Tangent. If “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” finally tops the Hot 100, Lee will break several Billboard chart records, some of which are held by Carey and “All I Want for Christmas Is ...

"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree"— sung by Brenda Lee, and first released 65 years ago, during the Eisenhower administration — has gone to No. 1 on the singles chart, for the first time ever.

Concurrent with usual gains sustained by holiday music each November, "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" rules the chart via 80.4 million official on-demand U.S. streams and 4,000 downloads in ...

Sixty-plus years after hitting No. 1 with her last chart-topper "I'm Sorry" in 1960, 78-year-old Brenda Lee has again topped Billboard's Hot 100 chart via her 1958-released holiday classic "Rockin ...