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There’s a New #1 Song in the Country, and It’s by the Oldest Artist Ever to Top the Charts · Direct From Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest

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Speaker 1: Direct from Hollywood with Ryan Seacrest.
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Speaker 2: Brenda Lee gave the world a holiday gift we get
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Speaker 2: to enjoy every holiday season with her perennial nineteen fifty
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Speaker 2: eight favorite, Rocking Around the Christmas Tree, and Brenda just
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Speaker 2: got a gift in return, a return to number one
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Speaker 2: an ownership of multiple records in doing so. Rocking around
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Speaker 2: the Christmas Tree, which Brenda recorded at just thirteen years old,
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Speaker 2: top the latest Billboard one hundred for the first time,
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Speaker 2: making it the third number one of her career. It
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Speaker 2: obliterates the previous record for the longest run to number
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Speaker 2: one for any song sixty five years, beating Mariah Carries
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Speaker 2: mark of twenty five years with All I Want for
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Speaker 2: Christmas Is You. She also beats muraih for the longest
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Speaker 2: span of time with number ones and also can brag
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Speaker 2: about the longest break between number ones sixty three years
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Speaker 2: since I Want to Be Wanted was number one. Perhaps
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Speaker 2: most impressively, it's seventy eight years young. Brenda Lee is
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Speaker 2: now the longest living singer to ever have a Hot
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Speaker 2: one hundred number one, besting Louis Armstrong by a massive
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Speaker 2: sixteen years. Rocking Around the Christmas Tree is everywhere.
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Speaker 1: Now that's direct from Hollywood,