The youngest song of the group, Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas is You," was released 30 years ago, while at 67, Bobby Helms' "Jingle Bell Rock" is old enough to collect Social Security.

Songs must be reasonably well-known. Yes, this rules out some truly excellent stuff. Many of my favorite Christmas songs, atheist or otherwise, are on the obscure side: from the grisly, gothy ...

There comes a point every festive season when it suddenly dawns on you that if you hear the same old Christmas songs one more time you are going to run for the hills. Yes, we’ll admit to getting those ...

What we need are non-Christmassy Christmas songs. Well, friends ... watch this space. The 20-year-old singer has produced a beautiful piano cover of Human League’s 1984 electro classic Together ...

Here are 10 Christmas songs — old and new — to freshen up your rotation this season. Richie Assaly is a culture reporter for the Star, with an interest in music, pop culture and food reporting.

on Carey’s simply-titled album Merry Christmas. The smash enters the top 10 on the Radio Songs chart shortly after turning 30 years old. That’s an incredibly rare feat for any tune on the list ...

There comes a point every festive season when it suddenly dawns on you that if you hear the same old Christmas songs one more time you are going to run for the hills. Yes, we’ll admit to getting ...