Classic holiday favorites such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the ...

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

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 “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular ...

Our quest to discover rock's best Christmas song has reached the final four. Only Elvis Presley, David Bowie (with Bing ...

Country music’s Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. We're not looking for joy, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

This is a story of when a singing cowboy got upstaged by Santa Claus on Hollywood Boulevard. In the Christmas season of 1949, Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was the No. 1 ...

For more traditional and kid-friendly tunes, I keep going back to Martin Sexton’s Camp Holiday. No matter what Sexton is singing, he sounds gleeful, which makes a song like Holly Jolly Christmas fun ...

As both a music critic and a seasonal fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, here are a half dozen essentials.

To celebrate the holidays, we’re looking back at four archive Fresh Air interviews discussing popular Christmas songs: First, jazz singer Mel Torme tells Terry Gross about co-writing “The Christmas ...