Taylor Swifts Safe and Sound Christmas Number 1 on iTunes
Category: Music Author : Chris Greenhough Posted: December 26, 2011
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Taylor Swift is top of the Christmas singles charts this year on iTunes, at least. The 22-year-old country music stars latest single Safe & Sound is a collaboration with The Civil Wars, and features on the soundtrack for forthcoming movie The Hunger Games. And now, its also a Christmas number one.
Swift tweeted the news and composed a quick thank-you note to her fans. She said:
Im also counting this as another beautiful Christmas gift.. Thank you for making Safe & Sound the #1 song.
Th! e countr y beauty and The Civil Wars edged LMFAOs abysmal Sexy and I Know It into second place, while Rihannas We Found Love (which actually has a pretty good video, I thought) took bronze. Safe and Sound is part of a soundtrack album that also boasts tracks by the usually excellent Arcade Fire and The Decemberists.
The Hunger Games hits U.S. theaters on March 23, 2012. It follows a girl called Katniss Everdeen (played by Jennifer Lawrence) as she replaces her little sister in a fight-to-the-death annual event called the Hunger Games. Based on a trilogy of books by Suzanne Collins, two further films are expected.
Oh, and Swift had another reason to celebrate over the weekend: she passed 10 million followers on Twitter. Playing it cool (when we all know she was hitting F5 the whole of Christmas Eve), she tweeted:
Wait wait wait. I just noticed my page has 10 million followers now? Thats crazy! What a lovely Christmas present!!