The 28 Classic Rock Albums To Hit No. 1 Since 2000

Classic rock’s biggest stars have found it harder than ever to earn No. 1 albums in recent decades.As you can see in the gallery below, only 28 albums by acts best associated with the genre and popular radio format have topped Billboard’s Top 200 albums chart since 2000. What’s more, those albums were released by a little over a dozen different acts.Bruce Springsteen is the clear leader of the pack here, having scored six different chart-topping albums between 2002 and 2014. Although he remains a powerful commercial power, his last two albums of original music – 2019’s Western Stars and 2020’s Letter to You – peaked at No. 2, kept off the top spot by Madonna and Luke Combs, respectively.To date, the most recent  undeniably classic rock artist to hit the top spot was AC/DC with 2020’s Power Up.READ MORE: 25 Artists Who Have Stopped Touring in the Past 10 YearsOf course with any list of this type, judgment calls must be made.As proof that rock isn’t completely dead on the charts yet, below the gallery of classic rock acts who hit No. 1 you will find a list of other rock acts who have topped the album charts since 2000.The 28 Classic Rock Albums To Hit No. 1 Since 2000Classic rock’s biggest stars have struggled to hit the top of the charts in recent years.Gallery Credit: Matthew WilkeningOther Rock Albums That Have Topped the Charts Since 2000:2000:Radiohead, Kid ALimp Bizkit, Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water2001:Dave Matthews Band, EverydayTool, LateralusStaind, Break the CycleSystem of a Down, ToxicityCreed, Weathered2002:Creed, Weathered (again)Dave Matthews Band, Busted Stuff2003:Linkin Park, MeteoraGodsmack, FacelessMarilyn Manson, The Golden Age of GrotesqueStaind, 14 Shades of Grey2004:Green Day, American IdiotJay Z / Linkin Park, Collision Course2005:Green Day, American Idiot (again)3 Doors Down, Seventeen DaysNine Inch Nails, With TeethDave Matthews Band, Stand UpSystem of a Down, MezmerizeAudioslave, Out of ExileStaind, Chapter VDisturbed, Ten Thousand FistsSystem of a Down, Hypnotize2006:Godsmack, IVTool, 10,000 DaysRed Hot Chili Peppers, Stadium ArcadiumJohnny Cash, American V: A Hundred Highways2007:Fall Out Boy, Infinity on HighDaughtry, DaughtryModest Mouse, We Were Dead Before the Ship Even SankLinkin Park, Minutes to MidnightKid Rock, Rock and Roll Jesus2008:Radiohead, In RainbowsJack Johnson, Sleep Through the StaticNeil Diamond, Home Before DarkDeath Cab for Cutie, Narrow Stairs3 Doors Down, 3 Doors DownDisturbed, IndestructibleSlipknot, All Hope is Gone2009:Green Day, 21st Century BreakdownDave Matthews Band, Big Whiskey & the GrooGrux KingDaughtry, Leave This TownPearl Jam, Backspacer2010:Vampire Weekend, ContraGodsmack, The OracleJack Johnson, To the SeaAvenged Sevenfold, NightmareArcade Fire, The SuburbsDistubed, AsylumLinkin Park, A Thousand Suns2011:Foo Fighters, Wasting LightEvanescence, Evanescence2012:Jack White, BlunderbussMatchbox Twenty, NorthDave Matthews Band, Away From the World2013:Fall Out Boy, Save Rock and RollQueens of the Stone Age, …Like ClockworkAvenged Sevenfold, Hail to the KingPearl Jam, Lightning BoltArcade Fire, Reflektor2014:Black Keys, Turn BlueJack White, LazarettoMaroon 5, VSlipknot, .5 the Gray Chapter2015:Fall Out Boy, American Beauty / American Psycho2016:Kings of Leon, Walls2017:Linkin Park, One More LightFoo Fighters, Concrete and GoldThe Killers, Wonderful Wonderful2018:Jack White, Boarding House ReachDave Matthews Band, Come Tomorrow2019:The Raconteurs, Help Us StrangerSlipknot, We Are Not Your KindTool, Fear Inoculum2020, 2021:None2022:Red Hot Chili Peppers, Unlimited Love2023, 2024:NoneEvery Rock + Metal Album That Went No. 1 in the ’90sHere is every rock and metal album that reached No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart in the 1990s.Gallery Credit: Lauryn Schaffner