Songs For Christmas
by Sufjan Stevens
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Sufjan Stevens bestography
Songs For Christmas is ranked 9th best out of 35 albums by Sufjan Stevens on BestEverAlbums.com.
The best album by Sufjan Stevens is Illinois which is ranked number 43 in the list of all-time albums with a total rank score of 19,079.
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Songs For Christmas track list
The tracks on this album have an average rating of 76 out of 100 (all tracks have been rated).
Songs For Christmas rankings
Calculated from aggregate positions across 60,000 charts (2 million album rankings). Click to see how the rankings are calculated (Last updated: 3 hours ago)
| Year | Source | Chart | Rank | Rank Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | xhitmanx | Top 27 Music Albums of 2006 | 24/27 | 1 |
| 2026 | Exist-en-ciel | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 56/100 | 2 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 1/100 | 5 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Greatest Music Albums | 4/100 | 97 |
| 2026 |  Norman Bates | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 14/100 | 4 |
| 2026 | blueandthemoon | Top 100 Music Albums of the 2000s | 4/100 | 19 |
| 2026 | LittleM1971 | Top 91 Music Albums of 2006 | 88/91 | 0 |
| 2025 | skrapoel | Top 52 Music Albums of 2006 | 50/52 | 0 |
| 2025 |  Igtonumama | Top 100 Music Albums of 2006 | 66/100 | 2 |
| 2025 |  chisholm.matt | Top 23 Music Albums of the 2000s | 9/23 | 13 |
| Total Charts: The total number of charts that this album has appeared in. | 33 | |||
| Total Rank Score: The total rank score. | 261 | |||
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Songs For Christmas ratings
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| Rating | Date updated | Member | Album ratings | Avg. album rating |
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| ! | 08/08/2026 23:50 | xhitmanx | 1,604 | 75/100 |
| ! | 06/05/2026 02:54 | Exist-en-ciel | 15,924 | 70/100 |
| ! | 03/19/2026 23:35 | Scrabbler | 292 | 76/100 |
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This album is rated in the top 13% of all albums on BestEverAlbums.com. This album has a Bayesian average rating of 74.3/100, a mean average of 73.8/100, and a trimmed mean (excluding outliers) of 74.6/100. The standard deviation for this album is 15.1.
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BestEverAlbums 08/09/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5399): By chisholm.matt BestEverAlbums 07/10/2026 08:00 in Chart of the day (#5369): By blueandthemoon
SleepDealer 12/23/2018 14:42 in What album are you listening to right now?Songs For Christmas comments
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this guy pisses me off. he has a couple of beautiful moves. enough to make one ep. period. someone just shut him down. (Edited)
Do not let the album title fool you... This is a cracker of an album! love it! (Edited)
Boltzmann TOP 100 COMMENTER 01/12/2020 11:31 | #246756 | TOP COMMENT
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" "As a folk artist should he makes an album in honor of his birthplace, music for God, and who can forget: a christmas album. And why don't we see Dutch folk singer André Hazes or Greek rebetika high on the charts? Because Americans aren't as open minded as the rest of the world when it comes to listening stuff that isn't their language. Don't get me wrong, I think they both shouldn't be on the charts; folk is designed to be unoriginal. When it starts doing new stuff, it stops being folk. Which is okay, you can enjoy it, but it's nothing you should recommend to people outside your home state. It's your music, you might've grown up with that music, it's personal, not just subjective, but personal. I'm not gonna recommend rebbetica to my peers, because the reason why I slightly like it, is because I was grown up with it. One might like it, but there are always exceptions. As a reviewer, you should try to recommend something that is likely to be understood by everyone."
See, I gave almost the same review to this album as Michigan. Because Sufjan is a folk artist, so I give a folk review. My review has become tradition."
And another one. (Edited)
junodog4 TOP 100 COMMENTER 11/28/2019 05:45 | #245244 | TOP COMMENT
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A nice change of pace after you've listened to too much Celine Dion & Bing Crosby.
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