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Don’t Any 21st Century Christmas Records Get Any Love? Yes: ASCAP Has Kelly Clarkson Topping Its ‘New Classics’ List
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variety.comChris Willman Senior Music Writer and Chief Music Critic There’s a secret to having a Christmas record that is successful in the 21st century: Put it out before 1970.
That’s clear from just looking at the top 10 songs each December, and knowing that Brenda Lee‘s “Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” hit No.
1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for the first two weeks of this month. The song that supplanted it on the most recent chart, Mariah Carey‘s “All I Want for Christmas,” is considered the relative newbie of holiday classics, but even it has its feet firmly planted in a previous millennium.
But ASCAP has been doing its part to promote the idea that more contemporary records are able to find at least some traction during the season.
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