{"id":66331,"date":"2020-11-23T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/?p=66331"},"modified":"2020-11-23T11:30:55","modified_gmt":"2020-11-23T11:30:55","slug":"for-king-countrys-little-drummer-boy-is-the-2020-christmas-anthem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2020\/11\/for-king-countrys-little-drummer-boy-is-the-2020-christmas-anthem\/","title":{"rendered":"for KING &amp; COUNTRY&#8217;s &#8216;Little Drummer Boy&#8217; is the 2020 Christmas anthem"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4 style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>You may think you\u2019ve heard this Christmas favourite before, but you\u2019ve not heard it like this.\u00a0<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As re-imagined by country superstars for KING &amp; COUNTRY (over one and a half billion global streams and an airplay audience of more than five billion can\u2019t be wrong!), Little Drummer Boy takes on a dramatic, epic quality all its own.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">For a start, it\u2019s the first version of Drummer Boy with such impressive actual drumming but that is contrasted with a quietness and a sensitivity that makes the whole thing nothing short of explosive.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">With a huge fanbase already in place \u2013 nearly 500 million streams on Spotify and over 350 million YouTube views \u2013 this future Christmas classic is set to take the Grammy- and Billboard Award-winning duo to a whole new army of fans.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Veering between rock-solid vocals and harmonies to a huge emotional Greatest Showman-style climax that will send real shivers down your spine, this Little Drummer Boy is electric but doesn\u2019t skimp on a proper Christmas atmosphere provided by tinkling percussion and strings that conjure an image of snow falling.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Taken from the highly anticipated A Drummer Boy Christmas seasonal album, the track has already garnered nearly a million shares on social media and over 40 million streams. It\u2019s also set to be performed on what has become a festive favourite for country fans, the CMA Country Christmas show.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">So if you don\u2019t know For KING &amp; COUNTRY by now, this is your moment. Because, let\u2019s face it, anyone personally chosen by the undisputed Queen of Country, Dolly Parton, to join her in song is worthy of our full attention.<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"jetpack-video-wrapper\"><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/NzEX3QMuVPM?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-GB&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">YouTube <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/c\/ForKingAndCountry\/featured\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">forKINGANDCOUNTRY<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Facebook <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/forkingandcountry\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@forkingandcountry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Instagram <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/forkingandcountry\/?hl=en\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@forkingandcountry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Twitter <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/4kingandcountry\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">@4kingandcountry<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You may think you\u2019ve heard this Christmas favourite before, but you\u2019ve not heard it like this.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>As re-imagined by country superstars for KING &#038; COUNTRY (over one and a half billion global streams and an airplay audience of more than five billion can\u2019t be wrong!), Little Drummer Boy takes on a dramatic, epic quality all its own.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":48,"featured_media":66332,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7,9,21445,21446,21449,640],"tags":[470,26449,26450,77,370,1945,18471,116,10677,81],"class_list":["post-66331","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","category-new-releases","category-reviews","category-single-reviews","category-video-reviews","category-videos","tag-christmas","tag-for-king-and-country","tag-little-drummer-boy","tag-new-release","tag-new-single","tag-new-video","tag-polly-havelock","tag-review","tag-single-review","tag-video"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5yMhl-hfR","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":79410,"url":"https:\/\/essentiallypop.com\/epop\/2022\/12\/the-essential-advent-calendar-december-20-new-vinyl-for-king-country-a-drummer-boy-christmas\/","url_meta":{"origin":66331,"position":0},"title":"The Essential Advent Calendar: December 20 &#8211; NEW VINYL: for KING + COUNTRY &#8216;A Drummer Boy Christmas&#8217;","author":"Polly Havelock","date":"20\/12\/2022","format":false,"excerpt":"Your latest advent calendar unboxing is the festive release of \u2018A Drummer Boy Christmas\u2019, by the four-time GRAMMY award-winning Australian duo for KING + COUNTRY. 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