Olivia Rodrigo released take me home for christmas olivia rodrigo on Thursday, Nov. 5, marking her first holiday song. The new track, “Take Me Home (4 Christmas),” arrived with a festive music video, giving her catalog a seasonal entry while she is still on the Unraveled Tour.
“Merry early Christmas, Livies!” framed the rollout, and the title itself keeps the branding unusual with “(4 Christmas)” instead of the standard spelling. Dan Nigro produced the song, so this release also keeps one of Rodrigo’s core studio partnerships in place.
Christmas sweaters and Head's Up
The video puts Rodrigo inside a family setting, where she wears Christmas sweaters and moves through the scene as the holiday theme stays front and center. Cynthia Nixon and Ben Marshall appear in the clip playing a version of “Head's Up,” while the people in the video try to guess the name “Olivia Rodrigo” taped to their foreheads.
That setup gives the release more than a seasonal wrapper. It turns the song into a small piece of video-driven promotion, the kind that extends a single beyond audio streaming and gives viewers a reason to replay it for details in the bit.
Billboard Hot 100 momentum
The release follows Rodrigo’s recent remix of “Expectations” featuring Chappell Roan, which helped the track reach No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. That earlier lift shows her music can still travel quickly across pop releases, and it makes a holiday single an efficient way to keep attention on her name between tour dates.
The timing also lands a few hours ahead of Alanis Morissette’s album Good Weather for Immaculate Conception and Sufjan Stevens’ compilation Worst Christmas Ever, a narrow window that places Rodrigo in the same holiday-release stretch. It is a clean commercial move: put a first Christmas song into circulation while listeners are already being pushed toward seasonal music.
Unraveled Tour through Dec. 20
The complication is the schedule. Rodrigo’s Unraveled Tour has dates across the United States and Canada through Dec. 20, then resumes in January after a short break, so the new song arrives in the middle of an active live run rather than in a quiet release gap.
That leaves the practical question for fans of Olivia Rodrigo: will “Take Me Home (4 Christmas)” make it into the set before the Dec. 20 break, or stay as a studio and video release for now? For a first holiday song, the answer matters less as a marketing footnote than as the next piece of the rollout.
