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The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each song's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday.[1] The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American hard rock band Bon Jovi was number one with the Cross Road single "Always".[2]
As of the chart ending on 17 October 2024, a total of 393 songs have topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. 11 artists have topped the chart with eight or more different songs. The most successful are American group Foo Fighters and British rock band Muse who have both reached number one with 15 different songs. Five more artists have topped the chart with ten or more different songs: Linkin Park has 14 while Bon Jovi, My Chemical Romance and Bring Me the Horizon with 12 each, and Nickelback with 11. The Current Number-One is "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls.[3]
The following artists have been credited on at least eight different number one songs, as recognised by the OCC.
† | Indicates that the song reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart |
Artist | Number-one songs |
Total weeks at number one |
Songs | Record label(s) | First reached number one |
Weeks at number one |
Ref. | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Muse | 15 | 40 | "Hyper Music/Feeling Good" | Mushroom | 1 December 2001 | 1 | [4] | |
"Time Is Running Out" † | East West | 20 September 2003 | 1 | [5] | ||||
"Hysteria" | 13 December 2003 | 1 | [6] | |||||
"Supermassive Black Hole" † | A&E | 1 July 2006 | 5 | [7] | ||||
"Starlight" | Helium 3 Warner Bros. |
16 September 2006 | 4 | [8] | ||||
"Knights of Cydonia" † | 9 December 2006 | 2 | [9] | |||||
"Invincible" | 21 April 2007 | 2 | [10] | |||||
"Feeling Good" | A&E | 7 February 2009 | 11 | [11] | ||||
"Undisclosed Desires" | Warner Bros. | 28 November 2009 | 4 | [12] | ||||
"Resistance" | 6 March 2010 | 3 | [13] | |||||
"Psycho" | Helium 3 Warner Bros. |
28 March 2015 | 1 | [14] | ||||
"Dead Inside" | 4 April 2015 | 2 | [15] | |||||
"Mercy" | 30 May 2015 | 1 | [16] | |||||
"Thought Contagion" | Warner Bros. | 1 March 2018 | 1 | [17] | ||||
"Won't Stand Down" | 27 January 2022 | 1 | [18] | |||||
Foo Fighters | 15 | 32 | "I'll Stick Around" | Roswell | 16 September 1995 | 1 | [19] | |
"Big Me" | 6 April 1996 | 1 | [20] | |||||
"Monkey Wrench" | 10 May 1997 | 3 | [21] | |||||
"All My Life" † | RCA | 19 October 2002 | 2 | [22] | ||||
"Times Like These" | 18 January 2003 | 2 | [23] | |||||
"Best of You" † | 11 June 2005 | 5 | [24] | |||||
"DOA" | 17 September 2005 | 1 | [25] | |||||
"No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun" | 25 March 2006 | 1 | [26] | |||||
"Long Road to Ruin" | 15 December 2007 | 4 | [27] | |||||
"Walk" | 25 June 2011 | 3 | [28] | |||||
"Arlandria" | 17 September 2011 | 2 | [29] | |||||
"Something from Nothing" | 22 November 2014 | 2 | [30] | |||||
"Run" | 15 June 2017 | 2 | [31] | |||||
"The Sky Is a Neighborhood" | Columbia | 28 September 2017 | 3 | [32] | ||||
"Making a Fire" | 18 February 2021 | 1 | [33] | |||||
Linkin Park | 14 | 55 | "Papercut" | Warner Bros. | 30 June 2001 | 4 | [34] | |
"In the End" † | 20 October 2001 | 1 | [35] | |||||
"Pts.OF.Athrty" † | 3 August 2002 | 1 | [36] | |||||
"Somewhere I Belong" † | 29 March 2003 | 5 | [37] | |||||
"What I've Done" † | 19 May 2007 | 5 | [38] | |||||
"Bleed It Out" | 1 September 2007 | 2 | [39] | |||||
"New Divide" | 20 June 2009 | 13 | [40] | |||||
"The Catalyst" | 18 September 2010 | 3 | [41] | |||||
"Rolling in the Deep" (live) | 16 July 2011 | 1 | [42] | |||||
"Burn It Down" | 28 April 2012 | 7 | [43] | |||||
"Until It's Gone" | 17 May 2014 | 2 | [44] | |||||
"Numb" | 3 August 2017 | 5 | [45] | |||||
"Lost" | 17 February 2023 | 1 | [46] | |||||
"The Emptiness Machine" † | 13 September 2024 | 5 | [47] | |||||
Bon Jovi | 12 | 31 | "Always" † | Mercury | 15 October 1994 | 2 | [2] | |
"This Ain't a Love Song" † | 10 June 1995 | 4 | [48] | |||||
"Something for the Pain" † | 30 September 1995 | 1 | [49] | |||||
"These Days" † | 9 March 1996 | 3 | [50] | |||||
"Hey God" | 6 July 1996 | 1 | [51] | |||||
"Real Life" | Reprise | 10 April 1999 | 3 | [52] | ||||
"Thank You for Loving Me" | Mercury | 9 December 2000 | 3 | [53] | ||||
"One Wild Night" † | 19 May 2001 | 1 | [54] | |||||
