December 5th, 2025
What's In-Store Music...
Holiday Edition!
Here It Is... The What's In-Store Music Holiday Newsletter, featuring songs receiving thousands of plays in retail stores, restaurants, and malls this season, with the 10th Annual What's In-Store Music Holiday Program.
We have no doubt you will be hearing many of these songs while you're out and about during the busiest shopping season of the year!
The newsletter will be updated weekly through the holidays and will include all new and previously submitted music, available for you to listen to, download, and program.
Enjoy!
Spotify
What's In-Store Music:
Holiday Edition
Listen to this year's list of terrific holiday songs playing overhead in stores, along with hits from past programs, by following our Spotify list, What's In-Store Music: holiday edition. Check out hits from Kylie Minogue, Freya Skye, LeAnn Rimes, Lee Brice, and more, and then listen for them playing overhead in stores all season long.
New Additions
To The Program
The Lords of Easton
"We Wish You A Merry Christmas"
The Lords of Easton
"Jingle Bells"
For a fun holiday treat, check out
Straight No Chaser's 12 Days of Christmas!
The 10th Annual
What's In-Store Music
Holiday Program
Kylie Minogue
"XMAS"
LeAnn Rimes
"All I Want For Christmas"
Linda Imperial
"Christmas, You and Me"
V & Bing Crosby
"White Christmas"
Lee Brice
"Single Bells"
Train
"This Christmas"
Wyn Starks
"Pure Imagination"
Freya Skye
"Winter Dream"
Harper Grace
"Country Christmas"
We Are Messengers
"We Three Kings"
Donovan Darnell
"Sugar Plum Fairy"
Tyra Madison
"Santa, Can You Fix A Broken Heart"
Karly C
"Cowgirl Christmas"
Jonas Brothers
"Coming Home This Christmas"
Train
"Shake Up Christmas"
Adelitas Way
"My Favorite Time of Year"
Kelsey Hart
"Santa Had A Rough Year"
for King & Country
"Little Drummer Boy"
Straight No Chaser
"Christmas Is Different"
Angela Predhomme
"Unplugged Christmas"
Antherius
"The Christmas Tree"
Greetings all, Antherius here, spreading holiday cheer now that November is near. I'm a one-man synthesizer-based composer, performer, arranger, engineer, and producer living in Cypress, Texas (just outside of Houston). 2025 finds us celebrating my 20th year as a professional musician.
"The Christmas Tree" was originally composed and performed by David Rose and his orchestra in 1968. It remained a familiar instrumental Christmas tune up through the late 1980's; although, it mysteriously fell out of significant rotation in recent decades. Yes, this is the same David Rose that composed "The Stripper" instrumental hit in 1962. My goal with this cover release was to produce a higher-fidelity track, along with updated arrangements, but however retaining key parts of the original hit so as to be recognizable by older folks like myself who remember the original tune.
The main instruments include flutes, pizzicato strings, piano, and bells of course, rounded out with an electric bass, arco strings, various synth pads, and leslie-organ accompaniments.
I hope you enjoy my production of "The Christmas Tree" and have a very happy and memorable Christmas season this year!
- Antherius
Antherius
"The Christmas Tree"
Kelvin Frazier, Ph.D.
"Christmas My Favorite Time of Year"
Shantell Ogden
"Music City Mistletoe"
Judy Pancoast
"The House On Christmas Street"
Dionya Marie
"Missing You Underneath The Mistletoe"
Sarah Reeves ft. Clark Beckham
"Winter Wonderland"
Video of the Week:
Sarah Reeves & Clark Beckham
"Winter Wonderland"
Linda Imperial
"Christmas In The Tropics"
Sia
"Santa's Coming For Us"
Kimberly Dawn
"HoHo Holdin' You"
Laura Bryna
"Wishlist"
James Robert Webb
"Merry Magical Christmas"
Shekinah
"Christmas Nation Of Joy"
Casey McQuillen
"Christmas Morning (I'll Be Home)"
Mary Sarah
"Single Bells"
Blackmore's Night
"Christmas Eve"
Matt Nathanson
"Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)"
The Phoenix Within
"This Holiday Break"
WAR
"Yes, It's Christmas"
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
"Christmas Eve Sarajevo 12 24"
Video of the Week:
WAR
"Yes, It's Christmas"
Eagles
"Please Come Home For Christmas"
Donny Hathaway
"This Christmas"
Threestyle ft. Magdalena Chovancova, Robert Fertl, Gabriela Konrad, Damon Dae
"Oh! It’s Christmas"
The Phoenix Within
"Wish for Difference"
SIA
"Snowman"
Kimberly Dawn
"You and Christmas"
Freya Skye
"Winter Dream"
Jonas Brothers
"Coming Home This Christmas"
Wyn Starks
"Pure Imagination"
Ksenia
"no boys christmas"
SO GOOD
"GIVE ME MY PRESENTS"
LOCASH
"Snow Angel"
Casey McQuillen
"Christmas Morning (I'll Be Home)"
BROWN & GRAY
"COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS"
Tora Woloshin
"Merry Holidays"
Dylan Scott
"Two Christmas Trees"
Hannah Ellis & Nick Wayne
"Christmas At 60 MPH"
Blanca
"O Come, All Ye Faithful (Gloria)"
Olivia Rox
"Cold Toes"
Juliana Hale
"All I Want For Christmas"
Have a great week,
Scott Emerson