While Bob Dylan has never been considered a Hit Single
kind of artist, he has entered the charts on a number of occasions. Surprisingly the singer has never had a number one hit.
Releasing 40 studio albums and 96 singles over his long and successful career, Dylan's first release was 1962's Mixed-Up Confusion. Recorded during the Freewheelin
sessions, the track would fail to chart, and when the album was released, the track was left off.
Dylan would get his first taste of success with the release of Subterranean Homesick Blues, which peaked at No.39 in the US charts. The track signaled Dylan change from folk into electric. This was further enforced with the release of Like A Rolling Stone, which charted at No.2, giving Dylan his first Top20 hit.
1965's Positively 4th Street
would be the next hit for Dylan reaching No.7, however the follow up singles, Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window
and One of Us Must Know (Sooner or Later)
, would fail to break the Top 20.
Dylan would crack the charts again with Rainy Day Women ♯12 & 35
in 1966, reaching No.2 for the second time. The single, along with Like A Rolling Stone
, would be Dylan's biggest hit singles.
Despite a number of releases through the years, Dylan would only return to Billboards Top 20 on three more occasions. In 1966, I Want You
reached No.20, 1969's Lay Lady Lay
reached No. 7 and Knocking On Heavens Door
, Dylan's last chart hit released in 1973 reached No.12.