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Dean Martin’s ‘Christmas’ Carol Hits Adult Contemporary Chart — 72 Years After It Was Recorded
Dean Martin's "It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas" finally reaches the Adult Contemporary chart — 72 years after the song was released.
Perhaps making the wait for a parking spot at the mall during the holidays not seem so long by comparison, Dean Martin ’s “It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas ” enters Billboard ’s Adult Contemporary survey — nearly 72 years after the legendary entertainer recorded it. Martin, who died on Christmas Day in 1995 at age 78, extends his span of hits on the Adult Contemporary chart (which began in the July 17, 1961, Billboard issue) to 60 years, four months and three weeks, dating to his iconic “Everybody Loves Somebody” in 1964. Only Nat King Cole narrowly boasts a longer span of Adult Contemporary entries: 60 years, five months and two weeks, from 1961 through 2022, when a new version of the revered late singer’s signature holiday hit “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire),” with John Legend, reached No.
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