List of years in rock music

This page lists the individual year in rock music pages. Each year is annotated with a few of the top performing bands, songs, and significant events of each year, with further details at each respective article.

2018

• 2018 in rock music
  • Jack White, Dave Matthews Band, Fall Out Boy, and Panic! at the Disco all have number one albums on the all-format US Billboard 200 album chart.^[1][2][3][4]
  • Ghost's single "Rats" tops the Mainstream Rock chart for seven straight weeks.^[5][6]
  • A Perfect Circle releases their first album in 14 years, Eat the Elephant.^[7] Billy Corgan reforms 3/4's of the Smashing Pumpkin's original lineup.^[8]

2017

• 2017 in rock music
  • Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, and U2 all have number one albums on the US all-format Billboard 200 album chart.^[9][10][11]
  • The Foo Fighters tops the Mainstream Rock charts for a cumulative 8 weeks across their two singles "Run" and "The Sky is a Neighborhood". Papa Roach's "Help" and Theory of a Deadman's "Rx (Medicate)" each spend six weeks at the top of the chart as well.^[12]
  • Both Chris Cornell, lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave, and Chester Bennington, lead singer of the band Linkin Park, committ suicide.^[13][14]

2016

• 2016 in rock music
  • Blink 182, Green Day, and Panic! at the Disco all have number one albums on the US all-format Billboard 200 album chart.^[15][16][17]
  • Disturbed's single "The Sound of Silence", a rock cover version of the song by Simon & Garfunkel, tops the Mainstream Rock chart for seven straight weeks,^[18] and goes on to be certified triple platinum in the US, selling 3 million copies.^[19]
  • Coldplay performs at the halftime show for Super Bowl 50.^[20]

2015

• 2015 in rock music
  • Disturbed, Breaking Benjamin and Fall Out Boy all have number one albums on the US all-format Billboard 200 album chart.^[21][22][23]
  • Foo Fighters single "Something from Nothing" goes through the second half of its 13-week run at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart.^[24][25] Breaking Benjamin spends 9 weeks atop of the chart with "Failure", Shinedown 7 weeks with "Cut the Cord".^[24]
  • Country music musician Zac Brown and his band have success with more rock-oriented material, collaborating with the Foo Fighters on the song “Congregation”, and with Chris Cornell with the song "Heavy is the Head", both of which top the Mainstream Rock chart for multiple weeks.^[26][27]

2014

• 2014 in rock music
  • The Black Keys, Jack White, Slipknot, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, and Coldplay all have number one albums on the US all-format Billboard 200 chart.^{[28][29][30][31][32]}
  • Foo Fighters's single "Something From Nothing" spends 8 weeks atop of the Billboard Mainstream Rock songs chart, Seether's "Words as Weapons" and The Pretty Reckless's Heaven Knows" both spend 5 weeks at the top of the chart each.^[33]
  • U2 releases their thirteenth studio album Songs of Innocence in a non-traditional and controversial manner - an automatic download to all registered iTunes accounts to mixed results.^[34][35][36]

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