For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

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.

Christmas is a time for nostalgia – but plenty of us have apparently been listening to these more modern festive songs, too.

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 ...

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?

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

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

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.

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.

To get a better sense of which songs are most and least likely to brighten shoppers' moods, we found the most popular ...