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If you're heading home for the holidays where your parents don't have Bluetooth speakers you can blast your Christmas playlist on, searching for a gift for a Luddite, or planning the music for your holiday road trip in a car with a completist, then you're going to need some options.

Keep it Christmas chill with one, two, or all of these holiday albums — which all happened to be released in the last two decades. Yes, even that Mariah Carey classic...kind of. Ahead, the top holiday tracks for Hanukkah celebrators, classic Christmas fans, and even a little something for the coolest Christmas lover you know.

Christmas comes this time of year — you might as well load up on holiday music now!

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