Elvis Presley's The Classic Christmas Album hits No. 1 for the first time, more than a decade after its release and long ...

Officially, Elvis Presley is listed as a co-writer on a number of songs from the early part of his career. But it's a bit ...

As “All I Want for Christmas Is You” leads the Hot 100 for another turn, Mariah Carey becomes the first musician to rack up ...

It’s no wonder. Written by Irving Berlin, “White Christmas” is the song that topped the US charts for three consecutive years (1942, 1943, and 1944), won an Oscar, and became the best-selling ...

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

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?

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.

Christmas wouldn’t be Christmas without great music. And while famous old carols and unstoppable pop hits seem to get the most attention, many of classic rock’s biggest acts have also released ...

Christmas is right around the corner, so you’re probably getting in the holiday spirit with a little music.Maybe it’s that Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD in the car or Nat King Cole’s ...

It’s the most wonderful time of year for singer Mariah Carey. Every year during the Christmas season, Carey’s song “All I Want for Christmas Is You” surges to the top of the Billboard singles chart.

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 ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...