2017 in rock music

Notable events

January
  • Highly Suspect's single "My Name is Human" is the number one song on the US Billboard Mainstream Rock Songs chart for three weeks of the month, for 8 weeks total in combining five weeks in 2017.[1][2]
  • Ghost's single "Square Hammer" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for two weeks. The song is their first to top the chart, and made them the first Swedish band to do so as well.[3][1]
  • AFI releases their tenth studio album AFI. It debuts at number 5 on the US Billboard 200 chart, selling 29,000 album equivalent units.[4]
  • Starset releases their second studio album, Vessels. It debuts at number 11 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 40,000 copies in the first half of they year.[5][6]

February
  • Green Day's single "Still Breathing" concurrently tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock, Alternative Songs, and Rock Airplay charts for a single week.[7]
  • Metallica's single "Atlas, Rise!" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for 2 weeks.[8]
  • Shinedown's single "How Did You Love?" tops the Billboard Mainstream rock chart, and stays there for 4 weeks.[9]

March

April
  • Papa Roach's single "Help" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for 6 weeks straight.[17]
  • Incubus releases their eighth studio album, 8. It debuts at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 52,000 album equivalent units.[18]

May
  • Seether's single "Let You Down" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for 4 weeks straight.[19][1]
  • Linkin Park's releases their seventh studio album, One More Light. It tops the Billboard 200 chart, selling 110,000 album equivalent units. It was also the band's sixth studio album to top the chart, a feat only nine other rock bands have ever done.[20]
  • Harry Styles releases his debut solo album, Harry Styles, an album noted for its 1970s and 1980s classic rock sound.[21] It tops the Billboard 200 chart, selling 230,000 album equivalent units.[22] It is also the top selling album of the week many other countries, including the United Kingdom, Belgium, Canada, The Czech Republic and Scotland.[23]
  • The Beatles 50th anniversary reissue of their 1967 album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band pushes the album back up to number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart.[24]

June
  • Stone Sour's single "Song #3" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for 4 weeks straight, their fourth song to top the chart.[25]
  • Nickelback releases their ninth studio album, Feed the Machine. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 47,000 album equivalent units.[26]
  • Stone Sour releases their sixth studio album Hydrograd. It debuts at number 8 on the Billboard' 200 chart, selling 33,000 album equivalent units, and tops the Billboard Hard Rock chart.[27]

July

August
  • Royal Blood's single "Lights Out" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart, and stays there for 2 weeks. It is their second song to top the chart.[30]
  • Queens of the Stone Age release their seventh studio album, Villains. It debuts at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 73,000 album equivalent units, and tops the Top Albums Sales chart.[31]
  • Brand New releases their fifth and final album, Science Fiction, their first new release in 8 years. The album tops the Billboard 200 chart, selling 58,000 album equivalent units, their only album to top the chart.[32]
  • Steven Wilson, frontman of long-running progressive rock bands Porcupine Tree and Blackfield, releases his highest charting album of his thirty-year career, his fifth solo album To the Bone. It debuts at number three UK all-format chart.[33]
  • It is announced that Starset has accumulated 1 billion views of their content on YouTube. The accomplishment is partially attributed to their popular single "Monster", which, was the second most-played song of Mainstream Rock radio for the year as of August.[34]

September
  • Greta Van Fleet's single "Highway Tune" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart and stays there for 5 weeks. The band is one of few who top the chart with their very first single sent to the chart.[35]
  • The Foo Fighters release their ninth studio album, Concrete and Gold. It tops the all-format US Billboard 200 chart, selling 127,000 album equivalent units. It is the only hard rock album to top the US charts in 2017.[36]

October

November

December
  • U2 release's their fourteenth studio album, Songs of Experience. The album tops the Billboard 200, selling 186,000 album equivalent units. It is the highest rock album debut of 2017, and the band's eighth album to top the chart, a feat few prior bands have done.[41]
  • The Foo Fighter's single "The Sky is a Neighborhood" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Rock Airplay charts concurrently.[42] It stays at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for 4 weeks.[1]

Year end
  • Metallica's Hardwired... to Self-Destruct is declared top rock album of 2017 by Billboard, selling 1.1 million copies over the course of 2017, and being the only rock band to have a platinum selling album in 2017.[8]
  • The Billboard Mainstream Rock Year End chart indicates that Stone Sour's "Song #3" is the most popular song on the chart for the year of 2017, followed by Highly Suspect's "Little One", and Starset's "Monster" in second and third respectively.[43]
  • Billboard staff vote Harry Styles's pop rock song "Sign of the Times" as the best rock song of 2017.[44]

Deaths

Band breakups
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