Rock music is a genre of popular music. It developed during and after the 1960s in the United Kingdom and the United States . It originally started in the 1940s and 1950s with the start of rock and roll .

" Rock and Roll Music " is a 1957 hit single written and recorded by rock and roll star Chuck Berry. The song has been widely covered and is recognized as one of Berry's most popular and enduring compositions.

Godsmack's single "Bulletproof" tops the Mainstream Rock chart for one week, their eighth song to top the chart. Shinedown's single "Devil" tops the Mainstream Rock chart for one week. Godsmack releases their seventh studio album When Legends Rise. It debuts at number 8 on the Billboard 200 chart, selling 40,000 album equivalent units.

It is the highest rock album debut of 2017, and the band's eighth album to top the chart, a feat few prior bands have done. The Foo Fighter's single "The Sky is a Neighborhood" tops the Billboard Mainstream Rock and Rock Airplay charts concurrently. It stays at the top of the Mainstream Rock chart for 4 weeks. Year end

"Rock" a 2017 song by hip hop artist Plies from his mixtape Ain't No Mixtape Bih 3 "Rock", one of the tracks on Soft/Rock, a single by Lemon Jelly "Rocks" (song), by Primal Scream (1994) Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media. Rock, a former Yugoslav music magazine; Rock, a novel by Hal Ellson

Hard rock is a loosely defined subgenre of rock music that began in the mid-1960s, with the garage, psychedelic and blues rock movements. It is typified by a heavy use of aggressive vocals, distorted electric guitars, bass guitar, drums, and often accompanied with keyboards.

The term "rock and roll" is defined by Encyclopædia Britannica as the music that originated in the mid-1950s and later developed "into the more encompassing international style known as rock music ". The term is sometimes also used as synonymous with "rock music" and is defined as such in some dictionaries.

Psychedelic rock is a diverse style of rock music inspired, influenced, or representative of psychedelic culture, which is centred around perception-altering hallucinogenic drugs. The music is intended to replicate and enhance the mind-altering experiences of psychedelic drugs, most notably LSD.Many psychedelic groups differ in style, and the label is often applied spuriously.

Rock music is a genre of popular music that developed in the 1960s from 1950s rock and roll, rockabilly, blues, and country music.