The most effective-selling rock album of 2024 is 47 years outdated.
In a yr dominated by pop, nation and hip-hop, Fleetwood Mac’s 1977 masterpiece Rumours was the highest-charting rock album on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart, touchdown at No. 34, only one spot forward of Elton John’s 2017 best hits assortment Diamonds.
Simply 29 of the High 200 albums on Billboard‘s year-end 2024 chart had been from rock artists. Depressingly, none of them had been launched this yr. All however 5 of the 29 had been best hits collections. Apart from Rumours, the one non-compilation rock albums to make the chart had been Nirvana’s Nevermind, AC/DC’s Again in Black, Linkin Park’s [Hybrid Theory] and Chic’s self-titled 1996 album.
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Taylor Swift earned the highest two spots and 4 of the High 10, hitting No. 1 together with her newest album The Tortured Poets Division, No. 2 with 1989 (Taylor’s Model), No. 9 with 2019’s Lover and No. 10 with 2022’s Midnights.
You may see the place every of the 29 rock albums landed on Billboard‘s 2024 year-end chart under.
Rock Albums in Billboard’s 2024 12 months-Finish High 200
34. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours
35. Elton John, Diamonds
40. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: Their 20 Best Hits
47. Queen, Best Hits
51. Bob Marley, Legend: The Better of Bob Marley and the Wailers75. Nickleback, The Better of Nickelback: Quantity 1
93. Nirvana, Nevermind
94. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Best Hits
99. Journey, Journey’s Best Hits
104. Weapons N’ Roses, Best Hits
106. Daryl Corridor and John Oates, The Very Better of Daryl Corridor John Oates
112. Abba, Gold: Best Hits
129. Aerosmith, Best Hits
141. Linkin Park, Papercuts
142. Foo Fighters, Best Hits
143. Bob Seger & the Silver Bullet Band, Best Hits
146. Lynyrd Skynyrd, All Time Best Hits
155. Bon Jovi, Best Hits: The Final Assortment
158. Fleetwood Mac, Best Hits
162. AC/DC, Again in Black
166. Elvis Presley, Elvis: 30 #1 Hits
169. Blink-182, Best Hits
180. Linkin Park, [Hybrid Theory]
182. The Beatles, The Beatles 1967-1970
187. Eagles, Their Best Hits: 1971-1975
189. Billy Joel, The Important Billy Joel
193. The Beatles, The Beatles 1962-1966
197. Chic, Chic
199. Creed, Best Hits
High 25 Rock Albums of 2024
As soon as once more, stories of the style’s dying have been enormously exaggerated.
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