Christmas Songs for 2023

Christmas is just over a week away, so today I'm sharing some festive music! :) I've previously written two other posts/round-ups featuring Christmas songs, which you can see at the links below:

Christmas Music: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2018/12/christmas-music.html

Christmas Music Round-up: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2021/12/christmas-music-round-up.html

For 2023 I'm sharing some new festive songs. :)

 

Brandy- Christmas Party for Two 

American singer Brandy (full name Brandy Norwood) released her first Christmas album (and 8th studio album overall) Christmas with Brandy on 10th November. It contains 12 tracks- 6 classic Christmas songs, plus 6 original ones. Brandy is also co-starring in the new Netflix film Best. Christmas. Ever!, alongside Heather Graham, Matt Cedeño and Jason Biggs. 

Christmas Party for Two is a smooth R'n'B love song with chilled vibes. It's the lead single from Christmas with Brandy and came out on 3rd November. Brandy uploaded a lyric video on the same day and the music video premiered on 5th December. She collaborated with Stella Rosa Brandy for the video!

 

 

Watch the lyric video here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OErJcbN_Vmw

And stream Christmas With Brandy here: https://brandy.lnk.to/ChristmasWithBrandy

Or go here for the YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eZ4hzbrfbbE&list=PLpFFVlj7IkCOht5VQ5-8UAkj-zHiNK6wT&index=1

Coco Jones- A Timeless Christmas

American singer Coco Jones also brought out a Christmas song in November. It's called A Timeless Christmas and is a chilled R'n'B track, great for relaxing to during the festive season. 

This isn't the first time Coco has made Christmas music, having previously released several songs, including the original song Home for the Holidays in 2020 and a cover of the classic song Silver Bells last December.

A Timeless Christmas was released on 22nd November. This is the official lyric video. 

 

For more Christmas music from Coco, visit the links below:

Home for the Holidays: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T__PVCtKIAI

Silver Bells: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NJpqsPxp1IA

Matthew Ifield- Holly Jolly Christmas

Next up is a classic Christmas song! This is Holly Jolly Christmas by Matthew Ifield. He's an Australian singer who found fame on TikTok.

A Holly Jolly Christmas/Have a Holly Jolly Christmas was written in 1962 by American songwriter Johnny Marks and was the title song of 60s group The Quinto Sisters' debut album back in 1964. One of its most famous versions was by American folk singer and actor Burl Ives, which was released as a single in 1964 and featured in the 1964 Christmas TV special Rudoph the Red Nosed Reindeer, in which Burt was the narrator, Frosty the Snowman. The following year it appeared on his album Have a Holly Jolly Christmas. 

There have been many versions of the song recorded and performed since, one of the most popular in modern times being Canadian singer Michael Bublé's A Holly Jolly Christmas. It was a single from his first Christmas album Christmas, released in October 2011.

Matthew's version is from his new seasonal album A Christmas Album, which came out on 10th November. It features more classic Christmas songs, including It's Beginning To Look A Lot Like Christmas, White Christmas and Let It Snow!

I came across  the music video randomly on YouTube recently! It was uploaded on 30th November. I like Matthew's mellow version of the song. As someone pointed out, he sounds older than 19! Very mature voice. :) 

The video has a different feel to a lot of Christmas ones because the weather looks warm (presumably it was filmed in Australia). Although I spent my early years abroad, the majority of my Christmases have been in the UK, so I'm used to cold weather at this time, lol.

Stream A Christmas Album here: https://matthewifield.lnk.to/AChristmasAlbum

 

And for more on Matthew visit these links:

Official site: https://www.matthewifield.com.au/  

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC67962AmhdckX7_p1BCeZEQ

TikTok page: https://www.tiktok.com/@matthewifield 

Ally Brooke and Dinah Jane- Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas

Former Fifth Harmony members Ally Brooke and Dinah Jane have teamed up for a new version of the classic Christmas song Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas, which was written in 1943 for the 1944 musical film Meet Me in St. Louis and originally sung by Judy Garland. 

Ally and Dinah's version is from Ally's new Christmas EP Under The Tree, which came out on 3rd November. I like the girls' R'n'B take on the song. I think it's one of the best versions I've heard! :) (Brandy's one is quite good too though.) The single came out on 1st December.

 

 Ally Brooke- Under The Tree

And here is Under The Tree, the title track from Ally's new EP. It's an original Christmas song and this is the lyric video.

 

Visit these links to stream/listen to Under The Tree (EP): 

https://allybrooke.ffm.to/underthetree

YouTube playlist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqFPbwrw6e0&list=OLAK5uy_nEY-KAZ1xX3fDYMsUA8ppOxqysZIX06Ro

 

And for more from Fifth Harmony, check out these posts:  

Fifth Harmony Girls' Solo Careers (Part 1): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/11/fifth-harmony-girls-solo-careers-part-1.html

Fifth Harmony Girls' Solo Careers (Part 2 which features Ally and Dinah): https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2023/11/fifth-harmony-girls-solo-careers-part-2.html

 

XODIAC- FIRST SNOW

Finally, here's some K-pop for Christmas! This is FIRST SNOW by Korean boy band XODIAC. They are a 9 member group formed by Hong Kong Entertainment One Cool Jacso. The members are leader Lex (real name Zo Doohyun), Hyunsik (full name Won Hyunsik), Zayyan (Mohammed Rafiki Fahri Zayyan), Beomsoo (Kim Beoomsu), Gyumin (Kim Gyumin), Wain (real name Park Seohun), Sing (Mak Chun Sing), Davin (Kim Dabin) and Leo (Lee Ou Yin). Zayyan is Indonesian and all the other members are Korean.*

XODIAC debuted earlier this year, releasing the digital single Throw A Dice on 25th April. Their debut EP of the same name followed on 7th June and their first single album Only Fun came out on 30th October. To date the group has released 4 more singles- SPECIAL LOVE, LEMONADE, ONLY FUN and FIRST SNOW.

FIRST SNOW is XODIAC's first special Christmas single and was released on 11th December. Click "Subtitles/closed captions" on YouTube for English subtitles! :) 

 

 

For more on XODIAC visit these links:

Kprofile: https://kprofiles.com/xodiac-members-profile/

Official Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/xodiacofficial/

YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@xodiac.official/  

And for more K-pop Christmas music, check out last year's post K-pop Christmas Songs: https://starsparklex.blogspot.com/2022/12/k-pop-christmas-songs.html

 

Hope you enjoyed the post! :) What are your favourite Christmas/seasonal songs? Or if you celebrate another festival, do you have any fave songs associated with it?

*These are Korean names with the suname/family name written first.