Mike Rowe recalls topping Adele on iTunes chart with ‘Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job’: ‘It’s so weird’

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Someone managed to top Adele during the holidays, and it wasn’t Mariah Carey. In December, Mike Rowe announced on Instagram that his holiday track, "Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job," had reached No.

1 on iTunes, beating out the British singer's "Easy On Me," which came in second. The Emmy-winning TV host and country music star John Rich teamed up with the Oak Ridge Boys to release a Christmas song highlighting Santa’s "dirty job," which also gave back to the community. "It’s so weird," the 59-year-old Rowe told Fox News about his unexpected musical achievement. "I was on John’s show ‘The Pursuit!’ He was interviewing me, and we were talking about music.

I sang something, and he said, ‘Man, you can really carry a tune.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I can carry a tune.’ He said, ‘We ought to do an album.’ I’m like, really?

But he said, ‘Yeah, that’d be great. We could do a ‘Dirty Jobs’ album. You know, Santa's gotta dirty job.' So we literally wrote the song in 10 minutes." In December, Mike Rowe announced that his new holiday track, ‘Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job,’ reached number No.