“All I Want For Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey’s annual chart-topping Christmas anthem, is poised to shatter the all-time record for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart if and ...

Modern holiday chestnuts by veterans of the long-running TV talent competition. By Fred Bronson People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by ...

Murray is a Forbes news reporter covering entertainment trends. Mariah Carey’s annual chart-topper “All I Want For Christmas Is You” tied the record for the most weeks spent at No. 1 on the Billboard ...

It's way too early to tell. But the song's annual streaming success makes it a possibility. By Robert Levine Hit songs come and go — artists last. What lasts even longer, though, are Christmas songs, ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

We might be a little biased, but Billboard firmly believes music is the best part of the holiday season every year. That includes songs from all time periods, and certainly some of the Christmas canon ...

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when Bing ...

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?

Listening to holiday music before the season officially gets underway is not new. Spotify says the phenomenon has started to ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...