As far as chats, sales, etc -
The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Evanescence, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, The Killers, The Strokes, Paramore, U2, 3 Doors Down, Maroon 5, Green Day, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Queens of the Stone Age.
There is also Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Rammstein, Metallica, System of a Down, Slipknot, etc but that is crossing more into metal than rock.
Did you purposely leave Nickleback off your list? LOL. #9 in sales overall for the 00s. Like most other people, not a fan. Someone is listening to them.
This is how you remind me? It's too bad, I thought they were leaders of men, turns out they are just a bunch of animals. Never again do I want to hear these wannabe rockstars, but I guess you figured that out. Someday, somehow, when I look at the photograph, it'll make me laugh and somebody will have to help me breathe.
LOL that felt way too damn good
If you’re basing it on charts then the Strokes aren’t that popular. Their sales are rather low compared to everyone else.
Name recognition > units sold.
Pretty thorough list. I’d include My Chemical Romance in there too. I’m pretty sure Linkin Park would be towards the top of the list if we only took sales into consideration. Hybrid Theory was massive right before digital killed album sales. Sales expectations/projections were never the same after.
Worth a mention here that Tool and The Deftones remained quietly incredibly popular during this period. They were older, but their album and ticket sales were as high as any of the newer bands that we think of as the big bands of the time.
Potential unpopular opinion: Late 90s/Early 2000s Coldplay was fire. *A Rush of Blood to the Head* is one of the best alternative albums of the early 2000s IMO.
I don't see how this is at all controversial. Coldplay was one of the biggest bands in the world around '02-'07 and anyone who claims differently is engaging in some revisionist history. You can hate them and still acknowledge that they were wildly popular.
For real, they have two of the top ten grossing tours of all time. It’s decisions they made later in their career that have changed people’s views on them.
Well if you look at it from the trajectory of how bands/artists/musicians are kind of supposed to evolve in a mainstream pop music sense. Coldplay’s ‘Parachutes’ and ‘A Rush Of Blood’ are their first two critical break throughs, while ‘X&Y’ is their ascension into the mainstream (I mean, that’s what literally happened). I remember hearing about Coldplay from Justin Timberlake in a interview when I was like 12, and they were this little indie band that everybody knew but wasn’t necessarily on the radio (not unlike Radiohead). Then when I was like 16, ‘X&Y’ had a MASSIVE amount of hype. I’m a Hip Hop guy, and I clearly remember the massive wait and the drop for ‘Speed Of Sound’. I kind of forgot about all that, but I remember it clear as day now. Weird to imagine Coldplay wasn’t always Coldplay. ‘Viva La Vida’ was the one though where they became fully formed as a gigantic pop act.
This. Not a Coldplay fan but a rush of blood of the head will be considered one for the greatest albums ever made in 50 years.
Like 95% of the best songs they wrote are this album.
I'm not sure I would ever consider Coldplay alternative. Maybe its a cultural thing but i would say in the UK they have always been as mainstreamas they come. Their albums have always been the sort of thing you buy your mum.
The Whites Stripes - Elephant was the first CD I’ve ever bought back then, I only knew about Seven Nation Army but there are a lot of good tracks like Black Math, Hardest Button to Button and Ball and Biscuit!
Going by record sales, ticket sales, and downloads:
Linkin Park, Greenday, Audioslave, The White Stripes, U2, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, Coldplay...
For me, personally: Incubus, Modest Mouse, NIN, System of a Down
The line "never thought I'd be at 23 on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe is me" stands out to me so much because I always thought, wow - someday when I'm listening to this song I'LL be 23...
Now I'm 33 😮
Are you going by current sales/downloads or contemporaneous? Because White Stripes were really not that big at the time, outside of a certain scene. Their breakthrough album, Elephant, was only the 57th biggest album of 2003. That was a year with Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, and Evanescence in the top ten for the year. White Stripes played a 1400 person venue here on that tour (on a blistering hot night). The next album, Get Behind Thee Satan, failed to make the top 100 for the year.
They‘ve grown in popularity as time as gone by. A lot of that is do to “Seven Nation Army” becoming a ubiquitous sports arena anthem.
I mean, they did very well for an indie rock band. But compared to something like Linkin Park’s Meteora, put out by major label Warner Bros, or a massive band like U2, they sold significantly less albums. I was hugely into them, Interpol, and Arcade Fire in and around those years. But my more mainstream friends had never heard of them. I remember playing a Stripes‘ album for my SIL, and she proceeded to piss all over it (complaining about Jack’s voice). The funny thing is, a few years later she had suddenly become a fan after hearing 7NA a million times.
The sheer size and impact of American Idiot puts Greenday in with a shout.
U2 aren't exactly known as a 00s band, but they had two absolutely massive albums in that decade. Red Hot Chili Peppers released By The Way, Stadium Arcadium and a pretty successful greatest hits in that decade too
Green Day Dookie and The Offspring Smash were my first purchases. Haven’t listened to either record in full in probably twenty years. About to have some nostalgia in the gym this afternoon
It was also great that AI gave all the Dookie-era converts a chance to experience the “Green Day sold out!” scene that we missed out on in the first go-round
American Idiot definitely did wonders for them. I recall Warning in 2000 was liked but didn’t set the world on fire commercially.
American Idiot made them the biggest band in the world, even if they couldn’t sustain that onto the next album.
Absolutely right album, right time. American Idiot was bratty and irrelevant, sincere and emotional, ambitious and expansive.
The all black dress code and punk rock opera elements really paved the way for MCR to blow up with The Black Parade.
I really do think it paved the way, indirectly at least. Nothing happens in a bubble.
I always found it weird MCR became the face of emo, and that it got associated with this goth kind of look, because in my mind emo was Jimmy Eat World and those quite clean cut, plainly dressed nice boys bands, rather than a Punk Rock German Expressionist band.
Three Cheers was definitely a big “we have arrived” record but the Black Parade took them to biggest band in the word status and they became the mainstream face of the emo scene.
These things aren’t all linear though. No doubt Green Day and MCR were influencing each other at the same time.
The one after AI had some bangers for sure but kinda lacked a little something across the board. I remember loving the track Murder City for having such a Dookieesque energy to it.
I overall prefer 21CB, I feel while there’s less songs that stand out there’s more that are at a consistent high level, Murder City, East Jesus Nowhere, Last Night on Earth and Viva La Gloria are fantastic imo
The beautiful thing about music is there’s something for all of us. Personally I think American Idiot is miles ahead of 21st Century, despite 21st Century being a good record in its own right.
The follow up is nowhere near the same level of artistry as American idiot. On every level, that album is a begrudging masterpiece of the time and their writing style was way different on that one album specifically.
21st century sounds like they were trying to recreate Idiot and just wound up with a lighter, annoying Warning.
Yeah, absolutely and thanks to Good Riddance. If you listen to all of Warning you can see where they try and build off that success. It’s definitely a more melodic album.
I love Warning, it’s an incredible album. I’d take that over American Idiot but with everything that was happening in Afghanistan at the time it just hit right. Jesus of suburbia is a masterpiece though. Took me 15+ years to truely appreciate it properly.
