Album · Led Zeppelin
In Through the Out Door by Led Zeppelin
In Through the Out Door is an album by Led Zeppelin, released in 1979. 5 songs from it have charted on rock radio countdowns, with 242 countdown appearances in total. The biggest is “Fool in the Rain”, on 98 lists with a best position of #37.
In Through the Out Door, Led Zeppelin's eighth album, came out on their own Swan Song label in August 1979, and it's the sound of the mighty Zep taking a sharp left turn. It was cut in three weeks at the end of 1978 at ABBA's Polar Studios in Stockholm, with Jimmy Page producing. Page and John Bonham were often missing from the sessions, both caught up in substance abuse, so for once the songs came mostly from John Paul Jones and Robert Plant.
You can hear it: Jones's keyboards push right to the front, the riffs make way for synth swirls, and "Fool in the Rain" swings into a carnival shuffle while "All My Love" goes soft and stately. Fans lapped it up, sending it to number one in America, Britain, Canada and New Zealand. It was also the last record they released before Bonham died in September 1980, and three months later Led Zeppelin was no more.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
Songs from In Through the Out Door on radio countdowns
| # | Song | Strength | Lists | Best | #1s | Years |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Fool in the Rain#244 of all time | 98 | #37 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 2 | All My Love#293 of all time | 94 | #21 | – | 1982–2026 | |
| 3 | In the Evening | 33 | #24 | – | 1982–2025 | |
| 4 | Carouselambra | 10 | #705 | – | 1994–2023 | |
| 5 | Hot Dog | 7 | #662 | – | 2011–2023 |
Only songs that appear on at least one countdown are listed. Release data from MusicBrainz.