What was the last metal song to become a mainstream hit?
Apr 14, 2021 20:38:26 GMT 10
Post by SharksFan99 on Apr 14, 2021 20:38:26 GMT 10
While I was sitting on board the long 12-hour trip over the Bass Strait on Sunday, the bistro which I happened to be near played a playlist of songs from 2005-2009 over the loud speakers. As you'd expect from that time period, there were plenty of pop-rock songs by the likes of Ashlee Simpson, Miley Cyrus etc. in the playlist, but not a single metal or hard-rock song was played.
It got me thinking about how metal was largely absent from the popular chart music of the mid-late 2000s, which is interesting when you think about it, because just a few years earlier, nu-metal and alternative-metal were huge around the turn of the millennium. Linkin Park, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit were all among the biggest names in music for a good number of years, and even some of the more underground metal bands like Static-X and Adema had sizable fan bases. There's a discernible difference in the influence metal had on the mainstream between 2002 and 2007, despite it only being a five year difference.
So over the course of the day, I've been scratching my head just trying to think of a single metal song that became a popular hit after 2005 and in all honesty, I haven't been able to think of any. I have seen some sources in the past categorize Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" as an alternative-metal song, however I personally believe it has too many post-grunge and funk influences for it to be considered metal.
It seems as though System of a Down's "B.Y.O.B" (released in 2005) was the last metal song to reach the Top-40 and become a mainstream hit:
Is there a song that I have missed? Can anyone think of a popular/Top-40 metal song that was released later than "B.Y.O.B"?
The topic of when rock died out in the mainstream has been spoken about to ad nauseum, but i'm interested to know more about when exactly metal fell out of favour and what was genuinely the last metal song to become a mainstream hit. What's your take on this?
It got me thinking about how metal was largely absent from the popular chart music of the mid-late 2000s, which is interesting when you think about it, because just a few years earlier, nu-metal and alternative-metal were huge around the turn of the millennium. Linkin Park, Slipknot and Limp Bizkit were all among the biggest names in music for a good number of years, and even some of the more underground metal bands like Static-X and Adema had sizable fan bases. There's a discernible difference in the influence metal had on the mainstream between 2002 and 2007, despite it only being a five year difference.
So over the course of the day, I've been scratching my head just trying to think of a single metal song that became a popular hit after 2005 and in all honesty, I haven't been able to think of any. I have seen some sources in the past categorize Finger Eleven's "Paralyzer" as an alternative-metal song, however I personally believe it has too many post-grunge and funk influences for it to be considered metal.
It seems as though System of a Down's "B.Y.O.B" (released in 2005) was the last metal song to reach the Top-40 and become a mainstream hit:
Is there a song that I have missed? Can anyone think of a popular/Top-40 metal song that was released later than "B.Y.O.B"?
The topic of when rock died out in the mainstream has been spoken about to ad nauseum, but i'm interested to know more about when exactly metal fell out of favour and what was genuinely the last metal song to become a mainstream hit. What's your take on this?
