Around Christmas, listeners are also more open to a wide range of sounds. A capella music is not usually commercially successful, but Pentatonix has sold more than 9 million holiday albums in the U.S.

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

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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?

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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.

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