October London, Tamar Braxton & More Jumpstart Holiday Spirit with ‘Unexpected Christmas’ Soundtrack

In the ramp-up to the 2025 yuletide season, 1 of the upcoming events jumpstarting the vacation tone is 3 Diamonds Films’ Unexpected Christmas. The rollout up of the theatrical film’s Nov. 7 nationwide premiere kicks disconnected contiguous (Oct. 10) with the merchandise of its soundtrack’s same-titled pb single, a soulful ballad performed and produced by October London.

In summation to London, Unexpected Christmas: The Soundtrack includes established and rising artists specified arsenic Kevin Ross, Tamar Braxton, Melanie Fiona, K-Ci Hailey, Koryn Hawthorne and Kenyon Dixon performing a 10-track premix of archetypal songs and vacation covers. Ahead of the soundtrack’s Oct. 24 merchandise via 3 Diamonds Entertainment/Platform Sounds, the pb azygous and different way — “Cold Day” with EJ Jones — are some disposable present successful tandem with the album pre-save.

London produced the soundtrack’s pb azygous successful collaboration with Tripp Caimbridge. Describing the originative inspiration down the song, London tells Billboard, “I brought successful the imaginativeness of making thing soulful yet classical and past worked with Tripp to trade the lyrics successful a mode that felt timeless. The words came retired of existent memories: I wanted the opus to consciousness relatable, similar you could perceive your ain household successful it. Then we built connected them to springiness the opus that cosmopolitan Christmas spirit.”

Of the soundtrack’s different instant grat opus “Cold Day,” written and produced by Daniel Bryant, Jones notes, “When I archetypal heard the song, it conscionable clicked for me. I locked into the booth and recorded it successful 30 minutes.”

Unexpected Christmas the movie revolves astir the romanticist entanglements, household secrets, aged rivalries — and emotion — that ensue erstwhile the Scott household comes unneurotic for a vacation reunion. The comedy/dramedy stars Lil Rel Howery, Tabitha Brown, DomiNque Perry, Anna Maria Horsford and Regan Gomez. Actor/comedian Howery and Emmy-winning actress/author Brown besides doubled arsenic enforcement producers of the movie with Norman Gyamfi. Written by Cassandra Mannand and directed by Michael Vaughn Hernandez, Unexpected Christmas was produced by 3 Diamonds Films co-founders Phil Thornton and Trell Woodberry on with Perri Camper.

“The soundtrack for Unexpected Christmas represents everything I emotion astir euphony and movie coming together,” Thornton, besides CEO of 3 Diamonds Entertainment, tells Billboard. “From the talented artists to the bonzer writers and producers, everyone poured their creativity into making songs that not lone determination you but besides unrecorded people wrong the story. At 3 Diamonds Films, we’re committed to making soundtracks substance again. We privation the euphony to consciousness similar an lawsuit successful its ain close — thing that amplifies the movie and creates a lasting cu...