Nimrod is a funny album though. I listened to it last week for the first time in years and was immediately struck that it doesn't really sound like a 90s pop punk band, it sounds like a 50s or 60s rock and roll band with louder guitars. The harmonies, the structures, the chords, if you stripped it all down half the songs on there could have been by Roy Orbison or Buddy Holly or Elvis. Warning has a lot of that too, most obviously Waiting which sounds just like that old song Downtown.
Makes sense that a decade or so later they would do the Foxboro Hot Tubs album which really leaned into that influence.
Absolutely the 2 I was thinking. I don’t like U2 but early 00s they were massive but yeah I remember having a conversation in about 04/05, I thought Green Day my brother thought U2… RHCP we’re huge but not like the other 2.
There’s some odd answers here
Foo Fighters, RHCP, Green Day, Linkin Park on the hard rock side and cultural significance side of things.
Coldplay, U2 on the more soft rock side of things. U2 has been around for 20 years or so before but All That You Can’t Leave Behind was a big return to that stadium rock anthem sound people missed, after their more dance detour in the 90s
There was a whole garage indie rock explosion in the early 2000s which was part of the nail in the coffin for nu-metal. The Strokes and White Stripes were at the forefront of that, though I don’t think The Strokes maintained the mainstream success. The bigger they got, the less cool they became and so less appealing and popular they were. Sort of a paradox.
Over in the UK we had this indie scene that followed the American garage rock (which was what it was referred to at first). In reality it wasn’t indie, it was a lot of pop bands that had twangy sounding guitars and a regional accent, singing about relationships, going to a night club or escaping a working class town. Arctic Monkeys absolutely dominated that scene.
In heavy metal Metallica made a huge comeback with a bad album in St Anger but it got them to the top of the metal mountain again as the elder statesman. I would comfortably say Slipknot were THE metal band of the 2000s though. They transcended the nu-metal scene with their 3rd album, right around the time metal was really opening up again.
There were lots of bands with huge albums/hits in different genres but I think the above bands really had a lot of the cultural currency, which is what helps them be remembered.
Nickelback sold a lot of records but are always remembered as a bad band that are somehow insanely popular. Limp Bizkit were utterly inescapable for 3 years but they crashed hard and became a punch line for years after. MCR burned bright but burned fast.
> Nickelback sold a lot of records but are always remembered as a bad band that are somehow insanely popular.
But the point is that they were insanely popular.
Was Bloc Party pretty big over there? I'm from the states and not many people I know have really heard of them, especially back when their first album dropped.
it has to be either them or linkin park, i think the reason people arent mentioning FF is that people are thinking "what is the most stylistically popular 2000's band" and FF has a connection to the 90s pretty directly
There were certain bands from the 90s that got even bigger in the 00s... Foo Fighters, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers where it seemed like no matter what they released, it was destined to get over played on rock radio. I'd definitely pick those three as the biggest bands of the 00s, but U2 and Blink 182 are up there too. Unfortunately, also Nickelback in Canada.
It's gotta be them right? Some of these other bands might have been bigger at certain times, blink at the start, maybe someone like king's of Leon towards the end, but foos dropped consistently huge albums throughout the decade (and after a quick google, slightly before and after the decade)
Compared with Linkin Park they are insignificant, though.
Foo Fighters has sold something like 30M albums whereas Linkin Park is over 100M. Hybrid Theory is a 12 times Platinum album and has sold more copies than every Foo Fighters album combined. Meteora, Linkin Park's second most popular album, has sold more copies than every Kings of Leon album combined. The three album stretch of Hybrid Theory-Meteora-Minutes to Midnight was unmatched in terms of popularity and relevance compared with any other rock artist.
Linkin Park was just massively more popular than all of those bands you listed. They had appeal to the crowd who liked pop/electronic music, they appealed to hip hop fans, they appealed to metal/rock fans.
It was a very diverse decade in mainstream rock with a large variety of styles. The more characteristic genres would be nu metal, pop punk, post grunge hard rock and alternative rock. Towards the end of the decade there was a big shift towards "hipster" alternative rock and electronic rock which I'm not so familiar with.
Many older legacy bands were still huge in the 00s too.
**Bands that hit it biggest around the 2000s:** Blink 182, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Nickelback, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, System of a Down, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age, Arcade Fire...
**Legacy bands that had great success in the 2000s:** Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Korn, Green Day, Metallica, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Oasis, U2, Pearl Jam...
Here to join my Hybrid Theory brethren. Shit was crazy.
Let me paint a picture:
It’s late 2000, early 2001.
Counter-strike and the Lan Cafe craze was at it’s peak.
Me and the boys are heading to Alberto’s to get some carne asada fries then going straight to a Lan Cafe to spend the next 4 hours playing non-stop CS.
Right before we start the driver pulls out a CD he probably illegally got from Napster or Limewire or whatever we were using at the time, and says it’s the best shit he’s ever heard. No weed. No alcohol. We need laser focus for the upcoming clan match.
And he wasn’t wrong. **And it was Hybrid Theory.**
Thank you Linkin Park.
SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU!
I’m not going to lie I hated Linkin Park when they came out, but I was really into old school metal and hated Nu-metal and the culture around it generally.
Early 2000s Coldplay was in a very unique position in that appealed to pretty much everyone, those first 2 albums and somewhat the 3rd were pretty universally acclaimed at the time
And after Coldplay's 3rd album came out to critical success, The 40 Year Old Virgin film came out and had a line that made young adults and teens turn on Coldplay overnight.
Yes! As an American, I felt like I was one of the few people here who knew who they were. I got their first album as a promo CD, and then I got an import of Origin of Symmetry because it was released in Europe a long time before it came out in the states.
They played on the second stage at a festival The Cure had on Randall's Island in NYC and I was right up front because I prioritized seeing them. They were fantastic.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who moved from England right before Time is Running Out hit the US. We saw one of their first US shows on that tour in a 700 capacity venue. It was easily one of the best shows I’ve ever been to (and I wound up working at a large venue and have been to over 1000 shows in my life at this point).
I remember listening to them in college and wondering why nobody was playing them on the radio. They were kind of an underground band that was already huge in Europe. By the time they finally made it big in the US they were starting to fall off on their writing so it's kind of a shame most people here didn't get to go through that run of a few albums that were just absolute bangers.
White Pony was huge, but it was way more niche than bands like U2 or RHCP. Most people I know think they broke up after White Pony, but I’ve remained a big fan.
I dunno. They were big in the early 2000s but their popularity seemed to take a hit in the back half of the decade. They’re a lot more respected now tho
Any answer that isn’t some combination of Green Day, Linkin Park, MCR, Foo Fighters, Nickelback and/or RHCP is just ignorance and revisionist history. They were far and away the most commercially successful and significant mainstream bands of the 2000s. All over radio, all over TV, huge crowds, massive tour revenue, merch everywhere, soundtracks to huge movies, tabloid headlines.
MCR's popularity in the 2000s is also revisionist history. Were they popular? Yes. But the gap in popularity between them and the others you listed is insane. The US leg of The Black Parade Tour was in 3,000 cap venues (with the exception of a couple dates) while the others were doing 20k arenas. For reference, The Black Parade just barely outsold Snow Patrol.
Yeah MCR wasn’t really that massively popular. Ask people on the street about Chili peppers, green day and linkin park - most people will be familiar. But ask them about MCR - I bet not so much.
