Whereas; every year since I've been following the charts Christmas music has basically had an "album bomb" in December the likes of which only Drake could come close to rivaling but in recent years it's gotten so bad that if the midyear year-end-hot-100 prediction chart is anything to go by there's a good chance we could see six Christmas songs on the 2022 year-end hot 100 (and for two of those songs, All I Want For Christmas Is You and Rockin' Around The Christmas Tree, this would mark multiple year-end Hot 100 appearances, the third for the former and the second for the latter)

Whereas; especially because the Billboard chart year goes from the first week of December of a given calendar year to the final week of November of the next year giving an advantage to songs that hit the charts late in the calendar year, that often means that good music gets unfairly bumped off either just the weekly hot 100 or even the year-end because we have to accommodate the brief explosion of streaming and radio of a specific subgenre of songs for less than two months every year.

Whereas; there have been instances in the past where Billboard changed their rules to prevent chart inequalities that occurred in the past from happening again like how a song didn't have to be released as a formal single anymore to chart which crippled songs like "Don't Speak" by No Doubt years ago. Therefore they could do it again to prevent a yearly "Christmas album bomb" based on very few metrics being very massive, especially when letting things slide because Christmas could be seen as kinda bigoted if Hanukkah music (as it's more than just liturgical music) is never let impact the charts. I know there's many Jewish charting artists (some you might not know are Jewish) who if they bothered to make a Hanukkah song could get it as recurrently charting.

Whereas; pardon a reductio ad absurdum but if we're going to do this every December why not do that for a bunch of other major secular holidays and e.g. not just have Thriller re-charting every Halloween but stuff like Purple People Eater, The Monster Mash, Werewolves Of London etc. or have a whole bunch of patriotic country from immediately-post-9/11 re-chart every Fourth Of July or fill the charts on Valentines' Day with romantic old standards until the hot 100 barely shows any new music anymore instead looking as seasonal as a window display

Whereas; not only the critic community on places like YouTube (including Spectrum Pulse who actually openly advocated a change in the rules) but other people who are as nerdy about keeping up with popular music but just don't get paid for it expect the year-end hot 100s of a particular year to actually reflect the music of the year and the hot 100 to reflect what's actually hot to listen to not just tradition. Sure, Christmas songs from the 21st century (and even ones that aren't just covers by current artists) do chart but e.g. of the aforementioned six Christmas songs on the projected midyear hot 100, they're from 1994, 1958, 1957, 1964, 1963, and 1984. This not only holds contemporary actual pop music back but holds Christmas music, charting or not, back if the same old songs are going to re-chart. Also it holds back promising new artists for artists for whom Christmas is a last gasp at relevance and probably the only time the still-living ones get paychecks for their music.

Whereas; it's unfair to those like me who aspire to music careers and might otherwise be motivated once the career picks up to release songs around the end of the year to get higher chart momentum if said momentum is just going to be buried under an avalanche of Christmas music

Therefore; Billboard should reconfigure the chart rules so Christmas music is less disruptive to the hot 100 every December and has less of a chance to make the year-end hot 100