With Mariah Carey and Wham! saturating airwaves with their holiday tunes, it’s beginning to sound a lot like Christmas. But if all you want for Christmas is a reprieve from stereotypical Christmas ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of ...

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 ...

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

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 ...

Mariah Carey’s catalog is filled with hits that keep on giving — even 30 years after the fact. But no matter how old some of her songs are, seeing them continue to achieve such remarkable feats will ...

"All I Want for Christmas Is You", "Last Christmas" or "Driving Home for Christmas" - when it comes to Christmas hits, international artists dominate the playlists. Germany, on the other hand, is ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Florian Walch, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) With Mariah Carey and Wham!