VA - Now That's What I Call Christmas (2015) {3CD Box Set}

Released in time for the 2015 holiday season, the updated U.K. edition of Now That's What I Call Christmas offers a heaping plate of Yuletide pop favorites spanning multiple decades. From holiday rock perennials like the Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" and Slade's "Merry Xmas Everybody" to more contemporary pop fare like Kelly Clarkson's "Underneath the Tree," this hefty three-disc set covers a lot of ground. The selections on the first disc range from the 1970s to contemporary while the latter two discs go back as far as Ella Fitzgerald and Nat King Cole with bits of vintage Motown, soul, folk, and rock tossed in for variety. Not every track is a surefire classic and more than a few feel like filler, but at 71 tracks, there is more than enough Grade-A holiday music to go around. ~ Timothy Monger, All Music