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How many releases in Discogs are Christmas related?

Because it is the season I was wondering: how many releases in Discogs are Christmas related? So I decided to run a very simple and crude test and search tracklists for a few keywords (all lower case, for easier searching):
  • christmas
  • x-mas
  • kerst (Dutch)
  • weinachten (German)
This is, of course, not a very good test and I could also have checked for specific song titles, or different languages, but I didn't have the time to research it in depth. I also did not check if every result is actually a 'real' Christmas song. So you should take this with a big heap of salt.

German-language Christmas releases

As it turns out German speaking people don't really like Christmas: just 31 releases have some reference to Weinachten. Maybe they don't have that many Christmas songs that actually mention it.

Dutch-language Christmas releases

The Dutch and Flemish (and the occassional low-German) are doing a lot better: a bit over 1130 releases. I roughly verified that these were indeed somewhat related to Christmas. Looking at the distribution of data it looks a bit like this:


Distribution of Dutch-language Christmas related releases in Discogs
Of course, I don't have access to when these releases were added or I could have seen if before Christmas more releases related to Christmas are added compared to, say, summer.

Releases with Christmas references in English

The most releases I looked at are of course in English, or at least have some reference to Christmas in English: more than 60,000 releases, which looks a bit like this:

Distribution of releases with Christmas references in English in Discogs

So what can be concluded from this? Absolutely nothing useful. Happy holidays!
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