Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music. By Jessica Nicholson 2025 marks a strong season of new music releases as the ...

Black artists have contributed to the most vital Christmas music of our time through soulful classics and energetic R&B ...

For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

From Mariah Carey to Gucci Mane, these Christmas albums, EPs, and mixtapes shaped the season and defined the soundtrack of ...

While streams of new music — releases from the last 18 months — were down from last year, one genre is on the rise: Christian ...

For viewers weaned on an era when American Idol incubated household names like Kelly Clarkson and Adam Lambert, the special might have seemed jarring. But since the show’s revival landed on ABC in ...

Richard Smallwood didn’t just write songs. He crafted hymns that felt like they had always existed. His music lived in that ...

By Fred Bronson People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by the 4th century, but it wasn’t until the 12th century that folks started ...

When 600 people braved a blizzard to see the first “Black Nativity” at Count Basie Center in 2010, director Darrell Willis ...

In the Bethlehem story, God identifies not with emperors but with those suffering under empire — its victims. God comes not ...

Organisers of this year's Shine Your Light Christmas evangelistic outreach have been "overwhelmed" by the response from local ...