There’s a reason that listeners seem to get more impatient every year for the Christmas music season to start: Nothing else feels quite like it. The things that make Christmas songs great — whether ...

We’re in the time of year when the Billboard Hot 100 chart is ruled by Christmas songs. Specifically, there’s Mariah Carey’s “All I Want For Christmas Is You” and then a bunch of hits from the ’50s ...

Holiday songs have already begun their dominance of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this year, but their annual monopoly over the chart’s top spots is a recent phenomenon thanks to the rise of ...

The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell, which became ...

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.

Dec. 27 (UPI) --Cher is setting new records with her holiday single "DJ Play a Christmas Song." The song jumped from No. 41 to No. 20 on the Official U.K. Singles Chart, making Cher, 77, the oldest ...

Jason Kelce's and Stevie Nicks' Christmas song is here. Jason Kelce's and Stevie Nicks' Christmas song is here. On Friday, the duo's song, "Maybe This Christmas," was released as part of Kelce's ...

The music industry, according to The New York Times, is “hoping Halloween can be the new Christmas”: to make October into an all-month spooky-season sales bonanza just like it made a seasonal sales ...

You know Dasher and Dancer and Pran … ugh, you know the rest of it. Yes, Virginia, while there is a Santa Claus, the music of the Christmas season can make you shift from having the feels to the ...