Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. It was introduced by Billboard in September 1988. During the 2010s, the chart was named Alternative Songs and based on electronically monitored airplay data compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of spins per week.
115 songs topped the Alternative Songs chart during the 2010s. The first number one of the 2010s was "Uprising" by Muse, while the last was "Orphans" by Coldplay. From October 2012 to February 2013, Muse's song "Madness" topped the chart for 19 non-consecutive weeks, breaking the record for the most weeks spent at number one by a song in the chart's history. In 2017, "Feel It Still" by Portugal. The Man broke this record by topping the chart for 20 weeks. The American band Cage the Elephant attained nine Alternative Songs number-one hits during the 2010s, the most by any artist within the decade.
Number-one songs Key – Billboard year-end number-one song ↑ – Return of a song to number one
Song Artist Reached number oneReferences for number-one songs:
Weeks atnumber one "Uprising" Muse 15 "Kings and Queens" Thirty Seconds to Mars 3 "1901" Phoenix 2 "Back Against the Wall" Cage the Elephant 2 "Resistance" Muse 3 "Mountain Man" Crash Kings 1 "Resistance" ↑ Muse 1 "Between the Lines" Stone Temple Pilots 3 "Lay Me Down" featuring 11 "This Is War" Thirty Seconds to Mars 1 "In One Ear" Cage the Elephant 4 "" Linkin Park 4 "Animal" Neon Trees 1 "Little Lion Man" Mumford & Sons 1 "Radioactive" Kings of Leon 3 "Tighten Up" 9 "Waiting for the End" Linkin Park 3 "Tighten Up" ↑ 1 "Waiting for the End" ↑ Linkin Park 1 "Shake Me Down" Cage the Elephant 6 "Rope" Foo Fighters 13 "Pumped Up Kicks" Foster the People 2 "You Are a Tourist" Death Cab for Cutie 1 "Pumped Up Kicks" ↑ Foster the People 3 "Walk" Foo Fighters 2 "" Red Hot Chili Peppers 4 "Walk" ↑ Foo Fighters 6 "" Bush 5 "Paradise" Coldplay 1 "" ↑ Bush 1 "Lonely Boy" 11 "Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye featuring Kimbra 7 "We Are Young" Fun featuring 2 "Somebody That I Used to Know" ↑ Gotye featuring Kimbra 5 "Gold on the Ceiling" 3 "Tongue Tied" Grouplove 1 "Gold on the Ceiling" ↑ 2 "Little Talks" Of Monsters and Men 2 "Burn It Down" Linkin Park 1 "Some Nights" Fun 2 "Too Close" 4 "Some Nights" ↑ Fun 1 "Ho Hey" 2 "Madness" Muse 1 "I Will Wait" Mumford & Sons 1 "Madness" ↑ Muse 18 "Radioactive" Imagine Dragons 13 "Sweater Weather" 2 "Safe and Sound" Capital Cities 1 "Sweater Weather" ↑ 9 "Royals" Lorde 7 "Out of My League" Fitz and the Tantrums 2 "Pompeii" Bastille 4 "Come a Little Closer" Cage the Elephant 10 "Do I Wanna Know?" Arctic Monkeys 10 "Come with Me Now" Kongos 3 "" Fitz and the Tantrums 1 "Come with Me Now" ↑ Kongos 2 "Fever" 11 "I Wanna Get Better" Bleachers 1 "Dangerous" Big Data featuring Joywave 1 "Riptide" 5 "Stolen Dance" Milky Chance 10 "Something from Nothing" Foo Fighters 8 "Cigarette Daydreams" Cage the Elephant 4 "Shut Up and Dance" Walk the Moon 4 "Lampshades on Fire" Modest Mouse 3 "Believe" Mumford & Sons 3 "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)" Awolnation 2 "Dead Inside" Muse 5 "Renegades" X Ambassadors 11 "First" Cold War Kids 1 "Ex's & Oh's" 3 "First" ↑ Cold War Kids 6 "Stressed Out" Twenty One Pilots 12 "Mess Around" Cage the Elephant 1 "Adventure of a Lifetime" Coldplay 2 "Mess Around" ↑ Cage the Elephant 2 "Mountain at My Gates" Foals 1 "Trip Switch" Nothing but Thieves 2 "Ride" Twenty One Pilots 6 "Spirits" 2 "Ride" ↑ Twenty One Pilots 1 "Ophelia" 4 "Bored to Death" Blink-182 5 "Dark Necessities" Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 "Way Down We Go" Kaleo 2 "Trouble" Cage the Elephant 1 "Heathens" Twenty One Pilots 9 "Bang Bang" Green Day 1 "Heathens" ↑ Twenty One Pilots 2 "Waste a Moment" Kings of Leon 1 "All We Ever Knew" 1 "Waste a Moment" ↑ Kings of Leon 3 "Take It All Back" Judah & the Lion 4 "Still Breathing" Green Day 5 "Cleopatra" 2 "Human" Rag'n'Bone Man 1 "Believer" Imagine Dragons 7 "Wish I Knew You" 1 "Believer" ↑ Imagine Dragons 6 "Feel It Still" Portugal. The Man 17 "Thunder" Imagine Dragons 3 "Feel It Still" ↑ Portugal. The Man 3 "Up All Night" Beck 7 "One Foot" Walk the Moon 4 "No Roots" 1 "Sober Up" AJR featuring 2 "Whatever It Takes" Imagine Dragons 2 "Live in the Moment" Portugal. The Man 2 "Whatever It Takes" ↑ Imagine Dragons 1 "Broken" Lovelytheband 7 "Thought Contagion" Muse 1 "Broken" ↑ Lovelytheband 2 "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" Panic! at the Disco 1 "I Feel Like I'm Drowning" Two Feet 2 "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" ↑ Panic! at the Disco 1 "Jumpsuit" Twenty One Pilots 2 "Africa" Weezer 3 "Jumpsuit" ↑ Twenty One Pilots 1 "Natural" Imagine Dragons 9 "Happier" Marshmello and Bastille 1 "High Hopes" Panic! at the Disco 10 "Guiding Light" Mumford & Sons 1 "High Hopes" ↑ Panic! at the Disco 6 "Ready to Let Go" Cage the Elephant 6 "Chlorine" Twenty One Pilots 3 "Lo/Hi" 1 "Bury a Friend" 2 "Trampoline" Shaed 2 "Gloria" 5 "Missed Connection" 2 "Bad Guy" 2 "Cringe" 4 "3 Nights" 1 "Doin' Time" 3 "Social Cues" Cage the Elephant 2 "" Twenty One Pilots 7 "Orphans" Coldplay 4
References
External links Alternative Airplay at Billboard