bring in well over $170 million annually in the US alone. Plus, that number could keep growing as the signs indicate that Christmas listening is arriving earlier and earlier each year.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

For artists, a Christmas hit is huge. But for the songwriters behind the tracks, it\u2019s even bigger. A true festive classic doesn\u2019t just perform well once, it gets replayed, re-licensed, covered by new artists, synced in ads, films, TV specials, and rediscovered by new generations every single December.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As Warner Chappell’s CEO Guy Moot put it on Billboard\u2019s On the Record <\/em>podcast<\/a>, writing a Christmas hit is \u201cthe holy grail\u201d for songwriters. One song can turn into decades of recurring income.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

But in today\u2019s age, writing a modern Christmas classic isn\u2019t an easy task.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Is Christmas music arriving earlier every year?<\/a><\/blockquote>