Oh shit, Christmas is heating up this year, with what may be the biggest battle in the holiday record industry brewing since Frank Sinatra’s ghost battled Michael Buble back in the roaring ’00s. Or maybe it’s heating up ‘cos of global warming? Is summer usually this hot and this early? Hard to tell.

Last week, Hanson stopped resting on their yuletide laurels after a twenty-year reign with 1997’s Snowed In, announcing they will be releasing a new Xmas album, and now a new contender is set to rock the sleigh, with Gwen Stefani teasing a very special announcement, which is clearly Xmas-themed.

Paging Mariah.

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