Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music.

It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

Classic holiday favorites such as Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You", Brenda Lee's "Rockin' Around the ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Drinking Christmas songs, romantic Christmas songs, rowdy Christmas songs and spiritual Christmas songs all make this list.

From punk and indie to hip-hop and alternative rock, these unconventional Christmas songs take a different approach to the ...

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.

As both a music critic and a seasonal fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, here are a half dozen essentials.

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

From beach tans to redneck reindeer, these country Christmas songs celebrate the holidays with a little twang — and a whole ...