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.[1] During the 2000s, the chart was 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.[2] The chart was known as Modern Rock Tracks until June 2009, when it was renamed Alternative Songs in order to "better [reflect] the descriptor used among those in the [modern rock radio] format."[3]
106 songs topped the chart in the 2000s; the first was "All the Small Things" by Blink-182,[4] while the last was "Uprising" by Muse.[5] "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters spent eighteen weeks atop the chart in 2007—the most for any song during the decade—and broke the previous all-time record for most weeks at number one set by "Scar Tissue" by Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1999 and later tied by "It's Been Awhile" by Staind in 2001 and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day in 2005.[6]
The top song of the 2000s on Billboard's Alternative Songs decade-end list was "Headstrong" by Trapt,[7] which topped the chart for three weeks and was also its year-end number-one song for 2003.[8] The decade-end top Alternative Songs artist was Linkin Park,[7] who scored eight number-one songs—"In the End", "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "Lying from You", "Breaking the Habit", "What I've Done" and "New Divide"—and spent a record sixty-two weeks atop the chart during the 2000s.[4][9]
Number-one songs
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- † – Billboard year-end number-one song
- ‡ – Billboard decade-end number-one song
- ↑ – Return of a song to number one
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References
edit- ^ Molanphy, Chris (April 19, 2012). "100 & Single: Gotye And fun. Help Alternative Rock Go Pop Once Again". The Village Voice. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ "The Charts". Sun Herald. August 25, 2008. Archived from the original on July 24, 2018. Retrieved June 19, 2013.
- ^ Trust, Gary (June 10, 2009). "Chart Beat: Pink, Black Eyed Peas, Shinedown". Billboard. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ a b c d Whitburn 2008, pp. 342–349.
- ^ a b c "Alternative Songs – 2009 Archive". Billboard. Archived from the original on February 4, 2016. Retrieved March 1, 2014.
- ^ Trust, Gary (February 11, 2013). "Muse's 'Madness' Rewrites Record For Longest-Reigning Alternative Songs No. 1". Billboard. Retrieved June 15, 2013.
- ^ a b c Trust, Gary (December 18, 2009). "Linkin Park, Nickelback top decade's rock charts". Billboard. Reuters. Retrieved June 29, 2013.
- ^ a b "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 115, no. 52. December 27, 2003. p. YE-75. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ "Linkin Park Chart History (Alternative Airplay)". Billboard. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 112, no. 52. December 30, 2000. p. YE-88. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 113, no. 52. December 29, 2001. p. YE-72. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 114, no. 52. December 28, 2002. p. YE-87. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Tracks". Billboard. Vol. 116, no. 52. December 25, 2004. p. YE-70. Retrieved June 28, 2013.
- ^ "Hot Modern Rock Songs" (PDF). Billboard. Vol. 117, no. 52. December 24, 2005. p. YE-70. Retrieved May 8, 2020.
- ^ "Year-end Charts – Alternative Airplay Songs (2006)". Billboard. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ "Year-end Charts – Alternative Airplay Songs (2007)". Billboard. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ "Year-end Charts – Alternative Airplay Songs (2008)". Billboard. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
- ^ "Year-end Charts – Alternative Airplay Songs (2009)". Billboard. Retrieved October 20, 2022.
Bibliography
edit- Whitburn, Joel (2008). Rock Tracks 1981–2008 (3rd ed.). Record Research. ISBN 978-0-8982-0174-1.