Seth MacFarlane Charts Higher Than Ever, With A Little Help From Frank Sinatra
Seth MacFarlane is better known for his hugely successful TV career than his work in music, as series like Family Guy and American Dad rank among the longest-running in animated history. In addition to working daily as a titan of that industry, MacFarlane — who voices dozens of characters on his own programs — is also a prolific musician, known for his love of the Great American Songbook.
He's already released more than half a dozen albums and scored multiple Grammy nominations in the traditional pop field, and this week, his latest full-length not only brings him back to the Billboard charts, but helps him reach a new career peak.
Lush Life Earns Seth MacFarlane a New Bestseller
Lush Life: The Lost Sinatra Arrangements debuts on a trio of Billboard charts in the United States this week. It opens inside the top 10 on two genre-specific rankings and comes in at No. 17 on the Top Album Sales tally. While that marks the title's lowest starting point on the charts, it's also a new best showing for MacFarlane.
The comedian and crooner reaches the top 20 on the Top Album Sales chart for the very first time in his music career. Lush Life opens inside that area with a little more than 4,400 pure purchases during its first tracking frame (per Luminate).
Seth MacFarlane's Previous Best Showing
Before this frame, he had only cracked the top 40 once, more than a decade ago, when Holiday for Swing! opened and peaked at No. 38. Back when the Top Album Sales list featured far more than the 50 spaces it does today, Music Is Better Than Words spent a single turn at No. 111, and those are his only three placements on the tally.
Seth MacFarlane's New Top 10s
Lush Life is far more successful on two of Billboard's style-focused rankings. The collection, which sees MacFarlane recording music written for Frank Sinatra that the legend never got to make during his lifetime, launches at No. 3 on the Traditional Jazz Albums chart and No. 4 on the slightly broader Jazz Albums tally. He's now collected half a dozen top 10s on both of those rosters.
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