Billboard highlights several new holiday songs across country, Americana, bluegrass and Contemporary Christian music. By Jessica Nicholson 2025 marks a strong season of new music releases as the ...

With all those Christmas cookies around, it might be a good idea to get your heart pumping this holiday season. The average American gains a pound or two between Thanksgiving and New Year’s — and ...

For the second week in a row, the Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire Top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

The perfect Christmas song sets the mood right away. Our next guest wants to destroy all that. STEPHEN THOMPSON, BYLINE: (Laughter). MARTIN: Stephen Thompson of NPR Music has brought us some of his ...