The late David Crosby – whose demise was reported Thursday (Jan. 19) at age 81 – left behind a legendary catalog of hits on Billboard’s charts via the years.
The singer/songwriter made his Billboard chart debut in 1965 with the band The Byrds and its smash Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hit “Mr. Tambourine Man.” The group, identified for its jangling guitars and layered harmonies, additionally topped the listing with “Turn! Turn! Turn! (To Everything There Is a Season).” While Crosby departed The Byrds in 1967, he would proceed to notch new hit albums and singles via collaborative initiatives and solo work on via his 2021 studio album For Free, which reached the highest 10 on the Americana/Folk Albums chart.
Crosby logged 17 high 40-charting songs on the Hot 100, spanning his solo work and as a part of The Byrds and the supergroups Crosby, Stills & Nash and Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. (Stills, Nash and Young are Stephen Stills, Graham Nash and Neil Young.)
Among Crosby’s Hot 100 hits are The Byrds’ pair of No. 1s, which each topped the listing in 1965; “Turn!” notched three weeks atop the listing, whereas “Mr. Tambourine Man” spent one week at No. 1. The two songs are Crosby’s all-time greatest hits on the Hot 100 (we depend down his high 20 hits, beneath). His all-time rating consists of such acquainted CSNY favorites as “Teach Your Children,” “Our House” and “Southern Cross.”
On the Billboard 200 albums chart, Crosby’s work throughout his solo, collaborative and band initiatives yielded 22 high 40-charting efforts. Of these, 10 reached the highest 10 – together with a trio of No. 1s within the early Nineteen Seventies from Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young (Deja Vu in 1970, 4 Way Street in 1971 and So Far in 1974).
David Crosby’s Top 20 Billboard Hot 100 hits chart is predicated on precise efficiency on the weekly Billboard Hot 100 via Jan. 21, 2022. Songs are ranked based mostly on an inverse level system, with weeks at No. 1 incomes the best worth and weeks at No. 100 incomes the least. Due to modifications in chart methodology over time, sure eras are weighted to account for various chart turnover charges over varied intervals.
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