List of Billboard Mainstream Rock number-one songs of the 1980s

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This is a list of all the songs that have hit number-one on the Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.

2006

• Nickelback - "Animals" (6 Weeks)
• Godsmack - "Speak"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Dani California" (11 Weeks)
• Three Days Grace - "Animal I Have Become" (3 Weeks)

2005

• Green Day - "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" (15 weeks)
• Shinedown - "Save Me" (12 weeks)
• Seether - "Remedy" (8 weeks)
• Nickelback - "Photograph" (7 weeks)
• Foo Fighters - "Best of You"
• Green Day - "Holiday"
• Staind - "Right Here"
• Mudvayne - "Happy?" (1 Week)

2004

• Chevelle - "Vitamin R (Leading Us Along)" (2 Weeks)
• Nickelback - "Figured You Out" (13 weeks)
• Velvet Revolver - "Fall to Pieces" (10 weeks)
• Velvet Revolver - "Slither" (9 weeks)
• Jet - "Cold Hard Bitch"
• Linkin Park - "Breaking the Habit"
• Linkin Park - "Numb"
• Three Days Grace "Just Like You"

2003

• 3 Doors Down - "When I'm Gone"
• Audioslave - "Like a Stone" (12 Weeks)
• Chevelle - "Send the Pain Below"
• Puddle of Mudd - "Away From Me"
• Staind - "So Far Away"
• Linkin Park - "Somewhere I Belong"
• Godsmack -- "Straight Out Of Line"

2002

• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "By the Way" (7 weeks)
• Nirvana - "You Know You're Right"
• Godsmack - "I Stand Alone"
• Nickelback - "Too Bad"
• Nickelback - "Never Again"
• 3 Doors Down- "When I'm Gone"
• Puddle of Mudd - "Blurry"
• Puddle of Mudd - "Drift & Die"
• Puddle of Mudd - "She Hates Me"
• System of a Down - "Aerials"

2001

• Aerosmith - "Jaded" (5 weeks)
• Staind - "It's Been Awhile (20 weeks)
• Nickelback - "How You Remind Me" (13 weeks)
• Godsmack - "Awake"
• Creed - "My Sacrifice"
• 3 Doors Down - "Duck & Run"

2000

• 3 Doors Down - "Kryptonite" (7 weeks)
• 3 Doors Down - "Loser" (21 Weeks)
• Metallica - "I Disappear"
• Metallica - "No Leaf Clover"
• AC/DC - "Stiff Upper Lip"
• Creed - "With Arms Wide Open"
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Californication"

1999

• Buckcherry - "Lit Up"
• Def Leppard - "Promises"
• Creed - "Higher" (18 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "Heavy" (14 weeks)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "Scar Tissue"

1998

• Van Halen - "Without You"
• Metallica - "Turn the Page"
• Pearl Jam - "Given to Fly"
• Lenny Kravitz - "Fly Away"
• Creed - "What's This Life For"
• The Offspring - "Gone Away"
• Days of the New - "The Down Town"
• KISS - "Psycho Circus"
• Kenny Wayne Shepherd - "Blue on Black"

1997

• Aerosmith - "Fallin' in Love (is Hard on the Knees)"
• Aerosmith - "Pink"
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Lady Picture Show"
• The Wallflowers - "One Headlight"
• Days of the New - "Touch, Peal, and Stand" (16 Weeks)
• Sammy Hagar - “Little White Lie”
• Collective Soul - "Listen"
• Collective Soul - "Precious Declaration"

1996

• Van Halen - "Humans Being"
• Van Halen - "Me Wise Magic"
• Metallica - "Hero of the Day"
• Metallica - "Until it Sleeps"
• Soundgarden - "Blow Up the Outside World"
• Soundgarden - "Burden in My Hand"
• Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby"
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"
• Rush - “Test for Echo”
• Everclear - "Santa Monica (Watch the World Die)"
• Seven Mary Three - "Cumbersome"
• Collective Soul - "The World I Know"
• Collective Soul - "Where the River Flows"

1995

• Collective Soul - "December" (9 weeks)
• Pearl Jam - "Better Man" (8 weeks)
• Van Halen - "Don't Tell Me (What Love Can Do)"
• AC/DC - "Hard as a Rock"
• AC/DC - "Big Gun"
• U2 - "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"
• Live - "Lightning Crashes" (10 Weeks)
• Red Hot Chili Peppers - "My Friends"
• Goo Goo Dolls - "Name"
• Silverchair - "Tomorrow"

1994

• Stone Temple Pilots - "Interstate Love Song" (15 weeks)
• Collective Soul - "Shine" (8 weeks)
• Pearl Jam - "Daughter" (8 weeks)
• Aerosmith - "Deuces are Wild"
• Soundgarden - "Black Hole Sun"
• ZZ Top - "Pincushion"
• Tom Petty - "You Don't Know How It Feels"
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Vasoline"
• Alice in Chains - "No Excuses"
• Pink Floyd - "Keep Talking"
• Pink Floyd - "Take It Back"

1993

• Aerosmith - "Livin' on the Edge" (9 weeks)
• Aerosmith - "Cryin'" (6 weeks)
• Tom Petty - "Mary Jane's Last Dance" (2 weeks)
• John Mellencamp - "What If I Came Knocking"
• Van Halen - "Won't Get Fooled Again"
• Pearl Jam - "Daughter"/"Yellow Ledbetter"
• Lenny Kravitz - "Are You Gonna Go My Way"
• Def Leppard - "Stand Up (Kick Love Into Motion)"
• Stone Temple Pilots - "Plush"
• Cry Of Love - "Peace Pipe"
• Rush - “Stick it Out”
• Blind Melon - "No Rain"

