Welcome to the holiday season. Here’s what’s coming out on CD, vinyl and download in the weeks + months ahead:
Dec. 3
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Oh. What. Fun. (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack)” (Download; Christmas comedy film, streaming on Prime Video on Dec. 3, stars Michelle Pfeiffer, Felicity Jones, Chloë Grace Moretz, Denis Leary, et al; Trailer; CD, Ultra-Clear Glitter Vinyl and Amazon-Exclusive Emerald Glitter Vinyl out Dec. 12; Prime Video; Mutant / Sony Masterworks) 
Dec. 5
LAUFEY
“A Very Laufey Holiday: The Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town Edition” (2024 EP; 7-inch vinyl; seven songs; Apple Music; On Tour; Merch; AWAL Recordings) 
KYLIE MINOGUE
“Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped)” (2015 album; with four new tracks, including an Amazon Music Original, “XMAS”; Hear here; Read here; Transparent Red Vinyl; Amazon UK; HMV-Exclusive Christmas Postcard CD; Pink and White Marble Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Warner / Parlophone)
TWANGUERO
“Christmas with el Twanguero” (all-instrumental, analog reinterpretation of holiday classics from Spanish-born, L.A.-based exploratory guitarist Diego Garcia and his band; producers: Diego Castaño, Garcia; new single: “Happy Xmas [War Is Over]”; See here; Apple Music; Casa Twang)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“It’s a Wicked Cool Christmas!” (11-song collection, featuring The Empty Hearts, The Dollyrots, WYLDLIFE, The Chesterfield Kings, Prima Donna, et al; Wicked Cool)
Holiday Movie Classics
Dec. 12
KYLIE MINOGUE
“XMAS (Amazon Music Original)” (U.K. release; CD Single; Hear here; Read here; Gold 7-Inch Vinyl; Zoetrope 12-Inch Vinyl; Parlophone)
THE CHOIR OF KING’S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE
“25 Carols For Christmas, With The Choir of King’s College, Cambridge” (See here; also available on CD via Decca; Download released on Nov. 21; Decca)
THE POGUES
“Fairytale of New York” (12-Inch Zoetrope Vinyl; four-song EP includes the original 1987 hit, instrumental version, a rare live track of “Dirty Old Town” from Glasgow Barrowland in December 1987, and from the same December 1987 Glasgow show, an unreleased live version of “Fairytale of New York,” featuring Kirsty MacColl’s debut live performance with the band; Rhino)
Past Releases
Nov. 28
CHRIS REA
“The Christmas Album” (eight holiday-themed songs from throughout his career, including “Driving Home for Christmas”; remastered; Vinyl; Amazon UK; Download released on Oct. 17; Magnet Records / Rhino)
Nov. 21
JILL BARBER
“A Holly Jolly Jill Barber Christmas” (10 covers and two original holiday songs written by Barber; producer: Drew Jurecka; Jack Pine Evergreen Vinyl; On Tour; Outside Music)
BÉLA FLECK & THE FLECKTONES
“Jingle All the Way” (2009 album; Grammy winner for Best Pop Instrumental Album; remastered; Translucent Forest Green Vinyl; Béla Fleck Productions)
THE FUTUREHEADS
“Christmas” (eight covers and two original tracks; See here; Read here; On Tour; Nul Records)
BONEY JAMES
“’Tis the Season” (12-song compilation features tracks from his two holiday albums, plus a new version of “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”; On Tour; Concord)
OLD CROW MEDICINE SHOW
“OCMS XMAS” (two covers and 11 original holiday songs; new single: “Happy Xmas [War Is Over],” featuring the children of the Episcopal School of Nashville, the East Nashville-based school founded by frontman Ketch Secor; See here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Hartland Records)
STRYPER
“The Greatest Gift of All” (veteran metal band’s first Christmas album; lineup: original members Michael Sweet, Robert Sweet, and Oz Fox, with bassist Perry Richardson; new single: “Winter Wonderland”; Hear here; Starlight Gold Vinyl out Dec. 5; Amazon UK; Girder Music)
LAINEY WILSON
“Peace, Love & Cowboys (Holiday Edition)” (three-song EP, featuring a virtual duet with Bing Crosby on “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!”; Vinyl; On Tour; Merch; BMG Rights Management)
Nov. 14
DAVID ARCHULETA
“My Only Wish” (five-song EP; Apple Music; Archie Music)
MARIAH CAREY
