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This is so exciting!

You can listen to the entire new Backstreet Boys holiday album, A Very Backstreet Christmas, with this cool new yule log video on YouTube!

For over 30 minutes, viewers will be entertained by Nick Carter, Howie Dorough, AJ McLean, Brian Littrell and Kevin Richardson reading “The Night Before Christmas,” watch holiday classics on television, wrap presents, hilariously build gingerbread houses, play with puppies and just enjoy the seasonal festivities together.

(L-R, Top-Bottom) Alicia Keys (Alicia Keys Records), Switchfoot (Erik Frost), Backstreet Boys (K-BAHN) and Joss Stone (Nolan Knight)

There are a lot of new Christmas albums out this year, but there are also a lot of isolated songs that get released during the holiday season. We’ve compiled a list, which will continue to grow (so keep checking back!), of some of the latest holiday singles—and some stand-out tracks from recent yuletide albums—that we think you might enjoy! Check out the list below, and give them a listen.

Most of these songs are available on all streaming platforms.

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(Update: 9/11/21) – The Backstreet Boys have announced that, due to COVID-19 concerns, they have canceled their A Very Backstreet Christmas Party engagement. They have also postponed their Christmas album until the 2022 holiday season. Read their official statement below:

Katy Perry, OneRepublic, Chloe x Halle, Dan + Shay, Leon Bridges

Christmas music is one of my absolute favorite things about the holiday season! You’ll definitely find me listening to my holiday playlist at any given time of the year, but it goes into overdrive once September 1st hits. Full disclosure: I have over 1,000 Christmas songs to play… there’s no way I can only listen to them in November and December.  In fact, I even have a “Christmas in July” playlist filled with tropical sounding festive favorites.

Ever year I love adding to both my digital and physical music collection with new albums, and I’ve noticed that there are several artists I love who don’t have a record that spreads Christmas cheer; some of them have released singles but never a full-length feature, and I’d really like for them to.

For fun, I decided to create a list of 25 top names in music who I think should release a holiday album.

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The three-time Grammy Award-winning and multi-platinum selling a capella supergroup PENTATONIX — wow, that’s a mouthful — will be returning to NBC this season for their third holiday musical special, “Pentatonix: A Not So Silent Night”!

We’ll join PTX (as they’re often referred) members Scott Hoying, Mitch Grassi, Kirstin Maldonado, Kevin Olusola, and Matt Sallee in Las Vegas as they spread cheer along the legendary Strip, including the iconic Caesars Palace and the stunning Eiffel Tower at Paris Las Vegas. Along the way, they’ll be joined by additional guests to help them celebrate, including Kelly Clarkson and Maren Morris. Both singers appear on the latest Pentatonix holiday album, Christmas is Here!.