In 2023, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" became only the third holiday song ever to top the Billboard Hot 100, joining Mariah Carey's "All I Want for Christmas Is You" and "The Chipmunk Song" by The Chipmunks with David Seville. It also set the record for the longest gap between a track's release and its first trip to No. 1.
The milestone added yet another achievement to Lee's already impressive career. She became the oldest woman to ever hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100, unseating Cher for the title. Ironically, Lee recorded the song when she was only 13, decades before it would earn her that distinction.
View this post on InstagramShe would go on to score dozens of hits, including "I'm Sorry," "I Want to Be Wanted," "All Alone Am I," and "Losing You." Throughout the 1960s, Lee charted 46 times on the Billboard Hot 100, more than any other female artist of the decade.
The track was written by Johnny Marks, who also penned holiday classics like "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and "A Holly Jolly Christmas." It appeared on Lee's 1958 album Merry Christmas From Brenda Lee.
“Owen just thought it’d be great to do a Christmas song that was really, really good,” she said during an appearance on Q with Tom Power. “He really believed in that one, and I loved it. I had to like what I recorded. I wasn’t one of those artists that the producer would say, ‘Well, I think this is good for you. We’re going to do this.’ I had to like it, or I couldn’t sing it.”
“I got a phone call, and they said, ‘Brenda, have you seen the movie Home Alone?’ And I said, ‘I have not,’” Lee recalled. “And they said, ‘Well, you need to go see it. Your song is all over it.’ And that’s really where Rockin’ got a big, big boost.
Momentum picked up again in 2023, when Lee released the song's first official music video, featuring country stars Trisha Yearwood and Tanya Tucker. That, along with the usual holiday streaming rush, gave "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" just the push it needed to finally hit No. 1.
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