And there are plenty of songs to choose from. Billboard magazine published a staff-selected list of the 100 Best Christmas Songs of All Time. Here’s a look at the top 20. Start the day smarter.

The two most recently released holiday hits to jingle to the Hot 100’s top 10 did so on the Dec. 28, 2024-dated chart: Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me,” released in 2014, and Kelly Clarkson’s ...

It’s not new that towards the end of the year, Christmas songs dominate the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100 chart. They’ve never achieved total domination, though, because there’s always ...

Is Christmas really the saddest day of the year? There’s a whole history of holiday music that explores what it’s like to be down-and-out during the season. Are you mourning absent family members?

holiday songs were not eligible to make the list, appearing instead on seasonal surveys.) As for the titles of the 16 top 10 Hot 100 holiday entries, five feature “Christmas” and one ...

I’ve experienced all those things these past few weeks while working on this countdown of the greatest Christmas songs of all time, an unabashedly subjective undertaking, from “White Christmas ...

Whether you love old Christmas songs, modern anthems, or festive cross-genre classics, this list has a bit of everything. 40. “Baby It’s Cold Outside” — Dean Martin (1949) Dean Martin and ...

Ariana Grande Leading the pack is Ariana Grande’s “Santa Tell Me,” which has remarkably climbed to become one of Billboard’s “100 best Christmas songs of all time” since its 2014 release.