Drummer Boy (Justin Bieber song)
2011 song by Justin Bieber featuring Busta Rhymes / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
"Drummer Boy" is a cover of Katherine Davis, Henry Onorati and Harry Simeone's Christmas song "The Little Drummer Boy" by Canadian singer Justin Bieber, featuring American rapper Busta Rhymes, from his second studio album and first Christmas release, Under the Mistletoe (2011). Leaked days before the album's November 1, 2011, date on October 28, "Drummer Boy" is an uptempo hip-hop techno club track where Bieber sings the original song's lyrics and melody while rapping about himself, poverty and charity. Contemporaneously, the track was met with polarization and confusion from professional critics, who perceived it as bizarre and silly and bastardizing the meaning of the original song.
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Song by Justin Bieber featuring Busta Rhymes | |
from the album Under the Mistletoe | |
Released | October 28, 2011 |
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Length | 3:45 |
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"Drummer Boy" on YouTube | |
In later years, the song has been more well-received, with appreciation toward its weirdness, the unlikeliness of a collaboration between Bieber and , and ' verse. It has made several best-of lists of Christmas songs by publications such as Billboard, as well as worst-of lists by The Guardian and Time Out London. Upon release, the track reached number 89 in Bieber's home country on Billboard's Canadian Hot 100, 86 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, and was a top-ten hit on the Holiday 100 in the chart's first year. In 2020, "Drummer Boy" was certified gold by the Recording Industry Association of America for sales exceeding 500,000.