From Prince to Joni Mitchell and Macca to the Bee Gees, the stars who were in such a creative purple patch that they had classics going spare and shopped them elsewhere.

Mac Miller's Balloonerism debuts at No. 1 on the Official Hip-Hop and R&B Albums chart, posthumously earning the star his first leader on the tally.

It's one thing to write a song that makes the charts. That's truly admirable. But it's another thing all together to write a song that climbs all the way up to the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100.