The top of the Billboard chart has been dominated by pop, country, and hip-hop throughout 2024 and beyond. You have to dig deep on Billboard’s year-end best-selling albums list to find the first rock record, and when you do it’s a classic album released 47 years ago. Fleetwood Mac’s 21x-platinum 1977 album, Rumours, is the highest-charting rock record of 2024, coming in at No. 34 on Billboard’s year-end list of the top-selling records of the last 12 months. Only 29 of the Top 200 albums on Billboard’s 2024 year-end chart were from rock acts, and none of them were released this year. All but five of those 29 best-selling rock records were greatest hits collections. Besides Rumours, the only non-compilation rock albums to make the chart were Nirvana‘s Nevermind at No. 93, AC/DC‘s Back in Black at No. 162, Linkin Park‘s Hybrid Theory at No. 180, and Sublime‘s self-titled 1996 album at No. 197. (Ultimate Classic Rock)
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The top of the Billboard chart has been dominated by pop, country, and hip-hop throughout 2024 and beyond. You have to dig deep on Billboard’s year-end best-selling albums list to find the first rock record, and when you do it's a classic album released 47 years ago. Fleetwood Mac’s 21x-platinum 1977 album, Rumours, is the…
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The top of the Billboard chart has been dominated by pop, country, and hip-hop throughout 2024 and beyond. You have to dig deep on Billboard’s year-end best-selling albums list to find the first rock record, and when you do it’s a classic album released 47 years ago. Fleetwood Mac’s 21x-platinum 1977 album, Rumours, is the…