Brenda Lee Makes History Topping Hot 100 With 65-Year-Old Hit, ‘Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree’

As Wham! finally returns to top the charts with festive smash hit Last Christmas, Kathy Hill, the star of the band's iconic music video for the track, looks unrecognisable nearly 40 years after the hit. The 67 year old once played George Michael's love interest in the festive video, sporting dark brunette curls and a yellow cardigan, but now, she's swapped her dark locks for stunning blonde curls and is looking better than ever. Kathy has been showing off her incredible physique on Instagram, posting snaps of herself in bikinis and stylish outfits as she keeps up her fans updated with her day to day life.

Most people's favourite Christmas songs are usually a list of seasonal classics such as All I Want for Christmas Is You, Last Christmas or Santa Baby.

a source of psychic strain and emotional damage. Still, crippling carols and all, Christmas music is an enduring piece of our national landscape. In the words of Post columnist Rich Lowry: “American tastes have drastically changed over the decades, yet our Christmas songbook has remained largely the same.

Last Christmas by Wham! has made pop history, topping the Christmas chart for the first time since it was released almost four decades ago.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s a secret to having a Christmas record that is successful in the 21st century: Put it out before 1970. That’s clear from just looking at the top 10 songs each December, and knowing that Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first two weeks of this month.

Wham! have earned the Christmas Number One with their iconic holiday hit ‘Last Christmas’ after attempting to land the spot for 39 years.The track was penned and produced by the late George Michael with the aim of landing the Christmas Number One in 1984. However, ‘Last Christmas’ was kept off the top spot upon release by Band-Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas?’, a track that would go on to become the second best-selling single of all time.Today, almost four decades later, ‘Last Christmas’ has earned the festive top spot.

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Mariah Carey and Bryan Tanaka have broken up, but it is now confirmed. The singer and dancer have been together since 2016, but when he was absent from her Merry Christmas One and All! tour that started in November, fans knew something was up.Page Six confirmed the news Wednesday, with a source saying their 14-year age gap played a role.

Todd Gilchrist editor Great Christmas songs, and great versions of great Christmas songs, are as plentiful as letters to Santa Claus. It’s the holiday for which various-artists compilations were seemingly created (and why the two-disc set “Now That’s What I Call Christmas” was certified 6x platinum just three years after its 2001 release).

Steven J. Horowitz Senior Music Writer For Sean Momberger, the journey to bring Jack Harlow’s latest smash “Lovin on Me” to life began on YouTube. It was this past June that the producer, who has spent the last decade stacking up credits on songs by Doja Cat, Nicki Minaj and Lil Baby, logged onto the video streaming platform to scour for samples.

Wham! taking the lead for the peak position on the charts.The news follows a neck-and-neck race between the iconic ‘80s pop duo Wham! And Eurovision star Sam Ryder over the past week, with their respective songs ‘Last Christmas’ [1986] and ‘You’re Christmas To Me’ [2023].At the first look at the race last week, just 42 chart units stood between the two taking the top spot on the UK charts, however, this week it has been revealed by the Official Charts that Wham! are in pole position, and have widened the gap between Ryder’s Amazon Music original track – which remains at Number Two.However, it doesn’t seem likely that the charts will stay this way until Christmas, with Ryder set to play a fan-exclusive gig tonight (December 19) in Shoreditch, London, in a push to promote the song in time for Christmas Day.Similarly, today (December 19) The Pogues are sharing a special, limited-edition physical run of their own iconic Christmas song ‘Fairytale Of New York’ in a push to climb the charts.Originally released in 1988 and featuring Kirsty MacColl, the track is being reissued in memory of the band’s late singer Shane MacGowan, who died “peacefully” in hospital from pneumonia on November 30. He was 65 years old and his funeral took place in Nenagh, County Tipperary on December 8.All proceeds from the reissue will be donated to the Irish charity Dublin Simon Community, and the release also arrived alongside a fan campaign to get Fairytale of New York to Christmas Number 1 for the first time.The push for the top position on the charts has also been endorsed by Shane MacGowan’s widow, Victoria Mary Clarke.

Sam Ryder has admitted that he would “love” for The Pogues’ ‘Fairytale of New York’ to beat him to this year’s Christmas Number One spot.The Eurovision star is one of the competitors in this year’s race, with his single ‘You’re Christmas to Me’, taken from the film Your Christmas or Mine 2.However, since the news broke of the death of Shane MacGowan, fans of his festive classic are rallying to get that track to the Christmas Number One. It has never gone above second place in the UK charts, peaking there on its initial release in 1987.

Have a Merry Christmas. Love, Mariah.” “Thank you for your sweet note, @mariahcarey! Wishing you the merriest Christmas, too!” Lee captioned the snapshot.The beloved 1958 tune finally came out earlier this week, almost exactly 63 years after it hit the Hot 100, at No. 64, on Dec.

American indie singer Noah Kahan has announced a huge gig in Manchester next year, which will take place at the city’s newest venue Co-Op Live.

It’s been a tough year for Mariah Carey — possibly because she ended her relationship with her longtime on-and-off boyfriend Bryan Tanaka!

Several singers and songwriters have tried to claim the title of “Queen of Christmas” over the years. Depending on your age, you probably have a favorite, ranging from Darlene Love to Dolly Parton.

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” — Brenda Lee’s 1958 evergreen — finally made it to No. 1 after 65 years this week. Another little yuletide ditty that you might have heard of — Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You” — is right behind her at No.

Chris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic It’s hard to quite think of someone who was as big a veritable child star as Brenda Lee was in the late ’50s and early ’60s a “late bloomer.” Nor can “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” really be considered an underdog song, after its accrual of quintuple-platinum sales over the decades. And yet it’s spent the last several years peaking at No. 2 each December, after spending most of its lifetime not annually charting at all.

Billboard Hot 100 chart that was released on Monday.That’s almost exactly 63 years after the tinsel tune first hit the Hot 100, at No. 64, on Dec. 12, 1960.Lee’s third career chart-topper — and first since 1960’s “I Want to Be Wanted” — previously peaked at No.

Brenda Lee is making history!