The self-titled album of Daughtry, the rock band formed and fronted by American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry, continues to chart following its original release in November 2006. It stays in the top of the US all-format Billboard 200 albums chart, and eventually tops the chart as well.[1][2]
Nickelback's fifth studio album, All The Right Reasons, manages to be in the Billboard 200 top 10 despite being released back in October 2005.[3]
Indie rock band The Shins release their third studio album, Wincing the Night Away. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 118,000 copies. The debut is the highest of the band's career, and far above prior albums, which only peaked at 86 on the chart.[4]
Fall Out Boy releases their third studio album, Infinity on High. It debut atop of the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 200,000 copies in its opening week. It stays in the top 10 for its second and third weeks, selling another 119,000 and 79,000 copies respectively.[8][9][10]
Daughtry continues to have success on the charts as well, with the Daughtry album staying in the top 10, and eventually again topping, the Billboard 200 chart, while the single "It's Not Over" peaking at number 4 on the Hot 100 song chart.[12][13]
Good Charlotte releases their fourth studio album, Good Morning Revival. It debuts at number 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 66,000 copies. This is a massive drop in sales from their prior album, The Chronicles of Life and Death, which debuted with sold three times as much in its opening week in 2004.[16]
Korn's live acoustic album MTV Unplugged debuts at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart, moving 51,000 copies, a rarity for a non-studio album of a hard rock band.[17]
Relient K releases their fifth studio album, Five Score and Seven Years Ago. The name is an allusion to "four score and seven years ago" and the fact that the album was the first to be recorded as a five-piece. It debuts at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 64,000 copies, a career best for the band.[17]
Canadian rock band Arcade Fire's album Neon Bible peaks at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 92,000 copies.[17]
Fall Out Boy and Daughtry's 2007 albums continue to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart.[18]
Bright Eyes releases their eighth studio album, Cassadaga. It debuts at number 4 on the Billboard 200, the highest placement of their career to-date.[20]
Nine Inch Nails releases their fifth studio album, Year Zero. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 187,000 copies in its opening week. It holds on to the number 3 spot in its second week as well, selling another 58,000 copies.[21][22]
Linkin Park's "What I've Done", despite it being the first single to be a departure from the band's established nu metal sound, the alternative rock song ends up being the band's third highest-charting song of their career on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 7.[23]
Pop punk band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has the highest-charting song of their career, with "Face Down" reaching 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is their first of only two songs that ever chart there.[24]
Manic Street Preachers release their eighth studio album, Send Away the Tigers. It originally peaks at number 2 on the UK albums chart, while its 2017 reissue charted at number 21; it was certified gold.[25][26]
Linkin Park releases their third studio album, Minutes to Midnight. It debuts at number one on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 623,000 copies in its opening week. This make it the best-selling debut of the year as of that point, and only one of only 6 albums in a 2 year period to debut with over 600,000 copies sold in its first week. The album holds on to the runner up spot in its second week, selling almost another 200,000 copies, but being bumped from the top spot by Maroon 5's It Won't Be Soon Before Long. It holds on to the third place spot in its third week, selling another 100,000 copies.[27][28][29]
The Used releases their third studio album, Lies for the Liars. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200, selling 92,000 copies. To date, the album has the band's highest charting position on the chart, though their prior album, In Love and Death, sold slightly more with 93,000 copies in its opening week.[28]
Daughtry's self-titled continues to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 album chart.[28][29]
Rush releases their eighteenth studio album, Snakes & Arrows. It debuts at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 93,000 copies. Only their 1993 album Counterparts debuted higher, at number 2.[30]
Papa Roach's single "Forever" peaks at number 55 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, the second highest-charting song of their career to date.[31]
The White Stripes release their sixth and to-date final studio album, Icky Thump. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200, selling 223,000 copies in its first week. The album is the highest debut of any of their albums.[34]
After breaking up in 2001, the Smashing Pumpkins comeback single after reforming in 2007, "Tarantula", peaks at number 54 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is the band's last single to ever crack into the chart. The song "Doomsday Clock" breaks through the following month, but it is not a single.[36]
Daughtry's single "Home" peaks at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[37]
The Smashing Pumpkins release their first album since breaking up in 2001, Zeitgeist. The song debuts at number two on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 145,000 copies in its opening week.[39]
Velvet Revolver releases their second and final album, Libertad. It debuts at number 5 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 92,000 copies. This is a substantial drop from their debut album, Contraband in 2004, which sold 256,000 copies. The following year, frontman Scott Weiland departed from the band, who to date, have not succeeded in finding a permanent replacement singer.[41]
The Foo Fighters release their sixth studio album, Echoes, Silence, Patience & Grace. It tops the national charts of Australia, Canada, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom, and peaks and number 3 in the US.[43]
The Eagles release their seventh studio album, their first one in over 25 years, Long Road Out of Eden. The albums tops the Billboard 200 chart and sells 710,000 copies in its first week, the second highest debut for an album in 2007.[44]
Matchbox 20 release their compilation album Exile on Mainstream. The release is a two disc set; the first being a newly recorded EP of seven songs, and the second consisting of remastered versions of their greatest hits. It peaks at number 3 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 131,000. One of the singles, a new song entitled "How Far We've Come", peaks at number 11 on the Billboard Hot 100 around the same time.[45][46]
Led Zeppelin reforms to play their first live show in 27 years, for a tribute show for Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who first helped the band break into the mainstream in the 1960s. The band had only played twice since their breakup in 1980, neither of which were seen as successes. The December show goes well, and inspires some band members to continue on in some capacity. However, frontman Robert Plant is more interested in his solo career and refuses to move forward. In coming years, the remaining band members audition with other singers such as Aerosmith's Steven Tyler and Alterbridge's Myles Kennedy, but efforts eventually fizzle out to nothing.[50][51]
Daughtry's single "Over You" pearks at number 18 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.[13]
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