For The First Time, Christmas Music Released This Century Is In The Top 10

A few years ago, Stereogum’s own Chris DeVille wrote a column about a crucial question: Where are the modern Christmas standards? Every year, Mariah Carey’s 1994 song “All I Want For Christmas Is You” reliably returns to #1 on the Hot 100. It’s part of the flood of holiday music that dominates the Hot 100 for about six weeks every year. Most of the other songs Christmas songs that fill the chart predate “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” usually by a lot. This year, however, we ...

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