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This page is about the Billboard record chart. For information about actual rock songs, see rock music.

Rock Songs is a chart published weekly by Billboard magazine which ranks the week's most popular alternative, mainstream rock and triple A songs ranked by radio airplay. When introduced in the issue dated June 20, 2009, the chart ranks the airplay of songs on alternative, mainstream rock and triple A radio stations.

"Know Your Enemy" by Green Day was the first number-one song of the chart. The current number-one song, for the issue dated January 18, 2014, is "Come a Little Closer" by Cage the Elephant. In all, 33 songs have topped the chart.

List of number-one songs

Key
† Ranked as number-one song for the year
Contents
2009 · 2010 · 2011 · 2012 · 2013
Issue date Song Artist Weeks at
number one
2009
June 20, 2009 "Know Your Enemy" Green Day 1
June 27, 2009 "New Divide" Linkin Park 12
September 19, 2009 "Check My Brain" Alice in Chains 8
November 14, 2009 "Wheels" Foo Fighters 2
November 28, 2009 "I Will Not Bow" Breaking Benjamin 2
December 12, 2009 "Break" Three Days Grace 12
2010
March 6, 2010 "Your Decision" Alice in Chains 6
April 17, 2010 "Between the Lines" Stone Temple Pilots 7
June 5, 2010 "The Good Life" Three Days Grace 6
July 17, 2010 "The Crow & the Butterfly" Shinedown 1
July 24, 2010 "Lay Me Down" The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez 1
July 17, 2010 "The Crow & the Butterfly" Shinedown 3
August 21, 2010 "The Catalyst" Linkin Park 5
September 25, 2010 "Another Way to Die" Disturbed 1
October 2, 2010 "Say You'll Haunt Me" Stone Sour 8
November 27, 2010 "Tighten Up" The Black Keys 2
December 11, 2010 "Say You'll Haunt Me" Stone Sour 1
December 18, 2010 "Tighten Up" The Black Keys 10
2011
February 26, 2011 "Shake Me Down" Cage the Elephant 2
March 12, 2011 "Rope"† (2011)[1] Foo Fighters 20
July 30, 2011 "Walk" Foo Fighters 1
August 6, 2011 "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" Red Hot Chili Peppers 8
October 1, 2011 "Walk" Foo Fighters 7
November 19, 2011 "The Sound of Winter" Bush 5
December 24, 2011 "Lonely Boy"† (2012)[2] The Black Keys 14
2012
March 31, 2012 "Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye featuring Kimbra 4
April 28, 2012 "We Are Young" Fun featuring Janelle Monáe 1
May 5, 2012 "Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye featuring Kimbra 3
May 26, 2012 "Burn It Down" Linkin Park 10
August 4, 2012 "Oh Love" Green Day 1
August 11, 2012 "Burn It Down" Linkin Park 1
August 18, 2012 "Oh Love" Green Day 6
September 29, 2012 "Ho Hey" The Lumineers 2
October 13, 2012 "I Will Wait" Mumford and Sons 9
December 15, 2012 "Madness" Muse 2
December 29, 2012 "I Will Wait" Mumford & Sons 1
2013
January 5, 2013 "Madness" Muse 10
March 16, 2013 "Radioactive"† (2013) Imagine Dragons 24
August 31, 2013 "Royals" Lorde 6
October 12, 2013 "Out of My League" Fitz and The Tantrums 1
October 19, 2013 "Royals" Lorde 2
November 2, 2013 "Pompeii" Bastille 3
November 23, 2013 "Come a Little Closer"* Cage the Elephant 9