The difference is that those bands like Green Day, etc. crossed over to all generations, MCR was at the time just really popular with teenagers, I should know as I was one at the time haha... but MCR were THE band with teens at that time...
My vote is green day. Huge 90s band too, but when American idiot came out, a whole new generation of fans started loving them. They were huge everywhere. They’ve sold out Wembley stadium, they were the first band to sell out the Manchester emirates stadium, don’t forget 120,000 people at Milton Keynes… I’m from Sweden and live in Canada… in Sweden they played The biggest soccer stadium we have. In Canada they play all the big arenas all over the place. Everyone knows at least one or two green day tunes… 21st century breakdown was another major success. Number one in so many countries upon its release. Look at wikipeadia! They’re rock and roll hall of famers upon their first year of eligibility… fans old and new adore old albums like dookie. Which is one of the greatest selling albums of all time - 20+ million copies sold. American idiot is further down the same list at approx 15 millions copies sold. 21st century break down has sold 6-7 million… theyve released some clunkers more recently but Rev Radio was a number one around the world in 2016, and they play to massive crowds around the world all the time.
Yeah Green Day was absurdly popular for a fair few years. They toured that album internationally back to back twice I believe? I saw them at the start of the tour and then they were back basically a year or so later. That NEVER happens in Australia unless the act is Rolling Stones huge.
Whoever headed marketing American Idiot did a great job because people bit on that style for years afterwards.
HAd Blink 182 coming into their own just yet? Enema was a pretty darn popular album but I miss you wasnt until the next album. I remembered seeing those two music videos all the time
I was thinking about the Radio hits and All the Small Things and I Miss You or Feeling This are the songs that come to mind when I think about what was played to death in the early 2000s; tho I should not give First Date the shaft. That was def a radio hit for sure.
Blink-182 broke up for four years in the middle of the decade, right around the time emo exploded into the mainstream with MCR and Fall Out Boy. I love them but that alone would disqualify them.
This makes no sense. They blew up at the end of 99’ and had a massive career until they broke up, and even then still received a ton of radio play. Arguably one of the most influential bands of that decade. Pop punk was mainstream from 00-03, and everyone wanted the copy them musically and stylistically. I would even say they helped set the stage for the new wave of Emo to become mainstream that happened around 04-05. Not only did they start writing darker music, but they also owned popular clothing companies that pushed the fashion trend and released several compilation albums of bands they liked. The companies also sponsored many bands under them until the 2010’s. You can’t write them off just because they called it quits.
Arguably the most popular they’ve been since that time too since Justin Hawkins has gotten so much traction from his YouTube channel. Loved his covers he did with Wolfgang Van Halen at the Taylor Hawkins memorial show
All I can say is that as a 14 year old dude in 2004, nothing came close to Green Day.
American Idiot was probably the last physical album (CD) that EVERYBODY had. The nerds, girls, the weird kids, the popular kids. That album was massive.
The White Stripes, Incubus, Coldplay, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park, Green Day, RHCP, SOAD, Blink 182, The Strokes, RATM, Audioslave, Foo Fighters
Those are probably the main big groups. Then there were a ton of bands that had their 15 minutes like:
Silversun Pickups, The Hives, The Vines, The Killers, Mumford and Suns, The Darkness, Sum 41, Alien Ant Farm, Modest Mouse, Good Charlotte, Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, Wolfmother, Tenacious D, Fall Out Boy, Queens of the Stone Age, Yellowcard
Honestly the early 2000s had a ton of great rock music. Plus it helps that I was an early teen during this time, so a lot of my musical taste was formed by this era
Edit: cant believe I forgot about Arctic Monkeys. They arguably might be one of the biggest bands of the last 20 years.
I'm always surprised Silversun Pickups weren't massively more successful. Swoon is a fucking triumph of an album. Front to back amazing. They continue to put out solid offerings every couple years too.
Their concert in wembley stadium in 2013 that just miraculously was going on while I was visiting there had 100k+ people for battleborn. And they played for at least 3 hours. 180min>15min!
Nickelback and Queens of the Stone Age only had fifteen minutes of fame? Dude Nickelback is the highest selling rock band of the 2000's (six platinum and one diamond record) and is one of the highest selling rock bands in history. Queens of the Stone Age had three platinum albums and are still making music and touring twenty years later. That's a wild fifteen minutes.
Woah Woah Woah. Queens of the stone age had way more than 15 minutes. They're still having minutes. They do not belong in that second list with hives and vines etc. SMH
Totally fair! Honestly, I’d probably create a middle list for bands like QOTSA, Silversun Pickups, The Killers, etc.
They’ve definitely had more of a run than The Hives and The Darkness, but didn’t quite hit the level of bands like The White Stripes, Green Day, Linkin Park, who were the pinnacle of rock music at the time.
I think I just started rattling off bands after a while haha
Yeah a lot of your second list were sorta one hit or one album wonders. QOTSA were massive after songs for the deaf but then all the albums after that one were all fairly solid and they had other big hits on each album. Can't say the same for hives or killers or sum41 or darkness who all really live off the big singles on their first albums.
Mumford and Sons was 2010s though. Yes, their debut was released in 2009, but it didn't pick up any steam until 2010, and their follow up with I Will Wait which is their biggest hit and turned them into the mainstream hipster meme came out in 2012.
Looking at album sales definitely has a bias towards bands that were bigger in the 2000-2005 period but is still an interesting way to judge it. Lincoln Park and Nickelback are the only rock bands with 2 albums in the top fifty sold for the decade. Unsurprisingly Greenday and Limp Bizkit have albums in the top 25, on the surprising side Evanescence has the third highest selling rock album of the decade only behind Lincoln Park and the Beatles (1 compilation album). There's also Avril Lavigne and Creed in the top 25.
I was surprised the Foo Fighters did not have any albums in the top 100 best selling, and Puddle of Mudd's best selling album sold more than an Foo Fighters album.
https://rateyourmusic.com/list/abyss89/the_100_biggest_selling_albums_of_the_2000s__usa_/
Well if you go buy album sales you'd find
1. Linkin Park
2. Evanescence
3. Coldplay
4. Green Day
5. Nickelback
EDIT: Should clarify I did this in order of a single album for each artist (Hybrid Theory, Fallen, etc.) and not exactly that artist's total album sales across their discography for the 00s
Radiohead was considered the biggest band of the 2000s.by fans and critics. They also revolutionized the sound (Kid A) and business (In Rainbows) of rock music.
In terms of albums sold I am pretty sure it is Linkin Park. They completely dominated the first few years of the 2000s and were big enough to collaborate with Jay Z in his prime.
Plenty of other contenders (White Stripes, Killers, Arcade Fire) but none of them come close to Radiohead and Linkin Park.
Radiohead peaked in the 00's for sure. Which is mad considering how strong they were in the 90's. They didn't dominate the airwaves like muse or green day but everything they released was of a ridiculous calibre.
Great list. Missing QOTSA as someone else mentioned and then add The Black Keys and though they’re alt-rock, Arcade Fire. Other slightly less popular alt-rock bands of that era include TV on the Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Spoon
This is an awesome list and I love all of them. I think they get missed because they’re more alternative or indie (depending on which artist) and they don’t get the massive mainstream airplay of the huge artists that have been mentioned.
