Frank Beard, drummer for ZZ Top for 56 years, died on 17 August, prompting a retrospective of the Texas trio's chart success on Billboard's Hot 100 and Billboard 200. His death follows that of bassist Dusty Hill in July 2021, leaving guitarist and vocalist Billy Gibbons, 76, as the sole surviving original member; Gibbons has said he and current bassist Elwood Francis will continue the band. ZZ Top, inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame in 2004, became particularly prominent in the mid-1980s as MTV embraced their distinctive visual style.

Between 1972 and 1991 the band scored 17 Hot 100 hits, including eight top 40 entries, with "Legs" and "Sleeping Bag" both peaking at No. 8. On the Billboard 200, ZZ Top achieved 22 charting albums and seven top 10 placements over 38 years, from Tres Hombres in 1974 to La Futura in 2012, while also notching 16 top 10s and six No. 1s on the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart between 1985 and 1994.