*Current number one as of the issued dated January 18, 2014

Achievements

Artists with the most number-one songs
Artists with the most cumulative weeks at number one
  • Foo Fighters (30)
  • Linkin Park (28)
  • The Black Keys (26)
  • Imagine Dragons (24)
  • Three Days Grace (18)
  • Alice in Chains (14)
Songs that have debuted at number one
Longest climbs to number one
  • "Out of My League" - Fitz and The Tantrums (33 weeks, 2013)
  • "Tighten Up" - The Black Keys (24 weeks, 2010)
  • "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons (23 weeks, 2013)
  • "Lay Me Down" - The Dirty Heads feat. Rome (22 weeks, 2010)
  • "Ho Hey" - The Lumineers (22 weeks, 2012)
Acts that replaced themselves at number one
  • Foo Fighters - "Rope" (3/12/2011-7/23/2011) was replaced by "Walk" (7/30/2011)
Songs that have spent ten weeks or more at number one
  • 20 weeks
    • "Rope" — Foo Fighters (2011)
  • 14 weeks
  • 12 weeks
Songs that spent 52 weeks or more on the chart (40+ for now)
  • "Savior" — Rise Against (67) (2009-2010) (peak #3)
  • "Radioactive" - Imagine Dragons (67)* (2012-2014) (peak #1 24 weeks)
  • "Little Talks" — Of Monsters and Men (57) (2012-2013) (peak #3)
  • "1901" — Phoenix (54) (2009-2010) (peak #3)
  • "Safe and Sound" - Capital Cities (53)* (2013-14) (peak #2)
  • "Tighten Up" — The Black Keys (52) (2010-2011) (peak #1 12 weeks)
  • "Pumped Up Kicks" — Foster the People (52) (2011-2012) (peak #3)
  • "Uprising" — Muse (52) (2009-2010) (peak #2)
  • "It's Time" — Imagine Dragons (52) (2012-2013) (peak #4)
  • "Ho Hey — The Lumineers" (52) (2012-2013) (peak #1 2 weeks)
  • "Madness" — Muse (52) (2012-2013) (peak #1 12 weeks)
  • "Mountain Sound" — Of Monsters and Men (52) (2012-2013) (peak #2)
  • I Will Not Bow - Breaking Benjamin (51) (2009-2010) (peak #1 2 weeks)
  • Lisztomania - Phoenix (51) (2010-2011) (peak #5)
  • Animal - Neon Trees (51) (2010-2011) (peak #2)
  • Sweater Weather - The Neighbourhood (51)* (2013-2014) (peak #3)
  • Lay Me Down - The Dirty Heads feat. Rome (49) (2010-2011) (peak #1 1 week)
  • Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour (49) (2010-2011) (peak #1 9 weeks)
  • Little Black Submarines - The Black Keys (49) (2012-2013) (peak #3)
  • Trojans - Atlas Genius (49) (2012-2013) (peak #4)
  • Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons (47) (2010-2011) (peak #3)
  • Out Of My League - Fitz and the Tantrums (47)* (2013-2014) (peak #1 1 week)
  • Shake Me Down - Cage the Elephant (46) (2011) (peak #1 2 weeks)
  • Walk - Foo Fighters (45)(2011-2012) (peak #1 8 weeks)
  • These Days - Foo Fighters (45) (2011-2012) (peak #2)
  • Demons - Imagine Dragons (45)* (2013-2014) (peak #2)
  • Tongue Tied - Grouplove (44) (2012) (peak #3)
  • (If You're Wondering if I Want You To) I Want You To - Weezer (43) (2009-2010) (peak #3)
  • Midnight City - M83. (43) (2011-2012) (peak #7)
  • Rope - Foo Fighters (43) (2011) (peak #1 20 weeks)
  • I Will Wait - Mumford & Sons (43) (2012-2013) (peak #1 10 weeks)
  • Take a Walk - Passion Pit (42) (2012-2013) (peak #9)
  • The Cave - Mumford & Sons (41) (2010-2011) (peak #2)
  • Howlin' For You - The Black Keys (40) (2011) (peak #5)
  • You're Going Down - Sick Puppies (40) (2009-2010) (peak #8)
Most charted entries (far from complete)
  • Five Finger Death Punch (10) (3 since change)
  • Shinedown (10) (2 since change)
  • Kings of Leon (9) (3 since change)
  • Papa Roach (8?) (2 since change)
  • Muse (8?) (2 since change)
  • Linkin Park (8) (2 since change)
  • Green Day (7) (1 since change)
  • Three Days Grace (7) (2 since change)
  • Cage the Elephant (7) (1 since change)
  • Alice in Chains (7) (3 since change)
  • Pop Evil (7) (3 since change)
  • Avenged Sevenfold (7) (2 since change)
  • All That Remains (7) (3 since change)
  • Rise Against (6)
  • Chevelle (6) (1 since change)
  • Mumford & Sons (6) (2 since change)
  • Halestorm (6) (2 since change)
  • 30 Seconds to Mars (6) (2 since change)
  • Coldplay (6) (1 since change)
  • Volbeat (6) (2 since change)
  • Stone Sour (6?) (2 since change)
  • Pearl Jam (6) (2 since change)
  • Seether (6) (1 since change)
  • The Airborne Toxic Event (6) (2 since change)
  • Sick Puppies (6) (2 since change)
  • Adele (5) (1 since change)
  • Foo Fighters (5)
  • The Black Keys (5)
  • Disturbed (5)
  • Silversun Pickups (5) (1 since change)
  • John Mayer (5)
  • Godsmack (5)
  • Neon Trees (5)
  • Soundgarden (5) (2 since change)
  • Switchfoot (5) (1 since change)

See also

  1. ^ "Billboard Rock Songs – 2011 Year End Charts". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
  2. ^ "Billboard Rock Songs – 2012 Year End Charts". Billboard. Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2013-01-27.
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