“Christmas comes this time each year,” opined The Beach Boys, those noted holiday experts — and, obviously, close watchers of the calendar (“Look! Christmas is here in December again!“) in their holiday classic, “Little Saint Nick,” a 1963 single and a highlight from the band’s 1964 imaginatively titled album, “The Beach Boys’ Christmas Album.”

Albums of holiday music have been a music-industry staple since — well, since musicians started making albums. The reasons are clear: First, Christmas comes this time each year. An artist spends a couple of weeks recording in July, and the investment can pay off for many holiday seasons to come. In addition, most of the songs already are written for you. Many of them are in the public domain (but be wary of singing those verses that Beyonce added to “Silent Night,” lest you hear from Queen Bee’s hive of lawyers).

Also, many of the songs actually are quite good — sturdy tunes that carolers and churchgoers have been singing for centuries in addition to songs from the Great American Songbook, well-crafted vehicles built to last.

But some performances of these holiday chestnuts stand head and shoulders above others. Those definitive performances deserve to be enshrined.

So I’ve created a completely fictional Holiday Music Hall of Fame to do just that. Over the past few years, I’ve selected one or two of these performances and added them to the Hall of Fame. The idea is that these are performances that are so definitive that nobody should ever want to record them again. (In fact, although my crack team of lawyers has yet to completely work out the details, we’re working on legislation that would make it illegal for anyone to record a song that’s included in the Hall of Fame — unless it was for one of those charity albums or a Pentatonix release; we’re not Scrooges.)

Here’s your chance to nominate a beloved performance of a holiday song to the Hall of Fame. Email your suggestion to me at [email protected] or leave it in the comments sections below. Include a few words about why your nominated performance needs to be enshrined in the Hall of Fame, scheduled to be built in a cave on Mount Crumpit. (Click here to learn about the performances that have been inducted into the hall in previous years.)

This year, I’m adding a twist: All of the songs thus far included in the Hall of Fame were recorded in the 20th century. But, assuming we get the Whoville Planning Commission to approve the plans, we’re planning a wing in the Hall of Fame for holiday songs written in this century. So send along another selection, if you have a favorite recent holiday song. If we gather enough nominations, in a few years we can ship the song list over to Pentatonix so the group has some new material to work with for its 2030 album: “Christmas Comes This Time Each Year, Thank God.”

You’ll have to act fast. The deadline for nominations is noon Pacific on Christmas Day. (I know, but I’ve been busy — it’s Christmas time in the city, right?) Later that day, I’ll post this year’s inductees into the Hall of Fame, with an updated Spotify playlist. And, hey, have yourself a merry little Christmas.