List of Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number ones of the 1990s

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.

[3] 145 songs topped the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the 1990s; the first of these was "Blues from a Gun" by The Jesus and Mary Chain, which spent three weeks at number one from December 1989 to January 1990.

[7] The Irish band U2 scored the most number-one hits on Modern Rock Tracks during the decade, with six of their songs topping the chart: "The Fly", "Mysterious Ways", "One", "Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me", "Discothèque" and "Staring at the Sun".

[4][8] "Scar Tissue" by the American band Red Hot Chili Peppers topped the chart for sixteen consecutive weeks in 1999, the longest time spent at number one by any song during the 1990s.

[9] The band themselves spent a record twenty-seven weeks at number one on Modern Rock Tracks during the decade with four chart-toppers: "Give It Away", "Soul to Squeeze", "My Friends" and "Scar Tissue".

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Six songs by Irish rock band U2 topped the Modern Rock Tracks chart in the 1990s, the most for any artist during the decade.
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" Blues from a Gun " by The Jesus and Mary Chain was the first Modern Rock Tracks number-one hit of the 1990s.
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Nirvana attained four number-one songs on the chart during the decade, including the crossover hit " Smells Like Teen Spirit ".
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R.E.M. 's " What's the Frequency, Kenneth " was the first number-one debut in the chart's history.
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Marcy Playground stayed at number one for fifteen weeks in 1998 with the song " Sex and Candy ".
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Red Hot Chili Peppers spent twenty-seven cumulative weeks at number one on Modern Rock Tracks during the 1990s.
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" All the Small Things " by Blink-182 was the final number-one song of the decade on the chart.