Long before the rise of streaming, Christmas songs like “The Little Drummer Boy” and “Jingle Bell Rock” were some of the most popular of the genre racking up weeks on the charts in the 1960s without ...

As the holidays approach, Christmas songs have been climbing back up the charts. As of Dec. 9, 13 of the top 20 on Billboard's Global 200 chart are holiday songs—eclipsing pop hits like Taylor Swift's ...

Wham!'s "Last Christmas" is the No. 1 song in the world, snowballing three places to the top of the Billboard Global 200, as the 1984 classic by the British duo of George Michael, who died in 2016, ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. (KTAL/KMSS) — Classic holiday favorites continue to dominate the Billboard charts each Christmas season, with a mixture of decades ...

The chart-topping smash had one of the strangest paths ever before becoming a Billboard record breaker.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Taylor Swift's “Christmas Tree Farm” jingles to a new all-time peak ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit ...

Christmas season has officially arrived - at least on the Billboard charts. But NPR Music's Stephen Thompson says there's still plenty of new non-holiday music to choose from, led by a record-setting ...

It’s not new that towards the end of the year, Christmas songs dominate the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They’ve never achieved total domination, though, because there’s always been at least ...

Mariah Carey has extended her record-setting streak for most weeks spent at No. 1 on the singles chart as “All I Want for Christmas Is You” spends its 22nd week atop the Billboard Hot 100. The ...

Christmas time in a church in London. Image by Tim Sandle. Christmas time in a church in London. Image by Tim Sandle. Whether you like them or loathe them, the holiday period has an association with ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Many of the other songs in the top 20 are even more classic. Six out of the thirteen holiday songs were released between 1946 and ...