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Christmas Music Club

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This Christmas Season is at full volume now, and you should be too!!

Just a couple more days to get your fill of holiday classics and new winter faves! 🎁🎹🎄 #Christmas #Broadway #MusicianSky

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December 23, 2025 at 4:21 AM

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Frankie Dailey

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It’s nearly Christmas time! And the perfect moment to say THANKS to Robert Peterpaul and The Art of Kindness podcast for bringing Desi Oakley on to talk about Christmas on the Coast… and on Broadway! ♥️🎄

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December 22, 2025 at 9:31 PM

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😍😍😍

JP ROSE @jprose.bsky.social · 20d

❄️Diana Krall
❄️Christmas Songs
❄️Released October 2005
❄️Billboard 200 Album Chart #17
Album No.128
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December 16, 2025 at 12:24 AM

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🫡🎄Say no more! 🎁

Check out this Pentatonix combo with Alessia Cara!

#christmas #musicsky #popsky

Who’s next???

December 16, 2025 at 12:23 AM

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Julie Benko’s “The Man With The Bag” is glamorous, warm, and jazzy. This kind of Christmas song makes you a little lighter and smiley without realizing it. 🎄🎅

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#christmas #broadway #holidays #musiciansky

December 14, 2025 at 5:22 PM

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If your winter mood is “soft sweater, slow snowfall, and a tiny hopeful plot twist,” then Ingrid Michaelson absolutely understood the assignment.

“This Christmas” is the moment the moment you finally let yourself believe. 🎄

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#christmas #musicsky #holidays #musiciansky

December 11, 2025 at 3:16 PM

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I’m not saying I believe in fate… but if Barbra Streisand whispered to me over a slow-motion holiday montage, I’d probably rethink everything.

“It Must Have Been the Mistletoe” delivers pure Christmas magic.

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#christmas #broadway #holidays #playlist

December 11, 2025 at 4:06 AM

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What’s a little Holiday season without a Santa hat and, well… you know the rest.

Ana Gasteyer has “Sugar & Booze” and so much more for you for Christmas!

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#christmas #broadway #snl #hallmark

December 10, 2025 at 5:47 AM

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Not to sound cliché, but I just wanna find a seat in a coffee shop and feel like I’m in the opening scene of a #Hallmark movie.

Listen to “All Those Christmas Cliches” from A Very Darren Crissmas and deny the rumors.

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#broadway #christmas

December 9, 2025 at 4:47 AM

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Broadway’s Desi Oakley has released the official music video for her holiday single “Christmas on the Coast.”

Looking for new hits to add to your #Christmas playlist? We’ve got you!

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#broadway #musicsky

December 8, 2025 at 3:05 PM

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A jazzy Christmas is IN! 🎄🎺🎷
#happyholidays #merrychristmas #coolyule

Christmas Spirit News @christmasspirit.bsky.social · Dec 4

🌟 Every year, one of our older holiday playlists surges in listeners. This year, our Christmas Jazz Vocals playlist has really taken off. So happy to spread holiday joy with you all!
🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟🎄🌟🎄
#jazz #christmasmusic #25songsofchristmas #christmas #musicsky
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Christmas Jazz 2025 Christmas Jazz Vocals

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December 4, 2025 at 10:06 PM

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He knows when you’ve been bad or good, babe. He knows, and he loves it for you. 🎅🎧🎁

Saint-Antón’s New Year's Cheese Ball @deranton.bsky.social · Dec 4

The good thing about getting spotify wrapped this early is that I can still plausibly deny my christmas song addiction

December 4, 2025 at 7:23 AM

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Caroling: the original pop concert!

Catching Idina Menzel + more this Christmas season in the clubhouse.

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December 4, 2025 at 6:57 AM

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We are SEATED front row center for “Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas.” 🎄🎁🎭

🎵 Some people want it all… for Christmas!

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Listen: HELL'S KITCHEN Release Holiday Song 'Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas”

Broadway’s Hell’s Kitchen has dropped a new holiday song, “Hell’s Kitchen’s A Merry Little Christmas,' an original mash-up of the holiday classic “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas” and Alicia Ke...

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November 30, 2025 at 11:06 PM

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Giddy up, Comet! We are READY!! 🎁🎄 #christmas #musicsky #newmusic

Wait where IS my hat

The Indiepop Hall of Fame @indiepophalloffame.bsky.social · Nov 30

🎅🤶Hold on to your Santa hats everyone!
🔔☃️Jangle Bells, our annual indiepop advent calendar starts tomorrow. 🎁🦃
The perfect soundtrack for decorating your twee.
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November 30, 2025 at 3:39 PM

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Hey Nice List -

Wanted you to have this.

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A little something for your pretty ears.

💋
Ms. C 🤶

#Christmas #MusicSky #WomenInMusic #NiceList #NewMusic #HolidayMusic #HolidayPop #PopQueen

Lady Pop Christmas – Powerful Holiday Pop Songs from Iconic Women

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November 28, 2025 at 3:32 AM

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Receipts. Case closed. This is law now. 🎁💃🎄

#christmassong #snowyblowy #mistletoey

Burnside Gooch @burnsidegooch.bsky.social · Nov 27

It’s a Christmas song.

