THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR ROCK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Like all popular forms of music, rock has evolved. Records made in 1964 didn't sound like those made only five years earlier; a 1977 album doesn't have much in common with one from 1967.

THE WEEK'S MOST POPULAR HARD ROCK ALBUMS, BASED ON MULTIMETRIC CONSUMPTION, BLENDING TRADITIONAL ALBUM SALES, STREAMING-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS AND TRACK-EQUIVALENT ALBUMS, AS COMPILED BY LUMINATE.

Here is your 2025 hard rock + metal album release calendar and all of this week's newest albums! Each week is loaded with new rock and metal releases and keeping track of it all can be pretty ...

The Rolling Stones are up for Best Rock Album for Hackney Diamonds, the set that dropped in the fall of 2023, just after eligibility for the current awards opened. The set was the band’s first ...

2. ‘The Last DJ’ by Tom Petty An unfortunate entry on our list of rock albums that fans hated, the 2002 album The Last DJ shows Tom Petty struggling to maintain relevance in a new, evolved ...

Surveying it all, our list of the Top 40 Rock Albums of 1980 says a lot about how 12 months can make such a huge impact.

Black Sabbath albums ranked, from worst to best Some Black Sabbath albums are epoch-defining classics, some are average, some downright embarrassing, and we've ranked them – from woeful worst to ...

What have been the biggest rock albums of the 21st Century so far? Billboard has now released their list of the Top 200 Albums of the Decade and there's one rock album that's managed to crack the ...

In addition to our Most Anticipated Metal & Hard Rock Albums, check out our Most Anticipated Albums and Tours of 2025. While album sales are nowhere near where they used to be, thankfully the format ...

The Rolling Stones’ Hackney Diamonds served as the legendary group’s first original album together in 18 years, and now, it’s a Grammy winner. The Grammys had already shown their love for Hackney ...

Only one of the Top 20 albums on Billboard’s new list of the Top 200 Albums of the 21st Century is by a rock artist: Nickelback‘s 2005 release All the Right Reasons, which landed at No. 9.