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I'm from the UK. Whereabouts are you from, to have never heard a christmas song?
I'm from Ukraine (Eastern Europe) and never heard a christmas song except for a part of some cult festive events.
In Britain, especially from the 1970s to 2000s, there was always a race to be the #1 charting song at Christmas, and songs with a Christmas theme often won out, even if they were otherwise secular pop songs. This means that over the years, we've ended up with probably a hundred of them ranging in quality from terrible to great.
America have followed suit. Or else, they might argue they started it with songs like "White Christmas" and "Silver Bells".
This is largely down to the more permissive secular and Protestant Christian societies where irreverence is tolerated if not encouraged.
The Catholic and Orthodox churches are less tolerant of those sorts of things, so people in countries with heavy influence from those churches - like yourself - won't have had anything like it.
You slightly missed with your reasoning of my case: Ukraine is an exUSSR republic where religion wasn't actually encouraged, so we don't have any secular traditions about religious events. But because of the hardships of life, religion has crept back during the last 30 years and so have religious songs and traditions. As a result, Christmas is a purely religious event here, and it is interesting only for religious people.
I think the point is when it came to secular things pertaining to Christmas, the church would have said "No", and the state would have gone along with that, even if most people weren't religious.
The same happens everywhere, regardless of religion or how prominent it is. If you attempt to do something that the elders of a religion say are offensive to that religion, the state will discourage it, and so people don't bother in the first place.
Oh that's interesting to hear! What new year's songs do you know then?
Some songs from cartoons and movies? I think I could recall a few. No idea how they are called, of course :)