Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Mariah Carey's “All I Want for Christmas Is You” breaks into the ...

The Jackson 5 made spirits bright in 2023. Now that the holiday season has wrapped, Billboard has gotten a full account of Christmas playlist results, and the legendary Jackson 5 returns to the top 10 ...

Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is the No. 1 song in the world, snowballing three places to the top of the Billboard Global 200, as the 1984 classic by the British duo of George Michael, who died in 2016, ...

Brenda Lee is rockin’ around the Billboard Hot 100, landing in the No. 1 spot on the singles chart for the first time. Lee’s hit “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the third holiday song to ever ...

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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the other songs in the top 20 are even more classic. Six out of the thirteen holiday songs were released between 1946 and ...

Like fruitcake and tangled lights, holiday songs show up every year, some nice, some naughty. For the past five decades, several Christmas songs have risen above the tinsel and snow to become true ...

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” sleigh-rides from No. 18 to No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 (dated Dec. 14), as the 1984 classic by the British duo of Michael, who died in 2016, and Andrew Ridgeley hits a new ...

For the second week in a row, the Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire Top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

Every December, the same voices return to take over radios, playlists, malls and TikTok. From Mariah Carey’s unstoppable holiday empire to Wham!’s bittersweet nostalgia and Michael Bublé’s modern ...

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 ...