The tune crooned by Bing Crosby is still one of the most popular Christmas songs of all time. It's endured as a favorite — despite a complicated and controversial history.

From “Silent Night” to “Jingle Bells,” Christmas carols are some of the most familiar songs of the season, and some of the ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

The biggest Christmas collaboration ever, The Beatles’ first ex-member to hit #1 in the charts, and a TV ban for playing a song! This and more this week in music history here. December 25: Merry ...

What are the best Christmas carols of all time? We asked 50 choirmasters for their choices... here are the results ...

Take a musical journey through a century of Christmas music in New Zealand, highlighting iconic songs and festive traditions.

Long before the rise of streaming, Christmas songs like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Jingle Bell Rock” were some of the most popular of the genre racking up weeks on the charts in the 1960s without ...

Every festive season, the UK singles chart becomes something of a two-horse race between Wham!’s Last Christmas and Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, while Brits apparently have a ...

The change has been driven by technology. In the pre-streaming era, consumers would play Christmas music through CDs and records or catch tunes on the radio during the winter months. But the rise of ...

“Mary, Did You Know?” has become one of the most popular Christmas songs since its 1991 release. It was first recorded by Michael English on his 1991 debut album. The song has since been covered by ...

“The most famous of these, Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You, remains the best-selling Christmas record of the ...

ATLANTA — For years, Atlanta’s holiday soundtrack belonged to 104.7 The Fish, but after the station’s sale earlier this year, its iconic all-Christmas format went silent, leaving a festive void. Now, ...