From grocery stores to malls, holiday shoppers are starting to hear their favorite Christmas songs in the air wherever they go. As radio stations switch their programming to Christmas music and Spotify and Apple Music notify users' of which artists they listened to the most in 2022, Verizon ranked the most popular holiday song in each U.S. state . The internet, phone and television services provider looked at the most played Christmas songs on holiday radio, according to iHeartMedia and Spotify, and analyzed Google search volume by state for each song to determine each state's top one. According to Verizon, Mariah Carey’s holiday hit "All I Want For Christmas Is You" is the most searched Christmas song in the entire country, with 11 out of 50 states Googling it more than any other song. However, according to Google Trends , Ariana Grande's Christmas ballad "Santa Tell Me" is being searched more across the nation than Mariah Carey's classic. In Texas, "Chestnuts Roasting … [Read more...] about The top Christmas song playing on Texas radios this holiday season
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Robert Downey Jr. on one last film with his dad, ‘Sr.’
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 8 NEW YORK (AP) — Robert Downey Jr. set out to make an objective portrait, a tribute to his father, the underground filmmaking maverick Robert Downey Sr. His dad had other plans. “The key point in this is when he goes, ‘OK, I think we should split into two camps: The (expletive) movie and the one I’m gonna make,’” recalls Downey Jr., laughing. “I just go, ‘Man, hats off to you, Pops.” “Sr.,” directed by Chris Smith, is a work of father-son harmony more than might be suggested by Downey Sr.’s typically brusque assertion of filmmaking independence. It’s a kind of home movie, mostly made by Downey Jr. but with his father’s own insertions peppered throughout. It’s a son’s loving reckoning with his iconoclast father, a freewheeling cult filmmaker whose experimental films gave Downey Jr. his entry into moviemaking and whose outsized personality did much to … [Read more...] about Robert Downey Jr. on one last film with his dad, ‘Sr.’