1992

• Bon Jovi - "Keep the Faith"
• John Mellencamp - "Again Tonight"
• Def Leppard - "Let's Get Rocked"
• U2 - "Even Better Than the Real Thing"
• The Black Crowes - "Remedy" (11 weeks)
• The Black Crowes - "Sting Me"
• The Black Crowes - "Thorn in My Pride"
• The Black Crowes - "Hotel Illness"
• Bruce Springsteen - "Human Touch"
• Peter Gabriel - "Digging in the Dirt"
• Bad Company - “How About That”

1991

• Van Halen - "Poundcake"
• Van Halen - "Runaround"
• Van Halen - "Top of the World"
• John Mellencamp - "Get a Leg Up"
• Tom Petty - "Learning to Fly"
• Tom Petty - "Out in the Cold"
• The Rolling Stones - "Highwire"
• U2 - "One"
• U2 - "Mysterious Ways"
• The Black Crowes - "She Talks to Angels"
• R.E.M. - "Losing My Religion"
• Sting - "All This Time"
• Dire Straits - “Heavy Fuel”
• Rush - “Dreamline”
• Yes - "Lift Me Up"
• Queensryche - "Silent Lucidity"

1990

• Aerosmith - "What it Takes"
• Aerosmith - "The Other Side"
• The Black Crowes - "Hard to Handle"
• The Rolling Stones - "Almost Hear You Sigh"
• ZZ Top - "Concrete and Steel"
• ZZ Top - "Doubleback"
• ZZ Top - "My Head's in Mississippi"
• Eric Clapton - "Bad Love"
• Damn Yankees - “Coming of Age”
• Bad Company - “Holy Water”
• INXS - "Suicide Blonde"
• Robert Plant - "Hurting Kind"

1989

• Aerosmith - "Love in an Elevator"
• Tom Petty - "I Won't Back Down"
• Tom Petty - "Runnin' Down a Dream"
• The Rolling Stones = "Mixed Emotions"
• The Rolling Stones - "Rock and a Hard Place"
• R.E.M. - "Stand"
• Eric Clapton - "Pretending"
• The Doobie Brothers - “The Doctor”
• Rush - “Show Don’t Tell”
• Don Henley - "The End of the Innocence"
• Eddie Money - “The Love in Your Eyes”
• Stevie Nicks - "Rooms on Fire"
• Stevie Ray Vaughan - "Crossfire"

1988

• Van Halen - "Black and Blue"
• Van Halen - "When It's Love"
• U2 - "Angel of Harlem"
• U2 - "Desire"
• R.E.M. - "Orange Crush"
• David Lee Roth - “Just Like Paradise”
• Robert Plant - "Tall Cool One"
• Robert Plant - "Heaven Knows"
• Pink Floyd - "On the Turning Away"

1987

• Bon Jovi - "Livin' on a Prayer"
• John Mellencamp - "Cherry Bomb"
• John Mellencamp - "Paper in Fire"
• Foreigner - "Say You Will"
• Tom Petty - "Jammin' Me"
• U2 - "With or Without You"
• Bruce Springsteen - "Brilliant Disguise"
• Bruce Springsteen - "Tunnel of Love"
• Eric Clapton - "It's in the Way That You Use It"
• Sammy Hagar - “Give to Live”
• Bob Seger - “Shakedown”
• The Pretenders - “My Baby”
• Pink Floyd - "Learning to Fly"
• Yes - "Love Will Find a Way"

1986

• Van Halen - "Why Can't This Be Love"
• ZZ Top - "Stages"
• Genesis - "Invisible Touch"
• Genesis - "Throwing It All Away"
• Peter Gabriel - "In Your Eyes"
• Peter Gabriel - "Sledgehammer"
• Boston - "Amanda"
• Bob Seger - "Like a Rock"
• Steve Miller Band - “I Want to Make the World Turn Around”
• The Pretenders - “Don’t Get Me Wrong”
• Eddie Money - “Take Me Home Tonight”

1985

• John Mellencamp - "Lonely Ol' Night"
• ZZ Top - "Sleeping Bag"
• Foreigner - "I Want to Know What Love Is"
• Bruce Springsteen - "Trapped"
• Bryan Adams - "Somebody"
• Sting - "Fortress Around Your Heart"
• Sting - "If You Love Somebody, Set Them Free"
• Eric Clapton - "Forever Man"
• John Fogerty - “The Old Man Down the Road”
• The Cars - “Tonight She Comes”
• Dire Straits - "Money for Nothing"
• Don Henley - "All She Wants To Do Is Dance"
• Robert Plant - "Little by Little"
• Jefferson Starship - "We Built This City"
• Stevie Nicks - "Talk to Me"

1984

• Van Halen - "Jump" (8 weeks)
• Bryan Adams - "Run to You" (4 weeks)
• Don Henley - "The Boys of Summer"
• Survivor - "I Can't Hold Back"

1983

• The Police - "Every Breath You Take" (9 weeks)
• The Police - "King of Pain" (5 weeks)

1982

• Van Halen - "(Oh) Pretty Woman" (2 weeks)

1981

• Eric Clapton - "I Can't Stand It" (2 weeks)
• Foreigner - "Urgent" (4 weeks)
• Foreigner - "Waiting For A Girl Like You" (1 week)
• The Police - "Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic" (2 weeks)