as streaming has grown and holiday music has become more prominent on streaming services’ playlists. (Further, for much of the Hot 100’s history, holiday songs were not eligible to make the ...
1 on the current edition of the R&B/Hip-Hop Digital Song Sales chart ... including both those focused solely on holiday music and others, which speaks to the tune’s popularity.
Day, observed in the US for the first time in January 1986 and ever since. The idea for a national holiday to mark the January 15th birthday of the great civil rights campaigner was building in ...
the holiday wasn’t signed into law until 1983, and wasn’t officially observed for the first time until 1986. In 1980, Wonder, already a veteran creator of social justice-minded music ...