Christmas songs that have become hits during the holidays tend to be older tunes by Andy Williams, Brenda Lee and Mariah Carey. Here's why.

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.

Mariah Carey ‘s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” shines atop the Billboard Hot 100 ’s highest bough for a record-extending ...

Plus, Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas breaks the record for the biggest streaming week ever for a holiday album.

From religious hymns to classic covers by some of the commonwealth’s best known musicians, PA Local’s holiday playlist spans genres and decades.

Christmas Eve 2025 broke all streaming records - and right in the middle, the eternal duel: Mariah Carey versus Wham! While ...

Tim was born in 1944, one of 5,000 babies born at Shardeloes when it was requisitioned as a maternity hospital during WWII. His father, Major Hugh Gordon Rice served with the Eighth Army and his ...

It might not be nearly cold enough in Tucson to gather around the hearth, but here are some holiday songs to warm your heart whether you have a fireplace or not — and some to make you bang your head ...

We hear them from one Yuletide after another, the sounds of the season we’ve known and loved for decades. Just how much do ...

As the US celebrates 200 years since the Declaration of Independence, China is rocked by the Tangshan earthquake and the ...

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 ...

David Pogue is a six-time Emmy winner for his stories on "CBS Sunday Morning," where he's been a correspondent since 2002. Pogue hosts the CBS News podcast "Unsung Science." He's also a New York Times ...