List of number-one mainstream rock hits (United States)

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This is a list of all the songs that have hit number-one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

Contents 1 2006 2 2005 3 2004 4 2003 5 2002 6 2001 7 2000 8 1999 9 1998 10 1997 11 1996 12 1995 13 1994 14 1993 15 1992 16 1991 17 1990 18 1989 19 1988 20 1987 21 1986 22 1985 23 1984 24 1983 25 1982 26 1981

[edit] 2006

• Nickelback - "Animals" (6 weeks)
• Godsmack - "Speak" (5 weeks)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Dani California" (13 weeks)
• Three Days Grace - "Animal I Have Become" (7 weeks)
• Stone Sour - "Through Glass" (7 weeks)
• Disturbed - "Land of Confusion" (3 weeks)
• Tool - "The Pot" (4 weeks)

[edit] 2005

• Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (15 weeks)
• Audioslave - "Be Yourself"
• Shinedown - "Save Me" (12 weeks)
• Seether - "Remedy" (8 weeks)
• Nickelback - "Photograph" (7 weeks)
• Foo Fighters - "Best of You"
• Green Day - "Holiday" (3 weeks)
• Staind - "Right Here"
• Mudvayne - "Happy?" (1 Week)

[edit] 2004

• Chevelle - "Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)" (2 Weeks)
• Nickelback - "Figured You Out" (13 weeks)
• Velvet Revolver - "Fall to Pieces" (10 weeks)
• Velvet Revolver - "Slither" (9 weeks)
• Jet - "Cold Hard Bitch"
• Jet - "Look What You've Done"
• Linkin Park - "Breaking the Habit"
• Linkin Park - "Numb"
• Three Days Grace "Just Like You"

[edit] 2003

• Audioslave - "Like a Stone" (12 Weeks)
• Chevelle - "Send the Pain Below"
• Puddle of Mudd - "Away From Me"
• Staind - "So Far Away"
• Linkin Park - "Somewhere I Belong"
• Godsmack - "Straight Out Of Line"
• Trapt - "Still Frame"
• Trapt - "Headstrong"

[edit] 2002

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "By the Way" (7 weeks)
• Nirvana - "You Know You're Right"
• Godsmack - "I Stand Alone"
• Nickelback - "Too Bad" (3 Weeks)
• Nickelback - "Never Again" (3 Weeks)
• 3 Doors Down- "When I'm Gone"
• Puddle of Mudd - "Blurry" (1 week)
• Puddle of Mudd - "Drift & Die" (6 weeks)
• Puddle of Mudd - "She Hates Me" (1 week)
• System of a Down - "Aerials"

[edit] 2001

• Aerosmith - "Jaded" (5 weeks)
• Staind - "It's Been Awhile" (20 weeks)
• Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" (13 weeks)
• Godsmack - "Awake"
• Creed - "My Sacrifice"
• 3 Doors Down - "Duck & Run"

[edit] 2000

• 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" (7 weeks)
• 3 Doors Down - "Loser" (21 Weeks)
• Metallica - "I Disappear"
• Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"
• AC/DC - "Stiff Upper Lip"
• Creed - "With Arms Wide Open"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication"

[edit] 1999

• Buckcherry - "Lit Up"
• Def Leppard - "Promises" (3 weeks)
• Creed - "Higher" (18 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "Heavy" (14 weeks)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Scar Tissue" (10 weeks)

[edit] 1998

• Van Halen - "Without You"
• Metallica - "Turn the Page"
• Pearl Jam - "Given to Fly" (6 weeks)
• Lenny Kravitz - "Fly Away"
• Creed - "What's This Life For"
• The Offspring - "Gone Away"
• Days of the New - "The Down Town"
• KISS - "Psycho Circus"
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "Blue on Black"
• Brother Cane - "I Lie In The Bed I Make"

[edit] 1997

• Aerosmith - "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" (5 weeks)
• Aerosmith - "Pink" (4 weeks)
• The Wallflowers - "One Headlight"
• Days of the New - "Touch, Peel, and Stand" (16 Weeks)
• Sammy Hagar - “Little White Lie”
• Collective Soul - "Listen"
• Collective Soul - "Precious Declaration"

