Everything about the Target Christmas commercial 2025: discover who plays the “Hot Santa” (Kris K.) and the lyrics to Benson Boone’s song “Mystical Magical.”
This year, Target counts for double!
That’s right, because for the 2025 holiday season—which is always a great time to talk about the brand—the American retail giant has released not one, but two commercials, both of which have gone viral for different reasons.
The first is a fun spot featuring a smiling yeti and a song that has tickled everyone’s ears, sparking a wave of internet searches. The second marks the return of Kris K., the “Hot Santa” who found huge success in 2024, played by the same actor.
It is time to clear things up once and for all. Here is your definitive guide to the Target Holiday Commercial 2025.
The Target “Yeti” commercial and the song by Benson Boone
The first commercial is the one you see above: a spot dedicated to cheer, with smiling people sharing the holiday season together—at the table, at home, or out in the snow—dancing and singing a song that many now know by heart.
For those still asking: the song in the Target Holiday Commercial 2025 is Mystical Magical by Benson Boone.
You can listen to the full track below.
Benson Boone is still riding his golden wave. After his debut album in 2024 and the massive success of Beautiful Things, this year saw the arrival of his second album, American Heart, and Mystical Magical is one of the record’s lead singles.
The song features unique lyrics, blending a melancholic note with an optimistic melody: it talks about a romantic partner who pretends to be involved but is actually cold and distant. Nevertheless, Benson Boone is confident that, with time and patience, things will change and they will be won over by this relationship. Why? Because the love he can give is “mystical and magical,” and they will see it with their own eyes once ready to receive it.
The song is so catchy partly because it interpolates the famous 80s hit Physical by Olivia Newton-John. Regarding the lyrics, here are the lines you hear in the Target commercial:
Once you know what my love’s gonna feel like
Nothing else will feel right, you can feel like
Moonbeam ice cream, taking off your blue jeans
Dancing at the movies, ’cause it feels soMystical, magical
Oh, baby, ’cause once you know, once you know
My love is so mystical, magical
Oh, baby, ’cause once you know, once you knowOnce you know what my love’s gonna feel like
Moonbeam ice cream, nothing else will feel right
Mystical, magical
Oh, baby, it’s mystical, magical
Who is the Actor playing “Hot Santa”?
The other reason the entire internet has gone crazy is the return by popular demand of “Hot Santa”: the charming and funny Santa who already made a splash last year. And obviously, this year too, the audience is asking who is “Daddy Claus”, the actor playing Santa in the Target commercial.
Target introduces him as “Kris K.”, someone who “embodies the playful joy, ease and inspiration that define the Target experience.” The actor playing him is a familiar face to movie and TV series lovers: he is the American actor Brent Bailey, famous for movies like The Idea Of You (the rom-com with Anne Hathaway), and for appearances in series like Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., Criminal Minds, and Rizzoli & Isles.
The audience loved him last year, so here he is back again. Target assured: “We’re giving you even more Kris K. — more fun, more humor and more of the magic that only Target can deliver.”
We are safe, right?
