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    From DianeE@21:1/5 to All on Mon Dec 4 22:56:57 2023
    The Charts
    65 Years Later, Brenda Lee’s ‘Christmas Tree’ Hits No. 1

    “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” beat out Mariah Carey’s “All I Want
    for Christmas Is You” as the first holiday song to top Billboard’s Hot
    100 chart this season.

    By Ben Sisario
    Dec. 4, 2023, 3:42 p.m. ET

    After 65 years, Brenda Lee’s rockabilly holiday chestnut, “Rockin’
    Around the Christmas Tree,” has finally made it to No. 1 — and beaten Mariah Carey to it, no less.

    “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree,” which Lee recorded in 1958, when
    she was just 13, has been a seasonal standard for years, including a
    notable appearance in the 1990 movie “Home Alone.” In recent years, streaming playlists have given it a boost, sending the song to No. 2
    multiple times, though until now it was always held from the top by
    Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which has hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot 100 singles chart each holiday season for the last four years.

    For 2023, however, Lee has made a renewed push for “Rockin’” — as the singer prefers to call it — including a new music video and a TikTok
    account. And it has paid off, with Lee, now 78, beating Carey to the top
    of the chart this week in a photo finish, separated by just a couple of
    million streams.

    “I would’ve never thought in my wildest dreams that ‘Rockin’’ would be
    my signature song,” Lee said in a recent interview with The New York
    Times at her home in Nashville, where the decorations include a crimson
    pillow embroidered with that song’s (full) title.

    “Rockin’” is credited with 34.9 million streams for the week, while “All
    I Want for Christmas” had 32.4 million, according to the tracking
    service Luminate. The Hot 100 also takes into account radio popularity
    and downloads, and in both those criteria Carey fared slightly better.
    “All I Want” had 21.5 million “radio airplay audience impressions” and sold 4,000 downloads, while “Rockin’” had 20.7 million airplay impressions and sold 3,000 downloads.

    But altogether, streaming sent “Rockin’” over the edge, giving Lee her first No. 1 hit since 1960. It was also the longest stretch that any
    song has taken to make it to the top of the Hot 100, which was first
    published in 1958 — displacing Carey’s “All I Want,” which took 25 years, and this week lands at No. 2.

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  • From RWC@21:1/5 to DianeE on Tue Dec 5 08:46:26 2023
    On Mon, 4 Dec 2023 22:56:57 -0500, DianeE <[email protected]> wrote:

    The Charts
    65 Years Later, Brenda Lee�s �Christmas Tree� Hits No. 1

    �Rockin� Around the Christmas Tree� beat out Mariah Carey�s �All I Want
    for Christmas Is You� as the first holiday song to top Billboard�s Hot
    100 chart this season.

    Mariah Carey�s �All I Want for Christmas Is You� https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aAkMkVFwAoo

    from her fourth studio album and first holiday album, "Merry
    Christmas" in Oct 1994

    "an uptempo song, composed with pop, soul, R&B, gospel, dance-pop and
    adult contemporary influences and stylings"

    "lyrically, the song describes the singer not caring about the usual
    material aspect of the holiday season such as ornamental lights,
    trees, snow and presents, as long as the singer is with their lover
    for Christmas"

    in 2023, the song was selected by the Library of Congress for
    inclusion in the National Recording Registry

    How much money has Mariah Carey made from "All I Want for Christmas Is
    You"?
    "A report from the New York Post estimated that she makes around $3
    million every year from the song. In 2017 it was estimated that Carey
    had earned more than $60 million in royalties from 'All I Want For
    Christmas is You'. She also enjoys a number of sponsorship ties thanks
    to the song."

    "While 'All I Want For Christmas is You' may be the most well-known
    Christmas song today, it is not the highest selling festive tune of
    all time. That honour goes to Bing Crosby�s "White Christmas", which
    has sold an estimated 50 million copies."

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