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 song's weekly physical sales, digital downloads (since 2007) and streams (since 2015), and is currently published every Friday. The chart was first published on 9 October 1994, when American hard rock band Bon Jovi was number one with the Cross Road single "Always".
As of the chart week ending on 27 August 2026, a total of 397 songs have topped the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart. 11 artists have topped the chart with eight or more different songs. The most successful are American group Foo Fighters and British rock band Muse who have both reached number one with 15 different songs. Five more artists have topped the chart with ten or more different songs: Linkin Park has 14 while Bon Jovi, My Chemical Romance and Bring Me the Horizon with 12 each, and Nickelback with 11. The current number-one is "Iris" by Goo Goo Dolls.
Artists The following artists have been credited on at least eight different number one songs, as recognised by the OCC. +KeyIndicates that the song reached the top ten of the UK Singles Chart ArtistNumber-onesongsTotal weeks atnumber oneSongsRecord label(s)First reachednumber oneWeeks atnumber oneRef.Muse1540"Hyper Music/Feeling Good"Mushroom1"Time Is Running Out" East West1"Hysteria"1"Supermassive Black Hole" A&E5"Starlight"Helium 3Warner Bros.4"Knights of Cydonia" 2"Invincible"2"Feeling Good"A&E11"Undisclosed Desires"Warner Bros.4"Resistance"3"Psycho"Helium 3Warner Bros.1"Dead Inside"2"Mercy"1"Thought Contagion"Warner Bros.1"Won't Stand Down"1Foo Fighters1532"I'll Stick Around"Roswell1"Big Me"1"Monkey Wrench"3"All My Life" RCA2"Times Like These"2"Best of You" 5"DOA"1"No Way Back/Cold Day in the Sun"1"Long Road to Ruin"4"Walk"3"Arlandria"2"Something from Nothing"2"Run"2"The Sky Is a Neighborhood"Columbia3"Making a Fire"1Linkin Park1456"Papercut"Warner Bros.4"In the End" 1"Pts.OF.Athrty" 1"Somewhere I Belong" 5"What I've Done" 5"Bleed It Out"2"New Divide"13"The Catalyst"3"Rolling in the Deep" (live)1"Burn It Down"7"Until It's Gone"2"Numb"5"Lost"1"The Emptiness Machine" 6Bon Jovi1231"Always" Mercury2"This Ain't a Love Song" 4"Something for the Pain" 1"These Days" 3"Hey God"1"Real Life"Reprise3"Thank You for Loving Me"Mercury3"One Wild Night" 1"Everyday" 1"All About Lovin' You" 1"(You Want To) Make a Memory"1"Livin' on a Prayer" 11My Chemical Romance1231"Helena"Reprise1"The Ghost of You"1"Welcome to the Black Parade" 9"Famous Last Words" 6"Desolation Row"1"Na Na Na (Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na Na)"4"Planetary (Go!)"1"Sing"4"The World Is Ugly"1"Kiss the Ring"1"Fake Your Death"1"The Foundations of Decay"Warner1Bring Me the Horizon1228"Drown" RCA1"Happy Song" 2"Throne" 13"True Friends" 1"Follow You" 1"Mantra" 1"Parasite Eve" 2"Obey" 2"Teardrops"2"Die4U"2"Lost"1"Kool-Aid"1Nickelback1160"How You Remind Me" Roadrunner12"Too Bad" 3"Someday" 1"Feelin' Way Too Damn Good"1"Photograph"5"Far Away"1"Rockstar" 26"Gotta Be Somebody"5"I'd Come for You"2"If Today Was Your Last Day"1"When We Stand Together"3Green Day939"Stuck with Me"Reprise1"Hitchin' a Ride"5"Minority"4"Warning"3"American Idiot" 5"Boulevard of Broken Dreams" 10"Holiday"4"Wake Me Up When September Ends" 7"Bang Bang"1Fall Out Boy853"My Songs Know What You Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)" Def Jam8"The Phoenix"1"Alone Together"2"Young Volcanoes"5"Centuries"Island27"Irresistible"Def Jam5"Uma Thurman"4"Immortals"1Metallica838"Until It Sleeps" Vertigo2"Hero of the Day"5"Mama Said"1"The Memory Remains"11"The Unforgiven II"11"Whiskey in the Jar"2"Enter Sandman" 1"Master of Puppets" 6Iron Maiden812"Man on the Edge" EMI1"The Wicker Man" 2"Wildest Dreams" 1"Rainmaker"1"The Number of the Beast" (live) 2"The Trooper" (live) 2"Different World" 2"The Number of the Beast"1
See also List of artists by number of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones List of artists by number of UK Albums Chart number ones List of artists by number of UK Singles Chart number ones
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