Diane Keaton Earns First Solo Entry on a Billboard Chart Following Her Death at 79

Beloved actress Diane Keaton, who died on Oct. 11 astatine property 79, makes her Billboard music illustration debut under her ain billing this week with her vacation single, “First Christmas.” The way bows astatine No. 22 connected the Digital Song Sales illustration (dated Oct. 25).

Upon the merchandise of the opus connected Nov. 29, 2024, the Academy Award-winner wrote on her Instagram: “This morning, my bosom is filled with gratitude for each and each 1 of you. The emotion you’ve fixed my debut vacation single, ‘First Christmas,’ has been the astir beauteous acquisition I could ever imagine. Your comments, your stories, and the mode you’ve shared your ain ‘First Christmas’ journeys person touched maine deeply. It reminds maine of the bid we find successful the emotion and memories we clasp close. When we stock these together, we are ne'er alone.”

“First Christmas” was written by Grammy Award winners Carole Bayer Sager and Jonas Myrin, and produced by Myrin. After Keaton’s passing, Myrin wrote on Instagram: “I’m heartbroken by (Diane Keaton’s) passing. To person been trusted to assistance bring her lifelong imagination of signaling an archetypal opus to beingness is thing I’ll transportation with maine forever.”

In “First Christmas,” Keaton sings successful its chorus, “The snowfall falls connected my window, I privation that I could fto go, it’s a soundless night, it’s different year, the archetypal Christmas without you here.”

Before “First Christmas” brought Keaton to a Billboard music chart as a solo vocalist, she appeared on Billboard’s now-defunct movie charts from the 1980s done the 2000s; the lists tracked the apical films being sold and rented successful the United States on location video.

Although Keaton was best known arsenic a four-time Oscar-nominated histrion connected the big screen, she had her manus successful immoderate iconic euphony and chart moments since the late ‘60s. In 1968, she was successful the archetypal Broadway formed of the musical Hair, and performed connected its formed album. Marking her archetypal publication to a No. 1 title, the set topped the Billboard 200 for 13 weeks in 1969. (Hair remains the astir caller formed signaling to lead the list.) In 1987, Keaton directed the authoritative euphony video for Belinda Carlisle’s Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 deed “Heaven Is a Place on Earth,” and the video for its follow-up azygous “I Get Weak,” which reached No. 2 connected the Hot 100 successful 1988. In 1996, Keaton co-starred with Goldie Hawn and Bette Midler in 

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