# List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2014

The UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal songs in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each track's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2014, there were 20 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one single of the year was "Highway to Hell" by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, which spent the last week of 2013 and the first of 2014 atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was a live version of Iron Maiden's "The Number of the Beast".
The most successful song on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2014 was "Centuries", the lead single from Fall Out Boy's sixth studio album American Beauty/American Psycho, which spent a total of eleven weeks at number one during the year, including a single run of nine consecutive weeks. Royal Blood also spent eleven weeks at number one in 2014, ten of which were for "Little Monster" (the other one for "Out of the Black"). Twin Atlantic spent seven weeks at number one with "Heart and Soul" (five weeks) and "Brothers and Sisters" (two weeks), while The Pretty Reckless were number one for three weeks with "Heaven Knows". Six artists – Nickelback, Guns N' Roses, You Me at Six, Linkin Park, Red Hot Chili Peppers and Foo Fighters – were number one on the chart for two weeks in 2014.

## Chart history

| Issue date | Single | Artist(s) | Record label(s) |
| 4 January | "Highway to Hell" | AC/DC | Columbia |
| 11 January | "Rockstar" | Nickelback | Roadrunner |
| 18 January | "Rockstar" | Nickelback | Roadrunner |
| 25 January | "Sweet Child o' Mine" | Guns N' Roses | Geffen |
| 1 February | "Sweet Child o' Mine" | Guns N' Roses | Geffen |
| 8 February | "Lived a Lie" | You Me at Six | BMG Rights |
| 15 February | "Lived a Lie" | You Me at Six | BMG Rights |
| 22 February | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 1 March | "Fake Your Death" | My Chemical Romance | Reprise |
| 8 March | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 15 March | "Heaven Knows" | The Pretty Reckless | Cooking Vinyl |
| 22 March | "Heaven Knows" | The Pretty Reckless | Cooking Vinyl |
| 29 March | "Heaven Knows" | The Pretty Reckless | Cooking Vinyl |
| 5 April | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 12 April | "The Edge" | Tonight Alive | Sony |
| 19 April | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 26 April | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 3 May | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 10 May | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 17 May | "Until It's Gone" | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. |
| 24 May | "Until It's Gone" | Linkin Park | Warner Bros. |
| 31 May | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 7 June | "Heart and Soul" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 14 June | "Heart and Soul" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 21 June | "Heart and Soul" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 28 June | "Heart and Soul" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 5 July | "Heart and Soul" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 12 July | "Enter Sandman" | Metallica | Vertigo |
| 19 July | "Out of the Black" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 26 July | "Can't Stop" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Warner Bros. |
| 2 August | "Can't Stop" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Warner Bros. |
| 9 August | "Here We Go" | Lower Than Atlantis | Easy Life |
| 16 August | "The Negative One" | Slipknot | Roadrunner |
| 23 August | "Brothers and Sisters" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 30 August | "Brothers and Sisters" | Twin Atlantic | Red Bull |
| 6 September | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 13 September | "Little Monster" | Royal Blood | Warner Bros. |
| 20 September | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 27 September | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 4 October | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 11 October | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 18 October | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 25 October | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 1 November | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 8 November | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 15 November | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 22 November | "Something from Nothing" | Foo Fighters | RCA |
| 29 November | "Something from Nothing" | Foo Fighters | RCA |
| 6 December | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 13 December | "Centuries" | Fall Out Boy | Island |
| 20 December | "Drown" | Bring Me the Horizon | RCA |
| 27 December | "The Number of the Beast" (live) | Iron Maiden | EMI |