Over the past six decades, Bob Seger has been a staple on Billboard’s charts. Since notching his first hit in 1968 (“Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Man,” credited to his former band The Bob Seger System), Seger has charted 31 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 and 19 albums on the Billboard 200. With the entire Bob Seger song catalog now available on Spotify for the first time Friday (June 16), let’s look back on the rock legend’s biggest Billboard hits on the Hot 100.
In this exclusive recap of his material, we included solo Bob Seger songs, plus his hits as Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band and The Bob Seger System.
Seger’s biggest hit of all time is the lead single from the 1987 film Beverly Hills Cop II, “Shakedown,” which earned the rock star his first (and only) No. 1 hit on the Hot 100 chart (dated Aug. 1, 1987). The song also earned Seger an Academy Award nomination for best original song -- losing to “(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life” from Dirty Dancing.