"Where Are You Christmas?" is The Pretty Reckless' first No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs, which began in 2020. Rising two spots, ...

This The Pretty Reckless’ haunting cover has hit No. 1 on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, proving holiday music can rock ...

The depth and breadth of the international Christmas songbook continues to astound. This year I’m adding a dozen new tracks, and they’re all over the place genre-wise – soul, punk, country, doo-wop, ...

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 ...

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.

Songs from the soundtrack to ‘Oh. What. Fun.’, new holiday albums by Mickey Guyton, Old Crow Medicine Show, Brad Paisley ...

Bing Crosby is synonymous with Christmas. The giga-star dominated the '30s and '40s as both a movie star and a musician, but now is known mostly for his Christmas songs, which have stayed in the ...

Posts from this topic will be added to your daily email digest and your homepage feed. Here are a few suggestions to freshen up your holiday playlist. Here are a few suggestions to freshen up your ...

Did you know that the first-ever hit single from pioneering Atlanta hip-hop duo OutKast, 1993's "Player's Ball", was a Christmas song?

Christmas is not the most wonderful time of the year for everyone. Call them scrooges or grinches if you'd like, but there are some people who simply would rather skip the holiday altogether. Two such ...

Born Christmas Day in 1946, it took Jimmy Buffett 50 years to release his first holiday album, Christmas Island. Released in 1996, the album is a collection of reimagined holiday classics and some ...

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 ...