This year, Jordin Sparks is taking a unique approach in hopes of breaking through the seasonal logjam. By Glenn Peoples The holiday season is a lousy time for new Christmas music. From one year to the ...

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 ...

Modern holiday chestnuts by veterans of the long-running TV talent competition. By Fred Bronson People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. The years keep passing us by and more and more Christmas songs keep getting made. Singing about the yuletide season is a rite of ...

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 ...

"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 ...

Are you a Jingle Bells person? Maybe Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree? Dominick the Donkey, maybe? If you're one of the people who can't start Christmas early enough, you're not alone. Christmas ...

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 ...

October has barely arrived, but Christmas music already has a place in the listening queue, according to new Spotify data ...

Country music's Christmas songs are like side dishes at your fancy holiday dinner. Most country fans reach for the standards, but a few will always prefer those specialty treats. Others you may simply ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit ...