National Album Day: Official biggest rock and metal albums of the 21st century revealed

01 Green Day - American Idiot 2.6m

02 Linkin Park - Hybrid Theory 2m

03 The Darkness - Permission to Land 1.45m

04 Evanescence - Fallen 1.35m

05 Muse - Black Holes & Revelations 1.22m

06 My Chemical Romance - The Black Parade

07 Nickelback - Silver Side Up

08 Linkin Park - Metora

09 Nickelback - All the Right Reasons

10 Limp Bizkit - Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog

11 Muse - Absolution

12 Foo Fighters - One By One

13 Red Hot Chili Peppers - Stadium Arcadium

14 Foo Fighters - In Your Honor

15 Muse - The Resistance

16 Muse - Origin of Symmetry

17 Linkin Park - Minutes to Midnight

18 Foo Fighters - Echoes, Silence, Patience and Grace

19 System of a Down - Toxicity

20 Queens of the Stone Age - Songs for the Deaf

21 Sum 41 - All Killer No Filler

22 Paramore - Brand New Eyes

23 My Chemical Romance - Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge

24 Paramore - Riot

25 Foo Fighters - Wasting Light

26 Blink 182 - Blink 182

27 Nickelback - Dark Horse

28 Good Charlotte - The Young and the Hopeless

29 Green Day - 21st Century Breakdown

30 Blink 182 - Take Off Your Pants and Jacket

31 AC/DC - Black Ice

32 Pink Floyd - The Endless River

33 Green Day - Bullet in a Bible

34 Papa Roach - Infest

35 Lost Prophets - Start Something

36 Slipknot - Iowa

37 Puddle of Mudd - Come Clean

38 Staind - Break the Cycle

39 Audioslave - Audioslave

40 Bring Me the Horizon - That's the Spirit

https://www.officialcharts.com/chart-news/official-biggest-rock-and-metal-albums-of-the-21st-century/

Excellent #1 💚

Where's Red Hot Chili Peppers' By The Way album?

35 is a bit awkward...

Wow, only one Evanescence appearance. Not even 'The Open Door' sold well enough.

Baffling to see Limp Bizkit that high. I thought they are far more popular through a few singles.

Part of me thought 'Liberation Transmission' was the bigger lostprophets album on the back of their best single 'Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast)'.

Edited October 18, 2025Oct 18 by AllStarBySmashMouth

A bit misleading as it doesn’t include Greatest Hits.

I guess Oasis isn't rock enough, and the exclusion of By the Way is baffling.

OCC categorises Oasis as indie or something.

7 minutes ago, Sour Candy said:

I guess Oasis isn't rock enough, and the exclusion of By the Way is baffling.

Yes, it’s just hard rock/metal (or, whatever they consider to be that).

The OCC’s rock singles charts quite often misses songs I’d consider to be in that genre. Yet Fall Out Boy’s Centuries is a mainstay!

Speaking of which, seems that Infinity on High didn't qualify either (certified double platinum).

Some great albums in that list!

Weird that they include Stadium Arcadium but not By The Way... Some cracking albums here, great to see the Muse domination!

Permission to land is such a great album! 🥰

Nickelbavk really did have a rollercoaster of a career didnt they

Edited October 19, 2025Oct 19 by 777666jason

Wow I had no idea American Idiot had sold quite that much! Shame we've only got sales for the top 5.