How Mariah Carey reacted to Brenda Lee rocking her No. 1 holiday slot

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Have a Merry Christmas. Love, Mariah.” “Thank you for your sweet note, @mariahcarey! Wishing you the merriest Christmas, too!” Lee captioned the snapshot.The beloved 1958 tune finally came out earlier this week, almost exactly 63 years after it hit the Hot 100, at No.

64, on Dec. 12, 1960.For the past four years, the single has been No. 2 behind Carey’s 1994 smash “All I Want for Christmas Is You.” “All I Want for Christmas Is You” gave the holiday queen her 19th No.

1 single on Dec. 21, 2019.That year, the song spent three weeks at the top spot, and returned to its throne every year — until now.On Dec.

5, Lee joyfully celebrated the achievement, sharing on social media: “#RockinAroundtheChristmasTree is officially #1 on the @Billboard #HOT100 charts!” “Thank you so much for listening and rockin’ this holiday season! #65YearsLater #Hot100Charts #ARockinChristmas,” she gushed.Lee, who initially recorded the song when she was just 13, released an official music video for the song last month. “It has just been a gift to me, written by a wonderful man named Johnny Marks, who was Jewish and didn’t even believe in Christmas,” the Nashville native told The Post in 2021.She continued: “He said he wrote it on the beach in New York [while watching] the pine trees swaying in the summer.”Marks died in 1985.