Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music.

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

As the holidays approach, Christmas songs have been climbing back up the charts. As of Dec. 9, 13 of the top 20 on Billboard's Global 200 chart are holiday songs—eclipsing pop hits like Taylor Swift's ...

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

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit ...

That song is "Last Christmas" by Wham!, taking the #1 spot on the Billboard Global 200 for the week of Dec. 20, 2025. What's interesting about this song is the fact that it really doesn't have much to ...

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

On the latest episode of Billboard's On the Record podcast, Charlie Puth goes full 'Professor Puth' to break down the musical attributes that define a holiday hit.

Rosemary Westwood from member station WWNO asked a few of New Orlean's favorite musicians about the songs they like to listen to around Christmas.

Traditionally, radio stations will start to play around-the-clock holiday music after Thanksgiving. In Knoxville, you can ...

If you’re sick of hearing the same old festive cheese at this time of year, allow Kevin E G Perry to suggest an alternative ...