Originally posted Friday, December 27, 2019 by RODNEY HO/[email protected] on his AJC Radio & TV Talk blog Good news about Christmas music: it’s great for a few weeks in November and December and now - poof ...

Hundreds of new Christmas songs are released every year, but each time December rolls around, the same small handful of classics races to the top of the charts. Will anything new ever break through?

I suppose Christmas songs are my seasonal specialty—in 2017 I wrote a general appreciation of the secular Christmas canon, which remains culturally resonant despite being overplayed and a little stuck ...

“Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” cemented its place in the holiday song canon after it appeared in the 1944 MGM musical Meet Me in St. Louis, starring Judy Garland. Although the song seems ...

...we released the original 2004 production of Charles's 'I Want a Doll' to help make the season bright, intending to put smiles on faces in a world that needed a good reason to smile. A cherished ...

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 ...