2014 in rock music

This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2014.

List of years in rock music

Notable events

January

February

March

April

May

  • Linkin Park's single "Guilty All the Same" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for three weeks.[10]
  • Coldplay's sixth studio album Ghost Stories tops the Billboard 200 chart for two weeks straight, selling 383,000 and 83,000 copies in its first and second weeks. The debut week's sales are the highest of the year upon its release, and remains as one of the highest throughout 2014.[11][12]
  • The Black Keys releases their eighth studio album, Turn Blue. It tops the Billboard 200 chart, selling 164,000 copies in its debut week.[13]

June

July

August

  • Godsmack's single "1000hp" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for three weeks.[27]
  • Godsmack releases their sixth studio album, also titled 1000hp. It debuts at number three on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 58,000 copies.[28][29]
  • Spoon releases their eighth studio album, They Want My Soul. It debuts at number four on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 39,000 copies.[28]
  • Counting Crows release their first album in six years, their seventh studio album Somewhere Under Wonderland. It debuts at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 32,000 copies.[30]
  • The Gaslight Anthem releases their fifth and final studio album, Get Hurt. It debuts at number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 32,000 copies.[31]

September

  • The Pretty Reckless's single "Messed Up World" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for a week, drops down for a week, and then returns to the top again for another three weeks in a row. It is the band's second song to top the chart at the time, and starts of a competition spanning later years between themselves and Halestorm for most number ones on the chart for a female-fronted band, Taylor Momsen fronting The Pretty Reckless, and Lzzy Hale fronting Halestorm.[32][4]
  • Linkin Park's single "Until It's Gone" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart for one week. It is their eighth and final song to top the chart.[33]
  • Motionless in White releases their third studio album Reincarnate. It debuts at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 31,000 copies.[34]
  • *Slash (of Guns N' Roses) collaboration with Myles Kennedy (of Alterbridge) collaborate on the album World on Fire. The album debuts at number 10 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 29,000 copies.[34]
  • U2 releases their thirteenth studio album, Songs of Innocence. The band opts for a new, non-traditional release method with mixed results; teaming with Apple to deliver the album directly to any customer with an active i-Tunes account. The release proves to be divisive; on one hand, it leads to over 26 million downloads and an estimated 81 million people listening to the album within the first month; however, it also leads to concerns on the devaluation of the monetary value of music as a commercial product, and angers some iTunes customers due to its automatic download without the user's consent. A traditional commercial release occurs the following month, with the album debuting at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling just 28,000 copies, drastically lower than their prior release, No Line on the Horizon, which sold just under half a million copies in its first week of availability.[35][36][37][38][39][40][41][42]

October

November

December

Year end

Deaths

Band breakups

References

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