How Many Times Has Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ Hit the Top of the Charts in the Past Decade? The Answer Will Surprise You

Lori Acken 5 seconds ago

Anglo-American rock group Fleetwood Mac with awards for British sales of their albums 'Rumours' and Tusk', Wembley Arena, London, June 1980. The band are backstage at one of six shows between 20th - 27th June. Left to right: John McVie, Mick Fleetwood, Christine McVie, Lindsey Buckingham and Stevie Nicks — Michael Putland/Getty Images

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Now here they go again! If you’ve ever doubted the power of Fleetwood Mac‘s iconic 1975 album Rumours to enthrall generation after generation of music lovers, all you need to do is check out last week’s Billboard Rock Streaming Songs chart. Holding the No. 1 position is the Stevie Nicks-penned hit “Dreams,” which hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart on June 1977. Not only that, the song enters its 287th week appearing somewhere on the Rock Streaming Songs chart.

If you’re unfamiliar, Billboard’s Rock Streaming Songs is a genre-specific chart that ranks the most-streamed rock songs in the US each week. Compiled by Luminate, which offers combined data from Nielsen Music and two other entertainment business aggregators, the chart counts only on-demand streams, which means individual listeners must actively request the song. Radio-style, programmed streams don’t count.

The Billboard Rock Streaming Songs chart serves a few intriguing purposes. Not only does it track the popularity of new releases from current movers and shakers on the rock ’n’ roll scene, but it also monitors classic tracks finding new life in such ways as movie soundtracks or TV usage, social media appearances or other pop culture moments. The chart is updated every Tuesday.

Even before social media’s ability to revive a classic tune’s popularity, “Dreams” found a way back onto lots of people’s play lists. A 2011 dream-centric episode of Glee‘s first season featured Matthew Morrison as glee club head Will Schuester and his former high-school classmate April Rhodes (guest star Kristin Chenoweth) performing the tune as a duet.

In 2018, “Dreams” climbed Billboard’s Hot Rock Songs chart, thanks to a viral tweet that featured the Alcorn State University dance line, the Golden Girls, giving a modern twist to the song. The tweet was so popular that the entire Rumours album enjoyed a boost.

A couple years later, “Dreams” climbed to No. 1 on Billboard’s Rock Digital Song Sales chart and No. 12 on its Hot 100, after a viral TikTok video of Nathan Apodaca, aka @420doggface208, suffered a truck breakdown on his way to work. Undeterred Apodaca grabbed his trusty longboard skateboard, a bottle Ocean Spray Cran-Raspberry for hydration and finished the last two miles to his job, filming himself, accompanied by “Dreams,” on his TikTok account as he rolled.

So why is “Dreams” back at No. 1 today? Could be a number of reasons. Former longtime Fleetwood Mac members Stevie Nicks and Lindsey Buckingham, whose contentious breakup contributed to Nicks penning the song, recently announced a re-release their pre-Fleetwood album Buckingham Nicks for Sept. 19, 2025. And in the fall of 2024, a long-awaited, fully-authorized Fleetwood Mac documentary was announced by rock documentarian Frank Marshall and Apple Original Films. No release date for the latter has been announced.

Fleetwood Mac, (Stevie Nicks, Lindsey Buckingham), early 1980s

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No current or former members of Fleetwood Mac have said anything publicly about the song’s return to No. 1. But the band’s fans know it’s likely only a matter of time until it happens again, to “Dreams,” to Rumours or to another Mac track. Thunder may only happen when it’s raining, but, for Fleetwood Mac, lightning seems to strike again and again.

What Fleetwood Mac song would you like to see hit the charts again? Let us know in the comments below.