Frank Sinatra has achieved another musical milestone — 25 years after his death.
The 13-time Grammy winner, who died in May 1998 at the age of 82, just cracked this year’s Billboard Hot 100 top 20 with his 1948 recording of “Jingle Bells.”
The track climbed from No. 28 to No. 20 on the Hot 100 as of Dec. 23, reports Board. Sinatra’s Christmas song became his fourth Top 20 Hot 100 hit and his first Top 20 hit since 1967.
From December 8th to December 14th, streams of the late singer’s songs increased by 19%, totaling 16.9 million US streams. Additionally, the song reached 15.3 million radio listeners across all formats and sold 1,000 downloads, per Luminate, according to Board.
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Portrait of the singer and actor Frank Sinatra.
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Other recordings of the classic song have charted on the Billboard Top 100, including covers by Kimberley Locke, joy Starring Lauren Daigle and Meghan Trainor.
Locke’s recording reached number one on the Billboard Adult Contemporary Top 30 in 2006, while joy Cast’s rendition reached #10 on Billboard’s Holiday Digital Top 25 Songs of 2010. Daigle’s version reached #3 on Billboard’s Christian Airplay top 50 in 2016.
Trainor’s version is currently tied with Sinatra’s cover on the Holiday 100, with her cover peaking at #74.
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Besides “Jingle Bells,” Sinatra’s three other chart-topping songs were “Strangers in the Night,” which topped the charts in 1966; “That’s Life,” which peaked at No. 4 in December 1966; and “Somethin’ Stupid,” featuring his daughter Nancy, which stayed at No. 1 for four weeks beginning in April 1967.
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Frank Sinatra performs in his TV special, “Frank Sinatra: The Man and His Music.”
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The From here to eternity The Oscar winner first charted on the Hot 100 in October 1958. However, in 1940 he was on Billboard’s first song sales chart after he performed vocals on Tommy Dorsey’s “I’ll Never Smile Again”. The song reached number one that year.
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