Creedence Clearwater Revival only released music for about half a decade, but what the band was able to accomplish during that timeframe is truly incredible. With only a handful of albums, they made rock history-and they are still doing so on the charts to this day, decades after their split.
The rock group's Chronicle: The 20 Greatest Hits has now lived on the Billboard 200 for 728 weeks, as of this frame. That's 14 years exactly, and it's one of a very, very small number of albums to spend that much time on the ranking of the most-consumed full-lengths in the U.S.
Chronicle is just the fifth album in American history to hit that landmark. Creedence Clearwater Revival's singles set joins Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon (990 weeks), Bob Marley and the Wailers' Legend (869 weeks), Journey's Greatest Hits (839 weeks), and Metallica's self-titled (771 weeks) in the feat.
As it reaches 14 years on the Billboard 200, Chronicle falls slightly...though that's not unusual for a project that's already racked up so many stays somewhere on the tally. This time around, the compilation slides backward 10 spots to No. 65.
Luminate reports that despite its long tenure on the chart, Chronicle is still performing well. The album moved a little less than 13,700 equivalent units in the past tracking period across the country. Impressively, more than 2,200 of those were actual sales.
All those purchases were enough to bring Chronicle back to one Billboard tally it's already spent more than 500 weeks on, but which it disappeared from recently. Creedence Clearwater Revival's bestseller breaks onto the Top Album Sales chart again this frame, but only barely. The title lands at No. 50 on the list, which only features that many spaces.
Chronicle is also a winner on two other rankings published by Billboard-ones which it rarely vanishes from. Creedence Clearwater Revival sits at No. 9 on the Top Rock Albums list and No. 12 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart after holding on for more than 400 frames on each of those rosters.