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10:30 AM

SiriusXM's Holiday Music Channel Guide

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One of the best things about the holiday season is getting to listen to all the festive music. Something about all these holiday tunes can really get you in the Christmas spirit. Whether you're in a car or in the privacy of your own home nothing screams Christmas more than jamming out to your favorite holiday songs. My go to choice for music listening is SiriusXM, and this year their new holiday stations just got even better!


This year, SiriusXM has 16 commercial-free festive channels. Let's take a look at what they have to offer!

Holly on Channel 4. Holly is the original holiday music channel that SiriusXm has provided over the years. Holly plays all the holiday hits you can think and dream of. But with the addition of new stations, Holly seems to be focusing on only contemporary holiday hits.


Holiday Traditions on Channel 3. Holiday Traditions will be playing all your favorite classic Christmas music.


Hallmark Channel’s 24/7 “Countdown to Christmas” on Channel 70. Yes you read that right, the same Hallmark that does their annual Christmas movies now has a radio station. Here you can listen to Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, LeAnn Rimes, Danica McKellar, Kellie Pickler, Holly Robinson-Peete, and many more Hallmark stars share their favorite holiday stories and songs. Bonus! You also get some behind the scenes information from the stars of the upcoming holiday movies.


Country Christmas on Channel 58. The name of the station says it all. Here you'll find holiday songs sung by all your favorite classic and new country superstars.


Holiday Soul on Channel 49. Here you have another genre specific station for holiday music. Holiday Soul features Christmas songs from some of the best R&B artists.


Holiday Pops on Channel on 76. Now this name is a little misleading, this station is not for holiday pop music. Instead you'll find holiday favorites performed by some of the most popular classical performers.


Acoustic Christmas on Channel 14. Here you'll find all the unplugged versions of your favorite Christmas songs performed by some of the most popular singers and songwriters.


Christmas Spirit on Channel 63. If you're a big advocate for Jesus being the reason for the season, then this is station for you. The Christmas Spirit station features Christmas music and holiday favorites from contemporary Christian artists.


Mannheim Steamroller Channel on Channel 30. If you like Mannheim Steamroller and Christmas well this one is for you.


Radio Hanukkah on Channel 77. For all my Hanukkah celebrating people, you were not forgotten! SiriusXM made a station just for you! Radio Hanukkah will play all your favorite Hanukkah related songs as well as daily reflections and prayers.


New Year's Nation on Channel 4. Once Christmas is over, Holly will become the New Year's Nation station. Here you'll find all your favorite Top40 songs that are perfect to celebrate the New Year. This station will premiere on December 28.


70s/80s Holiday on Channel 780. This station features all of the best holiday music from some of your favorite artists from the 70s and the 80s.


Rockin' Xmas on Channel 781. If you want your Christmas to be all about classic rock and roll this station is for you.


Holiday Chill-Out on Channel 783. For all the EDM lovers are there, here is your holiday music station. Who wouldn't want to listen to a Christmas song done by Kaskade?


Jazz Holidays on Channel 784. The name says it all, this station features holiday music performed by some of the greatest jazz artists.


Navidad on Channel 786. For all the latin music lovers out there, this holiday station was created with you in mind. This station features some of the biggest latin music artists singing classic and contemporary holiday music.


If you do not have a SiriusXM radio, have no fear, you can download the SiriusXM app on your smartphone or use their website to stream their stations. SiriusXM currently has some special deals going on for the holiday season.


No matter what kind of holiday music you like, SiriusXM has a station for you. Happy listening! Now you tell me, where is your favorite place to listen to holiday music? Until tomorrow.

5:26 PM

Radio Roundup: July Edition!

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Radio Stations, one minute you love them and the other you hate them. It feels like they play the same songs over and over again and everything is just on loop. The radio has a lot of power when it comes to music. They determine which songs are played and which songs are hits. They also have the power to kill a really good song just by simply overplaying it. The overplaying of songs has led to the hatred of the radio and has had drivers turn to the audio jack and either put on Pandora, Spotify or Apple music instead. And don't get me started on the commercials every five minutes that conveniently play on every station at the same time.

Anyways, the whole point is that I have been busy and doing a lot of driving and when I drive, I listen to the radio. I am blessed enough to have Sirius XM in my car so I'm always listening to that beautiful commercial free radio. When I listen to Sirius XM you'll find me listening to Hits1, Venus, Pop2k, New York's Z100 (which sadly has ads), Alt Nation and The Highway. Four of those are pop/top 40 stations and the other two are alternative and country.

With a lot of driving comes listening to a lot of music so here are some of my favorite and least favorite songs that I have heard this month!

Country Love: What I love about the Highway is that they'll play both new country music and a little bit older stuff, and by older stuff I mean stuff that was popular a couple years ago. So when songs like Long Hot Summer by Keith Urban come on the radio I get excited and reminiscent but mainly excited. But I also get excited and jam when Crash and Burn by Thomas Rhett and Ray Bans by JT Hodges come on as well.

Indie Jams: My boyfriend would call Alt Nation an indie station, and he's the expert when it comes to that. So for my alternative indie songs I've been jamming to Don't Wait Up by Robert Delong, Molecules by Atlas Genius, 2 Heads by Coleman Hell and Tear In My Heart by Twenty One Pilots. When these songs come on in my car I turn up the volume and sing as loud as possible.

The Almighty Top 40: Top 40 music is my favorite, and I can't deny it. Right now I've been really digging Worth It by Fifth Harmony, I'm Good by The Mowgli's, Shut Up & Dance by Walk the Moon, Stitches by Shawn Mendes, Dear Future Husband by Meghan Trainor, Marvin Gaye by Charlie Puth/Meghan Trainor and Fire N Gold by Bea Miller.

Songs I Never Want to Hear on the Radio Ever Again: Now here's where we get to the dark side of the radio. Even commercial free radio like Sirius is guilty of overplaying and killing songs. And they've done that with these songs in particular: Anything Goes by Florida Georgia Line, Hey Mama by David Guetta/Nicki Minaj/Afrojack and See You Again by Wiz Khalifa/Charlie Puth.

Taylor Swift Songs You Should Listen to Besides Bad Blood: Of course Taylor Swift is Queen of Pop Music and it always seems like at least two or three of her songs are on the radio at all times. And I don't know about you but I'm getting a little sick of Bad Blood and even Blank Space, I can't believe they're still playing that song! So here's a friendly reminder that she has several other songs. If you want 1989 Taylor Swift check out How You Get the Girl or I Wish You Would, if you're feeling more Red then check out Starlight or if you want a more of a throwback check out Sparks Fly or even re-listen to the classic TSwift song Picture to Burn.

NEW FIND!: Now there's this new song I've been obsessed with and it has not been played on the radio at all. So you're probably wondering how did you hear this song then? Well it was in an episode of Pretty Little Liars, played in a Gatorade commercial and has been in the commercials for the upcoming Disney Channel Original Movie Descendants. This song is called Wicked Ones by DOROTHY, check it out here! I've been listening and jamming to this song frequently, I'm obsessed.

Thanks for checking out my two cents on this month's music played on the radio. Tell me, what are currently your favorite and least favorite songs on the radio? Also what stations do you listen to? Until next time!

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