Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. We're not ...

65 years after it was released, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. NPR's Scott Detrow talks about it with singer Brenda Lee. In case you don't ...

This week's No. 1 song on the Billboard Hot 100 is one you've probably heard before — over and over again. For decades. "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"— sung by Brenda Lee, and first released 65 ...

Only Slate Plus members can gift Slate stories. Become a member to share 10 free articles a month. Striking while the iron was hot, Decca chose late 1960 to rerelease a single Lee had recorded back ...

Melancholy Christmas songs are the best Christmas songs and Ed Sheeran sure seems to know it. His new holiday ballad, “Under the Tree,” longs for the one thing that St. Nick can’t bring him: the lover ...

Dean Martin and Frank Sinatra sing during the taping of "The Dean Martin Variety Show" circa 1967 in Hollywood, California. The list spans decades, beginning with 19th-century carols and leading into ...

Looking beyond the obvious, overplayed holiday staples and toward tunes like Taylor Swift's "Christmas Tree Farm" or Phoebe Bridgers' "Christmas Song" — EW says ‘tis the season with a playlist filled ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Come December, everyone is bound to hear the seasonal staples, from Bing Crosby's "I'll Be Home for ...

Curious from birth, Fiona is a music writer, researcher, and cultural theorist based in the UK. She studied her Bachelor of Music in London, specializing in audiovisual practices, and progressed to a ...