The song begins with a Christmas-y chime. It's the sound of a celesta — an instrument featured in Tchaikovsky's Christmas classic “The Nutcracker.” Carey’s hit also uses the sleigh bell, which became ...

Picture this: It's December. You turn on your car radio. The first few synth-pop notes of "Last Christmas" by Wham! start playing. What do you do? Why, you turn the volume up and you sing every single ...

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with the holiday season back once again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than ...

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?