Complaints from the demo that populates this board aren't going to affect the thinking of anyone programming a commercial radio station, because they know that we don't matter to their November/December advertisers, aren't listening to their female-skewing AC stations in huge numbers anyway, and that the ones who are will be back after the Christmas music ends despite their curmudgeonly threats to find another station. I've just accepted Christmas formats and the music in them as one of life's great unponderables. Maybe we all should.
This is a "fun" thread about annoying Christmas music. Has little to do whether they get aired or whether audiences like them or not. And no, none of us don't have to accept anything radio provides. If we like it, we listen. If we don't, we tune out or simply turn off.
Personally, I have my own playlist of 120 different Christmas songs I play every year, commercial free and void of any annoyances and 100% satisfaction.
If radio dares to play some of those sleepers mentioned above, I won't be listening.
You can accept anything you want, but if you hear something you dislike, I guarantee you'll change stations too. Human nature.