Charles Brown spent the 1960 holiday season pleading with a lover on "Please Come Home for Christmas," and the lonely Christmas record has been an R&B tradition ever since. Sixty-six years later, October London has a Christmas song where the pleading is already over. On "No More Mistletoe," out now through Death Row Records/gamma., he cooks his former partner's favorite meal and finally puts up the lights he wishes he had hung sooner. Neither one brings anybody home.

The details stay inside the house, where the holiday routines keep running on schedule while the disagreements that ended the relationship were never settled. London pitches it as a ballad for anyone heading into December without the person who used to make the season feel special.

This is the third straight year London has put out holiday music. The Greatest Gift, his first Christmas album, arrived Nov. 17, 2023, and the holiday EP For You, My Love followed in 2025. His seasonal work goes back to 2020, when he appeared with Cocoa Sarai on Snoop Dogg's "Funky Christmas." That was four years after Snoop and Jazze Pha made the South Bend, Indiana, singer the first signee to their Cadillacc Music label.

"No More Mistletoe" closes out the busiest year of his career. Love Me For Me, a 10-track album produced entirely by Snoop Dogg and Soopafly, landed over the summer. Our review heard it making a case for vulnerable R&B that stays sensual without going cold. Its single "Silent Treatment" reached No. 1 on Billboard's Adult R&B Airplay chart in October, his fourth time leading that list after "Back to Your Place," "Mulholland Drive" with Snoop Dogg and LaToiya Williams, and "Touch on Me."

The same year brought a Best Male R&B/Pop Artist nomination at the BET Awards. In February at Crypto.com Arena, he sang "The Closer I Get to You" with Lalah Hathaway during the Grammys' In Memoriam tribute to Roberta Flack. Flack first recorded that duet with Lalah's father, Donny Hathaway, whose 1970 single "This Christmas" still comes back to R&B radio every December.

London will carry the new song into a long road stretch next year. He is the special guest on all 24 dates of The Love of Soul Tour with Fantasia and Anthony Hamilton, which opens Feb. 5, 2027, at Capital One Arena in Washington. The run closes May 22 at Prudential Center in Newark.

"No More Mistletoe" is streaming now on all major platforms.