65 years after it was released, Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree has topped the Billboard Hot 100 for the first time. NPR's Scott Detrow talks about it with singer Brenda Lee. In case you don't ...

Brenda Lee’s holiday classic “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” finally reached the summit of the Billboard Hot 100 chart this week, smashing plenty of records for the 78-year-old singer’s 1958 ...

3:59 p.m. Dec. 11, 2023: An earlier version of this article said that “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” spent nine weeks charting at No. 2 last year. The song held the position for nine weeks ...

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" was released in 1958. Brenda Lee got a surprise from Mariah Carey after her 1958 song "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 ...

Brenda Lee has taken the top spot on the Billboard chart two weeks in a row with her 1958 hit "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." (Jason Kempin/Getty Images for the Country Music Hall of Fame and ...

Lee recorded the song in 1958 when she was 13 — it topped Billboard's Hot 100 for the first time thanks to a new video starring Lee that was produced to coincide with the song's 65th anniversary. Good ...

Brenda Lee has rocked around Christmas trees for 64 years. However, that scratches the surface of why the famously under 5-foot-tall, 78-year-old legend is a Country Music and Rock 'n' Roll Hall of ...

Brenda Lee, an Atlanta native and Grady baby, generated nearly 30 hits in the 1960s, but her defining song has been a breezy 1958 ditty "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree." The song endures on the ...

Sixty-three years after Brenda Lee released "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," the song is still lighting up the holidays. Laura Roberts/Invision/AP Forget Adele and Mariah Carey. There’s another ...

In case you don't recognize that famous high note, it's Mariah Carey in a social media video she dropped on November 1 this year. In the video, she breaks out of a frozen vault wearing a skintight, ...

Brenda Lee’s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” just topped the charts 65 years after its initial release. Debuting in 1958, with a 13-year-old Lee belting the holiday classic, the song has finally ...