(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Florian Walch, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) With Mariah Carey and Wham!

“All I Want For Christmas Is You,” Mariah Carey’s annual chart-topping Christmas anthem, is poised to shatter the all-time record for most weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 song chart if and ...

If I may defer, however briefly, to the wisdom of the late Tom Petty, “Well, it’s Christmas all over again.”And for a lot of people, that means listening to the same old Christmas records all over ...

(The Conversation is an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts.) Florian Walch, West Virginia University (THE CONVERSATION) With Mariah Carey and Wham!