The magic of Christmas has come to Frank Sinatra: with which song did he return to the Top 20 of the sales chart for the first time since 1967?

Surprisingly, when no one expected it, Frank Sinatra has reached a new musical milestone in his career, 25 years after his death.

The 13-time Grammy Award winner, who died in May 1998 at age 82, he just reached the Billboard Top 20 with his 1948 recording of the classical theme Bells.

Last week, the recording moved from No. 28 to No. 20, Billboard reported. Sinatra’s Christmas tune became his fourth Top 20 hit and his first song to reach the Top 20 since 1967.

From December 8 to December 14, streams of the late singer’s songs increased by 19%, totaling 16.9 million streams in the United States. Additionally, according to Luminate and Billboard, the song reached 15.3 million radio viewers across all formats and sold 1,000 downloads.

a classic song

The song little bells was written by James Lord Pierpont and published in 1857. It has countless versionsfrom artists such as the Beatles, Eric Clapton, Pearl Jam, James Taylor, Paul Anka, Tony Bennett, Michael Bublé, Ella Fitzgerald, Diana Krall and Barbra Streisand, among many others.

Apart from Bellsthe other three Sinatra songs that made the charts were Strangers in the nightwhich reached first place in 1966; That’s life, which reached number 4 in December 1966; AND Something stupidwith daughter Nancy, which remained at number one for four weeks starting in April 1967.

The Oscar winner for the film From here to eternity He first made his mark on the Hot 100 in October 1958.. However, in 1940 he had been on the first Billboard song sales chart for being the lead singer of I will never smile again by Tommy Dorsey. The song reached number one that year.

Your Christmas hits

Frank Sinatra has Christmas songs that are very popular and favorite during the holiday season, for example White Christmas, have a merry Christmas, a silent night AND Winter wonderlandFurthermore little bells.

registered his famous and successful Christmas album Christmas songs in 1948 and then released another similar album in 1957, titled A merry Christmas. According to the UdiscoverMusic website, “More than half a century later, Frank Sinatra’s best Christmas songs still define the holidays.”

Nancy, the eldest of his three children, said “no one embraced Christmas like he did.” And she added: “My father and his friends would arrive late on Christmas Eve, after a night of partying, and start throwing decorations at the tree. And my mother and I would cancel it later and leave it as it appears in the photos of that moment.

Newer versions

More recordings of the classic Christmas carol little bells have appeared in the Billboard Top 100 in recent years, including covers by Kimberley Locke, Glee Cast, Lauren Daigle and Meghan Trainor.

The interpretation of Glee Cast -the cast of the series joy-peaked at number 10 on Billboard’s Top 25 Digital Song Sales in 2010. Trainor’s version is currently on the Holiday 100 chart, at #74.

And although it does not contain the theme little bellsthe biggest christmas hit of the year is the allusive album by Mariah Carey since 1994, Merry Christmaswhose single All I want for Christmas is you It is currently in first place.