The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2004, there were 24 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness, which topped the chart for the first time in the final week of 2003 and spent the first three weeks of the year and one in march at number one. The final number-one single of the year was "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day, which spent the final three weeks of the year atop the chart and remained at number one for the first two weeks of 2005.
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2004 was "In the Shadows" by Finnish band The Rasmus, which spent ten weeks at number one. The band also spent two weeks at number one with follow-up single "Guilty". "Come Get Some" by Rooster spent six weeks at number one, while The Darkness (with "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" and "Love Is Only a Feeling") and Green Day (with "American Idiot" and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams") each spent six weeks at number one with two releases. "Last Summer" by Lostprophets spent three weeks at number one, while three additional singles – "Run" by Snow Patrol, "The Reason" by Hoobastank and "Slither" by Velvet Revolver – spent two weeks each at number one on the chart during the year.
Chart history
Issue dateSingleArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.3 January"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)"The DarknessMust Destroy10 January17 January24 January"The Funeral of Hearts"HIMRCA31 January"Hit That"The OffspringColumbia7 February"Run"Snow PatrolFiction14 February21 February"Can't Turn Back"SpeedwayInnocent28 February"What You Get"Hundred ReasonsColumbia6 March"Tropical Ice-Land"The Fiery FurnacesRough Trade13 March"Televators"The Mars VoltaUniversal20 March"Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)"The DarknessMust Destroy27 March"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good"NickelbackRoadrunner3 April"Love Is Only a Feeling"The DarknessMust Destroy10 April17 April"In the Shadows"The RasmusUniversal24 April1 May8 May15 May22 May29 May5 June12 June"The Reason"HoobastankMercury19 June26 June"Duality"SlipknotRoadrunner3 July"In the Shadows"RasmusUniversal10 July"I Could Be an Angle"The Eighties Matchbox B-Line DisasterIsland17 July"In the Shadows"RasmusUniversal24 July"Slither"Velvet RevolverRCA31 July7 August"World's on Fire"Breed 77Albert14 August"Mein Teil"RammsteinUniversal21 August"Guilty"The Rasmus28 August4 September"Last Summer"LostprophetsVisible Noise11 September18 September25 September"American Idiot"Green DayReprise2 October9 October16 October"Predictable"Good CharlotteEpic23 October"Come Get Some"RoosterBrightside30 October6 November13 November20 November27 November4 December"I Love You More Than Rock n' Roll"ThunderSTC11 December"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"Green DayReprise18 December25 December
See also 2004 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 2004
References
External links Official UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company The Official UK Top 40 Rock Singles at BBC Radio 1