Taylor Swift’s ‘Safe and Sound’ Christmas Number 1 on iTunes
Taylor Swift is top of the Christmas singles charts this year – on iTunes, at least. The 22-year-old country music star’s latest single ‘Safe & Sound’ is a collaboration with The Civil Wars, and features on the soundtrack for forthcoming movie The Hunger Games. And now, it’s also a Christmas number one.
Swift tweeted the news and composed a quick thank-you note to her fans. She said:
“I’m also counting this as another beautiful Christmas gift.. Thank you for making ‘Safe & Sound’ the #1 song.”
The country beauty and The Civil Wars edged LMFAO’s abysmal ‘Sexy and I Know It’ into second place, while Rihanna’s ‘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? That’s crazy! What a lovely Christmas present!!”
