Kick back and relax, time to take it easy for Christmas Day.
But not without a tune or two to mark the occasion, so nice to hear a great one by the ever-reliable Gaspard Royant, the finest exponent of Doo Wop Garage 'n' Roll from Haute Savoie, with the track Christmas is Back in Town.
It follows his Christmas 2014 near hit Christmas (Baby Please Come Home).
2016 sees Gaspard working on his second album, the follow up to the mighty 10 Hits Wonder collection, with former Orange Juice and all round Scottish music legend Edwyn Collins.
Another thing to look forward to in 2016 for sure.
A Christmas song from the legendary Michel Polnareff, ahead of a year that sees him touring and
releasing a new album.
It will be his first since 1990's Kama Sutra album. Since then he's made occasional return to performing, his profile sustained by cover versions and celebrity magazine coverage.
He's sold over three million albums, and his new collection is one of 2016's most anticipated releases.
Typical for Polnareff, the song L'Homme en Rouge is an anti-Christmas song. And probably one of the most memorable Xmas releases in recent years.
A look at French music in 2015 cannot fail to take into account the tragedies that unfold in Paris. Discussing the events in the context of a music blog seems both inapproriate but unavoidable, such was the shadow cast.
To ignore it would be grossly insensitive, but to mention it a crass appropriation of other people's sorrow.
But I've always been interested in French music, and that is what will focus on here. I'll leave the geopolitics to others, but the events that unfolded this year will be felt in the French music world for years to come.
In terms of what else happened in music in 2015, there might not have been a massive international breakthrough like Daft Punk, but the acts at the current forefront of the French scene have continued to release strong new material.
Christine and the Queens released their debut album in the USA with new songs including the wonderful Jonathan.
Stromae's Quand c'est was one of the year's most remarkable videos, as the success of his 2013 Racine Carrée collection saw him embark on adventures in North America and Africa.
Respectable releases too from stars of previous generations, with new material from Mylene Farmer, Johnny Hallyday and Jean-Michel Jarre all showing that established artists can still have something to offer.
But focussing on five of the best releases of 2015 brings some other acts to mind.
Fauve's Vieux Frères, Partie 2 was the release that saw the act fully deliver on the promise of their debut. As good as that release was, it never quite hit the spot for me as much as I felt it should. No reservations about its follow up whatsoever, and with Les Hautes Lumières simply one of the best French language songs of recent years.
A more electronic proposition came from Rone, with the album Creatures. It's a mature and confident album, taking modern electronic music somewhere where it is more cerebral, but remains accessible at the same time.
Who would have expected an album that saw Grand Corps Malade with not only Charles Aznavour and also include the return or Renaud? GCM's Il nous restera ça album took seemingly disparate elements in its stride, and raised the bar when it comes to spoken word performance.
An album I thouroughly enjoyed was the debut by Blind Digital Citizen, Premières vies, which came out in March. It continues the trend of France producing wonderful genre defying modern rock acts, somewhere between rock, electro and psychedelic with a nod to chanson.
But if an album of the year must be chosen, unquestionably it came from Feu! Chatterton in the form of their Ici le jour (a tout enseveli) collection.
The Paris-based five piece have this year moved from critical acclaim to becoming one of the country's most significant acts. Their influences run deep, from 18th Century poetry, 19th century painters and Alain Bashung , jazz, and indie rock, but the songs on their album sound like no one else.
A new track by Zaz, with a cover of the song Tous les cris les SOS originally by Daniel Balavoine.
The track comes from a tribute album entitled Balavoine(s) that sees a variety of artists re-interpret his works.
It includes Raphaël, Nolwenn Leroy, Christophe, Florent Pagny and Jenifer.
The tribute album format has been particularly successful in France in recent years, with the La Bande à Renaud and Géneration Goldman collections both massive sellers that produced successful second volumes.
The interest in coincides with the 30th anniversary of his death, Balavoine dying in a helicopter crash in January 1986.
TF1 broadcasts a programme dedicated to Daniel Balavoine recorded at the Zénith in Paris on January 9 next year.
Meanwhile, France 3 has a programme on December 30 dedicated to Balavoine featuring contributions from La Grande Sophie, Christine and the Queen and Orelsan.
A cover of a Charles Trenet song by Mika for a new advert for the SNCF.
The advert is a cornerstone of a massive publicity campaign for the French railways, in particular their TGV service.
Mika says that when the project was suggested, he immediately said yes because when he was working with Michel Legrand on a cover of Vive le Vent, Legrand introduced him to the music of Trenet and he loved Je Chante, a song he describes as having the kind of alchemy he tries to find in his own songs.
The song was originally written in 1937, as the title track for a musical film.
Mika has become a French artist by adoption, the new video placing him firmly in the French landscape.
Mika's most recent album No Place in Heaven was released in June.
Kick back and relax, time to take it easy for Christmas Day.
