A new Christmas album from Raymond Arroyo called "Christmas Merry & Bright" has already hit Billboard's Jazz and Christmas charts. The collection of traditional Christmas carols and modern favorites ...

The Queen of Christmas reigns. Mariah Carey's iconic Christmas medley "All I Want for Christmas Is You" topped the Billboard Hot 100 chart for the week of Dec. 23, 2023. The song had been on the Hot ...

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched On ...

For the past four years, JT Griffith has been OPB’s guide to the niche genre of holiday music. Griffith was a longtime Christmas music curator for OPB, KMHD and the Oregon Zoo’s Zoo Lights, and after ...

Popular streaming services like Spotify and Apple Music offer curated holiday playlists, while SiriusXM features dedicated holiday channels, including a new one hosted by Jimmy Fallon. Free options ...

Some Christmas gifts keep giving year after year after year. (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU") MARIAH CAREY: (Singing) I don't want a lot for Christmas. There is just one thing ...

From Matt Redman’s rich sing-alongs to CeCe Winans’s surprising crossovers, these 2024 releases are getting us in the spirit. Have you ever heard a medley of “Feliz Navidad” and “O Holy Night”? I hadn ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas music. Mostly, my issue is with the repetitious playlists of the same 28 songs that various radio stations and retail outlets start playing when they ...

Ahead of the American Music Awards, Mariah Carey talks to USA TODAY about the anniversaries of "The Emancipation of Mimi" and ...

Mariah Carey is heading to Sin City for the holidays! Her upcoming Christmastime in Las Vegas residency comes after years of ...