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2007 in rock music

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2007.

Notable events

January

February

  • Fall Out Boy releases their third studio album, Infinity on High. It debut atop of the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 200,000 copies in its opening week. It stays in the top 10 for its second and third weeks, selling another 119,000 and 79,000 copies respectively.
  • At the peak of their album's popularity, Fall Out Boy's single concurrently charts high, with "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" peaking at number 2 on the Billboard all-format Hot 100 song chart.
  • Daughtry continues to have success on the charts as well, with the Daughtry album staying in the top 10, and eventually again topping, the Billboard 200 chart, while the single "It's Not Over" peaking at number 4 on the Hot 100 song chart.

March

April

  • Hellyeah, a supergroup featuring members from Pantera, Mudvayne, and Nothingface, release their debut, self-titled album. It debuts at number 9 on the Billboard 200, selling 45,000 copies.
  • Bright Eyes releases their eighth studio album, Cassadaga. It debuts at number 4 on the Billboard 200, the highest placement of their career to-date.
  • Nine Inch Nails releases their fifth studio album, Year Zero. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 187,000 copies in its opening week. It holds on to the number 3 spot in its second week as well, selling another 58,000 copies.
  • Linkin Park's "What I've Done", despite it being the first single to be a departure from the band's established nu metal sound, the alternative rock song ends up being the band's third highest-charting song of their career on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 7.
  • Pop punk band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has the highest-charting song of their career, with "Face Down" reaching 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is their first of only two songs that ever chart there.

May

  • Manic Street Preachers release their eighth studio album, Send Away the Tigers. It peaks at number 2 on the UK albums chart, and was later certified gold.
  • Linkin Park releases their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. It debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 623,000 copies in its opening week. This make it the best-selling debut of the year as of that point, and only one of only 6 albums in a 2 year period to debut with over 600,000 copies sold in its first week. The album holds on to the runner up spot in its second week, selling almost another 200,000 copies, but being bumped from the top spot by Maroon 5's It Won't Be Soon Before Long. It holds on to the third place spot in its third week, selling another 100,000 copies.
  • The Used releases their third studio album, Lies for the Liars. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200, selling 92,000 copies. To date, the album has the band's highest charting position on the chart, though their prior album, In Love and Death, sold slightly more with 93,000 copies in its opening week.
  • Daughtry's self-titled continues to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.
  • Rush releases their eighteenth studio album, Snakes & Arrows. It debuts at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 93,000 copies. Only their 1993 album Counterparts debuted higher, at number 2.
  • Papa Roach's single "Forever" peaks at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the second highest-charting song of their career to date.
  • Green Day's cover of John Lennon's song "Working Class Hero" peaks at number 53 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

June

July

  • The Smashing Pumpkins release their first album since breaking up in 2001, Zeitgeist. The song debuts at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 145,000 copies in its opening week.
  • Korn's untitled eighth studio album debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 123,000 copies. It is their highest-charting album since 2002's Untouchables.
  • Velvet Revolver releases their second and final album, Libertad. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 92,000 copies. This is a substantial drop from their debut album, Contraband in 2004, which sold 256,000 copies. The following year, frontman Scott Weiland departed from the band, who to date, have not succeeded in finding a permanent replacement singer.
  • Fall Out Boy single "Thnks Fr Th Mmrs" peaks at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
  • Plain White T's single "Hey There Delilah" peaks at number 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, and stays there for 2 consecutive weeks.

August

September

October

  • The Eagles release their seventh studio album, their first one in over 25 years, Long Road Out of Eden. The albums tops the Billboard 200 chart and sells 710,000 copies in its first week, the second highest debut for an album in 2007.
  • Matchbox 20 release their compilation album Exile on Mainstream. The release is a two disc set; the first being a newly recorded EP of seven songs, and the second consisting of remastered versions of their greatest hits. It peaks at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 131,000. One of the singles, a new song entitled "How Far We've Come", peaks at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 around the same time.
  • Coheed and Cambria release their fourth studio album, ', part of their ongoing collection of concept albums. The album debuts at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 62,000 copies.
  • Foo Fighters single The Pretender" peaks at number 37 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
  • Linkin Park single "Bleed It Out" peaks at number 52 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

November

December

Year end

  • Daughtry's album Daughtry is not only the best selling rock album of 2007, but is the best selling album overall in the US.
  • Papa Roach's "Forever" is the number one rock song at US rock radio.

Deaths

Band breakups

References