Musicologist Joe Bennett explains the common components of the most enduring Christmas songs, from "Jingle Bells" to "All I Want for Christmas Is You" – which inspires David Pogue to compose his own ...

Charlie Puth reveals why Christmas music feels timeless and breaks down the elements that define a holiday hit — on Billboard's On the Record podcast.

Don Was digs into the Blue Note Records vault for a different kind of Christmas playlist, bringing together rare cuts, ...

Yet when it comes to that perennial Christmas favourite, Mozart’s ‘Sleigh Ride’, the words ‘pot and kettle’ spring to mind. A ...

Christmas albums still have a bit of a stigma among fans of higher-cred artists. It can be difficult, first, to overcome the expectation that they’re either cash grabs or sops to sentimentality, and ...

Of all the varied Christmas TV special formats, the musical comedy variety program holds an inaugural, pertinent place and portion of the pie in the Christmas special spectrum, either as a singular ...

JACKSONVILLE, Fla.- Radio stations spend the entire month of December playing Christmas music. It's hard to avoid this time of year. For most people, it puts them in the holiday spirit. But one St.

Goodspeed Musicals has premiered stage versions of multiple holiday musicals, from “Jim Henson’s Emmet Otter” to “Holiday Inn” to “Christmas in Connecticut” to its own homegrown “A Connecticut ...

The holiday musical MADAM SCROOGE: A CHRISTMAS CAROL MUSICAL will return in 2025 with an original twist on the classic Charles Dickens story. Written by Justin Patrick Meyer with a musical score by ...

We have more lights, more visitors, and more ways to celebrate — but we still rely on each other in the ways that matter.