
The Sounds of Christmas
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The Sounds of Christmas is a blog about Christmas sounds. This is a variation of a blog I posted last year. I always say that the Sounds of Christmas play the best variety of Christmas Music. But I think the word "variety" has been so over-used these days
The Sounds of Christmas
1M ago
Happy New Year! And thank you for an amazing 2024! I feel like I say thank you a lot, but I really want to convey how grateful I am that you continue to listen to the Sounds of Christmas station and podcast.For the station, I don’t know that we broke any records this year. And, to be honest, with more people than ever listening on their phones, tablets and other devices, and with security improvements made to protect your privacy, we have the highest percentage ever of listeners in un ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
1M ago
Merry Christmas!I have been so excited to be able to run the Sounds of Christmas these past eighteen seasons, and I wanted to start this off by thanking you for listening - whether you just found us this year, or you've been listening all along, or you're somewhere in the middle. I am so grateful that I was able to spend at least part of the holiday season with you!For years, people asked us to stay on year-round. While we've been fortunate enough to have a growing audience over the last eightee ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
3M ago
The Sounds of Christmas has some special events coming soon!First, this coming weekend (11/15-11/17), it's a New Music Weekend. From Friday afternoon at 5:00pm through Sunday night, you'll only hear songs released in 2024! This will give you a chance to hear lots of the new music that's been released (or is going to be released) for this holiday season! And the weekend before Thanksgiving (11/22-11/24), we're giving thanks to all the singers and bands that have supported us over the year ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
3M ago
This is a variation of a blog I posted last year (and the year before). I always say that the Sounds of Christmas plays the best variety of Christmas Music. But I think the word "variety" has been so over-used these days that it no longer means anything.So I thought I'd show you what I mean. While I probably won't do this again until next year, here's a list of the artists we played on the first day of our new season, when we switched back to all Christmas music on November 1 ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
3M ago
The new season of the Sounds of Christmas has begun, and we're trying to make it as easy as we can to tune in!There are three pretty simple ways to tune in.First, simply click on the player on the front page of our website. This way, you can listen to us as long as you're on that page, even if you open other windows. Second, you can click on the tree on our front page. That opens a pop-up p ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
3M ago
The new season of the Sounds of Christmas has begun!I’m excited about playing all your favorites again this season, along with lots of new music. I’ve already added around a couple hundred new songs to our library, and it’s still early, so I imagine there will be plenty more new stuff to come.You can click above on New For 2024, and that should give you a good idea of a lot of the new music we’re playing this season. That page covers a lot of it, but by no me ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
4M ago
To mark the pending arrival of the new season of the Sounds of Christmas (November 1 at 6am Eastern), I thought I’d continue something I started last year. Starting on October 22nd, I began highlighting the top ten most-listened-to and most-downloaded episodes of the Sounds of Christmas podcast, one each day up through Halloween.This past year, although it wasn’t until May, the Sounds of Christmas podcast was added to YouTube. I don’t know what impact that may have on the overall numbers ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
4M ago
This is a variation of a blog I posted a couple years ago. I always say that the Sounds of Christmas plays the best variety of Christmas Music, and that's also true for the Sounds of Halloween. But I think the word "variety" has been so over-used these days that it no longer means anything.So I thought I'd show you what I mean. While I probably won't do this again until next year, here's a list of most of the artists we played on the first day of October, when the Sounds of Halloween 2024 b ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
5M ago
The Sounds of Christmas station switches to Halloween music in October, which is now just around the corner.I get questions about that a lot, and I even re-posted a blog about it recently on the Sounds of Christmas website, and I’ve recorded similar podcasts episodes about it in the past, but since this is starting up next week, I thought it was time to talk about it again..This is a tradition I started years ago, in the early days of the Sounds of Christmas station. I’m going to sha ..read more
The Sounds of Christmas
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I’ve noticed the creeps are back again (actually noticed this weeks ago but was trying to ignore them). The creeps I’m talking about have nothing to do with Halloween, or with the podcast with that same name. It’s actually in reference to what some complaining people like to say, regarding any signs of Christmas that turn up before Thanksgiving (or even before October).This is a topic I’ve talked about before, but since it now seems to include Halloween and all things fal ..read more