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Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree
"Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," written by Johnny Marks and recorded by 13-year-old Brenda Lee in 1958, became one of the first Christmas songs to successfully incorporate rock and roll's emerging rhythm and energy into the traditionally more sedate genre of holiday music. Marks, who had already written "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" and would go on to become one of the most prolific Christmas songwriters of the 20th century, built his publishing career substantially around holiday material, an unusually specialized commercial niche within the broader music industry. The song's initial commercial performance upon release was relatively modest, and its status as a genuine holiday standard grew gradually over subsequent decades of radio replay, eventually becoming one of the most streamed Christmas songs of the digital era despite its more than 60-year-old original recording. Its combination of its pioneering rock-and-roll-infused sound and its eventual long-delayed rise to genuine standard status has made "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree" one of the most distinctive and enduring Christmas songs of the mid-20th century.
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Skittles
Skittles, first introduced in the United Kingdom in 1974 and brought to the American market in 1979, built its Halloween popularity around its distinctive fruit-flavored, non-chocolate format, offering trick-or-treaters an alternative to the chocolate bars dominating most other major Halloween candy rankings. Its "Taste the Rainbow" advertising campaign, launched in the 1990s, became one of the most recognizable slogans in candy marketing, and the brand's colorful, individually distinct fruit flavors gave it a visually distinctive identity within trick-or-treat candy bowls dominated by brown chocolate wrappers. The candy's status as a leading non-chocolate option made it a particularly popular choice among households seeking Halloween variety, or catering to trick-or-treaters with chocolate allergies or preferences, broadening its practical appeal beyond pure taste preference alone. Its combination of its distinctive fruit-flavored non-chocolate positioning and its status as one of the top-selling non-chocolate Halloween candies has made Skittles one of the most consistently popular fruit candy options associated with the holiday.
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