“Merry Christmas II You (15th Anniversary Edition)” (Amazon-Exclusive Shiny Starlight Vinyl; 2010 album; Las Vegas Residency; Merch; Def Jam / UMe)
JONAS BROTHERS
“A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (Original Soundtrack)” (streaming on Disney+ and Hulu on Nov. 14; featuring seven new Jonas Brothers songs, including “Coming Home This Christmas” with Kenny G; Trailer; Emerald Vinyl; Amazon UK; Amazon.ca; Download; Apple Music; Merch; Hollywood)
THE KLEZMATICS
“Woody Guthrie’s Happy Joyous Hanukkah“ (Download; 2006 album; most of the lyrics written by Guthrie in 1949; remastered; Shamus Records / TRO Essex Music Group)
MARK & MAGGIE O’CONNOR
“A Christmas Duo” (recorded live during their 2024 Christmas tour at the historic 1912 Sheldon Music Hall in St. Louis; new single: “Hold That Tiger Rudolph”; Hear here; Download; OMAC Records)
GWEN STEFANI
“You Make It Feel Like Christmas (Deluxe Edition)” (Amazon-Exclusive CD; 2017 album; with two bonus tracks: “Shake the Snow Globe” and “Hot Cocoa”; Amazon-Exclusive Snow and Baby Pink Double Vinyl; Interscope / UMe)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“The Chess Records Christmas Album” (14 holiday classics and hidden gems from the legendary Chicago label, including Chuck Berry’s “Run Rudolph Run”; Blue Frost Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Verve / Interscope / UMe)
WE ARE MESSENGERS
“Rejoice! A Celtic Christmas” (See here; Vinyl; On Tour, with Skillet and Jeremy Camp; Word Entertainment)
Nov. 7
HERB ALPERT
“Christmas Time Is Here” (third Christmas album of his career; new single: “Jingle Bells”; Hear here; Download; On Tour; Herb Alpert Presents)
CELTIC WOMAN
“Nollaig – A Christmas Journey” (featuring holiday classics and new originals, including “Nollaig na mBan” [or “Women’s Christmas”]; Irish group has two new members: Sean-Nós singer Caitríona Sherlock and fiddle player Ciara Ní Mhurcú; producer: Brian Byrne; On Tour; Manhattan Records)
MELANIE
“Melanie’s Christmas Treasury” (23-track collection; Red Vinyl, 14 tracks; Cleopatra)
BRAD PAISLEY
“Snow Globe Town” (16-track album includes holiday classics and eight new songs written by Paisley; one of the tracks, “Counting Down the Days,” is the official anthem of Hallmark Channel’s 16th annual Countdown to Christmas programming event, which launches Oct. 17; new single: “Leave the Christmas Lights On”; See here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; MCA)
LeANN RIMES
“Greatest Hits Christmas” (16-track collection features a mix of her past Christmas recordings, including songs from her holiday albums and movie soundtracks, along with two new tracks; Double Vinyl; On Tour; Curb)
LINDSEY STIRLING
“Home for the Holidays [Blu-ray]” (2020 online performance, filmed during the Covid pandemic; See here; Concord)
TRISHA YEARWOOD
“Christmastime” (accompanied by a symphony orchestra across all 12 tracks; producer: Don Was; arranged and conducted by David Campbell; guest: husband Garth Brooks; Green Vinyl; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Red Vinyl; Download; On Tour; Gwendolyn Records / Virgin Music Group)
Oct. 31
THE PARTY CATS
“Kids Dance Party: Ultimate Christmas Hits!” (Hear here; Green Hill Productions)
THE PRETTY RECKLESS
“Taylor Momsen’s PRETTY RECKLESS CHRISTMAS” (Download; Momsen starred as Cindy Lou Who alongside Jim Carrey in “How the Grinch Stole Christmas”; Read here; CD and Translucent Ruby Red Vinyl out Nov. 14; Apple Music; Fearless / Concord)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“NOW That’s What I Call Christmas” (U.K. release; 87 songs on four CDs; Christmas Tree Green Triple Vinyl, 50 songs; Sony Music / EMI)
Oct. 24
AMERICA
“Holiday Harmony” (Gold Vinyl; 2002 album; On Tour; Green Hill Productions)
DARIUS de HAAS
“Let Me Carry You This Christmas” (producers: de Haas, Stewart Lerman, James Frazee, Sean Patrick Flahaven; guests: Matthew Whitaker, George Farmer, Tedd Firth, Armand Hirsch; See here; Vinyl out Dec. 5; Concord Theatricals)
MICKEY GUYTON
“Feels Like Christmas” (her third album; new single: “Sugar Cookie”; See here; Apple Music; MCA Nashville)
PENTATONIX
