The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2004, there were 19 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was Permission to Land, the debut studio album by The Darkness, which remained at number one for the opening week of the year at the end of a five-week run which began on 6 December 2003. The final number-one album of the year was Green Day's seventh studio album American Idiot, which spent the last nine weeks of the year (and the first nine weeks of 2005) at number one in its second spell of the year at the top of the chart.
The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 2004 was Greatest Hits by Guns N' Roses, which spent a total of 12 weeks at number one over three spells, including a run of ten consecutive weeks between the week ending 27 March and the week ending 29 May. Greatest Hits was the best-selling rock and metal album of the year, ranking 11th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. American Idiot also spent 12 weeks at number one in 2004, but was the 18th best-selling album of the year. Live in Hyde Park by Red Hot Chili Peppers was number one for five weeks, Evanescence's debut studio album Fallen topped the chart for four weeks, Permission to Land spent three weeks at number one, and Muse's Absolution and Papa Roach's Getting Away with Murder each spent two weeks at number one in 2004.
Chart history
+KeyIndicates best-selling rock album of 2004 Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)Record label(s)Ref.3 JanuaryPermission to LandThe DarknessMust Destroy10 JanuaryFallenEvanescenceEpic17 January24 January31 January7 FebruaryNightfreak and the Sons of BeckerThe CoralDeltasonic14 FebruaryA Crow Left of the Murder...IncubusEpic21 FebruaryStart SomethingLostprophetsVisible Noise28 FebruaryPermission to LandThe DarknessMust Destroy6 March13 MarchShatterproof Is Not a ChallengeHundred ReasonsColumbia20 MarchBlink-182Blink-182Geffen27 MarchGreatest Hits Guns N' Roses3 April10 April17 April24 April1 May8 May15 May22 May29 May5 JuneVol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)SlipknotRoadrunner12 JuneTwoThe CallingRCA19 JuneContrabandVelvet Revolver26 JuneGreatest HitsThin LizzyUniversal3 JulyGreatest Hits Guns N' RosesGeffen10 JulyAbsolutionMuseEast West17 July24 JulyGreatest Hits Guns N' RosesGeffen31 JulyThe Best of Both WorldsVan HalenWarner Bros.7 AugustLive in Hyde ParkRed Hot Chili Peppers14 August21 August28 August4 September11 SeptemberGetting Away with MurderPapa RoachGeffen18 September25 SeptemberThe System Has FailedMegadethSanctuary2 OctoberAmerican IdiotGreen DayReprise9 October16 October23 OctoberThe Chronicles of Life and DeathGood CharlotteEpic30 OctoberAmerican IdiotGreen DayReprise6 November13 November20 November27 November4 December11 December18 December25 December
See also 2004 in British music List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2004
References
External links Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company at BBC Radio 1