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The following is a list of notable soft rock bands and artists and their most notable soft rock songs. This list should not include artists whose main style of music is anything other than soft rock, even if they have released one or more songs that fall under the "soft rock" genre. (Such songs can be added under Category:Soft rock songs.)
The top mainstream rock song of the decade, " Kryptonite " by 3 Doors Down, [ 2 ] peaked at No. 3 on the Hot 100 and was a No. 1 pop hit. The top mainstream rock artist of the decade was Nickelback, [ 2 ] who had the second biggest song on the Mainstream Rock chart during the 2000s with " How You Remind Me " and led all other artists with seven ...
The top song of the 2000s on Billboard' s Alternative Songs decade-end list was " Headstrong " by Trapt, [ 7 ] which topped the chart for three weeks and was also its year-end number-one song for 2003. [ 8 ] The decade-end top Alternative Songs artist was Linkin Park, [ 7 ] who scored eight number-one songs—" In the End ", " Somewhere I ...
Soft rock (also known as light rock) is a form of rock music that originated in the late 1960s in Southern California and the United Kingdom which smoothed over the edges of singer-songwriter and pop rock, [1] relying on simple, melodic songs with big, lush productions. Soft rock was prevalent on the radio throughout the 1970s and eventually ...
Air Supply is a soft rock duo formed in Melbourne, Australia, in 1975, consisting of Englishman Graham Russell (vocals, guitar) and Australian Russell Hitchcock (vocals). With record sales of 100 million worldwide, [1] they had a succession of hits worldwide, including eight top-five hits on the US Billboard Hot 100, "Lost in Love" (1979), "All Out of Love", "Every Woman in the World" (both ...
Franz Ferdinand in concert in 2004. Like many American alternative rock bands, during the late 1990s and early 2000s, several British indie bands emerged, including Franz Ferdinand, the Libertines and Bloc Party, that drew primary inspiration from new wave and post-punk groups such as Joy Division, Wire, and Gang of Four, establishing the post-punk revival movement. [5]
Throughout the decade, a total of 129 singles claimed the top spot of the Hot 100. While Santana 's " Smooth " featuring Rob Thomas topped the chart in the first two weeks of 2000, it was not counted as a number-one single of the 2000s decade by Billboard because it had topped the chart in October 1999, and thus was counted as a number-one ...
KUER 90.1. July 3, 2014. ^ "Des Moines, Iowa USA-based, Stone Sour began in the late '90s as the Alternative-Rock recording project of vocalist Corey Taylor and guitarist Jim Root, both also known for their work with the neo-shock metallers Slipknot". www.100xr.com. Archived from the original on January 8, 2016.