Discover the Top Rock & Metal, official charts of Rock & Metal albums in France SNEP/SCPP/OCC for the week of July 27, 2026, commented by the editorial staff. To read or listen
The Rolling Stones remain at the top for the second consecutive week, but it is Motionless In White who strikes the big blow by entering directly at 5th place for their twenty-year career. Tricky makes a surprise return to 7th, Scorpions replays its most spectacular yoyo (+76 places) and Loathe, Yard Act and Babymetal complete a week of eclectic entries. The end of July ranking mixes established legends and theatrical metalcore.
Top Rock Metal week 30: the Stones hold on, the podium tightens
#1 The Rolling Stones – Foreign Tongues (=)
Second week at the top for the Rolling Stones. Foreign Tongues confirms its sensational entry and moves to the top of the ranking. The twenty-fifth studio album from Jagger, Richards and Wood resists the week's wave of entries — the British veterans' declaration of love for blues and rock'n'roll continues to dominate the French market. At over eighty years old, the Stones hold the summit as in 1971.
#2 Muse – The WOW! Signal (=)
Muse remains in 2nd place, firmly hanging on. The WOW! Signal completes four weeks in the leading duo (twice No. 1, twice No. 2) – a trajectory of remarkable regularity for the return of the Teignmouth trio. The signal does not weaken.
#3 Linkin Park – From Zero (+2)
Linkin Park returns to the podium. From Zero gains two places and Papercuts rises to 6th place — the double presence in the top 10 is further strengthened. Seven months after the start of its cycle, the group remains one of the three structuring forces in the ranking. Unparalleled endurance.
#4 Tame Impala – Deadbeat (+2)
Tame Impala is also coming back. Deadbeat regains two places and returns to the foot of the podium, nine months after its release. Kevin Parker's album stubbornly refuses to age — it's the most lasting record in the entire 2026 ranking.
Motionless In White: twenty years and a top 5
#5 Motionless In White – Decades (entry)
Entry of the week. Motionless In White goes straight to 5th place with Decadestheir seventh studio album released on July 17 through Roadrunner Records. The band from Scranton, Pennsylvania, celebrates its twenty-year career with a record that lives up to its name — an overview of two decades of gothic, industrial and theatrical metalcore. Produced by Drew Fulk and Justin DeBlieck, the fourteen-track album embraces all the faces of the group: the single Afraid of the Darkfirst No. 1 of their career on the Billboard Hot Hard Rock Songs, Playing God in duet with Corey Taylor of Slipknot, R.I.P. with Skylar Grey, and an unexpected cover of Sunglasses at Night. Chris Motionless explains the process: “This time, I just wanted to explore where the band is in all the styles of heavy music that we love.” The specialist press hails an album that is “darker, bigger and more adventurous”, a celebration of everything the group does best. Twenty years after their debut – and a van broke down in a snowstorm which derailed their very first tour – Motionless In White scored a top 5 in France. Perseverance rewarded.
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#7 Tricky – Different When It's Silent (entry)
The surprise return of the week. Tricky enters directly at 7th place with Different When It's Silent at False Idols. The Bristol trip-hop pioneer, founding figure of the genre alongside Massive Attack and Portishead, enters the top 10 of the Rock & Metal rankings – a fact which says a lot about the growing porosity of the ranking, after Kneecap, Vince Staples and Angine de Poitrine. The dark and whispered universe of Tricky finds an immediate echo in the French market, where the artist has always benefited from a loyal audience. Thirty years later Maxinquayethe Bristolian proves that his singular voice has lost none of its magnetism.
#10 Scorpions – Coming Home Live (+76)
The Scorpions yoyo in its most extreme version. Coming Home Live jumped 76 places (86th → 10th), while From the First Sting drop from 11th to 32nd place (-21). The ballet between the German group's two albums resumes with a vengeance, after a week of calm. For two months, the two records have swapped almost every week in spectacular proportions – it has become the most fascinating statistical soap opera in the ranking.
Jack White and BMTH fall, Bashung rises again
#12 Jack White – Frozen Charlotte (-8)
The post-entry fall. Entering 4th place last week, Jack White fell eight places. Frozen Charlotte remains in the top 15 — a decent hold for the American's demanding garage-rock, whose French fanbase remains solid.
#14 Bring Me The Horizon – Count Your Blessings | Repented (-11)
BMTH is also moving backwards. The reissue of the first album, which entered 3rd place last week, slipped to 14th. The fall remains measured for a heritage object – and the group retains three albums in the ranking, with Post Human: Nex Gen at 31st and the Brazilian live at 96th. The BMTH machine continues to run.
#18 Angina Pectoris – Vol. 2 (-4)
The Quebec phenomenon is slowly slipping. Flight. 2 falls to 18th place and Flight. 1 at the 23rd. Six weeks after the viral explosion, the masked duo still holds the top 25 — a longevity that no one would have dared predict for instrumental microtonal math-rock. The descent has begun, but it is slow.
#54 Alain Bashung – The Album of his Life (+14)
The Bashung yoyo continues its journey. The Album of his Life moved up 14 places this week. The heritage compilation continues its permanent oscillations – rise, fall, rise – in a perpetual movement which has lasted since April. Bashung remains the most unpredictable object in the French ranking.
