--- description: Christmas was Thursday, but do you know how many Christmas trees were sold this year and how many of them were real? title: Everything you need to know about Christmas, by the numbers image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt975b2c580e8dbdc0/6987771da988ca63ec6ab962/krn1229_2.gif?branch=production&width=750&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  * [Business](/section/business/) ## Business Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close * [Know Right Now](/tag/know-right-now/) ## Know Right Now Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close # Know Right Now: Christmas By the Numbers by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 26, 2014 4:17 PM CUT  by [TIME Video](/author/time-video/) ## TIME Video Update your preferences in [Account Settings](/account/preferences/) Close Dec 26, 2014 4:17 PM CUT Christmas was Thursday, but do you know how many Christmas trees were sold this year and how many of them were real? Do you know how much the average American spent on gifts this year? How about the most downloaded Christmas song? Hint: The answer to that one is featured at the end of _Love Actually_. If you’re still in the Christmas spirit (or even if you aren’t), watch Friday’s installment of Know Right Now to learn some yuletide facts about this year’s X-Mas. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/"},"headline":"Know Right Now: Christmas By the Numbers","datePublished":"2014-12-26T16:17:06.000Z","dateModified":"2026-02-22T03:06:39.727Z","description":"Everything you didn't know you needed to know about Christmas","url":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/","keywords":["Know Right Now","Shopping","movies","Music","christmas","Holidays","gifts","Mariah Carey"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt975b2c580e8dbdc0/6987771da988ca63ec6ab962/krn1229_2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"TIME Video","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/time-video/"}],"articleSection":"Business","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt975b2c580e8dbdc0/6987771da988ca63ec6ab962/krn1229_2.gif?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"krn1229_2","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/section/business/","name":"Business"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/know-right-now/","name":"Know Right Now"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/","name":"Know Right Now: Christmas By the Numbers"}}]},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"VideoObject","name":"See The Unique Way Amazon Ships This Teddy Bear","description":"Go Behind the Scenes at Amazon to see how the products you buy make it to the shipping truck","thumbnailUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/v2/media/IY8KG0y3/poster.jpg?width=720","uploadDate":"2014-12-01T04:19:45.000Z","contentUrl":"https://cdn.jwplayer.com/manifests/IY8KG0y3.m3u8","embedUrl":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/","duration":"PT2M54S","potentialAction":{"@type":"SeekToAction","target":"https://time.com/3646047/know-right-now-christmas-by-the-numbers/?jw_start={seek_to_second_number}","startOffset-input":"required name=seek_to_second_number"}}] ```