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 ...

Latin America’s beloved worship musician wanted to apply Psalm 96:1 to a tradition-heavy genre. For Marcos Witt, writing Christmas music is about more than capturing seasonal sentimentality or warm ...

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 people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

This essay is part of HuffPost’s series “This Made Me,” a collection of stories about the pop culture that moves us. We republished this 2024 story just in time for the holidays. Now that Christmas is ...

We aren’t really sure why Christmas music is so controversial. Maybe it is its unrelenting ubiquity from Thanksgiving through the end of the year. It could be some of the overplayed, hideous songs ...

For Baby Boomers, Christmas music wasn’t just background noise—it was a shared cultural experience shaped by radio countdowns, vinyl records, and televised holiday specials. While today’s playlists ...

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 ...