Music therapist Jennifer Buchanan offers tips on what people can do if they find holiday music to be emotionally painful, such as trying reggae or jazz Christmas music.

With the holiday music business worth an estimated $177 million US a year, more artists are releasing Christmas covers and original songs — some hoping to recreate the recipe that turned Mariah ...

Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has earned a consistent spot at the top of the U.S. Billboard Holiday 100. But a look at what other songs appear in the top 40 show its success is ...

Lansbergen adds for people who work in retail, Christmas music may remind them of a hectic shopping time of the year, and listening to the same set of songs over and over again can be stressful ...

Christmas music is a big part of the music industry. John Yang speaks with Nate Sloan, an assistant professor of musicology at the USC Thornton School of Music and co-host of the podcast Switched ...

When I got back to the home office, I saw that one of the digital music delivery services I use sent me Brenda Lee’s Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree. It was Aug. 28.

I have a love/hate relationship with Christmas music. Mostly, my issue is with the repetitious playlists of the same 28 songs that various radio stations and retail outlets start playing when they ...

According to a 2023 Cloud Cover Music survey, 28% of respondents said they started listening to Christmas music around Dec. 1, with the most played song being Carey's famous classic.

9. Bruce Cockburn, Christmas. I’m not a big Cockburn fan, but his folk style and guitar work are suited to traditional Christmas songs. 10. The Chieftans, The Bells of Dublin.

And this song is in that time frame. Musically, it makes sense that we’re working with Mark Ronson, who is the producer of Yesteryear Nostalgia, and Kelly Clarkson has got the vocal chops to ...