Most Successful Fleetwood Mac songs on the Billboard Hot 100

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Back around 2007, American journalist Fred Bronson complied the fourth edition of a book titled Billboard's Hottest 100 Hits. This book attempts to quantify the biggest hits of the rock era by assigning a song points based on their chart run. A song earned 500 points for every week they were at the number 1 position, 400 points for every week at the number 2 position, 300 points for the number 3 position, 200 points for the number 4 position, 100 points for the number 5 position, 95 points for the number 6 position, 94 points for the number 7 position, and so on.

In addition to Fleetwood Mac songs, the section in the book dedicated to Fleetwood Mac also includes solo songs from Stevie Nicks, Christine McVie, and Lindsey Buckingham. Below is the list. I have also included the chart peak of each song in addition to the total number of weeks on the Billboard Hot 100. Note that at the time of this book's publishing, "Dreams" had accumulated 19 weeks on its initial chart run. In 2022, it notched in additional four weeks on the chart, which very well could be enough to place it ahead of the number one spot.

1. Stop Dragging My Heart Around (peak: #3; 21 weeks on the Hot 100)
2. Dreams (peak: #1; 19 weeks on the Hot 100 on its original run)
3. Hold Me (peak: #4; 17 weeks on the Hot 100)
4. Don’t Stop (peak: #3; 18 weeks on the Hot 100)
5. Trouble (peak: #9; 19 weeks on the Hot 100)
6. Talk to Me (peak: #4; 18 weeks on the Hot 100)
7. Little Lies (peak: #4; 21 weeks on the Hot 100)
8. Leather and Lace (peak: #6; 19 weeks on the Hot 100)
9. Stand Back (peak: #5; 19 weeks on the Hot 100)
10. Say You Love Me (peak: #11; 19 weeks on the Hot 100)
11. Got a Hold on Me (peak: #10; 16 weeks on the Hot 100)
12. Sara (peak: #7; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
13. You Make Loving Fun (peak: #9; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
14. Rhiannon (peak: #11; 18 weeks on the Hot 100)
15. Go Your Own Way (peak: #10; 15 weeks on the Hot 100)
16. Big Love (peak: #5; 16 weeks on the Hot 100)
17. Tusk (peak: #8; 15 weeks on the Hot 100)
18. Edge of Seventeen (peak: #11; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
19. Gypsy (peak: #12; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
20. If Anyone Falls (peak: #14; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
21. Everywhere (peak: #14; 18 weeks on the Hot 100)
22. I Can’t Wait (peak: #16; 13 weeks on the Hot 100)
23. Love in Store (peak: #22; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
24. Rooms on Fire (peak: #16; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
25. Think About Me (peak: #20; 13 weeks on the Hot 100)
26. Seven Wonders (peak: #19; 13 weeks on the Hot 100)
27. Over My Head (peak: #20; 14 weeks on the Hot 100)
28. Go Insane (peak: 23; 16 weeks on the Hot 100)
29. Love Will Show Us How (peak: #30; 10 weeks on the Hot 100)
30. Nightbird (peak: #33; 12 weeks on the Hot 100)

The list does not include songs from either Bob Welch, Dave Mason, and Billy Burnette, all of whom had solo material that reached the Hot 100. If Welch had been included, "Sentimental Lady" would be ranked #12 and "Ebony Eyes" would be the collective's 20th most successful song. Bob Welch's "Precious Love" and Dave Mason's "We Just Disagree" would have likely reached the bottom third of the list, although I am unable to determine their placements. Given that the methodology heavily favors songs that reach the top four, certain songs do surprisingly poorly on this list. One song that sticks out is "Big Love", which despite reaching #5 on the Hot 100, only make it to #16 on this list, behind several songs that charted much lower. At the top of this list is "Stop Dragging My Heart Around", which actually spent six weeks at #3.