Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

1943 song written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane and introduced by Judy Garland in the 1944 musical Meet Me in St. Louis
VisualArtwork musical_work_composition Q1591491
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Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas

Summary

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas is a musical work/composition[1]. It ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (537 views/month).[2]

Key Facts

  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas's instance of is recorded as musical work/composition[3].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas's composer is recorded as Ralph Blane[4].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas's composer is recorded as Hugh Martin[5].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas's genre is Christmas music[6].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Judy Garland[7].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Frank Sinatra[8].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Judy Garland[9].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Frank Sinatra[10].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Amy Grant[11].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Anne Sofie von Otter[12].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Jill Johnson[13].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Twisted Sister[14].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Sanna Nielsen[15].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Rod Stewart[16].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Pernilla Wahlgren[17].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Susan Boyle[18].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Sam Smith[19].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Geneviève Racette[20].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Q153694[21].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Josh Groban[22].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by John Legend[23].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was performed by Azealia Banks[24].
  • Among the performers on Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was Richard Ashcroft[25].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas's language of work or name is recorded as English[26].
  • Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was released on 1943[27].

Product Details

The following facts are restated verbatim from public-domain and CC0 open-data sources — every line is independently verifiable against the named source's catalog.

MusicBrainz — CC0 open music encyclopedia

  • Release type: Song[28]

  • Genre(s): christmas music, folk, pop[29]

  • Community tags: christmas, christmas carol, christmas music, folk, holiday, language: english, piano, pop[30]

  • MusicBrainz ID: 2ff51d26-cc88-443e-83b9-baf9cf244112[31]

Body

Authorship and Creation

Performers include Judy Garland[7], Frank Sinatra[8], Amy Grant[11], Anne Sofie von Otter[12], Jill Johnson[13], and Twisted Sister[14].

Publication

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas was published on 1943[27]. Its language of work or name is recorded as English[26]. Its genre is Christmas music[6].

Why It Matters

Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas ranks in the top 4% of musical_work_composition entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (537 views/month).[2] It has Wikipedia articles in 14 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[32]

References

Programmatic citations — every numbered marker resolves to a verifiable graph row below.

Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] . wikidata.org.
  2. [4] . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  3. [5] . ISWC Network. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  4. [6] . wikidata.org.
  5. [7] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  6. [8] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  7. [9] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  8. [10] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  9. [11] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  10. [12] . wikidata.org.
  11. [13] . wikidata.org.
  12. [14] . wikidata.org.
  13. [15] . wikidata.org.
  14. [16] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  15. [17] . wikidata.org.
  16. [18] . wikidata.org.
  17. [19] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  18. [20] . wikidata.org.
  19. [21] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  20. [22] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  21. [23] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  22. [24] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  23. [25] . Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  24. [26] . wikidata.org.
  25. [27] . wikidata.org.

Product details (FDA / USDA / NHTSA public-domain catalog data)

  1. [28] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  2. [29] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  3. [30] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.
  4. [31] . MusicBrainz (MetaBrainz Foundation). musicbrainz.org.

Class ancestry

  1. [1] . Wikidata. wikidata.org.

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [2] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [32] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.

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  1. 8w ago · KrBot bot · 2026-05-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of
    Language of work or name English
    Performer Judy Garland, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland +16
    Form of creative work song
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