Singer Elmo Shropshire discusses how the 1979 song became an unlikely hit -- and the contractual issues that led him to re-record it.
Mariah's modern-day classic is evergreen in more ways than one.
"If you don’t want to make disposable Christmas music, don’t start with disposable artists. You’ve got to work with artists that are going to last."
Selling 13.5 million tickets for a $683.2 million gross — and growing — TSO has built a rockin' touring empire around the holiday season.
Former Billboard employees J.B. Moore and Robert Ford left the magazine in 1979 to produce "Christmas Rappin' " for an up-and-coming rapper named Kurtis Blow. The single went gold.
How an unlikely standard by a Jewish Buddhist got cast as a Christmas song.
Holiday albums from Michael Bublé, Mariah Carey and the Vince Guaraldi Trio may come dashing through the charts next week.
It also becomes his highest charting album since 1964 on the Billboard 200, when “Hello Dolly” topped the list.
