# Twitter charity song an instant hit

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2011/12/07/twitter-charity-song-instant-hit/
- Published: 2011-12-07T12:12:15+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**The first charity single created via Twitter, #twitterxmassingle, was launched
in Dublin this week and went straight to number 4 in the Irish iTunes chart, according
to the Irish Independent.**

‘Winter Song’, written by Sara Bareilles and Ingrid Michaelson, was created in response
to a tweet from Brenda Drumm ([@BrendaDrumm](http://x.com/brendadrumm)) from Newbridge
in Co Kildare on 19 November. She asked: “Wouldn’t it be great to have a Twitter
Xmas Single?”

It didn’t take long before she was getting responses from musicians, singers, studio
technicians, and other well-wishers across the country keen to make her idea happen.

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What about recording a Twitter Xmas single / anyone? [#xmasnumber1](http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23xmasnumber1)
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[Brenda Drumm](http://twitter.com/BrendaDrumm)**
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The crowdsourced Christmas single was recorded on 27 November in the Westin Hotel
in Dublin, and involved 140 people.

The song will raise money for the **Neonatal Special Care Unit** in the National
Maternity Hospital in Holles Street, Dublin.

“It’s a beautiful song but also perfect because it seems like the lyrics were written
by someone who has watched their child being cared for in the neonatal unit,” commented
Ms Drumm, a cancer survivor who began using Twitter in 2007 when she took a year
off to battle the illness.

The song features 16 solo singers and a choir of 90.

The track is available through iTunes and the organisers, of course, are hoping 
that it could become a Christmas number one.

Ms Drumm added: “I had no idea that anything like this would happen and it really
just shows the power of Twitter and the generosity and good will in the hearts of
Irish people.”

You can [download Winter Song from iTunes](http://itunes.apple.com/ie/album/winter-song-single/id485227782).