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.

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 ...

As the nights draw in and the first frosts begin to glisten, many of us are already looking forward to the warmth, light and ...

While many people are busy either embracing — or evading — Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” a different soundtrack is playing in Bailey Cooke’s mind. For Cooke, artistic director of ...

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 ...

Hear Tabernacle Choir Christmas concert guest artists, including Jane Seymour, Hugh Bonneville, Claire Bloom, John Rhys-Davies, Santino Fontana and Tom Brokaw, read the Christmas story from Luke 2.

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 ...