Holiday music brings in more money every year. But most of it goes to the classics. By Robert Levine This may have been the biggest year ever for Christmas music, at least going by the charts. Holiday ...

Dec. 24 (UPI) --Christmas music often brings to mind familiar carols and pop standards that return every December. But over the years, artists across punk, indie, hip-hop and alternative rock have ...

Christmas and country music were made for each other. Sure, the classics — from Dolly Parton’s “Hard Candy Christmas” to Merle Haggard’s “If We Make It Through December” — still define the season, but ...

It’s that time again. Mariah Carey has been defrosted. Michael Bublé’s accountant is buying another yacht. Christmas music is firmly back at the summit of the charts like the 900-pound Swarovski star ...

Brenda Lee released plenty of songs throughout her country music career. Lee was only 11 years old when her debut “Jambalaya (On The Bayou)” came out in 1956, kicking off a career that would ...

Whether or not you consider Wham!'s "Last Christmas" a gay song depends on how you see its lyrics and its creator. The 1984 Wham! song “Last Christmas” has become a regular holiday favorite among ...

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. For all the talk of the best and worst Christmas songs out there, there's ...

On the six-seventh day of Christmas, my elementary music teacher gave to me … a silly holiday song to sing by the tree. Like many of his colleagues around the country, Tyler Bishop, who teaches music ...

Every December, a small group of songs returns to dominate charts, playlists, and pop culture. Their extraordinary sales show how timeless Christmas music truly is. Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has sold ...