Classic rock’s largest stars have discovered it more durable than ever to earn No. 1 albums in latest many years. As you may see in the gallery beneath, solely 33 albums by acts greatest related to the style and widespread radio format have topped Billboard‘s Top 200 albums chart since 2000. What’s extra, these albums have been launched by simply 17 totally different acts.

Bruce Springsteen is the clear chief of the pack right here, having scored six totally different chart-topping albums between 2002 and 2014. Although he stays a strong business energy, his final two albums of authentic music – 2019’s Western Stars and 2020’s Letter to You – peaked at No. 2, stored off the high spot by Madonna and Luke Combs, respectively.

Similarly, Metallica’s decades-long streak of chart-topping new studio albums was snapped with 2023’s 72 Seasons, which was held out of the high spot by nation sar Morgan Wallen. To date, the most up-to-date  undeniably basic rock artist to hit the high spot was AC/DC with 2020’s Power Up.

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Of course with any record of this sort, judgment calls should be made. It could possibly be argued that acts comparable to Pearl Jam, Green Day and Foo Fighters have earned the proper to be referred to as basic rockers – if they’d even need that – however finally they have been all initially and are nonetheless mostly recognized as various rock artists. As proof that rock is not utterly useless on the charts but, beneath the gallery of basic rock acts who hit No. 1 you can see a listing of different rock acts who’ve topped the album charts since 2000.

Other Rock Albums That Have Topped the Charts Since 2000:

2000:
Radiohead, Kid A
Limp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water

2001:
Dave Matthews Band, Everyday
Tool, Lateralus
Staind, Break the Cycle
System of a Down, Toxicity
Creed, Weathered

2002:
Creed, Weathered (once more)
Dave Matthews Band, Busted Stuff

2003:
Linkin Park, Meteora
Godsmack, Faceless
Marilyn Manson, The Golden Age of Grotesque
Staind, 14 Shades of Grey

2004:
Green Day, American Idiot
Jay Z / Linkin Park, Collision Course

2005:
Green Day, American Idiot (once more)
3 Doors Down, Seventeen Days
Nine Inch Nails, With Teeth
Dave Matthews Band, Stand Up
System of a Down, Mezmerize
Audioslave, Out of Exile
Staind, Chapter V
Disturbed, Ten Thousand Fists
System of a Down, Hypnotize

2006:
Godsmack, IV
Tool, 10,000 Days
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium Arcadium
Johnny Cash, American V: A Hundred Highways

2007:
Fall Out Boy, Infinity on High
Daughtry, Daughtry
Modest Mouse, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank
Linkin Park, Minutes to Midnight
Kid Rock, Rock and Roll Jesus

2008:
Radiohead, In Rainbows
Jack Johnson, Sleep Through the Static
Neil Diamond, Home Before Dark
Death Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs
3 Doors Down, 3 Doors Down
Disturbed, Indestructible
Slipknot, All Hope is Gone

2009:
Green Day, twenty first Century Breakdown
Dave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux King
Daughtry, Leave This Town
Pearl Jam, Backspacer

2010:
Vampire Weekend, Contra
Godsmack, The Oracle
Jack Johnson, To the Sea
Avenged Sevenfold, Nightmare
Arcade Fire, The Suburbs
Distubed, Asylum
Linkin Park, A Thousand Suns

2011:
Foo Fighters, Wasting Light
Evanescence, Evanescence

2012:
Jack White, Blunderbuss
Matchbox Twenty, North
Dave Matthews Band, Away From the World

2013:
Fall Out Boy, Save Rock and Roll
Queens of the Stone Age, …Like Clockwork
Avenged Sevenfold, Hail to the King
Pearl Jam, Lightning Bolt
Arcade Fire, Reflektor

2014:
Black Keys, Turn Blue
Jack White, (*33*)
Maroon 5, V
Slipknot, .5 the Gray Chapter

2015:
Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho

2016:
Kings of Leon, Walls

2017:
Linkin Park, One More Light
Foo Fighters, Concrete and Gold
The Killers, Wonderful Wonderful

2018:
Jack White, Boarding House Reach
Dave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow

2019:
The Raconteurs, Help Us Stranger
Slipknot, We Are Not Your Kind
Tool, Fear Inoculum

2020, 2021:
None

2022:
Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love

2023, 2024:
None