Hits List: Bob Seger

This Detroit rocker put out a string of quality albums as good as any from 1976-1980 with Night Moves, Stranger In Town and Against the Wind.  It took him a while to get going in his career, but once he spread nationally and internationally, Seger took it to the next level.  In fact, I can't think of anyone in the history of the Rock Era who took longer to make it big and then became as big a star.  Here is the complete Hits List:

1961:  "The Lonely One"
1965:  "TGIF"
1966:  "Ballad of the Yellow Beret"
           "East Side Story
           "Sock It to Me Santa"
           "Persecution Smith"
1967:  "Vagrant Winter"
           "Heavy Music"

1968:  "2 + 2 = ?" (#79 Canada)
           "Ramblin' Gamblin' Man" (#17, #18 Canada)
1969:  "Ivory" (#97)
           "Noah"
           "Innervenus Eyes"
1970:  "Lucifer" (#84)
1971:  "Lookin' Back" (#96)
1972:  "If I Were a Carpenter" (#76)
           "Midnight Rider"
           "Turn the Page"
1973:  "Who Do You Love"
           "Rosalie"
1974:  "Need Ya"
           "Get Out of Denver" (#80)
           "U.M.C. (Upper Middle Class)"
1975:  "Beautiful Loser"
           "Katmandu" (#43, #57 Canada)

1976:  "Nutbush City Limits" (live) (#69, #85 Canada)
           "Night Moves" (#4, #5 Canada, #45 U.K.)
1977:  "The Fire Down Below"--highly underrated.
           "Mainstreet" (#24, #1 Canada)
           "Rock and Roll Never Forgets" (#41)
           "Sunspot Baby"--highly underrated.

1978:  "Still the Same" (#4, #27 Adult Contemporary, #4 Canada)
           "Hollywood Nights" (#12, #12 Canada, #42 U.K.)--highly underrated.
           "We've Got Tonight" (#13, #29 AC, #9 Canada, #22 U.K.)
           "Old Time Rock and Roll" (#28, #31 Canada)--highly underrated.

1980:  "Fire Lake" (#6, #31 AC, #3 Canada)
           "Against the Wind" (#5, #8 AC, #6 Canada)
           "You'll Accomp'ny Me" (#14, #7 AC, #8 Canada)
           "Horizontal Bop" (#42)
           "Her Strut"--highly underrated.
1981:  "Tryin' To Live My Life Without You" (live) (#5, #2 Rock, #11 Canada)
           "Feel Like a Number" (live) (#48, #29 Canada)

1982:  "Shame on the Moon" (#2, #1 AC, #8 Canada)
1983:  "Even Now" (#12, #2 Rock, #35 Canada, #73 U.K.)
           "Roll Me Away" (#27, #13 Rock)
           "Old Time Rock and Roll" (re-release) (#48)
1984:  "Understanding" (#17, #7 AC, #5 Rock, #38 Canada)
1986:  "American Storm" (#13, #2 Rock, #26 Canada, #78 U.K.)
           "Like a Rock" (#12, #21 AC, #1 Rock, #33 Canada)
           "It's You" (#52, #22 AC, #8 Rock)
           "Miami" (#70, #47 Rock)

1987:  "Shakedown" (#1, #1 Rock, #1 Canada, #88 U.K.)
1989:  "Blue Monday" (#40 Rock)
1991:  "Take a Chance" (#10 Rock)
           "The Real Love" (#24, #4 AC, #4 Rock)
           "The Fire Inside" (#45 AC, #6 Rock)
1994:  "In Your Time"
1995:  "Lock and Load" (#22 Rock)
           "Manhattan"
1996:  "Hands in the Air" (#29 Rock)
1998:  "Chances Are" (with Martina McBride) (#23 AC)
2006:  "Wait for Me" (#17 AC)
           "Wreck This Heart"
2011:  "Downtown Train" (#17 AC)
           "Hey Hey Hey Hey (Going Back to Birmingham)"


That's 31 hits, with 7 going Top 10 and 1 #1.  On the more dominant Adult Contemporary chart,14 hits with 5 reaching the Top 10 and 1 #1.