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Kylie Minogue: Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (left) and Luke Bryan: Luke Bryan Christmas.

Kylie Minogue: Kylie Christmas (Fully Wrapped) (left) and Luke Bryan: Luke Bryan Christmas.

PHOTOS ILLUSTRATIONS: APPLE MUSIC

Jon Caramanica, Jon Pareles and Lindsay Zoladz

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NEW YORK – Mariah Carey’s All I Want For Christmas Is You, the last song to become a holiday standard, arrived in 1994 – and did not

top the charts until 25 years later

. That has not stopped artistes from all corners of popular music from giving it a go. The year 2026 brings entries from country stars, comedians and a supermodel.

Alpert, 90, sticks by his holiday favourites. On Christmas Time Is Here, he revisits seven songs from his 2017 album, The Christmas Wish, and four that he recorded with the Tijuana Brass in 1968.

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