In the 1970s, Lynyrd Skynyrd helped define Southern rock with songs including “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Free Bird” and “Gimme Three Steps.” More than five decades later, those songs are still keeping the legendary band on the charts.
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s All Time Greatest Hits has re-entered Billboard’s Top Rock Albums chart at No. 24, adding another week to a remarkable chart history that now totals more than 1,000 weeks across multiple Billboard rankings.
Released in 2000, All Time Greatest Hits has logged 370 weeks on the Billboard 200, 287 weeks on Top Rock Albums, 382 weeks on Top Rock & Alternative Albums, 10 weeks on Top Album Sales, four weeks on Billboard Canadian Albums and two weeks on Top Streaming Albums.
Combined, that amounts to 1,055 chart weeks for the collection, counting its appearances across the six rankings.
The 14-track collection reaches back to Lynyrd Skynyrd’s 1973 debut (Pronounced ‘Lĕh-‘nérd ‘Skin-‘nérd) for “Gimme Three Steps” and “Simple Man,” while “Sweet Home Alabama,” “Swamp Music,” “The Ballad of Curtis Loew” and “Call Me the Breeze” come from 1974’s Second Helping.
The album also includes “Saturday Night Special,” “Gimme Back My Bullets,” “What’s Your Name,” “You Got That Right” and “That Smell,” among others.
Instead of the studio recording of perhaps the band’s most famous song, the collection closes with a sprawling live version of “Free Bird,” recorded at Atlanta’s Fox Theatre in July 1976 and originally released on the live album One More from the Road.
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All Time Greatest Hits has previously climbed as high as No. 38 on the Billboard 200 and No. 8 on Top Rock Albums. The collection was certified platinum by the RIAA in 2005, signifying 1 million units in the United States.
Lynyrd Skynyrd’s longevity comes more than half a century after the Jacksonville, Fla., band released its debut album in 1973.
Rolling Stone ranks the group No. 95 on its list of the “100 Greatest Artists of All Time,” with the tribute written by Al Kooper, who discovered Lynyrd Skynyrd and produced the band’s first three studio albums.
Kooper recalled being struck not only by the band’s songs but also by its work ethic and meticulous arrangements, writing that Lynyrd Skynyrd eventually “transcended the Southern-rock tag.”
“They became one of the greatest rock & roll bands in history,” Kooper wrote.
The band’s original run ended tragically following the Oct. 20, 1977, plane crash that killed frontman Ronnie Van Zant, guitarist Steve Gaines and backup singer Cassie Gaines, Steve’s sister. A decade later, Lynyrd Skynyrd reunited with Van Zant’s younger brother Johnny Van Zant taking over as lead vocalist.
The band was inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2006. Founding guitarist Gary Rossington, the final surviving original member, died in 2023.
Yet Lynyrd Skynyrd’s music has continued finding new generations of listeners, and All Time Greatest Hits returning to the Top Rock Albums chart after more than 1,000 combined weeks across Billboard rankings is one more indication of just how enduring that catalog has become.
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