“Christmas in the City” (Grammy-winning a capella group’s seventh Christmas studio album; new single: “Bah Humbug”; Hear here; Red Brick Vinyl; Amazon-Exclusive Snow Cloud Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Republic)
CHRIS REA
“The Christmas Album” (Download; eight holiday-themed songs from throughout his career, including “Driving Home for Christmas”; remastered; CD and Vinyl out in U.K. on Nov. 28; Magnet Records / Rhino)
STRAIGHT NO CHASER
“Holiday Road” (their first full-length holiday album in five years; guests: Mickey Guyton, Hunter Hayes, John Splithoff, Jose Mari Chan; new single: “Christmas Is Different”; Hear here; Download; Apple Music; On Tour; Green Hill Productions)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Verve // Remixed Holiday” (new mixes by DJ-producers Ginton, Bolden., Tourist, Two Another, and DARGZ of holiday classics by Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Count Basie, Mel Tormé, et al; Hear here; Crystal Clear Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; Verve / UMe)
Oct. 17
CHRIS BLUE
“Every Day Is Christmas” (fourth album from DOVE Award nominee and season 12 winner of “The Voice”; guests: Gaither Vocal Band, Autumn Nelon, Tamara Bodie, Voices of Lee; new single: “Go, Tell It On the Mountain”; Hear here; DVD Audio; Download; Apple Music; Gaither Music Group)
CONNIE FRANCIS
“Christmas In My Heart” (1959 album; with two bonus tracks; Vinyl; Republic / UMe)
JAMES TAYLOR
“James Taylor at Christmas” (2006 album; with new track “Mon Beau Sapin,” a French version of “O Christmas Tree”; Vinyl, original 12-song album; On Tour; Columbia / Legacy)
Oct. 10
WILLIE COLÓN & HÉCTOR LAVOE
“Asalto Navideño” (1970 album, featuring Yomo Toro on cuatro guitar; all-analog mastering from the original tapes and pressed on 180-gram vinyl; Craft Recordings / Concord)
GLORIA GAYNOR
“Gloria Gaynor’s Christmas In My Heart” (Red Vinyl; 2007 album; mastered by Joe Reagoso; Friday Music)
KENNY ROGERS
“Christmas from the Heart” (Red Vinyl; 1998 album; mastered by Joe Reagoso; Friday Music)
THE ROYAL GUARDSMEN
“Merry Snoopy’s Christmas” (1967 album, originally titled “Snoopy and His Friends”; with two extra tracks; The Masked Weasel)
DIMITRI TIOMKIN
“It’s a Wonderful Life (Music From the Motion Picture)” (Burgundy “Zuzu’s Petals” Vinyl; on vinyl for the first time, in its complete, restored form, with a two-page insert; Real Gone Music)
VARIOUS ARTISTS
“Phil Spector’s Christmas Album” (1963 album, originally titled “A Christmas Gift for You from Phil Spector”; JGJ Records)
MATTHEW WEST
“Come Home For Christmas” (a mix of original songs and holiday classics; Read here; On Tour; Provident Music Group)
Oct. 3
CELTIC THUNDER
“Celtic Christmas Eve” (White Vinyl; 2021 album; On Tour; Green Hill Productions)
KENNY CHESNEY
“All I Want for Christmas Is a Real Good Tan” (Vinyl; 2003 album; first time on vinyl; Legacy Recordings)
NATALIE GRANT
“Christmas” (coming nearly 20 years after her first holiday album, “Believe”; a mix of holiday classics and two originals: “God’s Gift” and “Christmas Looks Good on You”; producer: husband Bernie Herms; Hear here; Tan Glitter Vinyl; On Tour; Sparrow)
JEFFREY OSBORNE
“Something Warm for Christmas” (Green Vinyl; 2007 album; mastered by Joe Reagoso; Friday Music)
Sept. 26
BING CROSBY, ROSEMARY CLOONEY, DANNY KAYE, VERA-ELLEN, ET AL
“White Christmas (From the Sound Track of the Motion Picture)” (1954 album; lyrics and music by Irving Berlin; remastered; Sepia Records)
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO
“A Charlie Brown Christmas (60th Anniversary)” (Zoetrope Edition; 1965 animated TV special; Barnes & Noble-Exclusive Picture Disc; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord)
VINCE GUARALDI TRIO
“Peanuts Greatest Hits” (Picture Disc; 2015 compilation; Amazon UK; Merch; Craft Recordings / Concord)
LADY A
“On This Winter’s Night (Volume Two)” (a collection of originals and holiday classics; guests: Ricky Skaggs, Chris Tomlin; See here; Read here; Vinyl; Download; Apple Music; On Tour)
THE MUPPETS
“The Muppets: A Green and Red Christmas” (Target-Exclusive Red Vinyl; 2006 album; won the Grammy Award for Best Musical Album for Children; Walt Disney)