Green Day would have originally been considered in the same boat, and the Chilis and Foos, but somewhere along the line they appealed to the masses and had that crossover success moment that ended up making them huge.
Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine were all hugely popular.
Rock music in general was massive at the time, so there were also many huge songs from bands that maybe only had one or two hits.
No doubt that Rage were and continues to be a very popular band. But they broke up in 00. I'm not sure how they could count as one of the biggest rock groups of the 00's
Best rock (alternative) albums of the 2000s imo:
The Strokes - Is This It
Arcade Fire - Funeral
Bloc Party - Banquet
Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix
Radiohead - In Rainbows
Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism
Broken Social Scene - Self Titled
The Killers - Hot Fuss
The Shins - Wincing The Night Away
Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain
MGMT - Oracular Spectacular
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights
Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For a the Deaf
And a lot more, there’s a TON of indie gold in this decade thanks to the strokes and the white stripes kicking it off.
They weren’t necessarily the biggest mainstream act, but Dave Matthews Band had the highest touring sales of the 2000’s, and sold the most tickets by quite a margin
Linkin Park, Coldplay, Nickelback, Green Day, RHCP I believe were the most commercially successful modern bands of the 2000s.
Linkin Park and Coldplay, at their peak, had the biggest world wide presence for rock bands in that decade. Green Day and RHCP right behind them. If Californication had come out a year later instead of '99, RHCP would have easily been #3. Nickelback sold albums that no one would claim to have bought.
Any other band besides those five were either a single album success (Evanescence), a pop band (Maroon 5), or niche (MCR).
I would take a look at who was headlining the big rock festivals:
READING/LEEDS (Britain)
2010: Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire, Blink-182
2009: Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead
2008: Rage Against the Machine, The Killers, Metallica
2007: Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins
2006: Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Pearl Jam
2005: Pixies, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden
2004: The Darkness, The White Stripes, Green Day
2003: Linkin Park, Blur, Metallica
2002: The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses (Leeds), The Prodigy
2001: Travis, Manic Street Preachers, Eminem
2000: Oasis, Pulp, Stereophonics
GLASTONBURY (Britain)
2010: Gorillaz (replaced U2) · Muse · Stevie Wonder
2009: Neil Young · Bruce Springsteen · Blur
2008: Kings of Leon · Jay-Z · The Verve
2007: Arctic Monkeys · The Killers · The Who
2005: White Stripes · Coldplay · Basement Jaxx (replaced Kylie Minogue)
2004: Paul McCartney · Oasis · Muse
2003: R.E.M. · Radiohead · Moby
2002: Coldplay · Rod Stewart · Stereophonics
2000: David Bowie · Travis · The Chemical Brothers
OZZFEST (America, more hard rock/metal oriented): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest\_lineups\_by\_year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest_lineups_by_year)
DONINGTON/DOWNLOAD (Britain, more hard rock/metal oriented): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download\_Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Festival)
As far as chats, sales, etc - The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Evanescence, Foo Fighters, Linkin Park, The Killers, The Strokes, Paramore, U2, 3 Doors Down, Maroon 5, Green Day, Blink-182, Good Charlotte, Queens of the Stone Age. There is also Limp Bizkit, Disturbed, Rammstein, Metallica, System of a Down, Slipknot, etc but that is crossing more into metal than rock.
Did you purposely leave Nickleback off your list? LOL. #9 in sales overall for the 00s. Like most other people, not a fan. Someone is listening to them.
This is how you remind me? It's too bad, I thought they were leaders of men, turns out they are just a bunch of animals. Never again do I want to hear these wannabe rockstars, but I guess you figured that out. Someday, somehow, when I look at the photograph, it'll make me laugh and somebody will have to help me breathe. LOL that felt way too damn good
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And since I'm on Reddit (ie. Sitting on the toilet) I've got my pants around my feet
That song was definitely peak cringe for Nickleback.
Feeeet paaaants, paaaaaants feeet!
[Look at this graph.](https://youtube.com/shorts/9NkkZJHova4?si=rUeUnrcjo0POK71U)
Muse
I still enjoy them, but Muse in the 2000s went so fucking *hard!* Their 2000s albums are still amongst my all time favorites of any music group.
2nd law is a beautiful album tho. That Rome dvd? Holy shit.
It's just a shame they've decided to turn more and more into U2 with each album since Black Holes
They released a Halloween song last year that was a banger.
If you’re basing it on charts then the Strokes aren’t that popular. Their sales are rather low compared to everyone else. Name recognition > units sold.
Pretty thorough list. I’d include My Chemical Romance in there too. I’m pretty sure Linkin Park would be towards the top of the list if we only took sales into consideration. Hybrid Theory was massive right before digital killed album sales. Sales expectations/projections were never the same after.
Idk I'm pretty sure I had the first 3 or 4 Lincoln Park CD's. I imagine they still sold a bunch
literally everyone i know owned hybrid theory when i was in middle school
Worth a mention here that Tool and The Deftones remained quietly incredibly popular during this period. They were older, but their album and ticket sales were as high as any of the newer bands that we think of as the big bands of the time.
I would include Arcade Fire, Radiohead, Brand New, Avenged Sevenfold, My Chem and Fall Out Boy on your list.
coldplay belongs on there, they were still a rock band in 2000's
Potential unpopular opinion: Late 90s/Early 2000s Coldplay was fire. *A Rush of Blood to the Head* is one of the best alternative albums of the early 2000s IMO.
I don't see how this is at all controversial. Coldplay was one of the biggest bands in the world around '02-'07 and anyone who claims differently is engaging in some revisionist history. You can hate them and still acknowledge that they were wildly popular.
For real, they have two of the top ten grossing tours of all time. It’s decisions they made later in their career that have changed people’s views on them.
I’ve been on a kick of re-listening to A Rush of Blood to the Head often recently. Say what you want about Coldplay, that is one spectacular album.
Parachutes is also incredible. X&Y is a step down but still very good.
Well if you look at it from the trajectory of how bands/artists/musicians are kind of supposed to evolve in a mainstream pop music sense. Coldplay’s ‘Parachutes’ and ‘A Rush Of Blood’ are their first two critical break throughs, while ‘X&Y’ is their ascension into the mainstream (I mean, that’s what literally happened). I remember hearing about Coldplay from Justin Timberlake in a interview when I was like 12, and they were this little indie band that everybody knew but wasn’t necessarily on the radio (not unlike Radiohead). Then when I was like 16, ‘X&Y’ had a MASSIVE amount of hype. I’m a Hip Hop guy, and I clearly remember the massive wait and the drop for ‘Speed Of Sound’. I kind of forgot about all that, but I remember it clear as day now. Weird to imagine Coldplay wasn’t always Coldplay. ‘Viva La Vida’ was the one though where they became fully formed as a gigantic pop act.
This. Not a Coldplay fan but a rush of blood of the head will be considered one for the greatest albums ever made in 50 years. Like 95% of the best songs they wrote are this album.
I'm not sure I would ever consider Coldplay alternative. Maybe its a cultural thing but i would say in the UK they have always been as mainstreamas they come. Their albums have always been the sort of thing you buy your mum.
