Billboard's staff picks the 100 greatest Christmas songs for this holiday season. ... So, when he recorded this happy, romantic Christmas classic, ...

Some of us prefer our Christmas music on the pensive side, with wistful lyrics about dusky snowfalls and memories. It’s not joy being sought, but permission to wallow in nostalgia. Others relish ...

There’s something truly magical about a classic Christmas song and its ability to fill a person with the ... This track was Petty’s contribution to “A Very Special Christmas 2.” Happy Xmas ...

During the holiday season, you're bound to be steeped in Christmas music everywhere you go…probably even before Thanksgiving. If you're a yuletide aficionado, you may be fine with your far-from ...

Of these songs, 78 were Christmas or holiday themed, and it was these songs that Bennett included in his analysis. "I took a musical analysis of the 78 songs," Bennett told Newsweek .

30. The Waitresses 'Christmas Wrapping' (1981) This New Wave standard rocks the mic like Debbie Harry on the "Rapture" tip with an impossibly elastic bass line, punch-drunk horns slurring the ...

"And with that change, it became a completely happy Christmas song, as opposed to a consoling Christmas song," Fricke said. Final twist. There is a coda to the song's lyrical history.

The song’s title comes from the Hawaiian phrase meaning “Merry Christmas”; this version is one of the earliest recorded, in 1950. 49. 'Run Rudolph Run,' Sheryl Crow ...

This is a song from "A Twismas Story" called "Happy The Christmas Clown." (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "HAPPY THE CHRISTMAS CLOWN") TWITTY: (Singing) If you've been good little girls and boys, perhaps this ...

The crux of the song is a failed romance that fell apart on Christmas and sure, it may not be the most happy of songs, but the earnest yearning in this tune just hits all the right notes for me ...

30. The Waitresses 'Christmas Wrapping' (1981) This New Wave standard rocks the mic like Debbie Harry on the "Rapture" tip with an impossibly elastic bass line, punch-drunk horns slurring the ...