Videomeme: Top 10 Christmas Videos

OK, humbuggers, we're getting a bit carried away here, but it is the season of cheesy festive songs plus everyone is up to their neck in best of lists. Combining the two seemed irrestible. But this will be our last top ten of 2006. Promise.

Sooooo...we ranked Christmas videos by blog links and embedded videos, adding up the numbers from the last 3 months. What did we get? Lewd humour, kitsch, musical whimsy and the strong whiff of nostalgia.

Justin Timberlake's SNL skit has romped home to number one. Timberlake’s lewd musical skit, Dick in a Box, trumped both Larry the Cable Guy's set of redneck carols and the surreal Charlie Brown mashup, produced for the Scrubs cast Christmas party way back in 2003. The Timberlake thing looks set to become a bit of a phenomenon. On Sunday, it wouldn't have made the top 10. By midnight on Monday, it's overtaken everything, with several hundred bloggers posting it and five - count them, five - separate entries in today's overall top 20. (That's right. We still haven't implemented de-duping yet. We're working on it. Right now.)

Number four's Gangsta Santa is a bit of a basket case, leaving dead kids and ponies’ heads in his wake. Still, it's a slick piece, from the same people, incidentally, as The Easter Bunny Hates You. No. 5 sees animated Indian popstar Boymongoose take on Bollywood hunks, corrupt sports stars, nosey inlaws and a totally insufficient dowry in a satirical version of the Twelve Days of Christmas. Charmingly infectious, in its way.

Number six is the well-loved Christmas Lights Gone Wild. It probably ought to be higher, but I rushed the link collation late last night, so have probably missed some important instances of it. The final four videos on the chart are all musical numbers. Billy Idol musters a restrained version of White Christmas, Mariah Carey and Wham! entertain with their seasonal standards, while supermodel Heidi Klum offers a surprisingly charmless uber-kitsch wonderland.

Full stats and embedded videos follow...

1. SNL and Justin Timberlake - Dick in a Box | 327 Links | 972,634 Views