page_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2017
hierarchical_section_title: List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 2017
caption_attribution_description: English: Red Hot Chili Peppers performing at a Pinkpop festival in 2006. From left to right: Flea, Anthony Kiedis, Chad Smith, and John FruscianteDeutsch: The Red Hot CHili Peppers live @ Pinkpop Festival, Landgraaf
context_page_description: 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 single's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2017, there were 16 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one of the year was "Christmas Time" by The Darkness, which spent the last two weeks of 2016 and the first week of 2017 atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was also "Christmas Time", which spent the last three weeks atop the chart.
  The most successful single on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2017 was "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which hs spent a total of 20 weeks at number one.
context_section_description: 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 single's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 2017, there were 16 singles that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one of the year was "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)" by The Darkness, which spent the last two weeks of 2016 and the first week of 2017 atop the chart. The final number-one single of the year was also "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)", which spent the last three weeks atop the chart.
  The most successful single on the UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart in 2017 was "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which hs spent a total of 20 weeks at number one. Royal Blood have been number one for six weeks with two releases, Linkin Park were number one for five weeks with "Numb", Foo Fighters have spent five weeks at number one with "Run" and "The Sky Is a Neighborhood", The Darkness have spent four weeks at number one with "Christmas Time (Don't Let the Bells End)", Guns N' Roses have spent three weeks at number one with "Sweet Child o' Mine", and Thirty Seconds to Mars spent two weeks at number one with "Walk on Water".
caption: "Can't Stop" by Red Hot Chili Peppers was the longest-running number one single of 2016, spending 20 weeks atop the chart.
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