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

Stevie Wonder was just 16 years old when he released "Someday at Christmas," a joyous holiday tune that doubles as a plea for ...

For all the nay-sayers and Scrooges out there, Christmas pop is an annual scourge of the high street and TV advertising from ...

As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s ...

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?

From Chuck Berry, to Kylie Minogue, to Lower Merion's own Lizzy McAlpine. Our pop music critic builds you a playlist for the ...

To skirt the now-grating classics and AI slop, we’ve compiled a playlist of tunes spanning folk, R&B, and alt-rock, all from ...

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 pop anthems and rock classics to heartfelt ballads, here’s a look at some old and contemporary songs that continue to define Christmas ...

The calendar has turned to December, and jingle bells have arrived at the top of the charts, led, as usual, by Mariah, Wham and Brenda Lee. Christmas season has officially arrived - at least on the ...

IT’S always the most hotly-contested chart of the year with the top spot going down in music history. And it just wouldn’t be Christmas without multiple acts going head to head for all ...

The Christmas music genre has always felt a bit queer-coded, with its jangly production, ignorantly optimistic lyrical cliches, and goosebump-inducing high notes – not to mention our decades-long ...