"The Cowboys' Christmas Ball," The Killers (Island Def Jam)

I was all set to say half a dozen puts them halfway to an album, but it turns out for 2011 the Killers and Product (RED) are using this year's new holiday tune as a come-on to buy all six as The (RED) Christmas EP. We've covered the other five tunes year by year, so we'll concentrate on the new one. It's a bit of cow-punching silliness tied to the holiday, a sort of sequel to "Rocky Raccoon" in its comically clueless evocation of Western life tied to a Christmas ball. But it's great fun to listen to, just as its predecessors are. If you've been keeping up with the series, you can just download "Cowboys," or if you haven't, go ahead and grab the whole EP, as it benefits the fight against AIDS. Right now it's only on iTunes (click the art), though I've heard there may be hardcopy versions of the EP at some point.