We Are the World 25 for Haiti

In America do they know it's Christmas took a back seat to We Are the World on the charts 32 years ago but in the present day the two songs have reversed positions. Band-Aid is now the perennial radio gold. Last year terrestrial US radio played world nearly 400 times nationwide but do they knows it's Christmas? It was played a staggering 19,900 times in 2016 alone and those nearly 20,000 plays are all concentrated into the last two months of the year. In 2017 the closest thing to a multi-artist mega single on the radio is led not by Quincy Jones but by rap producer DJ Khaled whose summer smash I'm the One credits no less than five artists.