[edit] 1996

• Van Halen - "Humans Being"
• Van Halen - "Me Wise Magic"
• Metallica - "Hero of the Day"
• Metallica - "Until it Sleeps" (8 weeks)
• Soundgarden - "Blow Up the Outside World"
• Soundgarden - "Burden in My Hand" (5 weeks)
• Smashing Pumpkins - "1979" (2 weeks)
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby" (1 week)
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" (4 weeks)
• Stone Temple Pilots- "Lady Picture Show"
• Rush - “Test for Echo”
• Everclear - "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)" (3 weeks)
• Seven Mary Three - "Cumbersome" (4 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "The World I Know" (4 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "Where the River Flows"

[edit] 1995

• Collective Soul - "December" (9 weeks)
• Pearl Jam - "Better Man" (8 weeks)
• Van Halen - "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)" (3 weeks)
• AC/DC - "Hard as a Rock" (3 weeks)
• Brother Cane - "And Fools Shine On" (6 weeks)
• U2 - "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me" (1 week)
• Live - "Lightning Crashes" (10 weeks)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "My Friends" (4 weeks)
• Goo Goo Dolls - "Name" (5 weeks)
• Silverchair - "Tomorrow" (3 weeks)

[edit] 1994

• Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song" (15 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "Shine" (8 weeks)
• Pearl Jam - "Daughter" (8 weeks)
• Aerosmith - "Deuces are Wild" (4 weeks)
• Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun" (7 weeks)
• ZZ Top - "Pincushion"
• Tom Petty - "You Don't Know How It Feels" (2 weeks)
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Vasoline" (2 weeks)
• Alice in Chains - "No Excuses"
• Pink Floyd - "Keep Talking"
• Pink Floyd - "Take It Back"

[edit] 1993

• Aerosmith - "Livin' on the Edge" (9 weeks)
• Aerosmith - "Cryin'" (6 weeks)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (2 weeks)
• John Mellencamp - "What If I Came Knocking"
• Van Halen - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• Pearl Jam - "Daughter"
• Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way?"
• Def Leppard - "Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)" (5 weeks)
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush" (1 week)
• Cry Of Love - "Peace Pipe"
• Rush - “Stick it Out”
• Blind Melon - "No Rain" (2 weeks)

[edit] 1992

• Bon Jovi - "Keep the Faith" (1 week)
• John Mellencamp - "Again Tonight" (2 weeks)
• Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked" (1 week)
• U2 - "Even Better Than the Real Thing" (3 weeks)
• The Black Crowes - "Remedy" (11 weeks)
• The Black Crowes - "Sting Me"
• The Black Crowes - "Thorn in My Pride"
• The Black Crowes - "Hotel Illness"
• Bruce Springsteen - "Human Touch" (3 weeks)
• Peter Gabriel - "Digging in the Dirt"
• Bad Company - “How About That” (6 weeks)

[edit] 1991

• Van Halen - "Poundcake"
• Van Halen - "Runaround"
• Van Halen - "Top of the World" (4 weeks)
• John Mellencamp - "Get a Leg Up" (3 weeks)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Learning to Fly" (6 weeks)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Out in the Cold"
• The Rolling Stones - "Highwire"
• U2 - "One" (2 weeks)
• U2 - "Mysterious Ways" (12 weeks)
• The Black Crowes - "She Talks to Angels" (1 week)
• R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion" (3 weeks)
• Sting - "All This Time" (7 weeks)
• Dire Straits - “Heavy Fuel”
• Rush - “Dreamline”
• Yes - "Lift Me Up"
• Queensrÿche - "Silent Lucidity" (1 week)

[edit] 1990

• Aerosmith - "What it Takes" (1 week)
• Aerosmith - "The Other Side" (2 weeks)
• The Black Crowes - "Hard to Handle" (2 weeks)
• The Rolling Stones - "Almost Hear You Sigh"
• ZZ Top - "Concrete and Steel"
• ZZ Top - "Doubleback"
• ZZ Top - "My Head's in Mississippi"
• Eric Clapton - "Bad Love"
• Damn Yankees - “Coming of Age”
• Bad Company - “Holy Water”
• INXS - "Suicide Blonde"
• Robert Plant - "Hurting Kind"
• Jon Bon Jovi - "Blaze of Glory" (1 week)
• Alannah Myles – "Black Velvet" (2 weeks)
• Billy Idol – "Cradle of Love" (2 weeks)
• Steve Winwood – "One and Only Man" (2 weeks)

