Mr. Mike's Merry Mix 2023: Our annual review of peculiar holiday music

Under the Radar Podcast

For many Americans, there can be only one Christmas song to rule them all: Mariah Carey's "All I Want For Christmas Is You." In addition to 772 million views on that single YouTube video alone, it has hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 chart the past four years in a row and is believed to have raked in nearly $100 million in earnings thus far.

But for the rest of us, there is a world of underground, often bizarre holiday music, and Under the Radar's holiday music correspondent has spent decades dredging them up from record stores and and forgotten corners of the internet.

This season, for his 34th year of holiday melodies, Mike Wilkins honors his mixtape history with this year’s seasonal compilation, “Mr. Mike's Merry Mix," a Yuletopia recording.

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Mike Wilkins, radio engineer for PRX and GBH’s The World

Stream or download his full playlist on SoundCloud:

https://soundcloud.com/seenthat/mikemas2023