For the second week in a row, the Top 10 songs on the Billboard Hot 100 are packed with holiday perennials ... and Kendrick Lamar. With Christmas songs filling the entire Top 5 — and Mariah Carey ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Mariah Carey's “All I Want For Christmas Is You” hits 17 weeks at ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Another year, another run at No. 1 for Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” The seasonal staple has topped the ...

Holiday songs have already begun their dominance of the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart this year, but their annual monopoly over the chart’s top spots is a recent phenomenon thanks to the rise of ...

It's the most wonderful time of the year — if you love Christmas music. The Billboard Hot 100 top 10 has been invaded by holiday favorites, except for the top spot, which still belongs to Taylor Swift ...

NEW YORK, Dec 21 (Reuters) - Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You" has been the soundtrack of the holiday season for nearly 30 years. Why has this song become a rare modern Christmas hit ...

Brenda Lee is rockin’ around the Billboard Hot 100, landing in the No. 1 spot on the singles chart for the first time. Lee’s hit “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” is the third holiday song to ever ...

At the height of her career, Mariah Carey took a risk by releasing a holiday song. Given what we know about the singer who has dubbed herself "Queen of Christmas," and the ubiquity of the seasonal hit ...

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 ...