Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

Many people dream of a "White Christmas." There have even been songs sung about it. I like white Christmases too, but did you know Christmas' weather history is much more interesting than just snow?

Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music. By Jessica Nicholson 2025 marks a strong season of new music releases as the ...

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 ...

Christmas isn't always so merry for everyone. The holiday season can be a hard one for many people, especially since there's so much pressure to enjoy the magic of the big day. It's hard to get in the ...

The unofficial anthem of Christmas has made history. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” annually surges to the top of the Billboard singles charts each Christmas, and that has continued ...

It’s the most wonderful time of year for singer Mariah Carey. Every year during the Christmas season, Carey’s song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” surges to the top of the Billboard singles chart.

J.S. Gornael has a BA in English with a Creative Writing Emphasis in Poetry and an MFA in Fiction. He has taken workshops in poetry, fiction, and non-fiction (though mostly the second). Half-cinephile ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...

The votes are in, and Arizona Republic readers have selected their worst Christmas song of all time: a novelty record by Elmo & Patsy, a since-divorced husband and wife who self-released the song on ...

Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is now the longest-running No. 1 song in U.S. chart history. The 1994 modern Christmas classic has spent a cumulative 20 weeks atop the Billboard Hot ...