Plus, Bing Crosby’s Ultimate Christmas breaks the record for the biggest streaming week ever for a holiday album.

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Hugh McIntyre covers music, with a focus on the global charts. Bing Crosby was one of the biggest hitmakers of his lifetime, in ...

The ultimate Christmas classic. Crosby’s smooth vocals and the nostalgic imagery of snowy holidays make this timeless. Fun fact: it won an Academy Award in 1943. Joyful, simple, and irresistibly ...

But the story doesn't end there. "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" arrived as a single five years later, in November 1982, and became a massive U.K. chart hit, landing at No. 3 in early 1983. It was ...

Nearly every pop music holiday song written in the past 80 years owes at least some of its DNA to one Christmas tune in particular: "White Christmas," written by Irving Berlin and sung by Bing Crosby, ...