Mike Rowe recalls topping Adele on iTunes chart with ‘Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job’: ‘It’s so weird’

In December, the “Dirty Jobs” star announced on Instagram that his holiday track, “Santa’s Gotta Dirty Job,” had reached number No. 1 on iTunes, beating out Adele’s “Easy On Me,” which came in second.

The Emmy-winning TV host and country music star John Rich teamed up with the Oak Ridge Boys to release a Christmas song highlighting Santa’s "dirty job," which also gave back to the community.

"It’s so weird," the 59-year-old Rowe told Fox News about his unexpected musical achievement. "I was on John’s show ‘The Pursuit!’ He was interviewing me, and we were talking about music. I sang something, and he said, ‘Man, you can really carry a tune.’ I said, ‘Yeah, I can carry a tune.’ He said, ‘We ought to do an album.’ I’m like, really? But he said, ‘Yeah, that’d be great. We could do a ‘Dirty Jobs’ album. You know, Santa's gotta dirty job.' So we literally wrote the song in 10 minutes."