{"id":4004,"date":"2023-12-04T20:34:27","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4004"},"modified":"2023-12-04T20:34:27","modified_gmt":"2023-12-04T20:34:27","slug":"new-old-fashioned-no-1-brenda-lees-rockin-around-the-christmas-tree-tops-hot-100-65-years-after-its-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/?p=4004","title":{"rendered":"New Old-Fashioned No. 1: Brenda Lee\u2019s \u2018Rockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree\u2019 Tops Hot 100, 65 Years After it&#8217;s\u00a0Release"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<script>\r\nif( document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ) ) document.getElementById( \"builder-styles-css\" ).insertAdjacentHTML( \"beforebegin\", \"<link rel='stylesheet' href='https:\/\/musicnow.iprorecords.com\/wp-content\/themes\/themify-music\/themify\/themify-builder\/css\/themify-builder-style.css' type='text\/css' \/>\" );\r\n<\/script>\r\n\t\t\t\n<p>Lee leads for the first time since 1960, with only the third holiday No. 1 in the chart&#8217;s history.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/brenda-lee\/\">Brenda Lee<\/a>&nbsp;dances merrily to No. 1 on the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/charts\/hot-100\">Billboard Hot 100<\/a>&nbsp;songs chart with her holiday classic \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree.\u201d The song rewrites multiple records as it tops the chart for the first time \u2013 65 years after its release. Lee, meanwhile, adds her third No. 1 \u2013 and her first since 1960.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Plus, four other carols return to the Hot 100\u2019s top 10:&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/bobby-helms\/\">Bobby Helms<\/a>\u2019 \u201cJingle Bell Rock,\u201d up from No. 12 to No. 4;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/wham-3\/\">Wham!<\/a>\u2019s \u201cLast Christmas\u201d (13-5);&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/burl-ives\/\">Burl Ives<\/a>\u2019 \u201cA Holly Jolly Christmas\u201d (16-6); and&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/andy-williams\/\">Andy Williams<\/a>\u2019 \u201cIt\u2019s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year\u201d (28-10).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Lee\u2019s \u201cRockin\u2019 Around the Christmas Tree,\u201d on Decca\/MCA Nashville\/UMe, becomes the 1,161st No. 1 in the Hot 100\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/pro\/hot-100-co-creator-seymour-stein-interview\/\">65-year archives<\/a>. Below, let\u2019s unwrap the coronation of the song, whose history dates back just as long.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/TFsZy9t-qDc?si=WYXHz3KyWUWFjfYs\" title=\"YouTube video player\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p>The Hot 100 blends all-genre U.S. streaming (official audio and official video), radio airplay and sales data, the lattermost metric reflecting purchases of physical singles and digital tracks from full-service digital music retailers; digital singles sales from direct-to-consumer (D2C) sites are excluded from chart calculations. All charts (dated Dec. 9, 2023) will update on\u00a0Billboard.com\u00a0tomorrow (Dec. 5). For all chart news, you can follow @billboard and @billboardcharts on both X, formerly known as Twitter, and Instagram.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source: billboard.com<\/p>\n<div id=\"themify_builder_content-4004\" data-postid=\"4004\" class=\"themify_builder_content themify_builder_content-4004 themify_builder themify_builder_front\">\r\n\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<!-- \/themify_builder_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lee leads for the first time since 1960, with only the third holiday No. 1 in the chart&#8217;s history. 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