"Everyday" † | 28 September 2002 | 1 | [55] | |||||
"All About Lovin' You" † | 24 May 2003 | 1 | [56] | |||||
"(You Want To) Make a Memory" | 7 July 2007 | 1 | [57] | |||||
"Livin' on a Prayer" † | 28 February 2009 | 11 | [58] | |||||
My Chemical Romance | 12 | 31 | "Helena" | Reprise | 4 June 2005 | 1 | [59] | |
"The Ghost of You" | 10 September 2005 | 1 | [60] | |||||
"Welcome to the Black Parade" † | 21 October 2006 | 9 | [61] | |||||
"Famous Last Words" † | 3 February 2007 | 6 | [62] | |||||
"Desolation Row" | 21 February 2009 | 1 | [63] | |||||
"Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)" | 20 November 2010 | 4 | [64] | |||||
"Planetary (Go!)" | 9 April 2011 | 1 | [65] | |||||
"Sing" | 16 April 2011 | 4 | [66] | |||||
"The World Is Ugly" | 29 December 2012 | 1 | [67] | |||||
"Kiss the Ring" | 19 January 2013 | 1 | [68] | |||||
"Fake Your Death" | 1 March 2014 | 1 | [69] | |||||
"The Foundations of Decay" | Warner | 20 May 2022 | 1 | [70] | ||||
Bring Me the Horizon | 12 | 28 | "Drown" | RCA | 20 December 2014 | 1 | [71] | |
"Happy Song" | 23 July 2015 | 2 | [72] | |||||
"Throne" | 6 August 2015 | 13 | [73] | |||||
"True Friends" | 3 December 2015 | 1 | [74] | |||||
"Follow You" | 31 March 2016 | 1 | [75] | |||||
"Mantra" | 30 August 2018 | 1 | [76] | |||||
"Parasite Eve" | 9 July 2020 | 2 | [77] | |||||
"Obey" | 17 September 2020 | 2 | [78] | |||||
"Teardrops" | 30 October 2020 | 2 | [79] | |||||
"Die4U" | 24 September 2021 | 2 | [80] | |||||
"Lost" | 12 May 2023 | 1 | [81] | |||||
"Kool-Aid" | 12 January 2024 | 1 | [82] | |||||
Nickelback | 11 | 60 | "How You Remind Me" † | Roadrunner | 9 March 2002 | 12 | [83] | |
"Too Bad" † | 31 August 2002 | 3 | [84] | |||||
"Someday" † | 27 September 2003 | 1 | [85] | |||||
"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good" | 27 March 2004 | 1 | [86] | |||||
"Photograph" | 8 October 2005 | 5 | [87] | |||||
"Far Away" | 25 February 2006 | 1 | [88] | |||||
"Rockstar" † | 24 November 2007 | 26 | [89] | |||||
"Gotta Be Somebody" | 29 November 2008 | 5 | [90] | |||||
"I'd Come for You" | 4 April 2009 | 2 | [91] | |||||
"If Today Was Your Last Day" | 13 June 2009 | 1 | [92] | |||||
"When We Stand Together" | 3 December 2011 | 3 | [93] | |||||
Green Day | 9 | 39 | "Stuck with Me" | Reprise | 27 January 1996 | 1 | [94] | |
"Hitchin' a Ride" | 11 October 1997 | 5 | [95] | |||||
"Minority" | 30 September 2000 | 4 | [96] | |||||
"Warning" | 23 December 2000 | 3 | [97] | |||||
"American Idiot" † | 25 September 2004 | 5 | [98] | |||||
"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" † | 11 December 2004 | 10 | [99] | |||||
"Holiday" | 26 March 2005 | 4 | [100] | |||||
"Wake Me Up When September Ends" † | 25 June 2005 | 7 | [101] | |||||
"Bang Bang" | 25 August 2016 | 1 | [102] | |||||
Fall Out Boy | 8 | 53 | "My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" † | Def Jam | 16 February 2013 | 8 | [103] | |
"The Phoenix" | 13 April 2013 | 1 | [104] | |||||
"Alone Together" | 31 August 2013 | 2 | [105] | |||||
"Young Volcanoes" | 9 November 2013 | 5 | [106] | |||||
"Centuries" | Island | 20 September 2014 | 27 | [107] | ||||
"Irresistible" | Def Jam | 17 January 2015 | 5 | [108] | ||||
"Uma Thurman" | 24 January 2015 | 4 | [109] | |||||
"Immortals" | 13 June 2015 | 1 | [110] | |||||
Metallica | 8 | 38 | "Until It Sleeps" † | Vertigo | 1 June 1996 | 2 | [111] | |
"Hero of the Day" | 28 September 1996 | 5 | [112] | |||||
"Mama Said" | 7 December 1996 | 1 | [113] | |||||
"The Memory Remains" | 22 November 1997 | 11 | [114] | |||||
"The Unforgiven II" | 7 March 1998 | 11 | [115] | |||||
"Whiskey in the Jar" | 27 February 1999 | 2 | [116] | |||||
"Enter Sandman" † | 12 July 2014 | 1 | [117] | |||||
"Master of Puppets" | 8 July 2022 | 6 | [118] | |||||
Iron Maiden | 8 | 12 | "Man on the Edge" † | EMI | 7 October 1995 | 1 | [119] | |
"The Wicker Man" † | 20 May 2000 | 2 | [120] | |||||
"Wildest Dreams" † | 13 September 2003 | 1 | [121] | |||||
"Rainmaker" | 6 December 2003 | 1 | [122] | |||||
"The Number of the Beast" (live) † | 15 January 2005 | 2 | [123] | |||||
"The Trooper" (live) † | 27 August 2005 | 2 | [124] | |||||
"Different World" † | 6 January 2007 | 2 | [125] | |||||
"The Number of the Beast" | 27 December 2014 | 1 | [126] |
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