There have been over 35 exhausting rock and metallic albums that went No. 1 within the 2000s.
We do not see exhausting rock and metallic prime the Billboard 200 fairly often anymore. As of Could 2025, Ghost‘s Skeleta is barely the second album of the 2020s to prime the chart, following AC/DC‘s Energy Up in November of 2020.
However the first decade of the century was stacked with extraordinarily profitable exhausting rock and metallic albums. That is not to say that there is not nonetheless wonderful music popping out within the style, it isn’t simply as mainstream because it was once. Plus, the power to stream and obtain music digitally has actually impacted album gross sales numbers lately.
The 2000s might have been the final time rock and metallic had been actually on the forefront of the music trade, so let’s look again on the releases between the years 2000 and 2009 to see which topped the Billboard 200.
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There have been a ton of big nu-metal albums that got here out in the course of the decade, particularly throughout the first couple of years. Releases from Limp Bizkit, Linkin Park, Disturbed, System of a Down and a few others peaked at No. 1, and put up grunge bands together with Creed and Godsmack had a profitable run too.
There was a little bit of a shift that occurred within the mid-2000s. A couple of big supergroups put out chart-toppers that proved they weren’t only a one-off aspect venture, after which just a few legacy acts got here again to reclaim the throne too. A selected American Idol contestant put out two No. 1 albums with their band regardless of being eradicated from the sequence, too.
For the sake of relevance, we restricted this listing to exhausting rock and metallic artists solely, so there have been some releases that we omitted. We additionally did not embody reside albums or compilations — solely new studio albums.
Maintain scrolling to move again in time by way of the 2000s.
Each Arduous Rock + Metallic Album That Went No. 1 within the 2000s (2000 – 2009)
Beneath is an inventory of each exhausting rock and metallic album from that peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 between the years 2000 and 2009.
Gallery Credit score: Lauryn Schaffner
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Gallery Credit score: Chad Childers, Loudwire
