Popular Holiday Movies and Songs by the Numbers.
BASH: It is Christmas and this is the segment where we put the Christmas backdrop up to look maybe like what you're living room, what your family room looks like at this moment as you're celebrating the holiday. And as you're doing so, it might be the last day of this year for holiday music and for holiday films. Well, CNN's Frank Pallotta has a look at some of the season's favorites.</s>FRANK PALLOTTA, CNN CORRESPONDENT: It's that time of year again. There's frost in the air, snow on the ground, and Jimmy Stewart is wishing old Buildings and Loans a Merry Christmas.</s>JIMMY STEWART, ACTOR: Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan.</s>PALLOTTA: The holiday season decks the halls with a potent amount of pop culture, everything from the Grinch to Kevin McAllister. Just how big is the season for your holiday themed TV, film and music. Billboard ranked the tune that is bound to get stuck in your head its number one Christmas song of all time. Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You." It was streamed almost 44 million times during the 2015 holiday season. Not bad for a song released in 1994. As for the most popular Christmas song recorded by multiple artists that distinction goes to, no surprise, Irving Berlin's "White Christmas." On-screen holiday television programming reached more than 90 percent of American households in 2014. No doubt a favorite in those households was the Frank Capra-Jimmy Stewart classic "It's a Wonderful Life." However, the film wasn't a theatrical hit after all. And was so forgotten that the rights lapsed in the public domain in 1974. The film was subsequently shown over and over on TV during the holidays, not because it was beloved but because it was free. The most lucrative Christmas blockbuster of all time is "Home Alone" which made $285 million upon its initial release in 1990. And that doesn't include the cash that came from constant TV reruns since then. It also spawned a sequel that included a cameo from an unknown businessman.</s>MACAULAY CULKIN, ACTOR: Excuse me, where's the lobby?</s>TRUMP: Down the hall and to the left.</s>CULKIN: Thanks.</s>PALLOTTA: Ah, the holidays, a great time to spend with friends and family even if they're not real.</s>CHEVY CHASE, ACTOR: Nobody is walking out on this fun old-fashioned family Christmas. No. No. We're all in this together.</s>PALLOTTA: Happy holidays, everybody.</s>BASH: And President Obama and the first lady gave their final Christmas address to the nation. The Obamas reflected on the last eight years and also looked toward the future.</s>B. OBAMA: So as we look forward to the new year, let's resolve to recommit ourselves to the values we share. And on behalf of all the Obamas, Michelle, Malia, Sasha, Bo and that troublemaker Sonny, Merry Christmas, everybody.</s>M. OBAMA: And we wish you and your family a happy and healthy 2017. Thanks and God bless.</s>BASH: The first couple also addressed military families urging Americans to support the troops not just during holidays but also all year round. Donald Trump is also wishing the world a Merry Christmas, where else? On Twitter. The president-elect tweeted out, "Merry Christmas," I should say hashtag Merry Christmas, with a photo of him with his right hand raised in a fist and a Christmas tree in the background. Trump also posted a picture of a lighted Menorah for a Happy Hanukkah message. The next hour of NEWSROOM starts right after a break.