John Denver

"Friends With You" (1971): #4 on Adult Contemporary, #47 on Pop Singles

"Take Me Home, Country Roads" (1971): #3 on Adult Contemporary, #2 on Pop Singles

"Everyday" (1972): #81 on Pop Singles

"Goodbye Again" (1972): #88 on Pop Singles

"Farewell Andromeda (Welcome to My Morning)" (1973): #89 on Pop Singles

"I'd Rather Be a Cowboy (Lady's Chains)" (1973): #62 on Pop Singles

"Please Daddy (Don't Get Drunk This Christmas)" (1973): #69 on Country Singles

"Rocky Mountain High" (1973): #3 on Adult Contemporary, #9 on Pop Singles

"Annie's Song" (1974): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #9 on Country Singles, #1 on Pop Singles

"Back Home Again" (1974): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #1 on Country Singles, #5 on Pop Singles

"Sunshine on my Shoulders" (1974): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #42 on Country Singles, #1 on Pop Singles

"Calypso" (1975): #2 on Pop Singles

"I'm Sorry" (1975): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #1 on Country Singles, #1 on Pop Singles

"Sweet Surrender" (1975): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #7 on Country Singles, #13 on Pop Singles

"Thank God I'm a Country Boy" (1975): #5 on Adult Contemporary, #1 on Country Singles, #1 on Pop Singles

"Fly Away" (1976): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #12 on Country Singles, #13 on Pop Singles

"Like a Sad Song" (1976): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #35 on Country Singles, #36 on Pop Singles

"Looking For Space" (1976): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #30 on Country Singles, #29 on Pop Singles

"How Can I Leave You Again" (1977): #2 on Adult Contemporary, #22 on Country Singles, #44 on Pop Singles

"Some Days Are Diamonds (Some Days are Stone)" (1981): #10 on Country Singles, #36 on Pop Singles

"Perhaps Love" (1982): #22 on Adult Contemporary, #59 on Pop Singles

"Shanghai Breezes" (1982): #1 on Adult Contemporary, #31 on Pop Singles

"Wild Montana Skies" (1983): #26 on Adult Contemporary, #14 on Country Singles

"Dreamland Express" (1985): #9 on Country Singles

Totals:

9 #1s on Adult Contemporary, 13 Top Tens

4 #1s on Pop Singles, 8 Top Tens

3 #1s on Country Singles, 7 Top Tens

Albums:

<i>Rhymes and Reasons</i> (1969): #148 on Pop Albums
<i>Take Me To Tomorrow</i> (1970): #197 on Pop Albums
<i>Poems, Prayers, and Promises</i> (1971): #6 on Country Albums, #15 on Pop Albums
<i>Aerie</i> (1972): #37 on Country Albums, #75 on Pop Albums
<i>Rocky Mountain High</i> (1972): #40 on Country Albums, #4 on Pop Albums
<i>Farewell Andromeda</i> (1973): #16 on Pop Albums
<i>John Denver's Greatest Hits</i> (1974): #1 on Pop Albums
<i>Back Home Again</i> (1974): #1 on Country Albums, #1 on Pop Albums
<i>An Evening With John Denver</i> (1975): #1 on Country Albums, #2 on Pop Albums
<i>Windsong</i> (1975): #1 on Country Albums, #1 on Pop Albums
<i>Rocky Mountain Christmas</i> (1975): #14 on Pop Albums
<i>Spirit</i> (1976): #3 on Country Albums, #7 on Pop Albums
<i>John Denver's Greatest Hits Volume 2</i>: #7 on Country Albums, #6 on Pop Albums
<i>I Want to Live</i> (1977): #10 on Country Albums, #45 on Pop Albums
<i>John Denver</i> (1979): #10 on Country Albums, #25 on Pop Albums
<i>Autograph</i> (1980): #28 on Country Albums, #39 on Pop Albums
<i>Some Days Are Diamonds</i> (1981): #7 on Country Albums, #32 on Pop Albums
<i>Seasons of the Heart</i> (1982): #39 on Pop Albums
<i>It's About Time</i> (1983): #55 on Country Albums, #61 on Pop Albums
<i>Dreamland Express</i> (1985): #64 on Country Albums, #90 on Pop Albums
<i>Higher Ground</i> (1988): #49 on Country Albums
<i>All Aboard!</i> (1996): #2 on Kid's Albums
<i>The Wildlife Concert</i> (1997): #8 on Country Albums
<i>Definitive All-Time Greatest Hits</i> (2004): #9 on Country Albums

Totals:

3 #1 Country Albums, 11 Top Tens

3 #1 Pop Albums, 7 Top Tens

And, like Grace Jones, he's had many other entries elsewhere (he was more popular abroad than he ever was here), but those are too hard to find. In fact, during the Cultural Revolution in China, John Denver was the only Western artist that Chairman Mao allowed to be played on the radio.

It should also be noted that when <i>John Denver's Greatest Hits</I> sold more than 10 million copies in 1974 (it's north of 20 million now), it was only the third album in the history of music to do so.