Stop the Cavalry Christmas song

Festive hit: Bing Crosby's White Christmas was voted the second best Christmas song in the new poll

The list, compiled by radio station Smooth Christmas, is not purely indicative of our musical tastes either. Relationship expert Flic Everett reveals that our favourite festive hit can also tell a lot about our personalities.

She said: 'We all have the songs we love and look forward to hearing every year.

'But the songs that means the most to you can say more about your personality that you'd think.'

Those who crank up The Pogues' Christmas cracker are open-minded, popular and like a festive tipple, while those who voted for Bing Crosby's White Christmas were dubbed sentimental traditionalists who are steady, safe and sweet.

Christmas crackers: Mariah Carey's (Left) festive hit All I Want For Christmas Is You was voted the third best Christmas song, while Bing Crosby's White Christmas came in second

If you're a fan of Mariah Carey's Christmas hit All I Want For Christmas Is You, you're cheerful, good natured and like a bit of retro glamour, while disco divas favoured Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and Slade's Merry Xmas Everybody.

The old-school classic Let It Snow by Dean Martin were the Christmas song of choice for fashionistas, while Chris Rea's Driving Home For Christmas and Wham's Last Christmas proved popular with romantics.

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas: Wizzard's I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? also featured in the best Christmas songs lists

And the Christmas crackers you perhaps shouldn't admit you like? Stop The Cavalry and Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? According to Flic, if Bob Geldof's charity single is your favourite festive tune, you 'lack confidence', while fans of Jona Lewie's hit are 'unusual'.

The festive tunes that failed to make the top ten included Wonderful Christmas Time by Paul McCartney and Elton John's Step Into Christmas.

BEST CHRISTMAS SONGS

1. Fairytale Of New York, The Pogues & Kirsty McColl

2. White Christmas, Bing Crosby

3. All I Want For Christmas Is You, Mariah Carey

4. I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day, Wizzard

5. Driving Home For Christmas, Chris Rea

6. Merry Xmas Everybody, Slade