Slate Magazine
9 months agoMusic
A 78-Year-Old Has America's No. 1 Song. Here's How She Pulled It Off.
Brenda Lee's 1958 recording 'Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree' has reached No. 1 on the Hot 100 chart, 65 years after its release.
The song sets new records as the slowest-climbing chart-topper ever and makes Brenda Lee the oldest living person to score a No. 1 song in America. [ more ]