Marks wrote a number of other holiday favorites including “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,” “A Holly Jolly Christmas,” “Silver and Gold” and “I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day.” Nicholas Music, would get the publishing revenue.

“Rockin’ Around the Christmas Tree” was solely written by the late Johnny Marks, whose publishing company, St. (Luminate doesn’t compile global song consumption units). The song’s 967,000 song consumption units to date in 2023 is far ahead of last year’s 807,000 song consumption units (and 195 million streams) at the same point.

In the United States last year, “Rockin’ Around The Christmas Tree” generated nearly 1.75 million song consumption units (track downloads and on-demand streaming), while it has so far accumulated 967,000 song consumption units (and, within that, 301 million on-demand streams) in 2023.īut there’s still plenty of holiday season left - and when you compare the 49-week period that has elapsed so far this year with the same period in 2022, it’s clear that “Rockin'” is on track to surpass last year’s total. So far this year, Billboard estimates the master recording has garnered $1.6 million in revenue and about $700,000 in publishing revenue, or $2.3 million total, on the strength of 301 million on-demand global streams and 16,000 track downloads. The Endless Green of ‘White Christmas’ & Other Holiday Hits

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