Underneath The Tree went #1 on AC radio today and it only took 22 days! It's the first Christmas song to top radio airplay this season. She also has a total of three in the top 20.
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Following Thanksgiving and still more than three weeks before Christmas Day, the holiday season in full effect at AC radio, as Kelly Clarkson's "Underneath the Tree" reaches the Adult Contemporary chart apex (16-1 with Greatest Gainer honors). The song appears on Clarkson's first holiday album, "Wrapped in Red," which opened at No. 3 on the Billboard 200 last month. The set has sold 199,000 copies, according to Nielsen SoundScan, and has spent its first four weeks in the Billboard 200 chart's top 10.
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1 +1 KELLY CLARKSON Underneath The Tree 912 +81 443 +55 6.384 +0.115 22
2 -1 KATY PERRY Roar 811 -79 -615 -18 5.482 -0.526 110
Other Christmas songs charting on radio right now
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10 +5 MARY J. BLIGE This Christmas 474 +54 244 +51 4.994 +0.511
17 +4 KELLY CLARKSON Please Come Home 363 +41 173 +44 2.387 +0.228
19 = KELLY CLARKSON Blue Christmas 334 +3 92 -21 2.103 -0.025
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"Tree" is Clarkson's third AC leader. The original "American Idol" queen reigned for 21 weeks in 2005 with "Breakaway" and for eight frames last year with "Stronger (What Doesn't Kill You)."
As "Tree" climbs to the AC apex, the song becomes the 15th yuletide title to top the tally. All have led since 2001, as around that time the number of new holiday releases increased as the majority of AC stations began making ratings-seeking switches to playing seasonal songs 24/7 for the first time in the format's history.