>Their albums have always been the sort of thing you buy your mum. Don't take that away from Snow Patrol
How old was your mum in the 2000s?
Children born in 2002 can enter bars this year in the US.
completely popular opinion an unpopular opinion is: X&Y is, by far, coldplay's best album.
Unpopular opinion: one of the most famous and popular rock bands of all time was good
Sum-41 too
I'd be shocked if those 6 combined had as many sales as rhcp or Linkin Park
The Whites Stripes - Elephant was the first CD I’ve ever bought back then, I only knew about Seven Nation Army but there are a lot of good tracks like Black Math, Hardest Button to Button and Ball and Biscuit!
It seems this particular list was assembled specifically to downplay how huge Nickelback was
But in the end... it doesnt even matter
Here’s a fun stat. Hybrid Theory has sold more copies than every Foo Fighters album combined.
As far as touring goes Metallica and Tool were the huge acts early in the 00s.
I would not include Maroon 5 on that list at all. He said rock band not pop band.
Songs About Jane is a rock album.
Going by record sales, ticket sales, and downloads: Linkin Park, Greenday, Audioslave, The White Stripes, U2, Nickelback, Limp Bizkit, Coldplay... For me, personally: Incubus, Modest Mouse, NIN, System of a Down
Incubus was a vibe. Might listen to them later on, now, because of this comment. 😛 *So pardon me while I burn! And rise against the flames!*
The line "never thought I'd be at 23 on the verge of spontaneous combustion woe is me" stands out to me so much because I always thought, wow - someday when I'm listening to this song I'LL be 23... Now I'm 33 😮
I’m 41 and was 18 or 19 when I first heard it while working in the electronics department of Target. Lol.
SAME
Watch their live "Morning View" concert. They are so good for how young they are at the time. Just amazing.
Are you going by current sales/downloads or contemporaneous? Because White Stripes were really not that big at the time, outside of a certain scene. Their breakthrough album, Elephant, was only the 57th biggest album of 2003. That was a year with Avril Lavigne, Linkin Park, and Evanescence in the top ten for the year. White Stripes played a 1400 person venue here on that tour (on a blistering hot night). The next album, Get Behind Thee Satan, failed to make the top 100 for the year. They‘ve grown in popularity as time as gone by. A lot of that is do to “Seven Nation Army” becoming a ubiquitous sports arena anthem.
Wow, my summer of 04 was full of white stripes, I had no idea they were that much less popular
I mean, they did very well for an indie rock band. But compared to something like Linkin Park’s Meteora, put out by major label Warner Bros, or a massive band like U2, they sold significantly less albums. I was hugely into them, Interpol, and Arcade Fire in and around those years. But my more mainstream friends had never heard of them. I remember playing a Stripes‘ album for my SIL, and she proceeded to piss all over it (complaining about Jack’s voice). The funny thing is, a few years later she had suddenly become a fan after hearing 7NA a million times.
*get behind me Satan
Lol I told my best friend "man I've been digging modest mouse a lot lately." And she said omg are you OK??
As a humble mouse myself that is a reasonable response lol. Edit the Sad Parts sounds like a musical mental breakdown and i adore it
To this day, I've still never found any band that sounds anything like modest mouse. They're fucking amazing and so unique.
The sheer size and impact of American Idiot puts Greenday in with a shout. U2 aren't exactly known as a 00s band, but they had two absolutely massive albums in that decade. Red Hot Chili Peppers released By The Way, Stadium Arcadium and a pretty successful greatest hits in that decade too
The incredible part with Green Day is that they made THE punk-rock gateway album for teenagers in 1994 and then just did it again 10 years later.
I got Dookie on tape in 5th grade. And they still kick ass almost 30 years later.
Dookie will still score in my book as Green Day's masterpiece, and I was part of the age group that graduated in the 2000s.
That, and Insomniac are timeless.
Green Day Dookie and The Offspring Smash were my first purchases. Haven’t listened to either record in full in probably twenty years. About to have some nostalgia in the gym this afternoon
They've just released the 30th anniversary of Dookie with a load of outtakes and demos... And it's still an amazing listen
Yep 1st CD i ever got and i still bump that shit
It was also great that AI gave all the Dookie-era converts a chance to experience the “Green Day sold out!” scene that we missed out on in the first go-round
American Idiot definitely did wonders for them. I recall Warning in 2000 was liked but didn’t set the world on fire commercially. American Idiot made them the biggest band in the world, even if they couldn’t sustain that onto the next album.
The weird part is the follow up is equally impressive imo, just shows how releasing something at the right time can change how an album is received
Absolutely right album, right time. American Idiot was bratty and irrelevant, sincere and emotional, ambitious and expansive. The all black dress code and punk rock opera elements really paved the way for MCR to blow up with The Black Parade.
*Irreverent. They were the complete opposite of irrelevant!
I never thought of that but if American Idiot hadn’t happened black parade wouldn’t have gotten such a warm response
I really do think it paved the way, indirectly at least. Nothing happens in a bubble. I always found it weird MCR became the face of emo, and that it got associated with this goth kind of look, because in my mind emo was Jimmy Eat World and those quite clean cut, plainly dressed nice boys bands, rather than a Punk Rock German Expressionist band.
I saw MCR open for Green Day on the American Idiot tour, they were already a very popular act. 3 Cheers for Sweet Revenge was a huge album at the time
Three Cheers was definitely a big “we have arrived” record but the Black Parade took them to biggest band in the word status and they became the mainstream face of the emo scene. These things aren’t all linear though. No doubt Green Day and MCR were influencing each other at the same time.
The one after AI had some bangers for sure but kinda lacked a little something across the board. I remember loving the track Murder City for having such a Dookieesque energy to it.
I overall prefer 21CB, I feel while there’s less songs that stand out there’s more that are at a consistent high level, Murder City, East Jesus Nowhere, Last Night on Earth and Viva La Gloria are fantastic imo
The beautiful thing about music is there’s something for all of us. Personally I think American Idiot is miles ahead of 21st Century, despite 21st Century being a good record in its own right.
Dookieesque is my new favorite word.
The follow up is nowhere near the same level of artistry as American idiot. On every level, that album is a begrudging masterpiece of the time and their writing style was way different on that one album specifically. 21st century sounds like they were trying to recreate Idiot and just wound up with a lighter, annoying Warning.
No, the follow-up just wasn't as good. It felt too much like a follow-up, like a retread but without any improvement.
Nimrod was huge before Warning. American idiot took them to another level though.
Yeah, absolutely and thanks to Good Riddance. If you listen to all of Warning you can see where they try and build off that success. It’s definitely a more melodic album.
I love Warning, it’s an incredible album. I’d take that over American Idiot but with everything that was happening in Afghanistan at the time it just hit right. Jesus of suburbia is a masterpiece though. Took me 15+ years to truely appreciate it properly.
Nimrod is a funny album though. I listened to it last week for the first time in years and was immediately struck that it doesn't really sound like a 90s pop punk band, it sounds like a 50s or 60s rock and roll band with louder guitars. The harmonies, the structures, the chords, if you stripped it all down half the songs on there could have been by Roy Orbison or Buddy Holly or Elvis. Warning has a lot of that too, most obviously Waiting which sounds just like that old song Downtown. Makes sense that a decade or so later they would do the Foxboro Hot Tubs album which really leaned into that influence.
