Does Bing sing it best or does Mariah take you higher? Vote now for your favourite holiday song

With just a few days to go until the big day, the bombardment of Christmas music is almost at its peak and so is the debate over the best holiday tune.

Winner of in The Early Edition's Christmas Song Bracket will be announced Monday

CBC News Posted: Dec 17, 2018 1:25 PM EST | Last Updated: December 21, 2018

Bing Crosby is pitted against Mariah Carey for the best holiday tune. (Bing Crosby Merry Christmas/Universal Music Group )

What's the better holiday tune: White Christmas or All I Want for Christmas Is You?

All week,CBC's The Early Editionhas been pitting songs against each other to find the top Christmas song of all time, from the classics to modern hits.

It's down to the wire in the final round between BingCrosby and MariahCarey.

Monday's vote put Sarah McLachlan's version of Silent Night ahead of Celine Dion's take on O Holy Night, while Bing Crosby's White Christmas blew past Mel Torme's The Christmas Song with almost three times the number of votes.

On Wednesday,MariahCarey'sAll I Want For Christmas Is YoublewArianaGrande'sSanta Tell Meout of the water. Nearly double the amount of voters choseWham!'sLast ChristmasoverChristmas inHollisby Run DMC.

In the second-to-final round on Thursday, it was tight betweenMariahand Wham!, butAll I Want for Christmas Is You pulled ahead. BingCrosby proved significantly more popular thanSarahMcLachlan.

Vote in the Christmas Song Bracket on Twitter.

THE FINALS:
What is the greatest Christmas song of all time?
Bing Crosby's White Christmas
Mariah Carey's All I Want For Christmas Is You
—@CBCEarlyEdition

The winning song will be announced onMonday.

The shortlist which isby no means meant to be all encompassing was put together with the approval of some of CBC Vancouver's most musically trusted journalists, including Lisa Christensen, Margaret Gallagher and Mark Macarthur, as well aslist-master Justin McElroy.

Mariah Carey onstage in New York in December 2016. (Michael Loccisano/Getty Images)

The 8 songs in the running

CBC Music Executive Producer MarkMacarthurexplains why the following eightsongs made the shortlist.

White Christmas,BingCrosby
"The biggest-selling singleof all time not just Christmas songs of all time with 50 million songs sold. This is one that the second you hear it, you instantly feel a family-feel of home."

The Christmas Song,MelTorme
"This is one that is usually known as 'Chestnuts roasting on an open fire.' It's a wonderful song, it has a kind of melancholy feel to it, but really does make you feel like you can smell and hear the sounds of Christmas."

Silent Night,SarahMcLachlan
"We have a wonderful song from the religious world. This is Silent Night, one of the most popular songs around the world to do around Christmas. This is done by our very famous Canadian, Sarah McLachlan. It's a wonderful, wonderful song."

O Holy Night, CelineDion
"We have another wonderful voice, someone famous: Celine Dion with her version of O Holy Night."

All I Want For Christmas,MariahCarey
"One of the most powerful, strong voices of the 21st century."

Santa Tell Me,ArianaGrande
"If you don't know who this is, your kids will. In 2014, this was a major, major track with hundreds of millions of YouTube views."

Last Christmas,Wham!
"We're going to harken back to the 80s for some Christmas classics. These are songs that we are still playing very, very heavily today. The first one is the boys from England this is Wham! with George Michael."

Christmas in Hollis,Run DMC
"Here is an oddball one, yet still a classic. This is Run DMC, one of the original rap groups of all time they actually made one of the first Christmas raps, for sure."

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Does Bing sing it best or does Mariah take you higher? Vote now for your favourite holiday song

Winner of in The Early Edition's Christmas Song Bracket will be announced Monday

The 8 songs in the running

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