Move over Mariah Carey, there’s a new Christmas queen in town.
Brenda Lee has topped the Billboard Hot 100 songs chart with her holiday classic Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree, 65 years after the song’s release, rewriting multiple records in the process.
The song has reached nearly 35 million streams and 21 million radio plays this year, according to Luminate data.
Lee recorded the 1958 classic when she was just 13 years old. It was written by Johnny Marks, a Jewish American singer responsible for other classics you’ve probably heard like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and A Holly Jolly Christmas. It was prominently played in the 1990
