1975 Rock Classic Is Suddenly Climbing the Charts 51 Years Later
More than 50 years after its original release, "Landslide" is once again climbing the charts.
The beloved 1975 Fleetwood Mac classic currently sits at No. 10 on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales Chart, earning a "Gains in Performance" designation as the song continues finding new audiences decades later.
Even more impressively, "Landslide" has now spent 57 weeks on Billboard's Rock Digital Song Sales chart and previously climbed as high as No. 5, making it one of Fleetwood Mac's most enduring digital-era hits.
Part of the song's renewed popularity comes from the way it continues circulating across streaming platforms, nostalgic social media trends and viral television moments that repeatedly introduce Fleetwood Mac to younger listeners.
Earlier this year, the original studio version of "Landslide" re-entered the cultural conversation after appearing in the season finale of Netflix's Stranger Things. The renewed attention helped push the song back onto the Billboard Hot 100, where it debuted at No. 41 in January 2026.
The song's continued chart longevity has also helped cement it as one of Fleetwood Mac's defining digital-era tracks. Among the band's biggest Rock Digital Song Sales hits, only "Dreams," "Everywhere" and "The Chain" have reached higher peaks on the chart.
Unlike many of Fleetwood Mac's biggest rock hits, "Landslide" became famous through its quiet emotional intimacy. Stevie Nicks famously wrote the song before joining Fleetwood Mac while questioning her future with Lindsey Buckingham and wondering whether music would ever work out for them.
Nicks has said she wrote the song while staying in Aspen, Colorado, looking out at the Rocky Mountains and reflecting on everything that "had come crashing down" in her life at the time.
Over time, the ballad evolved into one of classic rock's most enduring songs about change, aging and uncertainty.
Rolling Stone later ranked "Landslide" No. 163 on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time, writing that the song remains "a stunning reflection on aging" while noting how remarkably young Nicks was when she first wrote it.
Nicks later reflected on that difficult period during a 2014 interview with the New York Times.
"I wrote ‘Landslide' in 1973, when I was 27, and I did already feel old in a lot of ways," Nicks said. "I'd been working as a waitress and a cleaning lady for years. I was tired."
The song has continued developing new audiences through multiple generations of covers and reinterpretations. The Smashing Pumpkins turned "Landslide" into a major alternative-rock hit in the 1990s, while The Chicks later brought the song to country radio with their own Top 10 version in 2002.
More than five decades after Fleetwood Mac first released the song, "Landslide" continues finding new listeners who connect with its timeless message about life changing faster than anyone expects.
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This story was originally published May 25, 2026 at 10:47 PM.