Legendary Singer Brenda Lee Achieves Historic Feat, Becoming Oldest Performer Ever to Top Billboard Hot 100 Chart with “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree

Legendary singer Brenda Lee has achieved a remarkable feat this holiday season, becoming the oldest performer in history to top the Billboard Hot 100 chart with her classic holiday tune “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree.”

The song, which was first released in 1958, has been a staple of holiday playlists for decades, but it has only now reached the No. 1 spot on the chart. This is thanks in part to the release of a new music video for the song last month, which Lee has said she knew was special when she first heard it as a child.

The song was streamed nearly 35 million times between the Friday after Thanksgiving and Thursday, according to Billboard, and it outperformed familiar chart-topper Mariah Carey’s “All I Want for Christmas Is You,” which came in at No. 2.

At 78, Lee becomes the oldest performer in history to top the Hot 100, and she celebrated the news on Twitter, writing “We did it, Brendanators!”

The achievement is a testament to the timelessness of Lee’s music, and it is a reminder that the holiday season is a time for celebrating the classics. As Lee told CMT, a division of Paramount, the parent company of CBS News, “I wanted to do it, and we did.”