Hot Rock & Alternative Songs

From its debut on June 20, 2009, through October 13, 2012, the chart ranked the airplay of songs across alternative, mainstream rock, and triple A radio stations in the United States.

[1] Beginning with the chart dated October 20, 2012, the chart has followed the methodology of the Billboard Hot 100 by incorporating digital download sales, streaming data, and radio airplay of rock songs over all formats.

[2] From that time until mid-2020, only the performance of core rock songs, including those with an "alternative bent", were tabulated and ranked for the chart.

With the chart dated June 13, 2020, Billboard revamped the chart to permit a broader selection of songs considered alternative "hybrids" with other genres and renamed it to Hot Rock & Alternative Songs.

at the Disco's "High Hopes" spent a record 65 non-consecutive weeks atop the chart, and along with their song "Hey Look Ma, I Made It", the band claimed the number-one spot on the chart for the entirety of 2019.

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Linkin Park has had three number-one songs and have spent 28 weeks atop the chart. The band also holds the record for most songs (23) to chart in a single week.
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The Black Keys ' " Lonely Boy " spent 14 weeks atop the chart in 2011, and was later ranked as the year-end number-one song.
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Gotye became the first solo artist to reach the number-one position, with the single " Somebody That I Used to Know " in 2012.
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Prince 's single " Purple Rain " is the first posthumous number-one single.
Panic! at the Disco in 2015.
Panic! at the Disco 's single " High Hopes " is the longest running number-one single.
Zach Bryan has spent the most weeks atop the chart for a solo artist with number-one songs " Something in the Orange ", " I Remember Everything " with Kacey Musgraves and " Pink Skies .