>>129567645
AM is a very solid choice for the last real mainstream rock album, but I'll add a couple extra years and say that in 2015, that Alabama Shakes album was the last time a newer rock band had records that sold and garnered a lot of press and awards. But then of course they broke up and the trends shifted towards R&B and trap

>>129567645
nu metal was the death knell

>>129569091
Grunge was the death knell and post-grunge was the funeral.
In all honesty, though, rock had a good run, but there's just nothing else to do with it besides revive old shit for the millionth time. it's been milked bone-dry.

>>129567645
Was this album ever relevant in the US mainstream? I genuinely have no idea.

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>>129569475
>the album became the band's most successful in the United States, debuting at number six on the Billboard 200 and topping four other Billboard charts. The single "Do I Wanna Know?" became the band's first song to enter the Billboard Hot 100. In 2023, the album was certified four-times platinum in the US by the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA).

Mid 80's to early 90's. Alt-rock, grunge, new wave, metal, death, none of these could really be considered rock.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCZlINXJpXU

When they started pushing xxxtentacion,Tyler the Creator and Travis Scott to everyone

Better than any kenny d

>>129567645
mid to late 2000s.

>>129567645
when white men discovered piracy

>>129567645
>>129568466
Rock is still very much alive, I don't care whether it's "mainstream" or not

Here's a rock song from 2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jGDXjY8ARLY

QOTSA kept it alive

>>129572425
Good post

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JLpRsLvAZiY

>>129569475
not quite, 29th best selling album of 2014, the Black Keys had the 23rd album

>>129572774
*160th of 2013 btw

rock albums in the yearly US top 20s:

2025
nothing

2024
#19 Olivia Rodrigo - Guts

2023
#8 Taylor Swift - Speak Now (Taylor's Version)
#16 Olivia Rodrigo - Guts

2022
#4 Harry Styles - Harry's House

2021
#19 Taylor Swift - Red (Taylor's Version)

2020
#9 Harry Styles - Fine Line

2019
#13 Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody (Soundtrack)

2018
#15 Imagine Dragons - Evolve

2017
#11 Imagine Dragons - Evolve

2016
#8 One Direction - Made In The A.M.
#13 Coldplay - A Head Full Of Dreams
#14 Prince - The Very Best Of

2015
#10 One Direction - Four
#12 Hozier - Hozier
#15 Fall Out Boy - American Beauty / American Psycho

2014
#4 One Direction - Midnight Memories
#12 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
#13 Eric Church - The Outsiders
#16 Brantley Gilbert - Just As I Am
#19 Various Artists - Guardians Of The Galaxy: Awesome Mix, Vol. 1

2013
#2 Taylor Swift - Red
#3 One Direction - Take Me Home
#6 Imagine Dragons - Night Visions
#8 P!nk - The Truth About Love
#14 Phillip Phillips - The World From The Side Of The Moon

2012
#4 Taylor Swift - Red
#5 One Direction - Up All Night
#10 The Black Keys - El Camino
#14 Carrie Underwood - Blown Away
#15 Nickelback - Here And Now
#17 Coldplay - Mylo Xyloto
#20 Fun. - Some Nights

excluding pop-rock that'd be 2012 (Black Keys, Nickelback), note that Arctic Monkey's AM is also pop-rock

>>129569688
based retard

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>>129567645
It didn't die, it was killed

>>129567645
>to have any relevance in the mainstream
What makes you think this is a metric?

>>129573642
>Fall Out Boy
Blast from the past

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhG-vLZrb-g&t=11

>>129569688
Ok, moron