post Re: Google Max Hub: Unwanted Christmas music in Other Devices

Google Home: Requesting artist station creates artist holiday station instead

FiretruckAnnie — Wed, 20 Aug 2025 17:48:05 GMT

Why does my Floyd Cramer station keep playing Christmas music in April? This just started the other day.

Moderator Edit: Changing title for clarity

Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Thew60 — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:30:12 GMT

I have Pandora linked to my Google music. When my wife asks Google to "play Sara Barellies on Home Group", Google responds with "here is a Pandora station called Sara Bareilles playing on home group" Invariably after a few songs, a Christmas song pops up and the trend continues. When I open Pandora app on my iPhone, I search my station and see "Sara Barellies Holiday Radio" this is a station that was never asked for. I will then delete that station from my app. All good for a few days then bingo, more Sara B Christmas Music. When I go back into my Pandora app, the Sara Barellies holiday station is back. Again, have never asked for this. I have even deleted my regular Sara B station to try to start from scratch and this just keep on reoccurring. Is there a little demon that keeps adding this station to my list? At wits end and looking for a fix, thank you

Moderator Edit: Format

Re: Holiday music playing on non-holiday station

TannerPandora — Mon, 08 Apr 2024 20:57:52 GMT

Hi @FiretruckAnnie

Welcome to community!

I made a small change that I hope will help your experience. If you continue to hear holiday tracks on your Floyd Cramer station, please let me know the following info:

Date and Time listening:
Device you were listening on (web, mobile, speaker):
- If this was an in-home device, such as Google Home, let me know the exact voice command that was used.

Thanks!

Re: Holiday music playing on non-holiday station

FiretruckAnnie — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 01:55:30 GMT

Hello and thank you for trying to correct this issue. I appreciate your efforts, however this evening the very first song played was a Christmas song!

Here are the details you asked for:

Date: 04/08/2024

Time: 9:23PM (EST)

We listen on a Google Home Mini.

The voice command is: Ok Google, Play Floyd Cramer.

Thank you for the help!

Re: Holiday music playing on non-holiday station

TannerPandora — Tue, 09 Apr 2024 19:20:30 GMT

Thanks for the follow up @FiretruckAnnie

Hi @Thew60 I noticed that you're having a similar issues.

Since you both report having a similar experience, I've gone ahead and merged your posts together to help other's that may have a similar issue with their Google Home.

Since my attempts to investigate have come up empty handed, I've gone ahead and created a ticket to share with our engineering team for further investigation.

In the meantime, if Google continues to play the incorrect station, please send a diagnostic to Google as well. You can do this directly through your Google Home. After Google fails to play correctly, use the voice command "Ok Google, file feedback." This will send a diagnostic report to Google.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime!

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Schmalgar — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 21:33:08 GMT

Hello. First time posting, I am having the exact same issue, with Google Home. For many months I would say "hey Google play Kelly Clarkson radio" and it would launch the Kelly Clarkson Radio station on Pandora. The last month or so it launches "Kelly Clarkson (Holiday)" station more often than but not. As poster said above, I delete the station from my Pandora list and sometimes it will then play the regular Kelly Clarkson station, but it always quickly reverts back to Kelly Clarkson (Holiday)... since this is a current topic I wanted to give you another user with the same issue to investigate and/or report to engineers. Meanwhile I will do "file feedback" on Google as you suggest.

Cheers

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

AdamPandora — Fri, 12 Apr 2024 11:33:10 GMT

@Schmalgar Thanks for providing that info.

I've passed this along to the appropriate parties for further investigation. We'll follow up with you if we need any additional details.

Thanks for your patience in the meantime!

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Shug1707 — Sat, 13 Apr 2024 18:15:58 GMT

Hi. My first time posting as well. I came here looking for answers to this exact problem. When I asked my Google Home to play Leonard Cohen or Bob Seger- whatever station I have set up, it's started intermittent Christmas songs with it. I went into my account and deleted my Michael bublé holiday and I deleted a classic Christmas station that I had in there but it's still doing it. I also checked to mke sure I was not shuffling the Stations. I don't know why but today it was playing it on my Irish Rover station. I went in again to try to make sure there was no Christmas music in there. Logged back out of my account. I logged back in and when I asked it to play the Irish rovers it had switched to Irish Rovers holiday !?!? Why???

Re: One station always plays first

misspinkprinces — Thu, 16 May 2024 14:49:02 GMT

stop saying that it's not the right answer, I delete the station every day, change bookmarks, and Google Assistant keeps playing it

Re: One station always plays first

TannerPandora — Thu, 16 May 2024 19:30:35 GMT

Hi @misspinkprinces

Welcome to community!

This thread is for stations that reappear after being removed specifically on a web browser.

To clarify, are you using your Google Assistant on your phone, a Google Home device or through a web browser?

In the meantime, please let me know the exact voice command you are using with Google Assistant, and the Station name that continues to appear.

Re: One station always plays first

misspinkprinces — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:14:46 GMT

thank you, it's with Google Assistant, I erased the station, I asked for a
station similar then it plays the one I deleted. I appreciate the response.
the example given is I will say play Conquer divide or Conquer divide radio
and it will play instead conquer divide (holiday) radio. of course then I
go open the app and lo and behold in my collections is that station. I
delete it, I've even deleted it on the computer version of Pandora and an
hour later will ask and it will make that station again LOL

Re: One station always plays first

TannerPandora — Thu, 16 May 2024 20:37:23 GMT

Thanks for the follow up, @misspinkprinces

Sounds like Google Assistant understands what you're saying but instead of playing the correct station, it creates a holiday station based on the same artist.

We do have a few reports of this and it is being investigated by our engineering team. I've included your info as well. It may take us some time and effort across teams to further investigate, so we appreciate your patience in the meantime.

Re: One station always plays first

misspinkprinces — Thu, 16 May 2024 21:00:46 GMT

thank you

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Kmc1 — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 22:52:29 GMT

Is there a solution to this? I’m experiencing the same problem.

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

FiretruckAnnie — Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:37:24 GMT

I was told that changes were made to correct the problem and it seems to be the case.

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

jphogan1 — Mon, 09 Dec 2024 23:16:33 GMT

Finding this thread in Dec 2024 because I'm having the same issue. Every time I ask Google Home for to play "X artist on Pandora" it comes back with the holiday station from them. I go into the app and manually change it, then delete the holiday version and the next time I request it, it comes back again.

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Julesmak — Wed, 09 Apr 2025 13:41:11 GMT

Is there no solution to this? This happened to me back in October and finally stopped after a couple weeks, now it’s happening every time I ask for music from Google Home again. I don’t want Christmas music in April!

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

pjhaas — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 23:13:31 GMT

June 2025, more than a year later, still happening.

Using Google Mini, requesting "Hey Google, play <artist>" and it always kicks right into that artist's Christmas music.

Pretty sure the issue is on Pandora's side, bc Google repeats the request accurately, without any specification of Christmas.

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

SSlocum99 — Wed, 23 Jul 2025 16:20:44 GMT

I’ve had this same issue for months when requesting a Pandora station using Google Assistant with my Google Home device. I delete the station from my Pandora app but it continues to happen regardless of the different artists’ radio stations I choose. It is incredibly frustrating. When can we expect a resolution to the issue?

Re: Google Home: Requesting artist station starts artist holiday station instead

Shark1979 — Sat, 16 Aug 2025 16:42:08 GMT

Same issue. It is highly frustrating and about have had enough