The 20 Best-Selling Classic Rock Albums of 2025

Almost 50 years after its launch, Fleetwood Mac’s Rumours is not simply the perfect promoting traditional rock album of 2025, it is the Twenty fifth-best promoting document of the yr general.

In fact, the very prime of the 2025 year-end Billboard 200 Albums chart is dominated by youthful pop, nation and rap stars similar to Taylor Swift, Morgan Wallen and Kendrick Lamar.

However solely 21 of them put out a document that offered greater than Rumours. (Swift has two albums within the prime 24, and Wallen has three.)

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Fleetwood Mac seem within the High 200 twice, with their 1988 compilation Best Hits turning up at No. 136. All however 4 of the 20 traditional rock albums that made this yr’s chart are best-of collections, as you possibly can see within the checklist under. Elegant’s 1996’s self-titled document, Metallica’s 1991 “Black Album” and Nirvana’s Nevermind had been the one information to buck this pattern.

You may see the total checklist under:

The 20 Greatest-Promoting Basic Rock Albums of 2025

20. Bon Jovi, Best Hits: The Final Assortment (#195 on Billboard‘s 12 months-Finish Chart)
19. Elegant, Elegant (#186)
18. Metallica, Metallica (#154)
17. Eagles, Their Best Hits 1971-1975 (#147)
16. Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band, Best Hits (#145)
15. Aerosmith, Best Hits (#141)
14. Fleetwood Mac, Best Hits (#136)
13. Lynyrd Skynyrd, All Time Best Hits (#129)
12. Weapons N Roses, Best Hits (#126)
11. Daryl Corridor John Oates, The Very Greatest Of (#125)
10. ABBA, Gold: Best Hits (#121)
9. Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Best Hits (#97)
8. Bob Marley and the Wailers, Legend: The Greatest Of (#82)
7. Creed, Best Hits (#80)
6. Nirvana, Nevermind (#76)
5. Journey, Best Hits (#75)
4. Queen, Best Hits (#64)
3. Creedence Clearwater Revival, Chronicle: Their 20 Best Hits (#58)
2. Elton John, Diamonds (#35)
1. Fleetwood Mac, Rumours (#25)