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.

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

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

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?

Long before the rise of streaming, Christmas songs like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Jingle Bell Rock” were some of the most popular of the genre racking up weeks on the charts in the 1960s without ...

The most popular Christmas tune on the music streaming list is Wham's Last Christmas, which takes the cake as the most ...

From cosy winter mornings to loud festive nights, these Christmas songs are dominating Instagram Reels in December 2025, blending nostalgia, pop energy and holiday warmth.

The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — ...

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.

As Sabrina Carpenter's “When Did You Get Hot?” earns the singer a new hit on one pop radio chart, “A Nonsense Christmas” and ...

Chris Rea, the singer, songwriter and guitarist who has died aged 74, rose to fame in the 1980s as a purveyor of huskily ...