The 10 best new Christmas music albums for 2025 holiday season

We love those classic Christmas recordings And we cherish the chance to hear Nat King Cole Johnny Mathis Barbra Streisand the Beach Boys Darlene Love and other greats sing these standards each and every Christmas season Yet we also like to spice things up and add chosen new voices to our holiday playlist Thankfully we never have any shortage of contenders trying to make the cut That s because there are dozens upon dozens of new Christmas albums circulated each season We ve combed through the offerings and have come up with what we consider to be the best of the bunch Here are our picks for the top new Christmas albums for On This Winter s Night Volume Lady A The country act s first seasonal offering s On This Winter s Night was a joyous affair that included sparkling versions of such Christmas classics as The First Noel and Let It Snow Let It Snow Let It Snow Thirteen years later the platinum-plus-selling Nashville trio consisting of lead vocalists Hillary Scott and Charles Kelley as well as the multi-talented Dave Haywood returns with an equally good follow-up record This second installment in what hopefully will grow into a lengthy series includes solid takes on O Holy Night Winter Wonderland and other favorites It also features guest appearances from Ricky Skaggs on Why We Sing Noel and Chris Tomlin on an absolutely gorgeous version of Silent Night Listen to Silent Night featuring Chris Tomlin Greatest Gift of All Stryper The holidays are about to get heavy but in the right way as powerhouse metal act Stryper conclusively releases its first-ever Christmas album The SoCal outfit best known for the platinum-selling s offering To Hell with the Devil thoroughly rocks us around the Christmas tree as it thunders through a mix of holiday classics and originals As far as the latter goes we are really enjoying turning up the volume on Still the Light which features several blistering guitar work from Michael Sweet and Oz Fox and the Black Sabbath-esque On This Holy Night Truly great stuff from Christian metal s largest part legendary band Listen to Still the Light Greatest Hits Christmas LeAnn Rimes The country crooner fortunate with one of the finest vocalizing voices in the history of the genre has a long history with holiday recordings It began in the mid- s when she recorded Put a Little Holiday in Your Heart as a promotional bonus single for her blockbuster major-label debut Blue and has continued through the years This generous collection which is big enough to warrant a double-LP release for vinyl fans gathers up so several of her classic Christmas recordings Rockin Around the Christmas Tree to I Want a Hippopotamus for Christmas as well as three new cuts Collectively these songs serve to underscore that Rimes stands among the greatest Christmas music interpreters of the last years Listen to Little Drummer Boy Let Me Carry You This Christmas Darius de Haas The versatile vocalist has quite a track record in the theater world having appeared in Broadway productions of Rent Kiss of the Spider Woman Carousel Marie Christine and other plays He s also fashioned an impressive career as a concert recording artist performing with both the Boston and Cincinnati pops orchestras and releasing a number of albums Now he s making his mark in the seasonal music realm with this -track outing He s fortunate with a beautiful voice which a great number of know from him doing the trilling parts for the character of Shy Baldwin on Amazon s The Marvelous Mrs Maisel and he puts it to great use on The First Noel Silent Night and other holiday tunes Listen to Who Would Imagine a King Come Home for Christmas Matthew West The contemporary Christian singer-songwriter who gave voice to such chart-topping hits as More You Are Everything Hello My Name Is Grace Wins Broken Things and The God Who Stays is inviting music lovers to Come Home for Christmas This eight-song offering follows is yet another Christmastime delight for West who previously recorded The Heart of Christmas in and We Need Christmas in The set is a mix of original tunes and holiday standards And as an added bonus it even includes a kids version of West s excellent Thanksgiving ode Gobble Gobble Listen to Because of Bethlehem Nollaig A Christmas Journey Celtic Woman These PBS favorites originally came together for a one-off performance in Dublin Ireland in and are still going strong years later And now they are embarking on A Christmas Journey It is not to put it mildly their first such journey Celtic Woman which specific have described as Riverdance for the voice has published approximately seasonal albums over the years Or it could be since the group might have published another since I started writing this The reason the collective keeps releasing holiday platters and the reason we keep buy them is that it does a really good job with the Christmas songbook And that s certainly the situation once again with this fine collection of wintery tunes Listen to God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen Christmas Time Is Here Herb Alpert The legendary trumpeter who turned earlier this year has delivered such a gorgeous set of Latin-flavored holiday songs with Christmas Time Is Here The collection of mostly instrumentals kicks off with a true jaw-dropper with Alpert pouring such emotion and feeling into a softly held version of Feliz Navidad and then continues to shine through such Christmas classics as White Christmas Winter Wonderland and Sleigh Ride Of class this is not the first holiday rodeo for Alpert who achieved massive success with s Christmas Album recorded with his Tijuana Brass band and then followed up with the well-received Christmas Wish particular years later Listen to Feliz Navidad Christmas Natalie Grant A lot has happened since this Seattle native disclosed her first seasonal offering Believe in For starters she won a mind-blowing four consecutive Dove Awards for female vocalist of the year from - And then she d add a fifth such trophy to her collection in Twenty years after Believe Grant returns with Christmas another gorgeous set of holiday favorites Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas Winter Wonderland etc and other tunes We especially love her work with MercyMe s Bart Millard on Silent Night Listen to Silent Night Snow Globe Town Brad Paisley Brad Paisley Christmas was a fine holiday affair filled with cool covers of seasonal staples Silent Night Winter Wonderland etc as well as a sparse more unorthodox selections notably the PC-diss-track Kung Pao Buckaroo Holiday The country music star s long-awaited follow-up coming years after that first Christmas outing is another intriguing platter that mixes tradition and novelty Paisley a decent vocalist and excellent guitarist sounds like he s having a blast on That Crazy Elf On the Shelf A Marshmallow World and other fun tunes Yet listeners are likely to enjoy his work on the slower numbers even more Listen to The First Noel It s Christmas Eric Benet The R B crooner responsible for such top hits as Spiritual Thang Femininity Let s Stay Together and Spend My Life With You returns with his th full-length studio outing which also happens to be his second offering of It s Christmas which follows the release of The Co-Star in June is warm and smooth from start to finish as Benet brings his equally sophisticated and soulful approach to Please Come Home for Christmas and other favorites When Benet sings a song like Christmas Time Is Here it feels like you re both in the same room tipping back cups of eggnog and enjoying a softly glowing fire Listen to Oh Holy Night