Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” tops Billboard Sizzling 100 chart for first time since 1958 launch

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Across the Christmas Tree” has topped the Billboard Sizzling 100 chart for the primary time because it was launched in 1958. The vacation traditional outperformed acquainted chart-topper Mariah Carey’s “All I Need for Christmas Is You,” which got here in at No. 2.

“Rockin'” was streamed practically 35 million occasions between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Thursday, based on Billboard. The information follows final month’s launch of a music video for the track, which Lee has mentioned she knew was particular when she first heard it as a baby.

“I wished to do it, and we did,” she advised CMT, a division of Paramount, the dad or mum firm of CBS Information. “It simply got here out yearly and have become what it was. The folks have been nice. They went out, they purchased it, they embraced it. Radio embraced it, and ‘Dwelling Alone,’ after all, did not damage it in any respect. And it is simply been a magical time in my life.”

The track’s ascent to the No. 1 spot breaks lots of data.

It is now the one with the longest run from its launch to the No. 1 spot — 65 years. It debuted on the Sizzling 100 in 1960, then took slightly below 63 years to hit the highest, setting a file for the longest climb ever to No. 1.

It is also the longest break for an artist between No. 1 hits: 63 years, one month and two weeks between “I Need To Be Wished” and “Rockin’.”

Lee additionally has the longest span from her first No. 1 to her final: 63 years, 4 months and three weeks since “I am Sorry” topped the chart in 1960.

Lee, at age 78, is the oldest artist to high the chart. The prior file was 62-year-old Louis Armstrong with “Good day, Dolly!” in 1964.

Lee mentioned in an announcement she was a younger teenager when “Rockin'” got here out, and realizing that it resonates with a number of generations is without doubt one of the finest presents she’s ever obtained.