As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

Classic holiday favorites such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree", Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock", Wham!'s "Last Christmas", and ...

So you know when you go home for the holidays, and your mom puts on the same Christmas playlist she's had on lock for the past three decades (with nary a modern Christmas hit to be found), and you've ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

The change has been driven by technology. In the pre-streaming era, consumers would play Christmas music through CDs and ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. It's the holiday season and you know what that means? It's time to break ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

These are four of the best country Christmas songs that were ever released, which all happened to have come out in the 1990s.

We asked our readers to vote on the worst Christmas song of all time. This song beat Paul McCartney, Lady Gaga and that one ...

It's almost time for Santa Claus to get stuck in the chimney or whatever it is that guy does. (No fat-shaming, but wouldn't Ozempic make his job so much easier? Has no one thought to mention this?