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John Lennon Top 40 Solo Hits Ranked

John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album.
John Lennon wasn’t just a founding member of The Beatles, he was the creative force behind some of their most iconic and ...
John Lennon only issued seven solo albums in the 10 years after the Beatles broke up. The posthumously released Milk and Honey and Menlove Ave. made for a total of nine. With such a small sample size, ...
John Lennon was a bit of an enigma. He was a creative genius, and his songwriting partnership with Paul McCartney yielded some of the greatest songs of the 20th century. But as a man, he didn’t speak ...
If you asked someone who played lead guitar in The Beatles, the simple answer would be George Harrison. However, that didn’t mean John Lennon (the rhythm guitarist) wouldn’t take a solo now and then.
Power to the People is a portrait of John and Yoko as a young married couple splashing down in New York City, making friends with the local radicals and con men and boho scenesters. In October 1971, ...
John Lennon revealed what he thought about The B-52’s and their relationship to Yoko Ono’s songs. A member of The B-52’s discussed what she thought of Yoko as a musician. Yoko had a considerable ...
If Sam Mendes’s four-part Beatles movies set to come out in 2028 is not enough to satiate your Beatlemania, worry not: a new book about John Lennon and Paul McCartney releases this April. Aptly titled ...
Beat;es discussed forming a trio at a time when Lennon was hungering to collaborate on music for the first time in years ...
Paul McCartney paid tribute to John Lennon at his Santa Barbara show on Friday, Sept. 26, by performing Lennon's song "Help!" ...
John Lennon had a knack for stand-alone Top 40 songs. As the following countdown shows, five of his 14 trips to Billboard’s main singles chart weren’t originally part of any original album. Included ...