From timeless carols to pop anthems, here are 10 of the best Christmas songs that continue to define the holiday season every year. Christmas has a way of sounding familiar before it even arrives.

EDITOR’S NOTE: We wrote this back in 2021, but with Christmas upon us again we felt like it was the perfect time to update it. There's nothing that brings the world together more than sharing opinions ...

How do you sum up a year in music when the song of the summer was a travel commercial? If “Nothing Beats a Jet2 Holiday” proved anything, it’s that the music landscape is in unprecedented territory in ...

Back in September 2023, Bruce Springsteen announced that he would have to shelve his planned tour until March 2024 so he could recover from peptic ulcer disease. The temporary retreat shouldn’t be ...

Every December, a small group of songs returns to dominate charts, playlists, and pop culture. Wham!’s “Last Christmas” has sold around 15.7 million units worldwide. Written by George Michael in his ...

We asked and you answered. Earlier this month, we opened the polls and invited All Songs Considered's listeners to tell us their top 5 records of the year. We tabulated all of the ballots, determined ...

2025 may have felt like a bit of a hellscape but at least we had music to keep us going. Treated to a deluge of new music, a hell of a lot of singles have been released this year. It can be difficult ...

When this song was released in 1961, it was a pivotal time not only for Christmas music, but for America itself—culture was colliding with mid-century modern sensibilities and Christmas was becoming ...

Bad Bunny’s Debí Tirar Más Fotos, released the first week of 2025, set the tone for a year in which Latin music continued to be released at a fast and furious speed — but also, one in which key ...

Known for its ‘80s nostalgia and supernatural goings-on thanks to one warped villain, Vecna (Jamie Campbell Bower), Netflix’s Stranger Things established very strong connections to music from its very ...

Don's Saturday night selections cross time, space and genre. Expect culture clash cuts from The Nextmen, Lack of Afro, Sofia Kourtesis, Dub Kazman and The Jam. Produced by BBC Audio for BBC Radio 6 ...