After Diane Keaton’s passing on October 11, fans have found a new way to remember her. The beloved actress’ holiday single, “First Christmas,” has entered the Billboard Digital Song Sales chart at No. 22, making it her first solo entry.
Keaton, a four-time Academy Award nominee best known for her iconic roles in films like Annie Hall and The Godfather, embraced an old passion with the release of her holiday track.
Shortly after the single’s launch on November 29, 2024, Keaton shared her appreciation on Instagram. “This morning, my heart is filled with gratitude for each and every one of you. The love you’ve given my debut holiday single, ‘First Christmas,’ has been the most beautiful gift I could ever imagine.”
Adding, “Your comments, your stories, and the way you’ve shared your own ‘First Christmas’ journeys have touched me deeply. It reminds me of the peace we find in the love and memories we hold close. When we share these together, we are never alone.”
Before “First Christmas” earned Keaton a spot on the Billboard music charts as a solo artist, she appeared on Billboard’s discontinued film charts from the 1980s to the 2000s, which ranked the top-selling and most-rented home videos in the U.S.
While Keaton was predominantly celebrated as an Oscar-nominated actress, her involvement in music dates back to the late 1960s.
She was a member of the original 1968 Broadway cast of Hair and even featured on the cast album. It marked her initial link to a No. 1 record, which led the Billboard 200 chart for 13 weeks in 1969.
Later, in 1987, the beloved actress directed the music video for Belinda Carlisle’s “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” as well as the video for its follow-up single, “I Get Weak,” which climbed to No. 2 on the Hot 100 in 1988.
Nearly 10 years later, she starred alongsideGoldie Hawn and Bette Midler in The First Wives Club, where they ended the film with a rendition of Lesley Gore’s 1964 hit “You Don’t Own Me,” which peaked at No. 2 on the Hot 100.
Despite following a different career path, Keaton expressed that singing remained a passion she had always hoped to pursue. In a 2015 interview with Cinephilia & Beyond, she shared, “Singing was the first thing. Music. I mean, when you think about it, music is first with me.”
She described music as something that “fills the emptiness of the soul” and called it “the ultimate revelation.” For Keaton, music was “by far the greatest of all the arts to just place you into a moment,” and she found that experience “thrilling.”
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