Welcome to the 38th Songs of the Week of 2026. This week Andy Von Pip, Caleb Campbell, and Stephen Humphries helped me decide ...

If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, "Well, it's Christmas all over again."And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

The GOAT, and for good reason. It's the perfect Christmas song, upbeat and joyous without being cheesy, exploring universally relatable feelings, and just so fun to sing and dance to. If you're ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

Holiday music brings in more money every year. But most of it goes to the classics. By Robert Levine This may have been the biggest year ever for Christmas music, at least going by the charts. Holiday ...

Christmastime is unofficially "Mariah Carey Season," as the pop star's ubiquitous Christmas hit, "All I want For Christmas," is the most-streamed Christmas song of all time, according to Forbes. But ...

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