Loathe, Yard Act, Babymetal: eclectic entries
#26 Loathe – A Stranger to You (entry)
Loathe enters at 26th place with A Stranger to You at Nuclear Blast. The Liverpool band, one of the most acclaimed projects in contemporary British alternative metal, blends metalcore, shoegaze and ambient into a unique sound that has earned them cult status. An entry into the French top 30 which confirms the group's rise in commercial power – and the appetite of the French public for metal that dares to go beyond the box.
#39 Yard Act – You're Gonna Need a Little Music (entry)
Yard Act enters at number 39 at Universal Music. The post-punk band from Leeds, revealed by The Overload and his sarcastic spoken flow, continues his journey with a third album. Intelligent British post-punk retains its place in the French ranking.
#40 Babymetal – Metal Forth (entry)
Babymetal resurfaces at 40th place with Metal Forth. The Japanese kawaii metal phenomenon, which already appeared in the rankings in June, returns — each resurgence of the trio confirms the loyalty of its French audience.
#65 The Black Keys – Ohio Players (entry)
The Black Keys return to 65th place with Ohio Players. The blues-rock duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney continues its regular appearances in the rankings.
#69 Metronomy – Greatest Hits (entry)
Metronomy returns to 69th place with its Greatest Hits. Joseph Mount's group, already present in the ranking earlier in the year, returns through the catalog door.
#93 Patrick Watson – Uh Oh (entrance)
Patrick Watson resurfaces in 93rd place. The Canadian chamber-pop returns to the bottom of the ranking, a week after his first appearance.
#94 The Coral – 388 (entrance)
The Coral enters at 94th place with 388 at Modern Sky. The Liverpool band, veterans of British indie from the 2000s, complete the week's entries.
#99 Axel Bauer – Big 8 (entry)
Axel Bauer returns to 99th place with Big 8. The French rocker continues his intermittent appearances in the ranking.
Falls of the week: Suki Waterhouse, Moonspell, Slift
The week takes its toll among recent entries. Suki Waterhouse falls 23 places (23rd → 46th). The Plot in You falls 19 places (33rd → 52nd). Moonspell loses 27 places (34th → 61st) — Portuguese gothic metal suffers the classic backlash. DevilDriver falls 34 places (32nd → 66th). Slift falls to the 71st (-22). Megadeth falls 26 places (57th → 83rd). Tarja slips to 91st (-22). BMTH's Brazilian live performance plummets 53 places (43rd → 96th). The Last Dinner Party sees From the Pyre fall 30 ranks (51st → 81st), while Prelude to Ecstasy dates back to the 70th (+17) — the group's two albums cross over.
In terms of progression, Mötley Crüe made the biggest comeback with a jump of 20 places (65th → 45th). Tom Odell gains 20 ranks (78th → 58th). Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds continues its rise (40th → 30th). Ghost moves up 11 places on Rite Here Rite Now (100th → 89th). Louise Attaque moves up 8 places (83rd → 75th).
The French scene: Matmatah rises again, the calm summer continues
The French scene is having a quiet summer. Matmatah moves up to 15th place (+2). Ultra Vomit falls back to 22nd. Jean-Louis Aubert progresses to 25th (+2). Manu Chao stable in 36th. Skip The Use at 47th. Landmvrks at 48th. Bashung dates back to the 54th. Kyo at 67th. Slift falls back to 71st. The Limiñanas at 79th. Louise Attacks in the 75th. The Empress in the 92nd. Axel Bauer makes his reappearance in the 99th. Angine de Poitrine, French-speaking spearhead, ranks 18th and 23rd.
Top Rock Metal week 30: the Stones reign, metalcore celebrates its porcelain wedding anniversary
Week 30 confirms the domination of the Rolling Stones over this summer of 2026 – two weeks at the top for a group formed in 1962, it is the strongest symbol of the year. But the real story of the week is perhaps that of Motionless In White: twenty years of career, chaotic beginnings in a broken down van, and today a French top 5 alongside the greatest. Theatrical metalcore has earned its commercial stripes.
Tricky's entry at No. 7 adds a welcome touch of strangeness — Bristol trip-hop in the top 10 of a rock and metal chart is the kind of thing only the French market can produce. With Loathe, Yard Act and Babymetal as entries, the week mixes experimental metalcore, sarcastic post-punk and Japanese kawaii metal. Diversity remains the hallmark of the ranking.
At the top, the legends hold. Below, the usual chaos — Scorpions jumping 76 places, DevilDriver losing 34, Bashung moving up again. French Top Rock & Metal is going through the summer in its own way: unpredictable, generous and definitely unique in Europe.
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The methodology of this official Top Rock & Metal ranking
New albums (marketed for less than three years) from rock and metal repertoires, indicated as such by the distributor, are eligible for Top Rock & Metal. This classification takes into account media sales as well as digital audio and video exploitation, according to the parameters defined by the profession and transcribed in the top rules developed by the SNEP. The stated aim is to “show the richness and diversity of musical successes that adopted these aesthetics”explains Alexandre Lasch, general director of SNEP, to the editorial staff. A new classification which fits into a perspective already put in place by the organization: “We had already set up classifications with classical and jazz. We therefore wanted to show more of the successes of rock and metal in France. »
