November 21st, 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
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"
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"
Jonas Brothers
"Coming Home This Christmas"
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"
Freya Skye
"Winter Dream"
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"
Kelvin Frazier, Ph.D.
"Christmas My Favorite Time of Year"
"Christmas My Favorite Time of Year" was born out of one of the most difficult moments of my life - and transformed into a song of pure joy. I started writing it back in 2021, right in the middle of the COVID pandemic, while studying at Berklee College of Music. The world felt heavy; I had even lost a family member to the virus. But in the middle of that grief, I wanted to create something that lifted my spirit - something that reminded me of happiness, warmth, and togetherness.
The idea came to me in fragments - melodies and lyrics while walking alone through a park, recording little vocal notes on my phone. Later, back in my hotel room, which I had turned into a makeshift studio, those small pieces came together like wrapping paper and ribbon around a gift. "Christmas My Favorite Time of Year" became that gift - to myself, to my family, and to anyone who needed a reason to smile again.
Now, living in Hawai'i, I decided to finally finish and release it - my first new song in two years. It feels like the start of something new, a return to the joy of creating music again. This song captures everything I love about the season - the lights, the laughter, the love - and the reminder that even in our darkest times, there's always a reason to sing.
-Kelvin Frazier, Ph.D.
Shantell Ogden
"Music City Mistletoe"
Judy Pancoast
"The House On Christmas Street"
Antherius
"The Christmas Tree"
Kelvin Frazier, Ph.D.
"Christmas My Favorite Time of Year"
Dionya Marie
"Missing You Underneath The Mistletoe"
Sarah Reeves ft. Clark Beckham
"Winter Wonderland"
Wyn Starks
"Pure Imagination"
On Curb Records
Video of the Week:
Straight No Chaser ft. Hunter Hayes
"Christmas Is Different"
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"
Antherius
"The Christmas Tree"
On Decursus Media
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:
Casey McQuillen
"Christmas Morning (I'll Be Home)"
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"
Jonas Brothers
"Coming Home This Christmas"
Wyn Starks
"Pure Imagination"
Ksenia
"no boys christmas"
Have a great week,
Scott Emerson