I suppose Christmas songs are my seasonal specialty—in 2017 I wrote a general appreciation of the secular Christmas canon, which remains culturally resonant despite being overplayed and a little stuck ...

The best Christmas music is heartwarming. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon” is a shockingly cynical rebrand of an earlier piece of classical music. The tune is awful — but it’ll stick ...

...we released the original 2004 production of Charles's 'I Want a Doll' to help make the season bright, intending to put smiles on faces in a world that needed a good reason to smile. A cherished ...

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One sign that it's officially "the most wonderful time of the year" is the arrival of Christmas music. Whether you’re out shopping or driving home from work, there's a good chance that, come November, ...

This catchy Christmas staple is brimming with celebrity condescension. Since the day after Thanksgiving — and earlier, for some overeager souls — Christmas songs have filled the airwaves, store and ...

For the second week in a row, the top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

NEW YORK (AP)—If anything about Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” annoys you, best to avoid shopping malls now. Or the radio. Maybe music altogether, for that matter. Her 1994 carol ...