Variety looks toward 2026's most anticipated albums, from early releases by Zach Bryan and A$AP Rocky to BTS, Bruno Mars, ...

Helping the haul of holiday songs, the latest chart's data tracking period encompassed the week leading up to and including ...

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Music is one of the most important parts of any holiday season. Nat King Cole’s The Christmas Song is practically ceremonial. The Temptations turn up every December like clockwork. Mariah Carey owns ...

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?

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... As a genre, Christmas music is more than just the classics. As a true connoisseur of the season and a fanatic who writes my own Christmas-themed newsletter, ...

Chris Rea was the unmistakeable voice behind one of the world’s most popular Christmas songs, but he wrote it at a time when he was hardly in the holiday spirit. His record contract was almost done, ...

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.

Mariah Carey first released "All I Want for Christmas Is You" in 1994 Since then, the song has become a yuletide classic The number earns Carey millions of dollars each holiday season Mariah Carey is ...

Looking to freshen up your Christmas playlist with some newer recordings? Well, the contemporary Christian music (CCM) genre just keeps cranking out quality Christmas albums year after year. Related ...

The depth and breadth of the international Christmas songbook continues to astound. This year I’m adding a dozen new tracks, and they’re all over the place genre-wise – soul, punk, country, doo-wop, ...