"A Christmas Duel" is a Christmas duet recorded by the Swedish rock band the Hives and American singer-songwriter Cyndi Lauper. It was available as a single on 19 November 2008. It debuted at No. 6 on the Swedish Singles Chart published on 28 December, and later reached a peak at No. 4.^[1] It was released as a vinyl one-sided 7", a CD 5" single, and as download (all in Sweden only).

The song juxtaposes "really sweet music and nasty lyrics". As for how the collaboration took place, The Hives' lead singer Pelle Almqvist stated: "We came up with the song and we figured it was a duet, and we'd always hoped to do a duet with Cyndi Lauper."^[2]

"A Christmas Duel" also appears on No Ho Ho: Alternative Christmas Holiday Anthems, released on 10 November 2009.^[3]

Charts

Chart performance for "A Christmas Duel"
Chart (2008)	Peak position
Sweden (Sverigetopplistan)^[1]	4

References

^ ^a ^b "The Hives & Cyndi Lauper – A Christmas Duel". Singles Top 100. Retrieved 9 May 2023.
^ Daniel (2 November 2008). "The Hives and Cyndi Lauper Engage In "A Christmas Duel"". Rolling Stone. Retrieved 24 November 2008.
^ "Amazon.com". Retrieved 5 December 2009.

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Compilations	Your New Favourite Band
EPs	Oh Lord! When? How? A.K.A. I-D-I-O-T A Killer Among Us Tarred and Feathered
Videos	Tussles in Brussels
Singles	"Hate to Say I Told You So" "Main Offender" "Walk Idiot Walk" "Two-Timing Touch and Broken Bones" "Throw It on Me" "Tick Tick Boom" "A Christmas Duel" "Go Right Ahead"
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v t e Cyndi Lauper singles
She's So Unusual	"Girls Just Want to Have Fun" "Time After Time" "She Bop" "All Through the Night" "Money Changes Everything" "When You Were Mine"
True Colors	"True Colors" "Change of Heart" "What's Going On" "Boy Blue" "Maybe He'll Know"
A Night to Remember	"I Drove All Night" "My First Night Without You" "Heading West" "A Night to Remember"
Hat Full of Stars	"Who Let In the Rain" "That's What I Think" "Sally's Pigeons"
Twelve Deadly Cyns...and Then Some	"Hey Now (Girls Just Want to Have Fun)" "I'm Gonna Be Strong" "Come on Home"
Sisters of Avalon	"You Don't Know" "Sisters of Avalon" "Ballad of Cleo and Joe"
Merry Christmas ... Have a Nice Life	"Early Christmas Morning"
Shine	"Shine"
At Last	"At Last" "Walk On By"
The Body Acoustic	"Time After Time"
Bring Ya to the Brink	"Set Your Heart" "Same Ol' Story" "Into the Nightlife"
Memphis Blues	"Just Your Fool"
Detour	"Hard Candy Christmas" "Funnel of Love"
Other singles	"You Make Loving Fun" "We Are the World" "The Goonies 'R' Good Enough" "Hole in My Heart (All the Way to China)" "Another Brick in the Wall" "The World Is Stone" "Disco Inferno" "A Christmas Duel" "Girls Just Wanna Set Your Heart"