A huge weekend of holiday happenings features Santa on water skis, holiday concerts from classical to carols, pop-up markets ...

The best Christmas song to blast your eardrums out to. "Carol of the Bells" is the most epic — and maybe kinda creepy? — ...

All I Want for Christmas Is You” — now the song with the most weeks at No. 1 on the Hot 100 — ties as the sixth-longest-charting hit of all time.

There are other musical elements which help spread the Christmas cheer, from lyrical melodies to strident brass parts. Most ...