We might be a little biased, but Billboard firmly believes music is the best part of the holiday season every year. That includes songs from all time periods, and certainly some of the Christmas canon ...

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

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.

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. It’s not joy being sought, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

It's that time of year again. If you're like me and you hate Christmas music...well, we'll get through it together. But if you're one of those people who started listening to Christmas music on ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

He’s got a tour full of country hits, but one Christmas song finds its way into the mix — because fans never stop asking for ...

These are four of the best country Christmas songs that were ever released, which all happened to have come out in the 1990s.