This will not be music to the ears of millions of motorists, as it has been voted the third most popular Christmas song with 28 per cent of Britons citing it as one of their favourites – just behind The Pogues’ drunken ballad ‘Fairytale of New York’ (34 per cent) and Maria Carey’s ‘All I Want For Christmas Is You’ (28 per cent). However, the research shows that Chris Rea’s ‘Driving Home for Christmas’, at 90 bpm, may be too slow to suitably stimulate motorists on monotonous motorway trips. With nearly half (45 per cent) of Brits planning to drive home for Christmas this year, around 23.9 million people say they’ll be behind the wheel when travelling to visit friends or family over the festive period. In partnership with an academic study from Brunel University London, Coventry University and the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), part of UK Research and Innovation, Direct Line can reveal the festive songs that can have the best and worst effects on a motorist’s mental state when driving home for Christmas – and the ones that are better suited to rockin’ around the Christmas tree. New research shows ‘Driving Home for Christmas’ may not be the perfect song to listen to while actually driving home for Christmas.
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