Charts and Hits
Frank Sinatra holds the unique distinction of singing on the first Billboard #1 single, "I'll Never Smile Again" (1940) — which sold 900,000 copies — and had the first ever #1 album in the UK, Songs For Swingin' Lovers (July 28, 1956). This same album is also the only album to chart among the UK top twenty singles, peaking at #12 on June 15, 1956. In 1959, the album Come Dance with Me! also entered the UK singles chart peaking at #30 the same week it would start a 30-week run on the album chart, going as high as #2.
From his first released single in 1940 — as the singer with Tommy Dorsey's band — to the 1980 release of "Theme from New York, New York", Frank Sinatra had 209 hits on Billboard's pop singles charts. Of those, 127 made the Top Twenty, 70 made the Top Ten and 10 reached the #1 position — "I'll Never Smile Again" (1940), "There Are Such Things" (1942), "In the Blue of the Evening" (1943), "All or Nothing at All" (1944), "Oh What It Seemed To Be" (1945), "Five Minutes More" (1946), "Mam'selle" (1947), "Learning the Blues" (1955), "Strangers in the Night" (1966) and "Something Stupid" (1967).
Of Sinatra's 56 Top Twenty albums on Billboard's pop album charts, 42—including soundtracks — reached the Top Ten and 6 made the #1 position — The Voice of Frank Sinatra (1946), In the Wee Small Hours — which spent 18 weeks at #2—Come Fly With Me (1956), Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely (1958), Nice 'n' Easy (1960) and Strangers in the Night (1966). He also has the longest time span of charting Top Ten albums on the Billboard album chart, 62 years with The Voice of Frank Sinatra going to #1 in 1946, and Nothing But the Best going to #2 in 2008.
Sinatra's 1958 album Frank Sinatra Sings for Only the Lonely spent 120 weeks on Billboard's album chart, peaking at #1. His next album, Come Dance with Me! (1959) spent 140 weeks on Billboard, peaking at #2.
"My Way" (1969) is the longest charting U.K. single of all time, with 122 weeks spent on the chart, peaking at number 5. The single re-entered the chart 8 times between 1970 and 1972. A 1995 re-release spent 2 weeks on the chart.
In the UK, 42 Sinatra albums have made the Top Ten. Fifty-four Sinatra albums have made the Top Twenty, the longest charting of those albums being the 1997 compilation My Way: The Very Best of Frank Sinatra, which, to date, has charted for 128 weeks achieving 5 x platinum status. Six of Sinatra's albums reached the #1 position on the UK album chart, with a further five peaking at #2.
Read more about this topic: Frank Sinatra's Recorded Legacy
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