List of hard rock and metal albums that reached number one in the German charts

The list of hard rock and metal albums that reached number one in the German charts includes music albums from the hard rock and metal genres that took top position in the music charts for Germany determined by GfK Entertainment (previously Media Control ) . All types of music albums such as studio albums, live albums, compilations or soundtracks are included. So far, 123 metal and hard rock albums have reached number one in the German album charts.

List of number one albums

year	title	Art	Artist	Weeks in 1st place	Weeks on the charts	Award
1970	Led Zeppelin II	St.	Led Zeppelin	4th	43	1 ×  platinum
	Deep purple in rock	St.	Deep Purple	12	84
1971	Fireball	St.	Deep Purple	4th	48	1 ×  gold
1972	Machine head	St.	Deep Purple	8th	41
1973	Made in Japan	Li.	Deep Purple	4th	55	1 × platinum
1974	Burn	St.	Deep Purple	8th	52
1986	The House of Blue Light	St.	Deep Purple	3	7th
1991	Crazy World	St.	Scorpions	8th	78	2 × platinum
	Metallica	St.	Metallica	2	145	1 × platinum
1994	Cross Road - The Best Of	Ko.	Bon Jovi	6th	68	2 × platinum
1995	These Days (album)	St.	Bon Jovi	3	66	1 × gold
1996	Load	St.	Metallica	4th	37	1 × platinum
1997	Destination Anywhere	St.	Bon Jovi	1	47
	nostalgia	St.	Rammstein	5	65	1 × platinum
	ReLoad	St.	Metallica	2	40	1 × platinum
1998	Viva los tioz	St.	Böhse Onkelz	1	24
	Garage Inc.	St.	Metallica	1	43	1 × gold
1999	live from Berlin	Li.	Rammstein	1	12	1 × gold
	Hooray for boobies	St.	Bloodhound gang	4th	56	1 × platinum
	S&M	Li.	Metallica	1	43	1 × platinum
2000	Razorblade Romance	St.	HIM	1	58	3 × gold
	Stiff Upper Lip	St.	AC / DC	1	38	3 × gold
	A bad fairy tale ... from a thousand dark nights	St.	Böhse Onkelz	1	22nd	1 × platinum
	Don't give me names	St.	Guano apes	2	38	1 × gold
	Crush	St.	Bon Jovi	6th	49	5 × gold
	Chocolate Starfish and the Hot Dog Flavored Water	St.	Limp Bizkit	1	60	1 × gold
2001	mother	St.	Rammstein	4th	58	2 × platinum
2002	Dopamine	St.	Böhse Onkelz	2	23
	Untouchables	St.	grain	1	17th
	By the way	St.	Red hot chili peppers	3	52	3 × gold
2003	Walking on a thin line	St.	Guano apes	1	30th	1 × gold
	Meteora	St.	Linkin Park	2	77	7 × gold
	Love metal	St.	HIM	1	20th	1 × gold
	St. Anger	St.	Metallica	6th	21st	2 × platinum
	Dead letters	St.	The Rasmus	1	37	1 × platinum
	Results May Vary	St.	Limp Bizkit	1	32	1 × gold
2004	Once	St.	Nightwish	2	39	3 × gold
	Adios	St.	Böhse Onkelz	3	17th
	Journey, journey	St.	Rammstein	1	46	1 × platinum
2005	Your Dark Side	St.	Nu Pagadi	1	12
	Live in Hamburg	Li.	Böhse Onkelz	1	24	1 × gold
	Mezmerize	St.	System of a Down	2	22nd	1 × gold
	La Ultima / Live in Berlin	Li.	Böhse Onkelz	1	14th	2 × platinum
	Have a nice day	St.	Bon Jovi	3	36
	Rose red	St.	Rammstein	1	30th
2006	Arcadium Stadium	St.	Red hot chili peppers	5	70	5 × gold
	A Matter of Life and Death	St.	Iron Maiden	1	11	1 × gold
	The open door	St.	Evanescence	1	26th	1 × gold
	Dodgeball	Li.	Rammstein	3	41	3 × gold
2007	Vaya con Tioz	Li.	Böhse Onkelz	1	32
	Minutes to Midnight	St.	Linkin Park	4th	82	3 × platinum
	Lost Highway	St.	Bon Jovi	1	49	1 × platinum
	Dark Passion Play	St.	Nightwish	1	39	1 × platinum
2008	Sængerkrieg	St.	In Extremo	1	30th	1 × gold
	Death Magnetic	St.	Metallica	1	38	2 × platinum
	Black Ice	St.	AC / DC	4th	55	5 × platinum
2009	Love is there for everyone	St.	Rammstein	2	47	2 × platinum
	The Circle	St.	Bon Jovi	1	19th	1 × gold
2010	Iron man 2	So.	AC / DC	1	29	1 × platinum
	The Final Frontier	St.	Iron Maiden	1	11	1 × gold
	A Thousand Suns	St.	Linkin Park	2	49	3 × gold
