ZZ Top’s Biggest Hits on the Hot 100 & Billboard 200

The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame band boasts two top 10 singles and seven top 10 albums. 8/19/2026 ZZ Top performs onstage during Day 1 of Eric Clapton's Crossroads Guitar Festival at Crypto.com Arena on Sept. 23, 2023, in Los Angeles. Kevin Winter/Getty Images for Crossroads Guitar Festival “ZZ Top really went into mid-’80s commercial overdrive, thanks largely to the advent of MTV — a format not often charitable to the AOR rockers of yesteryear, but one that ZZ Top embraced with particular élan, becoming music video icons as the mystical hairy dudes with the fuzzy guitars, the cool car and the hot chicks,” wrote Billboard’s Andrew Unterberger in tribute to the band’s drummer of 56 years, Frank Beard, who died Aug. 17. Beard’s death follows that of the band’s bassist Dusty Hill in July 2021. For more than a half-century, Hill, Beard and lead vocalist Billy Gibbons, 76, powered ZZ Top to elite prominence and chart achievements on the Billboard Hot 100, the Billboard 200 and rock rankings. (“Ironically, Beard was the one member of the group to go clean-shaven, Unterberger noted, citing a Gibbons quote: “‘Frank’s beard is on his driver’s license.’”) The group notched 17 Hot 100 hits between 1972 and 1991, including eight top 40 entries. Two rose to the top 10, both to No. 8, and both powered by memorably raucous videos: “Legs,” in 1984, and “Sleeping Bag,” in 1985. ZZ Top, which was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, also boasts 22 titles on the Billboard 200. The band’s seven top 10 placements span 38 years, from Tres Hombres (No. 8, 1974) through La Futura (No. 6, 2012). With ZZ Top’s radio home at rock, the group also landed 16 top 10s on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, highlighted by six No. 1s in 1985-94: “Sleeping Bag,” “Stages,” “Doubleback,” “Concrete and Steel,” My Head’s in Mississippi” and “Pincushion.” Below, Billboard ranks ZZ Top’s five biggest hit songs and albums on the Hot 100 and Billboard 200, respectively. Meanwhile, per Gibbons, he and bassist Elwood Francis will continue ZZ Top’s legacy: “The band is going to keep on keeping on.” ZZ Top’s biggest Hot 100 and Billboard 200 hits charts are based on performance on the weekly Hot 100 and Billboard 200, respectively, through the Aug. 22, 2026, rankings. Titles are ranked based on an inverse point system, with weeks at No. 1 earning the greatest value and weeks at Nos. 100 and 200, respectively, earning the least. Due to changes in chart methodology over the years, eras are weighted to account for different chart turnover rates over various periods. 5, “Tush” Hot 100 peak position: No. 20Hot 100 peak date: Sept. 6, 1975Weeks on chart: 9 4, “Rough Boy” Hot 100 peak position: No. 22Hot 100 peak date: May 17, 1986Weeks on chart: 13 3, “Stages” Hot 100 peak position: No. 21Hot 100 peak date: March 8, 1986Weeks on chart: 12 2, “Legs” Hot 100 peak position: No. 8Hot 100 peak date: July 21, 1984Weeks on chart: 19 1, “Sleeping Bag” Image Credit: Steve Eichner/Penske Media Hot 100 peak position: No. 8Hot 100 peak date: Dec. 14, 1985Weeks on chart: 17 5, Recycler Billboard 200 peak position: No. 6Billboard 200 peak date: Nov. 17, 1990Weeks on chart: 37 4, Tres Hombres Billboard 200 peak position: No. 8Billboard 200 peak date: Aug. 10, 1974Weeks on chart: 81 3, Fandango! Billboard 200 peak position: No. 10Billboard 200 peak date: Sept. 13, 1975Weeks on chart: 47 2, Eliminator Billboard 200 peak position: No. 9Billboard 200 peak date: Nov. 12, 1983Weeks on chart: 185 1, Afterburner Image Credit: Ian Gavan/Getty Images Billboard 200 peak position: No. 4Billboard 200 peak date: Dec. 7, 1985Weeks on chart: 70 Get weekly rundowns straight to your inbox Sign Up