Santa, Can't You Hear Me

Album: When Christmas Comes Around... (2021)
Charted: 23 31
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Songfacts®:

  • Kelly Clarkson teams up with her fellow The Voice coach Ariana Grande for this big-band holiday anthem. It finds the two singers telling Santa to keep the sleigh rides, mistletoe, silver bells, gifts and all the other festivities. Instead, they beg for Santa to give them what they really wish for Christmas, which is guidance how to make their romantic dreams come true.
  • This is the second time Ariana Grande has sung of feeling let down by Saint Nick. Her 2014 single "Santa Tell Me" finds her imploring him to pull through this Christmas after previously delivering her a boy who'd gone by New Year's Day.
  • Clarkson wrote the cheery holiday song with her guitarist, Aben Eubanks. Other festive tunes the two have collaborated on include "Wrapped In Red" and "Under The Mistletoe." Clarkson's longtime music director, Jason Halbert, produced the track.
  • Clarkson recorded the song for When Christmas Comes Around..., her second holiday album after 2013's Wrapped in Red. It features 15 tracks (including three bonus ones) split between festive classics and original co-penned tunes.
  • Clarkson and Grande gave "Santa, Can't You Hear Me" its debut live rendition on Kelly Clarkson Presents: When Christmas Comes Around, which premiered on NBC on December 1, 2021. The two singers and former Voice coaches released their live performance as a single a year later, on December 2, 2022.

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