“My Way” was a top 40 hit on the Billboard Hot 100, peaking at No. 27 in 1969, while reaching No. 2 on the Easy Listening chart. The song hit No. 5 in the U.K. and stayed on the charts for more than a year. It also became one of Sinatra’s signature songs—and it stopped him from a premature retirement.
"It started to write itself," he said of the song, which took him about five hours to complete. "It was such a hit, he stayed ten more years!" Anka added of Sinatra. "And then after that came 'Let Me Try Again.'"
Soon after, a dire dinner meeting with Sinatra spawned Anka’s hit adaptation of the song.
Anka recalled going home and writing moving lyrics to the French melody he’d acquired. “I was kind of metaphorically writing it with [Frank] in mind because I was moved by the fact that he was leaving,” Anka shared. “So I wrote it as if he were writing it.”
In 2026, Anka told Deadline that he was devastated when Sinatra told him he was retiring. “I’m a music guy, but this is my guy and he’s quitting,” Anka recalled. “I can’t f---ing believe it. So when he said that to me, I was crushed.”
Sinatra announced his retirement in 1971 but returned to the music scene two years later and continued to perform for decades. Sinatra’s final solo studio album, L.A. is My Lady, was released in 1984, and his last live show was in 1995. The music legend died in May 1998 at age 82.
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