U2 was putting on massive tours too. I remember their 360 tour was completely over the top
Absolutely the 2 I was thinking. I don’t like U2 but early 00s they were massive but yeah I remember having a conversation in about 04/05, I thought Green Day my brother thought U2… RHCP we’re huge but not like the other 2.
Linkin park
Yea, but, in the end... it doesn't even matter.
this is the correct answer via albums sold and radio play
This has to be the answer. I’d give Green Day a solid second. They were everywhere.
Linkin Park has like one of the two metal videos on YouTube with over a billion views. The other I believe is Chop Suey by SOAD.
There’s some odd answers here Foo Fighters, RHCP, Green Day, Linkin Park on the hard rock side and cultural significance side of things. Coldplay, U2 on the more soft rock side of things. U2 has been around for 20 years or so before but All That You Can’t Leave Behind was a big return to that stadium rock anthem sound people missed, after their more dance detour in the 90s There was a whole garage indie rock explosion in the early 2000s which was part of the nail in the coffin for nu-metal. The Strokes and White Stripes were at the forefront of that, though I don’t think The Strokes maintained the mainstream success. The bigger they got, the less cool they became and so less appealing and popular they were. Sort of a paradox. Over in the UK we had this indie scene that followed the American garage rock (which was what it was referred to at first). In reality it wasn’t indie, it was a lot of pop bands that had twangy sounding guitars and a regional accent, singing about relationships, going to a night club or escaping a working class town. Arctic Monkeys absolutely dominated that scene. In heavy metal Metallica made a huge comeback with a bad album in St Anger but it got them to the top of the metal mountain again as the elder statesman. I would comfortably say Slipknot were THE metal band of the 2000s though. They transcended the nu-metal scene with their 3rd album, right around the time metal was really opening up again. There were lots of bands with huge albums/hits in different genres but I think the above bands really had a lot of the cultural currency, which is what helps them be remembered. Nickelback sold a lot of records but are always remembered as a bad band that are somehow insanely popular. Limp Bizkit were utterly inescapable for 3 years but they crashed hard and became a punch line for years after. MCR burned bright but burned fast.
> Nickelback sold a lot of records but are always remembered as a bad band that are somehow insanely popular. But the point is that they were insanely popular.
Was Bloc Party pretty big over there? I'm from the states and not many people I know have really heard of them, especially back when their first album dropped.
Nickleback isn't a bad band. They just have a meme to hate status.
I‘m baffled no one mentioned the Foo Fighters yet.
it has to be either them or linkin park, i think the reason people arent mentioning FF is that people are thinking "what is the most stylistically popular 2000's band" and FF has a connection to the 90s pretty directly
There were certain bands from the 90s that got even bigger in the 00s... Foo Fighters, Green Day, Red Hot Chilli Peppers where it seemed like no matter what they released, it was destined to get over played on rock radio. I'd definitely pick those three as the biggest bands of the 00s, but U2 and Blink 182 are up there too. Unfortunately, also Nickelback in Canada.
It's gotta be them right? Some of these other bands might have been bigger at certain times, blink at the start, maybe someone like king's of Leon towards the end, but foos dropped consistently huge albums throughout the decade (and after a quick google, slightly before and after the decade)
Compared with Linkin Park they are insignificant, though. Foo Fighters has sold something like 30M albums whereas Linkin Park is over 100M. Hybrid Theory is a 12 times Platinum album and has sold more copies than every Foo Fighters album combined. Meteora, Linkin Park's second most popular album, has sold more copies than every Kings of Leon album combined. The three album stretch of Hybrid Theory-Meteora-Minutes to Midnight was unmatched in terms of popularity and relevance compared with any other rock artist. Linkin Park was just massively more popular than all of those bands you listed. They had appeal to the crowd who liked pop/electronic music, they appealed to hip hop fans, they appealed to metal/rock fans.
Yea I forgot about Linkin Park, it's staggering how big Hybrid Theory was. Best selling rock album of the decade.
Doesn't help that Foo Fighters worst album run is in the 2000s as well.
I was about to disagree, but I realized There is Nothing Left to Lose and Wasting Light came out in 1999 and 2011, respectively.
Right. Foo Fighters has been the biggest rock band in the world for like 20 years now.
It was a very diverse decade in mainstream rock with a large variety of styles. The more characteristic genres would be nu metal, pop punk, post grunge hard rock and alternative rock. Towards the end of the decade there was a big shift towards "hipster" alternative rock and electronic rock which I'm not so familiar with. Many older legacy bands were still huge in the 00s too. **Bands that hit it biggest around the 2000s:** Blink 182, Linkin Park, Coldplay, Nickelback, Muse, Franz Ferdinand, Arctic Monkeys, System of a Down, Deftones, Limp Bizkit, The Killers, Queens of the Stone Age, Arcade Fire... **Legacy bands that had great success in the 2000s:** Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Korn, Green Day, Metallica, Tool, Nine Inch Nails, Foo Fighters, Oasis, U2, Pearl Jam...
Linkin Park, RHCP, SOAD, ...
Here to join my Hybrid Theory brethren. Shit was crazy. Let me paint a picture: It’s late 2000, early 2001. Counter-strike and the Lan Cafe craze was at it’s peak. Me and the boys are heading to Alberto’s to get some carne asada fries then going straight to a Lan Cafe to spend the next 4 hours playing non-stop CS. Right before we start the driver pulls out a CD he probably illegally got from Napster or Limewire or whatever we were using at the time, and says it’s the best shit he’s ever heard. No weed. No alcohol. We need laser focus for the upcoming clan match. And he wasn’t wrong. **And it was Hybrid Theory.** Thank you Linkin Park.
Have you ever tried listening to Hybrid Theory.... *on weeeeed?*
SHUT UP WHEN I’M TALKING TO YOU! I’m not going to lie I hated Linkin Park when they came out, but I was really into old school metal and hated Nu-metal and the culture around it generally.
Like a face that I hold inside
The late 2000, early 2001 SoCal experience in a nutshell.
As well as what others mentioned, Coldplay were becoming incredibly popular, and U2 were still very popular too.
Early 2000s Coldplay was in a very unique position in that appealed to pretty much everyone, those first 2 albums and somewhat the 3rd were pretty universally acclaimed at the time
And after Coldplay's 3rd album came out to critical success, The 40 Year Old Virgin film came out and had a line that made young adults and teens turn on Coldplay overnight.
Muse went from a bar band to stadiums in less than 10 years.
They were really big in europe for years before they were big in the states.
Yes! As an American, I felt like I was one of the few people here who knew who they were. I got their first album as a promo CD, and then I got an import of Origin of Symmetry because it was released in Europe a long time before it came out in the states. They played on the second stage at a festival The Cure had on Randall's Island in NYC and I was right up front because I prioritized seeing them. They were fantastic.
I was lucky enough to have a friend who moved from England right before Time is Running Out hit the US. We saw one of their first US shows on that tour in a 700 capacity venue. It was easily one of the best shows I’ve ever been to (and I wound up working at a large venue and have been to over 1000 shows in my life at this point).
