{"id":108935,"date":"2025-08-31T16:00:21","date_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108935\/"},"modified":"2025-08-31T16:00:21","modified_gmt":"2025-08-31T16:00:21","slug":"how-many-us-number-ones-did-the-eagles-have","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/108935\/","title":{"rendered":"How many US number ones did the Eagles have?"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/p>\n

(Credits: Alamy)<\/p>\n

Sat 30 August 2025 21:30, UK <\/p>\n

Eagles<\/a> are just one of those bands who seem like they\u2019ve been around forever and just won\u2019t ever fade, like the comfy armchair of rock and roll, if you will, or everyone\u2019s favourite drunk uncle.\u00a0<\/p>\n

This is not to dispute the absolute cultural behemoth<\/a> that the band racked up. In the space of just seven albums, a relatively short back catalogue for a group of sonic gods of their calibre, they made a permanent imprint on the landscape of rock and roll. God knows the legacy of \u2018Hotel California\u2019 will long outlive either you or me.\u00a0<\/p>\n

But there\u2019s often an odd phenomenon with artists like these, who are shrouded in an almost unearthly league of legend. What puts them in common with the likes of David Bowie and Bob Dylan? They barely had any number one singles between them, which is a surprising, if not pretty interesting feat to achieve, given the seismic icon status which surrounds each of them. It\u2019s like they existed in minds and hearts, but never actually in the charts.\u00a0<\/p>\n

For the part of the Eagles, this manifested in five number one singles in the US, which admittedly isn\u2019t that much of a poor showing in and of itself. However, when you consider the fact that their debut album came out in 1972, and that their last was released in 2007, it does seem relatively few and far between over the course of a career lasting decades. Eagles may have soared high, but their chart successes were somewhat of an enigma. <\/p>\n

What were the Eagles\u2019 number one singles?<\/p>\n

The band\u2019s five stints atop the charts in the United States were gifted to them by the songs<\/a> \u2018Best of My Love\u2019, \u2018One of These Nights\u2019, \u2018New Kid in Town\u2019, \u2018Hotel California\u2019, and \u2018Heartache Tonight\u2019. But within this, an even starker trend emerges: all of these songs only spanned the course of 1975 to 1979, meaning that despite a rock legacy still enduring through decade after decade, the peak of the Eagles\u2019 success only lasted just shy of five years, half a century ago.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Then you consider the fact that six out of the seven albums the band produced also went to the top spot, and things start to fall into place. In this sense, they\u2019re exactly like Bowie and Dylan, artists whose iconic status is built on the temples of their collective works, rather than individual standout songs. Their key to success was cultivating a brand, as opposed to catching an earworm once in a while and reeling in the masses with that bait.\u00a0<\/p>\n

So, even though Eagles could quite literally count their number one singles on one hand, their impact was never diminished. In a way, it\u2019s quite fitting that a song like \u2018Heartache Tonight\u2019 would reap them some of their best moments, because it undeniably would have caused them heartache that the singles chart never seemed to swing in their favour. The music industry is possibly a metaphor for their very own \u2018Hotel California\u2019 in that sense, because you can never quite leave its allure behind.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

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