Long before the rise of streaming, Christmas songs like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Jingle Bell Rock” were some of the most popular of the genre racking up weeks on the charts in the 1960s without ...

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched On ...

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 ...

Every Monday, Billboard unveils the top 10 songs on the latest Hot 100 chart. The most recent rankings, for the chart dated December 9, are out now, so let’s run down who had this week’s biggest hits.

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the Christmas spirit, conjure memories of the kind of holiday you’re meant to dream of when Bing ...

I’m the kind of crazy Christmas junkie that Hallmark has made a mint on. I still cry every time Kevin McCallister runs across the foyer floor and leaps into Catherine O’Hara’s arms, I can recite Hugh ...

Nine tracks from Barbra Streisand, the 1975, Fleet Foxes and more get put to the Lindsay Test. By Lindsay Zoladz What makes a Christmas song … a Christmas song? Sleigh bells? Yuletide imagery? A ...

The best country Christmas songs run the gamut from nostalgic, easy listening to power ballads to modern party tracks with some twang. Gwen Stefani adopts her now-husband Blake Shelton's country ...