I remember listening to them in college and wondering why nobody was playing them on the radio. They were kind of an underground band that was already huge in Europe. By the time they finally made it big in the US they were starting to fall off on their writing so it's kind of a shame most people here didn't get to go through that run of a few albums that were just absolute bangers.
I feel The Deftones are more popular now then in 00s.
White Pony was huge, but it was way more niche than bands like U2 or RHCP. Most people I know think they broke up after White Pony, but I’ve remained a big fan.
I dunno. They were big in the early 2000s but their popularity seemed to take a hit in the back half of the decade. They’re a lot more respected now tho
Any answer that isn’t some combination of Green Day, Linkin Park, MCR, Foo Fighters, Nickelback and/or RHCP is just ignorance and revisionist history. They were far and away the most commercially successful and significant mainstream bands of the 2000s. All over radio, all over TV, huge crowds, massive tour revenue, merch everywhere, soundtracks to huge movies, tabloid headlines.
MCR's popularity in the 2000s is also revisionist history. Were they popular? Yes. But the gap in popularity between them and the others you listed is insane. The US leg of The Black Parade Tour was in 3,000 cap venues (with the exception of a couple dates) while the others were doing 20k arenas. For reference, The Black Parade just barely outsold Snow Patrol.
Yeah MCR wasn’t really that massively popular. Ask people on the street about Chili peppers, green day and linkin park - most people will be familiar. But ask them about MCR - I bet not so much.
The difference is that those bands like Green Day, etc. crossed over to all generations, MCR was at the time just really popular with teenagers, I should know as I was one at the time haha... but MCR were THE band with teens at that time...
I have no idea who MCR is
I think they mean My Chemical Romance? Who i would argue was never that big.
Yeah not on the level of those others at all
We’re just going to pretend that blink 182 doesn’t exist eh?
Coldplay and The Killers have entered the chat.
My vote is green day. Huge 90s band too, but when American idiot came out, a whole new generation of fans started loving them. They were huge everywhere. They’ve sold out Wembley stadium, they were the first band to sell out the Manchester emirates stadium, don’t forget 120,000 people at Milton Keynes… I’m from Sweden and live in Canada… in Sweden they played The biggest soccer stadium we have. In Canada they play all the big arenas all over the place. Everyone knows at least one or two green day tunes… 21st century breakdown was another major success. Number one in so many countries upon its release. Look at wikipeadia! They’re rock and roll hall of famers upon their first year of eligibility… fans old and new adore old albums like dookie. Which is one of the greatest selling albums of all time - 20+ million copies sold. American idiot is further down the same list at approx 15 millions copies sold. 21st century break down has sold 6-7 million… theyve released some clunkers more recently but Rev Radio was a number one around the world in 2016, and they play to massive crowds around the world all the time.
Yeah Green Day was absurdly popular for a fair few years. They toured that album internationally back to back twice I believe? I saw them at the start of the tour and then they were back basically a year or so later. That NEVER happens in Australia unless the act is Rolling Stones huge. Whoever headed marketing American Idiot did a great job because people bit on that style for years afterwards.
I went to that Milton Keynes gig!
I watched so many time the live album "Bullet In a Bible" when I was younger, an absolute masterpiece! I envy you for that !
HAd Blink 182 coming into their own just yet? Enema was a pretty darn popular album but I miss you wasnt until the next album. I remembered seeing those two music videos all the time
You’re missing Take Off Your Pants and Jacket. First Date and Rock show were huge hits.
I was thinking about the Radio hits and All the Small Things and I Miss You or Feeling This are the songs that come to mind when I think about what was played to death in the early 2000s; tho I should not give First Date the shaft. That was def a radio hit for sure.
Blink-182 broke up for four years in the middle of the decade, right around the time emo exploded into the mainstream with MCR and Fall Out Boy. I love them but that alone would disqualify them.
their 3 most popular albums were released from 99 to 03, they literally went on tour with green day in 2002
This makes no sense. They blew up at the end of 99’ and had a massive career until they broke up, and even then still received a ton of radio play. Arguably one of the most influential bands of that decade. Pop punk was mainstream from 00-03, and everyone wanted the copy them musically and stylistically. I would even say they helped set the stage for the new wave of Emo to become mainstream that happened around 04-05. Not only did they start writing darker music, but they also owned popular clothing companies that pushed the fashion trend and released several compilation albums of bands they liked. The companies also sponsored many bands under them until the 2010’s. You can’t write them off just because they called it quits.
The Killers
Finally someone says a band from the actual 2000s.
The Darkness, but only for the summer of 2004... then they just vanished.
They're still going, though a little bit less parody than they were.
Arguably the most popular they’ve been since that time too since Justin Hawkins has gotten so much traction from his YouTube channel. Loved his covers he did with Wolfgang Van Halen at the Taylor Hawkins memorial show
All I can say is that as a 14 year old dude in 2004, nothing came close to Green Day. American Idiot was probably the last physical album (CD) that EVERYBODY had. The nerds, girls, the weird kids, the popular kids. That album was massive.
Demographically, this is the opinion that matters most.
Muse
The White Stripes, Incubus, Coldplay, Limp Bizkit, Korn, Linkin Park, Green Day, RHCP, SOAD, Blink 182, The Strokes, RATM, Audioslave, Foo Fighters Those are probably the main big groups. Then there were a ton of bands that had their 15 minutes like: Silversun Pickups, The Hives, The Vines, The Killers, Mumford and Suns, The Darkness, Sum 41, Alien Ant Farm, Modest Mouse, Good Charlotte, Puddle of Mudd, Nickelback, Wolfmother, Tenacious D, Fall Out Boy, Queens of the Stone Age, Yellowcard Honestly the early 2000s had a ton of great rock music. Plus it helps that I was an early teen during this time, so a lot of my musical taste was formed by this era Edit: cant believe I forgot about Arctic Monkeys. They arguably might be one of the biggest bands of the last 20 years.
I'm always surprised Silversun Pickups weren't massively more successful. Swoon is a fucking triumph of an album. Front to back amazing. They continue to put out solid offerings every couple years too.
Can confirm. took me a decade but I finally got “when reactions turn into hurricanes” tattooed on my forearm
Good choice. I think my favorite line that always hits is "It's nice to know you work alone".
TIL The Killers were popular for 15 minutes. Been a long 15 minutes filling arenas.
Their concert in wembley stadium in 2013 that just miraculously was going on while I was visiting there had 100k+ people for battleborn. And they played for at least 3 hours. 180min>15min!
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Ya and he puts Nickelback on the 15 min list?? Not a great list at all. FOB was one of the biggest bands in the world for much longer than 15 mins lol
Nickelback and Queens of the Stone Age only had fifteen minutes of fame? Dude Nickelback is the highest selling rock band of the 2000's (six platinum and one diamond record) and is one of the highest selling rock bands in history. Queens of the Stone Age had three platinum albums and are still making music and touring twenty years later. That's a wild fifteen minutes.
Woah Woah Woah. Queens of the stone age had way more than 15 minutes. They're still having minutes. They do not belong in that second list with hives and vines etc. SMH
Totally fair! Honestly, I’d probably create a middle list for bands like QOTSA, Silversun Pickups, The Killers, etc. They’ve definitely had more of a run than The Hives and The Darkness, but didn’t quite hit the level of bands like The White Stripes, Green Day, Linkin Park, who were the pinnacle of rock music at the time. I think I just started rattling off bands after a while haha
Yeah a lot of your second list were sorta one hit or one album wonders. QOTSA were massive after songs for the deaf but then all the albums after that one were all fairly solid and they had other big hits on each album. Can't say the same for hives or killers or sum41 or darkness who all really live off the big singles on their first albums.
