Ace Frehley’s Biggest Billboard Hits, With KISS & Beyond

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Frehley rocked connected the charts with smashes similar "Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)," "Shout It Out Loud" & "New York Groove."

10/16/2025

Guitarist Ace Frehley of the stone and rotation set KISS performs onstage astatine the Civic Auditorium connected May 31, 1974 successful Long Beach, California.

The late Ace Frehley‘s past connected the Billboard Hot 100 illustration is stacked with iconic stone smashes similar “Beth,” “Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)” and “Shout It Out Loud,” each from his enactment arsenic a founding subordinate of the stone set KISS, successful summation to his ain precocious 1970s solo smash “New York Groove.”

After KISS formed successful 1973 with Peter Criss, Frehley, Gene Simmons and Paul Stanley, the set would statesman its Billboard illustration takeover successful April 1974, erstwhile its self-titled debut medium deed the Billboard 200, portion the single’ “Kissin’ Time” arrived connected the Hot 100 the pursuing month.

Before Frehley departed KISS successful the aboriginal 1980s, the set had racked up an awesome postulation of hits connected the Hot 100, including apical 40-charting singles similar “Rock and Roll All Nite (Live)” (a No. 12 deed successful 1976), “Shout It Out Loud” (No. 31 successful 1976), the ballad “Beth” (No. 7 successful 1976), “Hard Luck Woman” (No. 15 successful 1977) and the disco-flavored “I Was Made for Lovin’ You” (No. 11 successful 1979). (Frehley would famously reunite with KISS successful 1996 for a reunion circuit and caller albums. He near the enactment a 2nd clip successful 2002.)

In 1978, the 4 founding members of KISS each released their ain solo albums and singles, with Frehley scoring the highest-charting Hot 100 deed of the quartet, with his No. 13-peaking “New York Groove” successful 1979. Its genitor album, Frehley’s self-titled solo debut, would scope No. 26 connected the Billboard 200 and go his archetypal of much than 10 charting albums (both arsenic a soloist oregon arsenic the frontman of the set Frehley’s Comet) done 2024’s 10,000 Volts.

Below is simply a apical 10 ranking of Frehley’s biggest hits connected the Hot 100 chart, arsenic a soloist and during his clip with KISS. The ranking is based connected existent show connected the play Hot 100 done the Oct. 18, 2025, chart. Titles are ranked connected an inverse constituent system, with weeks astatine No. 1 earning the top worth and weeks astatine No. 100 earning the least. Due to changes successful illustration methodology implicit the years, eras are weighted to relationship for antithetic illustration turnover rates implicit assorted periods.

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