Pentatonix Version of ‘Little Drummer Boy’ Gets the Holidays Grooving

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One of my all time favorite Christmas songs is ‘Little Drummer Boy’ and I’ve heard several different renditions, but the latest version by the a cappella music group Pentatonix has to be my favorite.

The song has taken off on YouTube and will certainly help drive sales of other songs on the group’s holiday album, PTXmas.

I personally adore several of the songs, from ‘Angels We Have Heard on High’ to ‘The Christmas Song’.

But ‘Little Drummer Boy’ tops them all.

The group is just a few years old, coming together to win Season Three of NBC’s The Sing-Off.

Pentatonix members include Scott Hoying (22), Kirstie Maldonado (22) and Mitch Grassi (21), vocal bass Avi Kaplan (24) and beatboxer Kevin “K.O.” Olusola (25).

If you’re not talking about holiday music, I personally like their version of “We Are Young” by Fun.  According to their web site, “the Pentatonix YouTube channel boasts more than 155 million views and 1.8 million subscribers, propelled by unparalleled performances of Gotye’s “Somebody That I Used To Know,” (18 million views) and Lorde’s “Royals,” (11 million) as well as the incomparable “Evolution Of Music,” a 4 minute, 36-song live journey through the history of music that has tallied more than 21 million views.   The group’s cover collaboration with Lindsey Stirling for Imagine Dragon’s “Radioactive” has seen more than 45 million views over the two artists’ channels and won in the “Best Response Video” category at the inaugural YouTube Music Awards on November 3, 2013.  The group also has more than 525,000 Facebook fans and 150,000 Twitter followers.”

You can bet, those numbers are going to explode through the holidays.