As we head into December 2025, both Brenda Lee and Bobby Helms are in the Top 5 on Billboard’s Holiday 100 — for 1958’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” and 1957’s “Jingle Bell Rock,” respectively.

A decade later, Ella Fitzgerald recorded her own version in 1960, further cementing the song’s place in the popular consciousness. By the time The Ronettes released their version, the song was already ...

People sang around Christmastime as early as the year 129 A.D. and created Latin hymns for the season by the 4th century, but it wasn’t until the 12th century that folks started singing what we would ...

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 ...

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. We're not looking for joy, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish the ...

It's a week of chart milestones, as holiday songs hold down the top 24 spots on the Billboard Hot 100, Mariah Carey extends ...

So you know when you go home for the holidays, and your mom puts on the same Christmas playlist she's had on lock for the past three decades (with nary a modern Christmas hit to be found), and you've ...

This is a story of when a singing cowboy got upstaged by Santa Claus on Hollywood Boulevard. In the Christmas season of 1949, Gene Autry's version of "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" was the No. 1 ...

William also shouted out his favorite Christmas film, the 2003 comedy Elf starring Will Ferrell (another hit). “I would have to say probably Elf ,” he said on the show. “It’s very funny, and I keep ...

Nine of the songs inside the top 10 on the Hot 100 are Christmas smashes, with only Taylor Swift's "The Fate of Ophelia" ...