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. It was released on November 29, 2021, as a title track and

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alongside " Winter Falls" from their single album of the same name, through

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and distributed by

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, which marketed as "holiday special single" as part of Season Song project. Written by

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(Bang Chan, Changbin, Han) and HotSauce, the song expresses a different point of view about

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, rather than romance and warmth with a

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hip hop sound.

Background and release

On November 11, Stray Kids announce to release the single album ''Christmas EveL'', scheduled for release on November 29, 2021. The official track listing was posted on November 19, serving "Christmas EveL" as a

, alongside "Winter Falls". Two music video teasers of "Christmas EveL" were released on November 20, and 27, respectively. "Christmas EveL" was released simultaneously as the single album on November 29. Stray Kids will not promote the song on any music program, as a thank-you gift to their fans.

Composition and lyrics

"Christmas EveL" is a

hip hop song written by the group's in-house production team

, consisting of Bang Chan, Changbin, and Han, and co-composed with Hot Sauce in the key of

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, 140 beats per minute with a running time of 2 minutes and 59 seconds. Lyrically, "Christmas EveL" said about Christmas from a different point of view, Bang Chan said the song "contains our naughty side and energy", while Changbin "wanted to express the reason why naughty boys looked at Christmas differently, rather than a romantic and warm Christmas". ''

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'' described the title track as an "anti-Christmas song", described the downsides of the holiday.

Commercial performance

"Christmas EveL" debuted at number 114 on the South Korean

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. The song landed at number 51 on the ''

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'' Download Songs and number 25 on Singapore's RIAS Top Regional Chart. The song entered the US ''

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at number 10 and Hungary's Singles Top 40 at number 23. "Christmas EveL" debuted at number 197 on the ''Billboard'' Global Excl. U.S.

Music video

An accompanying music video of "Christmas EveL" was premiered alongside the single on November 29, 2021, preceded by two teaser videos. The music video surpassed 100 million views on November 5, 2022, becoming Stray Kids' eighth music video to reach this milestone after "God's Menu", "Back Door", "Miroh", "My Pace", "

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", and "Hellevator". Directed by Lee Hye-sung, the music video begins with Stray Kids in a traffic jam and listening to radio news. The news was presented that

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'' trailer, and he will hire substitutes, who are Stray Kids, to spread joy to children instead of him. They go to a

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to find presents to deliver to the children and make a mess. Later, Bang Chan pressed the button to warp everyone again and left the store. A pink gift box fell from the sky and transformed into a magical pink truck. They threw the gift boxes out of the truck to deliver the children while it was driving. Suddenly, the truck got into an accident and skidded off a cliff to a sink. They crawled out from under the sink and dropped presents under the

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in the house, but the girl opened the door and saw them by chance. They introduced themself as Stray Kids, but she screamed that "You're not Santa." Later, Stray Kids and the girl played together. It ends with Stray Kids leaving the store and receiving the text to work instead of Santa Claus again.

Live performances

A year after the song release, Stray Kids gave the debut performance of "Christmas EveL" at 2022 '' 2022 SBS Gayo Daejeon'' on December 24, 2022, alongside "

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" and "24 to 25".

Accolades

"Christmas EveL" received one music program award on the December 10, 2021, episode of ''

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Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the official website. Locations * JYP Publishing (

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) – original publishing * JYPE Studios – recording * Larrabee Studios – mixing * Sterling Sound – mastering Personnel *

– lead vocals ** Bang Chan (

) – lyrics, composition, arrangement ** Changbin (3Racha) – lyrics, composition ** Han (3Racha) – lyrics, composition * HotSauce – composition, arrangement, keyboard, drum programming, computer programming * KayOne Lee – digital editing * Goo Hye-jin – recording * Manny Marroquin – mixing * Chris Galland – mix engineering ** Zach Pereyra – assistant ** Anthony Vilchis – assistant *

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– mastering

Charts

Weekly charts

Monthly charts

Release history

References

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