Olivia Rodrigo released her first holiday song on Thursday, Nov. 5, pairing "Take Me Home (4 Christmas)" with a festive music video that leans into the season without stepping away from the spotlight she already has on the road. The release adds a Christmas track to her catalog while she is still moving through the Unraveled Tour schedule.
The timing is part of why the song is landing now. Fans of Olivia Rodrigo have been following a steady run of releases, and this one arrives after her remix of "Expectations" featuring Chappell Roan, which helped the track reach No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. That song originally appeared on her Billboard 200-topping album you seem pretty sad for a girl so in love, so the new holiday single is not a reset. It is another turn in a stretch that has kept her visible heading into the end of the year.
The video gives the release its own joke and its own hook. Rodrigo appears in a family crowded in Christmas sweaters, while Cynthia Nixon and Ben Marshall play a game of Head's Up in which everyone is trying to guess the same name taped to their foreheads: Olivia Rodrigo. The setup keeps the clip playful, and it also makes clear that the song is being introduced as a holiday offering, not just a side note attached to the music video.
That matters because the release lands in the middle of a packed calendar. Rodrigo's Unraveled Tour has dates across the United States and Canada through Dec. 20 before it pauses and resumes in January, and "Take Me Home (4 Christmas)" arrives just a few hours ahead of new holiday projects from Alanis Morissette and Sufjan Stevens. The message is plain enough: this is her first Christmas song, and she put it out while she is still on tour, with no indication yet of whether it will become part of the live set before the year ends.
