Frank Sinatra died in May 1998. This week he took the No. 1 spot on a Billboard chart away from himself.
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Two Versions of the Same Record
The chart is Traditional Jazz Albums, and the album is Ultimate Sinatra, a compilation first released in 2015. Last week the top spot belonged to Ultimate Sinatra: The Centennial Collection, a slightly expanded edition of the same set. This week, the expanded version has vanished from the chart entirely and the standard one is back on top.
It happens when one edition of a release starts outperforming another. That is familiar territory with remixes. It is stranger with a greatest-hits set from 2015.
Sinatra was understood as a pop singer in his lifetime. Billboard now files most of his catalog under jazz, which is why he turns up on these genre rankings every single week and almost never on the Billboard 200.
Ultimate Sinatra has now led the chart for 183 weeks. It first hit No. 1 in May 2015 and has kept returning ever since, and it is closing in on 400 total weeks on the ranking. Triple digits at the top of any chart is rare. Sinatra is approaching 200.
Eight No. 1s, One Chart
Ultimate Sinatra is one of eight Sinatra albums to reach No. 1 on Traditional Jazz Albums, alongside Ultimate Christmas, Nothing But the Best, Live at the Meadowlands, Seduction: Sinatra Sings of Love, Sinatra: Best of the Best and his Count Basie box set. Nothing But the Best has 34 weeks at the top on its own. The Centennial edition only got there in June, more than 11 years after it came out, despite arriving the same week as the standard version.
He Nearly Took a Second Chart
Ultimate Sinatra also re-entered the broader Jazz Albums chart at No. 2, held off by Sade’s The Best of Sade. His only other charting title this week is Nothing But the Best, at No. 11 and No. 13 on the two rankings. He died 28 years ago and is still making Billboard history.
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