Getting a chart number one at all is a huge achievement, but for the same song to hit the top by different artists in the ...

We wait for it all year. Summer is incredible. Fall is beautiful. Spring provides hope and renewal. But the Christmas season is, well, just the best. The decorations, the lights, and, of course, the ...

For years, Snopes has covered the origins and myths attached to classic holiday songs such as "The Twelve Days of Christmas" and "Jingle Bells." We've also dived into the possibly unsavory history of ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...

Today is Tuesday, Dec. 23, the 357th day of 2025. There are eight days left in the year. Today in history: Advertisement Article continues below this ad On Dec. 23, 1972, in an NFL playoff game ...

Cher closed out the final Saturday Night Live of 2025 with two tracks from her 2023 Christmas album. The pop icon, who had been an SNL musical guest only once before, opened with the up-tempo “DJ Play ...

In defense of the sad holiday song. By Melissa Kirsch Perusing painkillers at CVS the morning after Thanksgiving, I should not have been surprised by the telltale clattering of horse hooves thundering ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. It's the holiday season and you know what that means? It's time to break ...

The unofficial anthem of Christmas has made history. Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” annually surges to the top of the Billboard singles charts each Christmas, and that has continued ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...