[edit] 1989

• Aerosmith - "Love in an Elevator" (2 weeks)
• Tom Petty - "I Won't Back Down" (5 weeks)
• Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream" (1 week)
• Tom Petty - "Free Fallin'" (1 week)
• The Rolling Stones - "Mixed Emotions" (5 weeks)
• The Rolling Stones - "Rock and a Hard Place" (5 weeks)
• R.E.M. - "Stand" (1 week)
• Eric Clapton - "Pretending"
• The Doobie Brothers - “The Doctor” (3 weeks)
• Rush - “Show Don’t Tell”
• Don Henley - "The End of the Innocence" (4 weeks)
• Eddie Money - “The Love in Your Eyes” (1 week)
• Stevie Nicks - "Rooms on Fire" (1 week)
• The Call - "Let The Day Begin" (1 week)
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Crossfire"
• Rod Stewart - "Downtown Train" (2 weeks)
• The Replacements - "I'll Be You"

[edit] 1988

• Van Halen - "Black and Blue" (3 weeks)
• Van Halen - "When It's Love" (1 week)
• U2 - "Angel of Harlem" (6 weeks)
• U2 - "Desire" (5 weeks)
• R.E.M. - "Orange Crush"
• David Lee Roth - “Just Like Paradise” (4 weeks)
• Robert Plant - "Tall Cool One"
• Robert Plant - "Heaven Knows"
• Pink Floyd - "On the Turning Away"
• Robert Palmer – "Simply Irresistible" (3 weeks)
• Steve Winwood – "Roll With It" (4 weeks)
• Steve Winwood – "Don’t You Known What the Night Can Do?" (2 weeks)
• Bruce Hornsby – "The Valley Road" (3 weeks)

[edit] 1987

• Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer" (2 weeks)
• John Mellencamp - "Cherry Bomb" (1 week)
• John Mellencamp - "Paper in Fire" (5 weeks)
• Foreigner - "Say You Will" (4 weeks)
• Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "Jammin' Me" (4 weeks)
• U2 - "With or Without You" (5 weeks)
• Bruce Springsteen - "Brilliant Disguise" (1 week)
• Bruce Springsteen - "Tunnel of Love" (4 weeks)
• Eric Clapton - "It's in the Way That You Use It"
• Sammy Hagar - “Give to Live” (3 weeks)
• Bob Seger - “Shakedown” (4 weeks)
• The Pretenders - “My Baby”
• Pink Floyd - "Learning to Fly"
• Yes - "Love Will Find a Way" (3 weeks)
• Lou Gramm - "Midnight Blue" (5 weeks)
• Richard Marx – "Don’t Mean Nothing" (1 week)

[edit] 1986

• Van Halen - "Why Can't This Be Love" (3 weeks)
• ZZ Top - "Stages" (2 weeks)
• Genesis - "Invisible Touch" (3 weeks)
• Genesis - "Throwing It All Away" (3 weeks)
• Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes" (1 week)
• Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer" (2 weeks)
• Boston - "Amanda" (3 weeks)
• Bob Seger - "Like a Rock" (2 weeks)
• Steve Miller Band - “I Want to Make the World Turn Around”
• The Pretenders - “Don’t Get Me Wrong” (3 weeks)
• Eddie Money - “Take Me Home Tonight” (2 weeks)
• Mike and the Mechanics – "Silent Running (On Dangerous Ground)" (5 weeks)
• Huey Lewis and the News – "Hip to Be Square" (1 week)
• Julian Lennon – "Stick Around" (3 weeks)
• Steve Winwood – "Higher Love" (4 weeks)
• Robert Palmer – "Addicted to Love" (2 weeks)
• Ric Ocasek - "Emotion in Motion" (1 week)

