Y'know the ones that fill out christmas compilations every year.

And I don't mean covers of the old standards, I mean original tunes.

I fully expected The Darkness' effort - Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End - to join the group but I'm not so sure it has. Before that it was probably Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas is You... which is nearly 20 years old now(!)

What's going on? Is the christmas novelty song a closed club now belonging solely to the 70s and the 80s?