November 27, 2025 at 8:50 PM

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You got it 🫡 #christmasmusic #musicsky #tistheseason

stoned at the pokemon center @toxicjuicebox.com · Nov 27

Okay, I’ll allow it… you’re allowed to listen to Christmas music now

November 27, 2025 at 7:37 PM

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UH OH 🎁🎧❄️ #christmas #christmasmusic #nicelist

Aura is My Real Name @aurajustaura.bsky.social · Nov 27

Uh oh I'm listening to Christmas music!

November 27, 2025 at 7:35 PM

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We don’t believe in Santa. We believe in @jessicavosk.bsky.social only 👑🎄🎁

Gather ye “The Twelve Gays of Christmas” and bear witness to the glory of a mother sleigh-ing the season. #musicsky #christmas #joytotheworld

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Jessica Vosk to Present SLEIGH at 92 NY in December

The 92nd Street Y, New York will present Jessica Vosk in concert, with music from her album SLEIGH. Vosk will return to the stage with a swinging 10-piece band for an afternoon of holiday treats and m...

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November 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM

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Submission received! We feel good about this one 🎄🎁🎹 #christmasplaylist #christmas #holidaymusic

Jeremy @jeremydgoodwin.bsky.social · Nov 27

Happy Thanksgiving! I'm delighted to drop links to the 2025 iteration of "A non-ironic, not (very) cheesy Christmas" — which I submit as the greatest such playlist ever assembled, but you do you!

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With much joy I present the updated 2025 edition of “A non-ironic, not (very) cheesy Christmas,” a revisionist holiday playlist full of bangers that I’ve been curating and expanding annually for about 13 years. An alternate title could be “A no-cringe Christmas.”

For much of its history, this was a playlist you could comfortably enjoy in one sitting/standing/dancing, with gatherings and parties always the ideal setting. But it keeps growing, as new recordings are released and I discover older ones I’d missed.

Over the years I’ve gradually built out little corners of the playlist that originated as quick stopoffs at one genre or another. It’s now almost a series of sub-playlists within the greater one, with 1 to 3 song transitions between sections — all framed by opening and closing stretches that freely mix styles.

I continue to sweat out every additional song, every sequence. New songs only make it these days if they’re playlist-worthy and they fill a need in the flow, as it’s come to be. Even with those strict conditions, this year I somehow ended up adding 1 hour and 45 minutes of music, which stuns me. I just kept coming across stuff that needed to be included, much of it released in recent years.

In 2015 the playlist was 1 hour and 23 minutes. In 2019, 2 hours and 15 minutes. 2023: 4 hours and 3 minutes.

“Non-ironic” is now a 7 hour and 14 minute playlist that is not merely a pile of good songs to shuffle (which would be fine), but an epic musical story whose every page has been considered and reconsidered through hours of listening and testing.

So whereas I used to say that you really gotta start with the first song and let it play, lately I’ve given my endorsement to do that or to scan the list and start at the beginning of a section that particularly appeals. But it remains my dear wish that, wherever you start it, you let it play in sequence and go along on the ride.

All you have to do is hit play once, but FYI this is how it breaks down. (Transition songs between sections aren’t represented.)

“A non-ironic, not (very) cheesy Christmas” 2025

1. Introductory Survey (28 min)

(“Aint No Chimneys in the Projects” by Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings through “Here Comes Santa Claus” by Ramsey Lewis Trio)

2. Slinky R&B & Other Beats (52 min)

(“God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” by Robert Glasper through “Santa Claus Goes Straight To The Ghetto” by Snoop Dogg)

3. Girl Groups and Progeny (40 min)

(“Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) [Live]” by Darlene Love through “I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday” by Kylie Minogue)

4. Acoustic Christmas (63 min)

(“Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” by Sam Bush through “The Christians and the Pagans” by Dar Williams

5. Rock N’Roll N’ Relatives (63 min)

(“”Christmas Wrapping” by The Waitresses through “Merry Christmas Baby” by Bruce Springsteen & the E Street Band)

6. Funky, Soulful Christmas (74 min)

(“Santa Claus Is Coming To Town” by Jackson 5 through “Christmas Will Really Be Christmas” by Lou Rawls)

7. Jazz Bands Big and Little (59 min)

(“Deck the Halls” by Teo Macero and His Orchestra through “O Tannenbaum” by Vince Guaraldi Trio)

8. Anthems & Encores (35 min)

(“White Christmas” by Otis Redding through “Little Drummer Boy/Silent Night/Auld Lang Syne” by Jimi Hendrix)

November 27, 2025 at 6:19 PM

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Fun fact: When the Founders of Christmas Music Club first met that day long ago at the North Pole, they were at first undecided about the name of the Club. It was almost the “Jonathan Groff Could Get It Club” but everyone was worried about the naughty list.

November 27, 2025 at 2:24 PM