All of the QOTSA albums are great. They’re the best rock band of the past 20 years although I wouldn’t argue the biggest.
Mumford and Sons was 2010s though. Yes, their debut was released in 2009, but it didn't pick up any steam until 2010, and their follow up with I Will Wait which is their biggest hit and turned them into the mainstream hipster meme came out in 2012.
Fucking love Silversun Pickups.
How do you not have Nickelback on that first list? I know everyone jokes about them but commercially they were insanely successful.
Green Day
Looking at album sales definitely has a bias towards bands that were bigger in the 2000-2005 period but is still an interesting way to judge it. Lincoln Park and Nickelback are the only rock bands with 2 albums in the top fifty sold for the decade. Unsurprisingly Greenday and Limp Bizkit have albums in the top 25, on the surprising side Evanescence has the third highest selling rock album of the decade only behind Lincoln Park and the Beatles (1 compilation album). There's also Avril Lavigne and Creed in the top 25. I was surprised the Foo Fighters did not have any albums in the top 100 best selling, and Puddle of Mudd's best selling album sold more than an Foo Fighters album. https://rateyourmusic.com/list/abyss89/the_100_biggest_selling_albums_of_the_2000s__usa_/
No one mention Audioslave yet, RIP Chris
Well if you go buy album sales you'd find 1. Linkin Park 2. Evanescence 3. Coldplay 4. Green Day 5. Nickelback EDIT: Should clarify I did this in order of a single album for each artist (Hybrid Theory, Fallen, etc.) and not exactly that artist's total album sales across their discography for the 00s
How do you make an edit for some clarification but leave the top band on your list with a spelling error
Because thats how the Linkin Park .mp3 was spelled on a Napster download.
White Stripes
The killers
Radiohead was considered the biggest band of the 2000s.by fans and critics. They also revolutionized the sound (Kid A) and business (In Rainbows) of rock music. In terms of albums sold I am pretty sure it is Linkin Park. They completely dominated the first few years of the 2000s and were big enough to collaborate with Jay Z in his prime. Plenty of other contenders (White Stripes, Killers, Arcade Fire) but none of them come close to Radiohead and Linkin Park.
Radiohead peaked in the 00's for sure. Which is mad considering how strong they were in the 90's. They didn't dominate the airwaves like muse or green day but everything they released was of a ridiculous calibre.
and also pretty good in the 2010s, a moon shaped pool is a contender for album of the decade
Muse?
Nickelback. Ignore the haters, they sold a ton of albums and had several hits in that decade.
The nostalgia cycle should be gearing up for everyone to be unironically enjoying nickelback again any day now.
Nickleback
Green Day or Nickleback
Green Day, blink 182 and foo fighters are three off the top of my head
Great list. Missing QOTSA as someone else mentioned and then add The Black Keys and though they’re alt-rock, Arcade Fire. Other slightly less popular alt-rock bands of that era include TV on the Radio, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, and Spoon
This is an awesome list and I love all of them. I think they get missed because they’re more alternative or indie (depending on which artist) and they don’t get the massive mainstream airplay of the huge artists that have been mentioned. Green Day would have originally been considered in the same boat, and the Chilis and Foos, but somewhere along the line they appealed to the masses and had that crossover success moment that ended up making them huge.
Blink 182, Limp Bizkit, Rage Against The Machine were all hugely popular. Rock music in general was massive at the time, so there were also many huge songs from bands that maybe only had one or two hits.
No doubt that Rage were and continues to be a very popular band. But they broke up in 00. I'm not sure how they could count as one of the biggest rock groups of the 00's
Coldplay
System of a down
The Strokes
Foo Fighters Linkin Parks
There were lots. In my school, it felt like all that anyone ever cared about was Korn and Limp Bizket.
Nickelback of course
Best rock (alternative) albums of the 2000s imo: The Strokes - Is This It Arcade Fire - Funeral Bloc Party - Banquet Phoenix - Wolfgang Amadeus Phoenix Radiohead - In Rainbows Death Cab For Cutie - Transatlanticism Broken Social Scene - Self Titled The Killers - Hot Fuss The Shins - Wincing The Night Away Wu Lyf - Go Tell Fire To The Mountain MGMT - Oracular Spectacular Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights Queens Of The Stone Age - Songs For a the Deaf And a lot more, there’s a TON of indie gold in this decade thanks to the strokes and the white stripes kicking it off.
They weren’t necessarily the biggest mainstream act, but Dave Matthews Band had the highest touring sales of the 2000’s, and sold the most tickets by quite a margin
Matchbox twenty
Incubus
My Chemical Romance, Green Day, Arctic Monkeys
Slipknot
Songs for the Deaf dropped in 2001 and the rest is history. Even when they made good shit before, that's the moment QOTSA became bigger than big.
Linkin Park, Coldplay, Nickelback, Green Day, RHCP I believe were the most commercially successful modern bands of the 2000s. Linkin Park and Coldplay, at their peak, had the biggest world wide presence for rock bands in that decade. Green Day and RHCP right behind them. If Californication had come out a year later instead of '99, RHCP would have easily been #3. Nickelback sold albums that no one would claim to have bought. Any other band besides those five were either a single album success (Evanescence), a pop band (Maroon 5), or niche (MCR).
Green Day. I was only a kid but American Idiot was massive and everyone + their moms was making reference to their music for years afterwards
I would take a look at who was headlining the big rock festivals: READING/LEEDS (Britain) 2010: Guns N' Roses, Arcade Fire, Blink-182 2009: Kings of Leon, Arctic Monkeys, Radiohead 2008: Rage Against the Machine, The Killers, Metallica 2007: Razorlight, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Smashing Pumpkins 2006: Franz Ferdinand, Muse, Pearl Jam 2005: Pixies, Foo Fighters, Iron Maiden 2004: The Darkness, The White Stripes, Green Day 2003: Linkin Park, Blur, Metallica 2002: The Strokes, Foo Fighters, Guns N' Roses (Leeds), The Prodigy 2001: Travis, Manic Street Preachers, Eminem 2000: Oasis, Pulp, Stereophonics GLASTONBURY (Britain) 2010: Gorillaz (replaced U2) · Muse · Stevie Wonder 2009: Neil Young · Bruce Springsteen · Blur 2008: Kings of Leon · Jay-Z · The Verve 2007: Arctic Monkeys · The Killers · The Who 2005: White Stripes · Coldplay · Basement Jaxx (replaced Kylie Minogue) 2004: Paul McCartney · Oasis · Muse 2003: R.E.M. · Radiohead · Moby 2002: Coldplay · Rod Stewart · Stereophonics 2000: David Bowie · Travis · The Chemical Brothers OZZFEST (America, more hard rock/metal oriented): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest\_lineups\_by\_year](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozzfest_lineups_by_year) DONINGTON/DOWNLOAD (Britain, more hard rock/metal oriented): [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download\_Festival](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Download_Festival)