The Best 2025 Christmas Music!

 

The Beat's! - Best 2025 Christmas Music!

That is right, it has been a hot minute since I have done an annual article on my personal favorite Christmas music. I am finally sitting down to make this happen. I did my typical research of what albums/EPs were released in 2025 and did my listening. 

The following are my absolute favs this year:

1) Trisha Yearwood - Christmastime 

2) Kylie Minogue - Christmas Fully Wrapped

3) Eric Benet - It's Christmas

4) Mikey Guyton - Feels Like Christmas

5) Chris Mann - Santa, We're Ready!

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The Beat! (Celebrating our 12th Anniversary!)

 

12 years and going strong!

That is right our online publication premiered with our first publication in 2011. Here we are twelve years later and have span such diverse music on a global level. This is exactly what we are all about which is introducing people to great music and giving artists a platform to be seen.

"The Beat!" successfully put out in a grand way exclusive interviews, our own Artist in Residence Program, The Story Behind The Song, and so much more. This is something that without the readers and fellow music enthusiasts we would not have lasted this long.

We want to continue being a springboard for Independent Artists, helping with get more visibility. It is a team effort and it is a huge THANK YOU to one and all. 

2023 will be another banner year for The Beat!" with more new interviews, exclusive interviews, and other new features we are excited to announce very soon. 

Let's continue on with our rhythm of greatness through music and we are happy you are taking the journey along with us still. YOU ARE THE BEST, HERE IS TO ANOTHER 12 YEARS OF THE BEAT!!!!!!

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Kylie Minogue gives us REAL GROOVE ON DISCO: GUEST LIST ALBUM!

 

Kylie Minogue – “Disco: Guest List Edition”

Only a year later one of my favs Kylie Minogue releases her fourteenth (yes 14!) studio album, “Disco“, an expanded edition of the album has been issued. This "Guest List" version has new elements that will be a treasure for all Kyle fans such as three new collaborations, “Real Groove”, with Dua Lipa and a number of mixes of “Magic“, “Say Something” and “Dance Floor Darling”. And as if that were not enough, Kylie has also thrown in her Infinite Disco performance on DVD/Blu Ray AND a whole album of extended versions of the twelve tracks on the original standard album!  I have to say I am still a person that enjoys digital though my fav musical artists still want a hardcopy, that is correct I am old school big time. 

Having yet been able to tour the “Disco” album, Kylie has spent most of 2021 pressing grapes while the album has continued to perform well on digital and streaming, getting more than one hundred million and counting plays on Spotify alone, while the videos for the two main singles, particularly “Magic”, have also remained consistently popular throughout this period.

Let’s pick up the new album and see the non-stop grooves from start to finish which will not disappoint. 

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The Best of Holiday Music 2015!

The Best of Christmas 2015 Releases!

It is that time of year where we put the tree up, shop till we drop, ginger and mint everything known to man up, it is Christmas! I absolutely adore this time of year and the music it brings along with the happy memories. I always bring out my favorite music albums and check-out the new. As always there are the "must haves" and the "what were they thinking and/or on?!" Some of my favorite artists have either struck gold or failed miserably when releasing a holiday album. This year is like others where I want to feature many of what I found to be the best which can be pushed from a large studio or more independent.

This year I am very excited that artists like Patty Smyth, Kenny Rogers, Jann Arden, Kylie Minogue, Leann Rimes, Danny Gokey, and The Braxtons have released lovely holiday albums!!

As of this holiday season these artists have truly done their homework and released very lovely albums that each will become a classic (or at least in my catalog).  Each artist has brought a fresh feel to classics and many brand new tunes that are sorely needed and a delight. If you are looking for an enjoyable stocking stuffer, lovely tunes to play during an event or to brighten up a drive these 7 albums all from a wide array of genres and feel will bring something great. Just like everything it depends on your taste as to what one is right for you though if you are an eclectic music lover like myself than each will serve this purpose.

Happy Holidays!!!

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