[edit] 1985

• John Mellencamp - "Lonely Ol' Night" (5 weeks)
• ZZ Top - "Sleeping Bag" (2 weeks)
• Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is" (1 week)
• Bruce Springsteen - "Trapped"
• Bryan Adams - "Somebody" (2 weeks)
• Sting - "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free" (3 weeks)
• Sting - "Fortress Around Your Heart" (2 weeks)
• Eric Clapton - "Forever Man" (2 weeks)
• John Fogerty - “The Old Man Down the Road” (3 weeks)
• The Cars - “Tonight She Comes” (3 weeks)
• Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing" (3 weeks)
• Don Henley - "All She Wants To Do Is Dance" (2 weeks)
• Robert Plant - "Little by Little" (2 weeks)
• Jefferson Starship - "We Built This City" (1 week)
• Stevie Nicks - "Talk to Me" (2 weeks)
• Mick Jagger - "Just Another Night" (2 weeks)
• Huey Lewis and the News – "The Power of Love" (2 weeks)
• Glenn Frey – "You Belong to the City" (3 weeks)

[edit] 1984

• Van Halen - "Jump" (8 weeks)
• Bruce Springsteen - "Dancing in the Dark" (6 weeks)
• Bryan Adams - "Run to You" (4 weeks)
• Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer" (5 weeks)
• Survivor - "I Can't Hold Back" (3 weeks)
• The Cars - "You Might Think" (3 weeks)
• The Cars - "Magic" (1 week)
• Jefferson Starship - "No Way Out" (1 week)
• Phil Collins - "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)" (1 week)
• Steve Perry – "Oh Sherrie" (2 weeks)
• Christine McVie – "Got a Hold On Me" (2 weeks)
• John Waite - "Missing You" (2 weeks)

[edit] 1983

• The Police - "Every Breath You Take" (9 weeks)
• The Police - "King of Pain" (5 weeks)
• Def Leppard - "Photograph" (6 weeks)
• Def Leppard - "Rock of Ages" (1 week)
• Journey - "Separate Ways (Worlds Apart)" (4 weeks)
• Yes - "Owner of a Lonely Heart" (4 weeks)
• .38 Special - "If I'd Been the One" (4 weeks)
• Pat Benatar - "Love Is a Battlefield" (4 weeks)
• Asia - "Don't Cry" (1 week)
• Huey Lewis and the News – "Heart and Soul" (1 week)
• Duran Duran – "Hungry Like the Wolf" (3 weeks)
• The Motels – "Suddenly Last Summer" (2 weeks)

[edit] 1982

• January 16 - Survivor - "Eye of the Tiger" (5 weeks)
• February 20 - Don Henley - "Dirty Laundry" (3 weeks)
• March 13 - Van Halen - "(Oh) Pretty Woman" (2 weeks)
• March 27 - Rush - "New World Man" (2 weeks)
• April 10 - Rainbow - "Stone Cold" (1 week)
• April 17 - .38 Special - "Caught Up in You" (1 week)
• April 24 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "You Got Lucky" (3 weeks)
• May 15 - John Mellencamp - "Hurts So Good" (1 week)
• May 22 - Eddie Money - "Think I'm in Love" (3 weeks)
• June 12 - Men at Work - "Down Under" (5 weeks)
• July 17 - Asia - "Heat of the Moment" (6 weeks)
• August 28 - Joan Jett – "I Love Rock and Roll" (5 weeks)
• October 2 - Tommy Tutone – "867-5309/Jenny" (3 weeks)

[edit] 1981

• March 21 - Eric Clapton - "I Can't Stand It" (2 weeks)
• April 4 - Foreigner - "Urgent" (4 weeks)
• May 2 - Foreigner - "Waiting For a Girl Like You" (1 week)
• May 9 - The Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (2 weeks)
• May 23 - The Rolling Stones - "Start Me Up" (13 weeks)
• August 22 - Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers - "The Waiting" (6 weeks)
• October 3 - Blue Öyster Cult - "Burnin' For You" (2 weeks)
• October 17 - The Moody Blues – "The Voice" (4 weeks)
• November 14 - Joe Walsh – "A Life of Illusion" (1 week)
• November 21 - The Who – "You Better You Bet" (5 weeks)
• December 26 - Quarterflash – "Harden My Heart" (3 weeks)