For more than 70 years, the greatest musicians in the world have been recording Christmas songs. Here are our picks for the ...

Jazz versions of holiday classics can bring up these feelings even with no singer, though perhaps start with Ella Fitzgerald’s classic album “Ella Wishes You a Swinging Christmas.” Other sweet as ...

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.

Pick of my Christmas discs is this sublime collection from Trio Mediæval on the Norwegian audiophile label 2L, reflecting yuletide’s origins in Northern European pagan culture. Imaginative and ...

The best Christmas music is heartwarming. The Trans-Siberian Orchestra’s “Christmas Canon” is a shockingly cynical rebrand of an earlier piece of classical music. The tune is awful — but it’ll stick ...

Christmas is right around the corner, so you’re probably getting in the holiday spirit with a little music.Maybe it’s that Trans-Siberian Orchestra CD in the car or Nat King Cole’s ...

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 ...

We’ve sorted through the best and worst so you don’t have to. Pentatonix, Christmas in the City They’re known for taking carolling back to its primitive roots: a cappella singalongs and, um, a human ...