For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from November onwards, and the uncouth younger sibling of the traditional carol.

There's a Christmas song for all tastes – jolly to melancholy – so corralling them into one list is not only futile, but impossible. Still, we try.

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the ...

Musicologist Joe Bennett explains the common components of the most enduring Christmas songs, from "Jingle Bells" to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" – which inspires David Pogue to compose his own ...

A journey through five decades of Christmas music, exploring hits from Wham! to Sabrina Carpenter, that shaped how we celebrate the holidays.

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular ...

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?

Christmas is quickly approaching and everyone is getting into the spirit, and what better way than to put on some classic ...

What makes holiday music so popular years after they came out and what do modern songs have in common with them? A Virginia Tech professor says these themes tie them together.

Stars are spreading the holiday spirit with greetings, music and news of concerts, with acts such as BTS, i-dle, Pentagon, ...

Shazam is also the perfect holiday helper for those of us who love Christmas but feel a little Scrooge-like after hearing the same 20 songs on the radio day after day. We can now tailor-make our own ...