Hear that? Sounds like children laughing, people passing, meeting smile after smile. Maybe you’re shelving your Christmas CDs until midnight after Thanksgiving, or maybe you’ve been listening to ...

Christmas music is a mixed gift bag. For every genuine gem, there are four overwrought renditions of already-tired classics. The sincerity of holiday albums has been replaced by major labels' desire ...

What? Not one compilation with Bing Crosby’s original “White Christmas”? That hasn’t happened in decades. But it’s a good thing, as Martha Stewart would say between batches of Christmas cookies, ...

“Santa Claus Is Coming to Town” certainly seems to strike a chord – albeit a rather cheap, nylon-sounding one – and “Jingle Bells” proves a simple, singalong joy for my young accomplice, though I’m ...

We might've only just retired the desk fan, but talk's already turning to 2025's Christmas Number 1 at Official Charts HQ. And while some Scrooges might claim it's too soon, Girls Aloud have just ...