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...
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