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.
Introduced in September 1988,[1] the chart is based on airplay data compiled from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of spins per week.
[2] Stations on the panel are electronically monitored by Mediabase, who replaced Broadcast Data Systems in this capacity beginning with the chart dated November 12, 2022.
[3] The first number-one song of the 2020s on the chart was "Orphans" by Coldplay.
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