Here's a look at Christmas music coverage from Billboard's archives.
isn't quite old enough to have reviewed the angels heard on high or the mountains in reply, but it had a front-of-the-fireplace seat for the birth of Christmas music as we know it. Like the holiday itself, seasonal songs gradually grew into commercial silver and gold, as well as sentimental favorites, and by 2018, streaming had made the business worth a$177 million in the United States alone. The most popular holiday recordings are hits every year — gifts that keep on giving.
Irving Berlin, a Jewish-Russian immigrant who became a beloved American songwriter, did Bing Crosby a mitzvah when he wrote “White Christmas” for the 1942 movie musicalwas quick to notice the song’s “peaceful, gracious” charm, and the Aug. 8, 1942, issue predicted that “this tune will become more and more important.” That was an understatement: Crosby’s 1942 recording, released on Decca, is said to have sold 50 million copies worldwide, making it the biggest physical single ever.
As rock n' roll took over radio, Crosby faced competition. A column in the Dec. 8, 1958, issue mused that “Christmas disks are stemming from more and more outré types of sources and places, such as, for example, Chuck Berry.” Other staffers were more enthusiastic: Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run” got thereview panel “jumping and shouting and stomping around in their record room like few recent records have done.
“Catalog Sales Dominate Christmas Action” declared a Dec. 22, 1979, headline, but the season delivered a seminal first in the form of Kurtis Blow’s hip-hop holiday hit, “Christmas Rappin,’ ” co-written by formerAccording to the same issue, “This novelty rapping record has found immediate acceptance on New York radio, something that has eluded the majority of rapping dee-jay records.”
Mariah Carey’s 1994 album, led by “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” came with all the sleigh bells and whistles. “Columbia Records isn’t treating. Even Carey didn’t realize the gift she had. “It was a priority for me to write at least a few new songs,” the singer said, but “people really want to hear the standards at Christmas, no matter how good a new song is.
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