This article summarizes the events related to rock music for the year of 2007.
Notable events
January
The self-titled album of Daughtry, the rock band formed and fronted by American Idol contestant Chris Daughtry, continues to chart following its original release in November 2006. It stays in the top of the US all-format Billboard 200 albums chart, and eventually tops the chart as well. British indie rock band Bloc Party releases their second studio album, A Weekend in the City. It charts in the top ten of nine separate national album charts. Nickelback's fifth studio album, All The Right Reasons, manages to be in the Billboard 200 top 10 despite being released back in October 2005. Indie rock band The Shins release their third studio album, Wincing the Night Away. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 118,000 copies. The debut is the highest of the band's career, and far above prior albums, which only peaked at 86 on the chart. Klaxons release their debut studio album Myths of the Near Future. It peaks at number 2 on the UK albums chart and was certified platinum. My Chemical Romance's single "Welcome to the Black Parade" breaks into the Billboard all-format US Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at number 9.
February
Fall Out Boy releases their third studio album, Infinity on High. It debut atop of the Billboard 200 chart, selling over 200,000 copies in its opening week. It stays in the top 10 for its second and third weeks, selling another 119,000 and 79,000 copies respectively. At the peak of their album's popularity, Fall Out Boy's single concurrently charts high, with "This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race" peaking at number 2 on the Billboard all-format Hot 100 song chart. Daughtry continues to have success on the charts as well, with the Daughtry album staying in the top 10, and eventually again topping, the Billboard 200 chart, while the single "It's Not Over" peaking at number 4 on the Hot 100 song chart.
March
Modest Mouse releases the only number one album of their career, with We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank. It sells 129,000 copies in its opening week. The album is the only one to feature guitarist Johnny Marr, guitarist previously of The Smiths. Marr would in retrospect note that he felt Isaac Brock was a better lyricist than Morrissey. Good Charlotte releases their fourth studio album, Good Morning Revival. It debuts at number 7 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 66,000 copies. This is a massive drop in sales from their prior album, The Chronicles of Life and Death, which debuted with sold three times as much in its opening week in 2004. Korn's live acoustic album MTV Unplugged debuts at number 9 on the Billboard 200 chart, moving 51,000 copies, a rarity for a non-studio album of a hard rock band. Relient K releases their fifth studio album, Five Score and Seven Years Ago. The name is an allusion to "four score and seven years ago" and the fact that the album was the first to be recorded as a five-piece. It debuts at number 6 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 64,000 copies, a career best for the band. Canadian rock band Arcade Fire's album Neon Bible peaks at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 92,000 copies. Fall Out Boy and Daughtry's 2007 albums continue to chart in the top 10 of the Billboard 200 chart. Neil Young's live acoustic performance Live at Massey Hall 1971 debuts at number 6, selling 57,000 copies. Nickelback's single "If Everyone Cared" peaks at 17 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.
April
Hellyeah, a supergroup featuring members from Pantera, Mudvayne, and Nothingface, release their debut, self-titled album. It debuts at number 9 on the Billboard 200, selling 45,000 copies. Bright Eyes releases their eighth studio album, Cassadaga. It debuts at number 4 on the Billboard 200, the highest placement of their career to-date. Nine Inch Nails releases their fifth studio album, Year Zero. It debuts at number 2 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 187,000 copies in its opening week. It holds on to the number 3 spot in its second week as well, selling another 58,000 copies. Linkin Park's "What I've Done", despite it being the first single to be a departure from the band's established nu metal sound, the alternative rock song ends up being the band's third highest-charting song of their career on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, peaking at number 7. Pop punk band Red Jumpsuit Apparatus has the highest-charting song of their career, with "Face Down" reaching 24 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It is their first of only two songs that ever chart there.