There are a number of legacy acts — those that either do not release new music at all, or which are largely known for older hits and albums that became popular decades ago — that regularly live on the Billboard charts. Most hold on thanks to one greatest hits compilation, or perhaps a single tune or another.
Fleetwood Mac is one of the rare groups that regularly places on multiple tallies with several albums. Rumours may forever be one of the band’s top-performing sets, no matter how old it gets, but even that bestseller is not enough to satiate the masses.
Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits can often be found on multiple rosters, as it is almost always a top performer, bestseller and one of the most-consumed rock titles in the United States. This frame, as Americans continue to listen to the many smashes featured on Greatest Hits – some of which can also be found on Rumours – the full-length reaches a relatively uncommon milestone on the most important albums chart, one which Fleetwood Mac has only seen once before.
Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits Reaches 400 Weeks
Greatest Hits celebrates 400 weeks spent on the Billboard 200 as of this frame. The ranking – Billboard’s flagship albums tally – measures the most-consumed albums and EPs in America, and it uses both traditional purchases and streaming activity to do so.
This time around, Greatest Hits falls only five spaces, from No. 13 to No. 18. The compilation reached that No. 13 position – the compilation’s all-time high point – only a week ago, many years after its release.
Fleetwood Mac Has Two 400-Week-Charting Albums
Greatest Hits is now only the second Fleetwood Mac release to spend at least 400 weeks somewhere on the Billboard 200. It trails the only other effort from the group to do so – Rumours – by years. That bestseller is now up to 698 weeks somewhere on the tally and, in less than a month, the blockbuster will almost certainly become the latest title to be inducted into the 700-week club. Throughout the decades that Billboard has published the Billboard 200, only a handful of titles have held on so long.
Fleetwood Mac Has One Other Triple-Digit-Charter
Only one other Fleetwood Mac set has managed triple-digit frames on the Billboard 200. The group’s self-titled studio LP debuted on the ranking in August 1975 and eventually rose all the way to No. 1, where it spent a single frame. Fleetwood Mac has now racked up 170 stays somewhere on the 200-space rundown.
Fleetwood Mac’s Greatest Hits Appears on Six Charts
Greatest Hits can be found on half a dozen Billboard rankings this week, and amazingly, it lives inside the top 20 on each and every one of them. The compilation lands on the Top Rock Albums, Top Rock & Alternative Albums, Vinyl Albums and Top Streaming Albums charts, the Billboard 200 and the Top Album Sales ranking, and this frame it sits at Nos. 4, 6, 11, 17, 18 and 19, respectively.
Greatest Hits falls on five of those six rosters. The only exception is the Top Streaming Albums tally, where it holds steady at No. 17, remaining at its all-time peak.
Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours Remains a Multi-Chart Win
Rumours joins Greatest Hits on four of the same six Billboard rankings, and just like the compilation, the traditional studio LP similarly moves backward on every one of them. The classic appears on the Vinyl Albums, Top Album Sales and Top Rock & Alternative Albums charts and the Billboard 200, coming in at Nos. 17, 28, 37 and 135, respectively.
Even as Rumours declines, none of the drops connected with the set are especially dramatic. The album is still a strong seller on vinyl – across all formats, actually – while simultaneously continuing its nearly 700-week run on the Billboard 200.