We tracked worldwide weekly Google searches for "[holiday] songs" across eight festivals for five years. Each festival has its own song-search season that follows its own calendar: Ramadan and Eid songs move about 10 days earlier each year, and Lunar New Year songs follow the lunar calendar. "Christmas songs" is the only one with year-round demand. The geography shows diasporas: Fiji leads "Diwali songs" ahead of India, the Maldives leads "Eid songs", and East African countries lead "Ramadan songs". "Kwanzaa songs" registers in only a few weeks each year, and "Lunar New Year songs" only in Singapore.
Peak week each year (week starting, worldwide)
| Festival | Peak weeks 2022–2025 (MM-DD) | Weeks with any search (of 5 yrs) |
|---|---|---|
| Christmas | 12-18, 12-17, 12-22, 12-21 | 261/261 |
| Hanukkah | 12-18, 12-03, 12-22, 12-14 | 100/261 |
| Kwanzaa | 12-11, 12-03, 12-08, 12-14 | 33/261 |
| Diwali | 10-23, 11-12, 10-27, 10-19 | 254/261 |
| Holi | 03-13, 03-05, 03-24, 03-09 | 231/261 |
| Eid | 05-01, 04-16, 04-07, 03-30 | 210/261 |
| Ramadan | 03-27, 03-19, 03-10, 03-02 | 183/261 |
| Lunar New Year | 01-30, 01-22, 02-04, 01-26 | 41/261 |
Countries that search each festival's songs most (top country = 100)
| Festival | Top countries |
|---|---|
| Christmas | Uganda (100), Nigeria (71), Ghana (61), Philippines (56), Trinidad & Tobago (45), Ireland (39) |
| Hanukkah | Israel (100), United States (50), Canada (25) |
| Kwanzaa | searched mostly in the US |
| Diwali | Fiji (100), Trinidad & Tobago (34), India (27), United Arab Emirates (8), Sri Lanka (6), St. Helena (6) |
| Holi | India (100), Nepal (44), United Arab Emirates (13), Pakistan (6), Sri Lanka (6), Singapore (3) |
| Eid | Maldives (100), Uganda (35), Tanzania (28), Pakistan (24), Mauritius (13), Qatar (11) |
| Ramadan | Tanzania (100), Sierra Leone (71), Uganda (53), Ghana (37), Lebanon (34), Nigeria (34) |
| Lunar New Year | Singapore (100) |
What it means
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Method
- Google search interest, worldwide, web search, weekly, past 5 years (Oct 2021–Oct 2026). Each term was queried on its own, so each line is scaled to its own peak; compare timing, not size.
- English-language query strings.
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aisong.lol Research. (2026). Hanukkah, Diwali, Eid, Lunar New Year: the holiday-song search calendar beyond Christmas. aisong.lol. https://aisong.lol/research/hanukkah-diwali-eid-lunar-new-year-the-holiday-song-search-calendar-be
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