Foo Fighters’ Supreme Billboard Chart Hits: ‘Study to Fly,’ ‘Most efficient of You’ & Extra

As previously reported, Taylor Hawkins, drummer for Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Foo Fighters, died, as announced on March 25. No cause for death was once straight away given. Hawkins was once 50.

“The Foo Fighters family is devastated by the tragic and untimely lack of our liked Taylor Hawkins,” reads a observation on the band’s social accounts. “His musical spirit and infectious laughter will dwell on with all of us forever.”

Upon Hawkins’ passing, Billboard appears to be like to be to be like support at the band’s ideal chart achievements, including its honor because the No. 1 act on Billboard‘s Supreme of All Time Different Artists retrospective.

Albums: Losing Light, Concrete and Gold

Hawkins made his first look on a Foo Fighters album by the usage of their third studio plot, There’s Nothing Left to Lose, released in November 1999. The plot debuted and peaked at No. 10 on the all-vogue Billboard 200 albums chart, marking their 2nd top 10. (The community’s self-titled debut LP hit No. 23 in 1995 and sophomore plot, The Color and the Shape, reached No. 10 in 1997.)

Twelve albums by Foo Fighters with Hawkins on drums hang charted on the Billboard 200, by the band’s most most modern entry, the Document Store Day unlock Hail Satin in 2021. Eight of the band’s 9 top 10 albums feature Hawkins, including every of its No. 1s: Losing Light, in 2011, and Concrete and Gold, in 2017.

Foo Fighters hang supplied 13.2 million albums within the USA (by March 17), per Luminate, formerly MRC Data.

Out of doors Foo Fighters, a pair of releases from Taylor Hawkins & The Coattail Riders hang charted, on the Heatseekers Albums list: Red Light Fever (No. 40, 2010) and Gain the Cash (No. 18, 2019). Yet every other Hawkins mission, The Birds of Devil, despatched its self-titled plot to No. 14 on Heatseekers Albums in 2014.

Hawkins moreover performed drums for Coheed and Cambria on the band’s 2nd Billboard 200 top 10, No World for The next day (No. 6, 2007).

Songs: ‘Study to Fly,’ ‘Most efficient of You’

Foo Fighters’ songs, meanwhile, hang drawn 33.9 billion in cumulative U.S. radio target market (from 7.5 million performs) and 2.9 billion legitimate on-demand U.S. streams.

The band has charted 10 titles on the all-vogue, multi-metric Billboard Sizzling 100 songs chart, all after Hawkins joined its lineup. The community first appeared on the Sizzling 100 dated Oct. 16, 1999, with regarded as one of its signature anthems, “Study to Fly.” The music reached No. 19 the following January.

Foo Fighters earned their easiest-charting Sizzling 100 hit with fellow traditional “Most efficient of You,” which rose to No. 18 in July 2005. One other song of theirs has made the tip 40: “The Pretender” (No. 37, October 2007).

Notably, Hawkins is considered within the legitimate video for regarded as one of many most enduring hits from the ’90s: because the then-touring drummer for Alanis Morissette, he is within the clip for her leap forward U.S. hit “You Oughta Know,” which crowned the Different Airplay chart for five weeks in 1995 and reached No. 6 on the Sizzling 100 (because the B-side to “You Study,” in 1996; “Oughta” was once incorporated on the double-sided bodily single by the usage of Morissette’s dwell recording from the Grammy Awards that one year).

Foo Fighters’ songs hang made their most historical impacts on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock Airplay and Different Airplay charts, with Foo Fighters claiming the tip space on the Supreme of All Time Different Artists recap, as revealed in 2018. Plus, “The Pretender” took the No. 5 placement on the Supreme of All Time Different Songs ranking, unveiled the same one year.

Foo Fighters boast 11 No. 1s among a memoir 29 top 10s on Mainstream Rock Airplay and 10 leaders among moreover a memoir 28 top 10s on Different Airplay. The band first topped Different Airplay with “Study to Fly” in 1999 and first ruled Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Most efficient of You” in 2005.

Mused Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl to Billboard upon learning of the band’s success of topping the Supreme of All Time Different Artists chart, “We hang this divining rod that we’ve adopted, and it takes us where we remark lets peaceable go.”