Host Bob Edwards talks with Jon Pareles, music critic for the New York Times. Pareles has logged year after year reviewing holiday releases, and says the Christmas music genre does a good job of ...

This year marks 30 years since the release of Mariah Carey's hit, "All I Want for Christmas is You." But have any other pop singles been able to enter the holiday music canon since?

NPR's Madeleine Brand reports on re-interpreting Christmas music. New York artist Christian Marclay has collected thousands of holiday albums from thrift shops and used record stores, and he and a ...

For many of us, Christmas songs are dominating our playlists this week. There's the one you start hearing in October, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You," Eartha Kitt's "Santa Baby ...

Roots co-founder Ahmir "Questlove" Thompson shares his Christmas playlist, which includes songs by DRAM, James Brown, Marvin Gaye and Stevie Wonder. Originally broadcast Dec. 21, 2022.

Mariah Carey (shown performing in New York City in 2014) released "All I Want For Christmas Is You" in 1994, but it took 25 years for the song to reach the top of Billboard's Hot 100 pop chart ...

This is the music you play when you want your guests to leave. A good Christmas song can set the mood. Others can ruin the mood | WUWM 89.7 FM - Milwaukee's NPR ...

The Earworm Eraser is a 40-second audio track specifically designed to banish "Jingle Bells," "All I Want For Christmas Is You" and other much-too-catchy seasonal tunes.

'Tis the season for a handful of familiar Christmas songs to monopolize the top spots on the Billboard pop chart. But a few newer songs are making a play to join the annual holiday jukebox.

But a few newer songs are making a play to join the annual holiday jukebox. The season of Christmas songs is here. Will the classics make room for anything new? | WFAE 90.7 - Charlotte's NPR News ...