- Stevie Wonder and Andra Day duetted on Stevie's classic "Someday at Christmas" for 2015, and as it's the soundtrack to Apple's Christmas ad, you won't be surprised that it's at iTunes/Apple Music only.
- The Classic Christmas 80s Album is available this year via Sony/Legacy. It's a pretty strong collection of stuff the real fans already know about and those of you with a casual interest in the decade should have if you don't already. The Waitresses, Run-DMC, Billy Squier, Bob & Doug McKenzie, Fishbone, New Kids on the Block and more are here, along with the famous Hall & Oates cover of "Jingle Bell Rock." Don't confuse this collection with A Very 80s Xmas, which is a fairly random collection of tunes from the era, some re-recorded and many not even Christmas songs.
- Sarah McLachlan has repackaged Wintersong as The Classic Christmas Album this year, adding four cuts done with her music school's student choir. We covered those additional cuts here at Mistletunes when they were released, though I doubt the links are still live to the free downloads.
- We mentioned a collection called Lost Christmas last year that had some interestingly off-the-wall rarities from such folks as Chuck Berry and Jackie DeShannon. So there's a Lost Christmas 2 this year, and though there's a lot of easy listening, there's also such things as Mel Blanc's "I Tan't Wait For Quithmuth Day", Stan Freiberg's "Christmas Dragnet," Sheb Wooley's "Santa and the Purple People Eater" and another Spinal Tap tune, "We Three Kings." The Royal Guardsmen (both sides of their Snoopy single), The Waitresses, Bob & Doug and Kurtis Blow are on here too.
- I'm punting on the India.arie & Joe Sample Christmas album, as it's far more adult contemporary than r'nb. But I've linked it so you can make up your own mind.
- And yes, the Killers are releasing a new Christmas song Dec. 1 on Jimmy Kimmel's show, as they did last year.
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