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Frank Sinatra’s ‘Jingle Bells’ Hits Top 20 On Hot 100 25 Years After His Death
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Frank Sinatra is back in the Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 with his version of Jingle Bells, 25 years after his death, Billboard reported Wednesday.
Frank Sinatra’s 1948 version of the classic Christmas song, which was written in 1857, is the only one to have ever hit the Hot 100, Billboard said.
Sinatra’s Jingle Bells rose from No. 28 to No. 20 on the Hot 100 dated Dec. 23, with 16.9 million official U.S. streams, 15.3 million in all-format radio audience, and sold 1,000 downloads Dec. 8–14, according to Luminate.
The song returned to its peak at No. 20 this year after reaching the milestone last holiday season. In 2022, Sinatra’s Jingle Bells became the crooner’s fourth Top 20 Hot 100 hit overall and the first since 1967, when “Somethin Stupid,” with daughter Nancy Sinatra hit No. 1 for four weeks.
Before that, Sinatra topped the chart in July 1966 with Strangers in the Night, and reached No. 4 with Thats Life in December 1966.
Sinatra was born in 1915, and died in 1998 at age 82. He appeared on Billboard’s very first song sales chart in July 1940, as the No. 1 vocalist on Tommy Dorseys “Ill Never Smile Again.”
Another version of Jingle Bells, released by Meghan Trainor last month, reached No. 74 on the Dec. 23 Hot 100 chart.
TMX contributed to this article.