2011	Star iron	St.	In Extremo	1	18th	1 × gold
	Bel Air	St.	Guano apes	1	18th	1 × gold
	Wasting light	St.	Foo fighters	1	30th	1 × gold
	Live at River Plate	Li.	AC / DC	1	64	7 × gold
	Sounds of a Playground Fading	St.	In Flames	1	9
	Gold cobra	St.	Limp Bizkit	2	17th
	I'm with you	St.	Red hot chili peppers	2	22nd	1 × platinum
	Made in Germany 1995–2011	Ko.	Rammstein	2	70	1 × platinum
2012	Living Things	St.	Linkin Park	2	61	2 × platinum
	Celebration Day	Li.	Led Zeppelin	2	34	1 × platinum
2013	Outlaw Gentlemen & Shady Ladies	St.	Volbeat	1	64	2 × platinum
	Enemies of your Enemies	St.	Free wild	1	39	1 × gold
	Now what?	St.	Deep Purple	1	17th	1 × gold
	Preachers of the Night	St.	Powerwolf	1	6th
	The black multiplication table	St.	Saltatio Mortis	1	5
	Quiet	Li.	Free wild	1	19th	1 × gold
2014	The Hunting Party	St.	Linkin Park	1	33	1 × platinum
	Blind rage	St.	Accept	1	6th
	Rock or Bust	St.	AC / DC	2	57	1 × diamond
2015	opposition	St.	Free wild	2	69	1 × gold
	Skills in pills	St.	/ Lindemann	1	16	1 × gold
	Circus zeitgeist	St.	Saltatio Mortis	1	23
	Burning Bridges	St.	Bon Jovi	1	9
	Bad Magic	St.	Motorhead	1	18th	1 × gold
	The Book of Souls	St.	Iron Maiden	1	28	1 × gold
	Repentless	St.	Slayer	1	9
2016	Jomsviking	St.	Amon Amarth	1	8th
	Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie	St.	Volbeat	2	...	1 × gold
	Böhse for life	Li.	Böhse Onkelz	1	19th	1 × platinum
	Quid pro quo	St.	In Extremo	1	14th
	Lady in Gold	St.	Blues pills	1	6th
	beacon	St.	Shameful	1	9
	Sorceress	St.	Opeth	1	4th
	Memento	St.	Böhse Onkelz	1	22nd	1 × platinum
	Hardwired ... to Self-Destruct	St.	Metallica	1	45	2 × platinum
2017	Gods of Violence	St.	Creator	1	6th
	inFinite	St.	Deep Purple	1	17th
	Rammstein: Paris	Li.	Rammstein	1	100	1 × platinum
	Storm ride	St.	Icebreaker	1	9
	Memento - Against Time + Live in Berlin	Li.	Böhse Onkelz	1	9
2018	Your fortune smith	St.	Goitz Front	1	9
	Rivals & rebels	St.	Free wild	2	51	1 × platinum
	America	St.	Thirty Seconds to Mars	1	11
	And Justice for None	St.	Five Finger Death Punch	1	15th
	The Sacrament of Sin	St.	Powerwolf	1	12
	bread and games	St.	Saltatio Mortis	1	17th
2019	ritual	St.	Oomph!	1	8th
	Distance over time	St.	Dream theater	1	7th
	Berserk	St.	Amon Amarth	1	14th
	Rammstein	St.	Rammstein	4th	...	2 × platinum
	The Great War	St.	Sabaton	1	12
	Rewind, replay, rebound	St.	Volbeat	1	...
	F & M	St.	/ Lindemann	1	...
	Still II	St.	Free wild	1	...
2020	The Book of Fire	St.	Mono Inc.	1	...
	Böhse Onkelz	St.	Böhse Onkelz	2	...
	Of Truth and Sacrifice	St.	Heaven Shall Burn	1	...
	Human. : II: Nature.	St.	Nightwish	1	...
	Corona quarantine tape	St.	Free wild	1	...
	Compass to the sun	St.	In Extremo	1	...

Legend

• Compilation (Ko.)
• Live album (left)
• Soundtrack (Sun.)
• Studio album (St.)

Albums by number

Artist number Artist 11 Böhse Onkelz 10 Rammstein 8th Bon Jovi Deep Purple Metallica 6th Free wild 5 AC / DC Linkin Park 4th In Extremo 3 Guano apes Iron Maiden Limp Bizkit Nightwish Red hot chili peppers Saltatio Mortis Volbeat 2 Amon Amarth HIM Led Zeppelin / Lindemann Powerwolf 1 22 artists

nation number nation 45  Germany 36  United States 14th  United Kingdom 8th  Sweden 6th  Finland  Italy 5  Australia 3  Denmark

Album type number Art 105 Studio albums 14th Live albums 3 Compilations 1 Soundtracks

See also

• German album charts
• List of number one albums in Germany
• List of the top 10 albums in Germany
• List of the best-selling music albums certified by BVMI in Germany
• List of the best-selling video albums certified by BVMI in Germany

Web links

• Austriancharts.at