Spotify’s 2026 Holiday Singles: find the new Freya Skye, NIKI and Lykke Li covers
Three new covers join Spotify’s mixed-year Holiday Collection. Use the artist-specific links to find the new recordings rather than the older versions named in the announcement.
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Freya Skye, NIKI and Lykke Li have contributed new covers to Spotify’s 2026 Singles: Holiday Collection, announced on October 14. Freya Skye takes on Pretenders’ 2000 Miles; NIKI covers Carpenters’ Merry Christmas, Darling; and Lykke Li records Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which Spotify connects to Judy Garland’s version. The direct listening links below identify each new recording by its performer.
That distinction matters when following the announcement. Its links on the three song names lead to older recordings by Pretenders, Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, and Judy Garland, rather than the new covers. Those links provide the source versions for comparison. To reach the new contributions, choose Freya Skye, NIKI or Lykke Li in our source links below and check the artist name on Spotify’s track page.
The new track listings carry the Spotify Singles Holiday designation. NIKI’s Spotify listing omits the comma used in the announcement’s Merry Christmas, Darling title; the performer and series label help distinguish her recording from another version of the same song. VibeHype checked all three track identities against Spotify’s official collection playlist as well as their individual pages.
The Holiday Collection playlist is a broader listening route, not a list containing only this year’s additions. Alongside the three new covers, it includes earlier contributions such as Ravyn Lenae’s O Holy Night, Fall Out Boy’s It Feels Like Christmas and Poppy’s Last Christmas. Spotify identifies those three as additions from last year. Use the individual track links if you only want the newly announced recordings, or the playlist to explore across years.
These are verified listings and listening destinations, not a playback test or a guarantee of access in every territory or account. Spotify’s October 1 seasonal listening report, covered separately by VibeHype, concerns wider listening patterns; it is not a measurement of demand for these three covers. This new announcement establishes their addition to the series, without showing that any one is already a chart hit.