“Baby It’s Cold Outside” may be getting the cold shoulder from some listeners, but the uptick in song sales and streaming show many people are still enjoying the holiday classic. Sales and streaming of several versions of the Christmas song saw an increase in recent days amid controversy over its lyrics, Billboard reported. Scrapping the song from the radio sparked a nationwide debate, but also an increase in sales. Billboard reported that three versions of “Baby It’s Cold Outside” — Dean Martin’s 1959, Idina Menzel and Michael Buble’s 2014, and Lion Redbone and Zooey Deschanel’s 2003 covers — made large gains on its Holiday Digital Song Sales chart. As for streaming, Martin’s 1959 version is up 54 percent to 8.2 million streams in the U.S. as of the week ending on Dec. 6.

Source: Fox News December 12, 2018 16:49 UTC