It's Christmas Time! The Best Time of the Year! The Moment to Listen to Traditional Christmas Carols to recreate the cute ...

Baby Boomers remember this song as both a Christmas tune and a cultural statement. Released during the Vietnam War era, it blended holiday themes with a message of peace. While still recognized, its ...

Image Credit: a katz/Shutterstock. Christmas enthusiasts can’t wait for the holiday season to deck their homes out with festive lights, decorations, and the smell of Christmas cookies baking in the ...

From Mariah Carey to Gucci Mane, these Christmas albums, EPs, and mixtapes shaped the season and defined the soundtrack of ...

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

The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell, which became ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

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

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched On ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

Billboard's best Christmas songs of the 21st century feature hits like Underneath the Tree, Santa Tell Me, and Snowman.