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" Whether it&amp;#039;s an artist putting his or her take on a classic or drumming up something entirely new, we always wait anxiously to hear what the holiday season has in store for us music-wise. Now that we&amp;#039;re in the heart of the December party circuit, we&amp;#039;ve assembled our ten favorite brand-new holiday jams, including tracks by Cee Lo Green, John Travolta, Rod Stewart, and more. Read up on the tunes below, and start making your next Spotify playlist. &amp;quot;Jingle Bell Rock&amp;quot; by Blake Shelton featuring Miranda Lambert on Cheers, It&amp;#039;s Christmas  Photo: Warner Music Nashville The Voice&amp;#039;s resident wisecracking country-singer Blake Shelton teams up with his killer-voiced wife Miranda Lambert for a twang-ified rendition of &amp;quot;Jingle Bell Rock.&amp;quot; The duo adds a dash of back-porch flavor and down-home grit to the holiday staple. The collaboration is one of a handful on his new album Cheers, It&amp;#039;s Christmas, which also features songs with Kelly Clarkson and Michael Bubl\u00E9. &amp;quot;Sleigh Ride&amp;quot; by Fun. on Holidays Rule Few artists are having a year quite like Fun. From 2011-2012 the New York pop trio scored two smash singles in &amp;quot;We Are Young&amp;quot; and &amp;quot;Some Nights,&amp;quot; a slew of Grammy nominations for their debut album, and now they cap it off with a good-time cover of &amp;quot;Sleigh Ride&amp;quot; as part of their compilation album Holidays Rule. It&amp;#039;s no wonder these guys are in a good mood. &amp;quot;Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)&amp;quot; by Lady Antebellum on On This Winter&amp;#039;s Night In 2010 Grammy-winning country trio Lady Antebellum released a six-track Christmas EP, A Merry Little Christmas. And now with On This Winter&amp;#039;s Night, the three singers add six additional tracks to round out their new full-length holiday LP. The standout is a cover of Darlene Love&amp;#039;s rocking Xmas classic, &amp;quot;Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).&amp;quot;  &amp;quot;Baby, It&amp;#039;s Cold Outside&amp;quot; by Cee Lo Green featuring Christina Aguilera on Cee Lo&amp;#039;s Magic Moment  Photo: Gilbert Carrasquillo/Getty Images As we saw last year with Maroon 5&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;Moves Like Jagger,&amp;quot; a surefire benefit of serving as a judge on The Voice is the opportunity it provides for the judges to collaborate with one another. This time, Cee Lo Green wrangles in his TV co-host Xtina to assist with his slinky take on &amp;quot;Baby, It&amp;#039;s Cold Outside,&amp;quot; a highlight of the outr\u00E9 singer&amp;#039;s holiday LP Cee Lo&amp;#039;s Magic Moment. &amp;quot;Christmas in the Sand&amp;quot; by Colbie Caillat on Christmas in the Sand Just because it&amp;#039;s holiday time doesn&amp;#039;t mean you have to bundle up near a fire. Or so says Colbie Caillat. For her first holiday album, the singer/songwriter puts a tropical spin on Christmas, particularly on her album&amp;#039;s sensual title track and lead single &amp;quot;Christmas in the Sand,&amp;quot; during which she sings of putting &amp;quot;Hawaiian Tropic on the skin.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Happy Xmas (War Is Over)&amp;quot; by Christina Perri on A Very Merry Perri Christmas In a decidedly bold (and ultimately successful) move, the &amp;quot;Jar of Hearts&amp;quot;-pop star tackles the John Lennon/Yoko Ono Christmas protest anthem &amp;quot;Happy Xmas (War Is Over),&amp;quot; for her new holiday EP, A Very Merry Perri Christmas. And in doing so, the singer lends the monumental song a tempered, gentle vibe. Watch Perri rock out with 15 of her friends in a music video for this song, which premiered exclusively on ELLE.com. &amp;quot;I Think You Might Like It&amp;quot; by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John on This Christmas  Photo: Amazon.com We know and love them from their days playing Danny and Sandy in Grease. But now actors John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John have reunited for a stab at some holiday crooning fun. Unsurprisingly, an A-list cast of collaborators (Tony Bennett, Barbra Streisand, James Taylor) join the two prime players. But it&amp;#039;s the duo&amp;#039;s original tune, &amp;quot;I Think You Might Like It,&amp;quot; a surprising country hoedown, that caught our ear. &amp;quot;Red-Suited Superman&amp;quot; by Rod Stewart featuring Trombone Shorty on Merry Christmas, Baby Classic-rock vocalist Rod Stewart rounds up his famous pals, including Cee Lo Green and Michael Bubl\u00E9, for Merry Christmas, Baby, the first holiday album of the singer&amp;#039;s illustrious career. Our favorite track on the album? The groovy, jazzed-up cut &amp;quot;Red-Suited Superman,&amp;quot; in which Stewart gets killer assistance from New Orleans horn-master Trombone Shorty. &amp;quot;Holly Jolly Christmas&amp;quot; by Sufjan Stevens on Silver &amp;amp;amp; Gold Leave it to indie-rock auteur Sufjan Stevens to lend an avant-garde touch to classic Christmas tunes. The singer recently released a massive five-disc holiday box set entitled Silver &amp;amp;amp; Gold, and even put out a mixtape of Christmas-themed rap music to boot. The standout track on his gigantic output is a spaced-out take on &amp;quot;Holly Jolly Christmas.&amp;quot; &amp;quot;Doo Wop Christmas (&amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s What Christmas Is All About)&amp;quot; by Kem on What Christmas Means It&amp;#039;s no surprise Detroit-based soul singer Kem embraces the holiday spirit, as is evidenced on his new holiday album, What Christmas Means; after all, the dude has the voice of an angel. But it&amp;#039;s especially refreshing to hear him unveil a soulful, Motown-esque number &amp;quot;Doo Wop Christmas (&amp;quot;That&amp;#039;s What Christmas Is All About).&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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