Idina Menzel & Michael Buble's 'Baby It's Cold Outside' Hits #1 on Billboard Adult Contemporary Chart

By: Dec. 09, 2014
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Billboard reports that Idina Menzel and Michael Buble's duet of the classic holiday tune, "Baby It's Cold Outside," has reached the Number 1 spot on Billboard's Adult Contemporary chart.

The song appears on Menzel's holiday album "Holiday Wishes", which recently became her first Billboard 200 top 10, reaching No. 10 two weeks ago. The set has sold 161,000 copies in its first seven weeks, according to Nielsen Music. Holiday Wishes is in stores now! http://smarturl.it/IdinaHWishes

The duet marks the first Adult Contemporary number one for the 'Let It Go' singer and Buble's fifth. "Cold" is also the 16th holiday-themed title to top the chart.

Watch the video for the holiday song below:

Tony Award-winning icon Idina Menzel has a diverse career that traverses stage, film, television and music. Menzel's voice can be heard as Elsa in Disney's global box office smash Frozen, in which she sings the film's Oscar-winning song "Let It Go." After Menzel's performance of the multi-platinum song at the 86th annual Academy Awards, she made history as the first person with both a Billboard Top 10 hit and a Tony Award for acting. Menzel earned her first Tony nomination as Maureen in the Pulitzer Prize winner Rent, and won the award for her performance as Elphaba in Wicked.

Other notable roles include Rachel Berry's mother, Shelby Corcoran, on the hit television show GLEE as well starring opposite Susan Sarandon and Amy Adams in Disney's Enchanted. Menzel starred in her own PBS special,Barefoot at the Symphony, with an accompanying live album of the same name, and her highly successful international concert tour recently included a sold-out performance at Radio City Music Hall. In addition to cast albums, Menzel's prolific recording career includes the solo albums I Stand, Here and Still I Can't Be Still. Her first-ever Christmas album Holiday Wishes, released October 2014 on Warner Bros. Records, debuted at #1 on Billboard'sHoliday Albums chart and is already receiving rave reviews. Menzel can currently be seen on Broadway as Elizabethin the original production If/Then, for which she earned critical acclaim and her third Tony nomination, and performed "Always Starting Over" from the musical at this year's Tony Awards.


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