Brenda Lee’s 1958 classic 'Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree' has re-entered Spotify’s Weekly Top Songs Global chart as the ...

If you're tired of hearing the same old Christmas songs ever year, blame the internet, the music industry and your parents. The likes of Mariah Carey's "All I want for Christmas is You", The Pogue's ...

Christmas music is a nostalgia trip. Generally speaking, pop music prizes novelty — fresh songs, surprising sounds, this week’s hit, the Next Big Thing. But once a year, a soundtrack that reaches back ...

That statistic isn’t true, but it’s just plausible enough that it could be. That’s only 25 times per holiday season. That’s what, one trip to Old Navy? Worse still, there are dozens of other songs ...

There was a December when we didn’t scroll for music. We just turned on the radio and let the station decide. Billboard told the stations what people were buying and requesting, so when a Christmas ...

Randy Travis will re-release his 1989 Christmas album An Old Time Christmas this holiday season, but with three never-before-released songs. Dropping on Nov. 19, An Old Time Christmas (Deluxe Edition) ...

If any band is hardwired for tapping into a youthful holiday spirit, it’s the Old 97’s. The Texas cowpunks’ bratty insouciance could speak to the heart of any kid on Christmas morning, but their new ...

For a few weeks every winter, popular music tumbles into a time warp. Old-school trumps cutting edge. Greatest Generation artists rule millennial playlists. A 27-year-old song leads the pop charts — ...

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