Hot Rock & Alternative Songs
Hot Rock & Alternative Songs is a record chart published by Billboard magazine. 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. 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. 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.
Number ones
The first number-one track on the chart was Green Day's "Know Your Enemy". Since its introduction, 52 songs have reached the number-one position on chart. Imagine Dragons have had the most with five, combining for a total of 104 weeks at the summit. Panic! 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.| nth single to top the chart | |
| Return of a single to number one | |
| Billboard year-end number-one song |
| Artist | Title | Reached number one | Weeks at number one | ||
| 1 | Green Day | "Know Your Enemy" | June 20, 2009 | 1 | |
| 2 | Linkin Park | "New Divide" | June 27, 2009 | 12 | |
| 3 | Alice in Chains | "Check My Brain" | September 19, 2009 | 8 | |
| 4 | Foo Fighters | "Wheels" | November 14, 2009 | 2 | |
| 5 | Breaking Benjamin | "I Will Not Bow" | November 28, 2009 | 2 | |
| 6 | Three Days Grace | "Break" | December 12, 2009 | 12 | |
| 7 | Alice in Chains | "Your Decision" | March 6, 2010 | 6 | |
| 8 | Stone Temple Pilots | "Between the Lines" | April 17, 2010 | 7 | |
| 9 | Three Days Grace | "The Good Life" | June 5, 2010 | 6 | |
| 10 | Shinedown | "The Crow & the Butterfly" | July 17, 2010 | 1 | |
| 11 | The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez | "Lay Me Down" | July 24, 2010 | 1 | |
| re | Shinedown | "The Crow & the Butterfly" | July 31, 2010 | 3 | |
| 12 | Linkin Park | "The Catalyst" | August 21, 2010 | 5 | |
| 13 | Disturbed | "Another Way to Die" | September 25, 2010 | 1 | |
| 14 | Stone Sour | "Say You'll Haunt Me" | October 2, 2010 | 8 | |
| 15 | The Black Keys | "Tighten Up" | November 27, 2010 | 2 | |
| re | Stone Sour | "Say You'll Haunt Me" | December 11, 2010 | 1 | |
| re | The Black Keys | "Tighten Up" | December 18, 2010 | 10 | |
| 16 | Cage the Elephant | "Shake Me Down" | February 26, 2011 | 2 | |
| 17 | Foo Fighters | "Rope" | March 12, 2011 | 20 | |
| 18 | Foo Fighters | "Walk" | July 30, 2011 | 1 | |
| 19 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | "The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie" | August 6, 2011 | 8 | |
| re | Foo Fighters | "Walk" | October 1, 2011 | 7 | |
| 20 | Bush | "The Sound of Winter" | November 19, 2011 | 5 | |
| 21 | The Black Keys | "Lonely Boy" | December 24, 2011 | 14 | |
| 22 | Gotye featuring Kimbra | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | March 31, 2012 | 4 | |
| 23 | Fun featuring Janelle Monáe | "We Are Young" | April 28, 2012 | 1 | |
| re | Gotye featuring Kimbra | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | May 5, 2012 | 3 | |
| 24 | Linkin Park | "Burn It Down" | May 26, 2012 | 10 | |
| 25 | Green Day | "Oh Love" | August 4, 2012 | 1 | |
| re | Linkin Park | "Burn It Down" | August 11, 2012 | 1 | |
| re | Green Day | "Oh Love" | August 18, 2012 | 6 | |
| 26 | The Lumineers | "Ho Hey" | September 29, 2012 | 2 | |
| 27 | Mumford and Sons | "I Will Wait" | October 13, 2012 | 1 | |
| 28 | Fun | "Some Nights" | October 20, 2012 | 8 | |
| re | The Lumineers | "Ho Hey" | December 15, 2012 | 16 | |
| 29 | Imagine Dragons | "Radioactive" | April 6, 2013 | 23 | |
| 30 | Lorde | "Royals" | September 14, 2013 | 19 | |
| 31 | Passenger | "Let Her Go" | January 25, 2014 | 5 | |
| 32 | Bastille | "Pompeii" | March 1, 2014 | 12 | |
| 33 | Paramore | "Ain't It Fun" | May 24, 2014 | 1 | |
| 34 | Coldplay | "A Sky Full of Stars" | May 31, 2014 | 1 | |
| re | Paramore | "Ain't It Fun" | June 7, 2014 | 10 | |
| re | Coldplay | "A Sky Full of Stars" | August 16, 2014 | 2 | |
| 35 | Tove Lo | "Habits" | August 30, 2014 | 6 | |
| re | Coldplay | "A Sky Full of Stars" | October 11, 2014 | 3 | |
| 36 | Hozier | "Take Me to Church" | November 1, 2014 | 23 | |
| 37 | Walk the Moon | "Shut Up and Dance" | April 11, 2015 | 27 | |
| 38 | X Ambassadors | "Renegades" | October 17, 2015 | 2 | |
| 39 | Elle King | "Ex's & Oh's" | October 31, 2015 | 10 | |
| 40 | Twenty One Pilots | "Stressed Out" | January 9, 2016 | 18 | |
| 41 | Prince | "Purple Rain" | May 14, 2016 | 1 | |
| re | Twenty One Pilots | "Stressed Out" | May 21, 2016 | 5 | |
| 42 | Twenty One Pilots | "Ride" | June 25, 2016 | 9 | |
| 43 | Twenty One Pilots | "Heathens" | August 27, 2016 | 30 | |
| 44 | Imagine Dragons | "Believer" | March 25, 2017 | 29 | |
| 45 | Portugal. The Man | "Feel It Still" | October 14, 2017 | 5 | |
| 46 | Imagine Dragons | "Thunder" | November 18, 2017 | 21 | |
| 47 | Imagine Dragons | "Whatever It Takes" | April 3, 2018 | 17 | |
| re | Imagine Dragons | "Thunder" | July 31, 2018 | 3 | |
| 48 | Imagine Dragons | "Natural" | August 21, 2018 | 11 | |
| 49 | Panic! at the Disco | "High Hopes" | November 10, 2018 | 34 | |
| 50 | Panic! at the Disco | "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" | July 6, 2019 | 11 | |
| re | Panic! at the Disco | "High Hopes" | September 21, 2019 | 31 | |
| 51 | Twenty One Pilots | "Level of Concern" | April 25, 2020 | 7 | |
| 52 | Powfu featuring beabadoobee | "Death Bed" | June 13, 2020 | 6 | |
| 53 | Juice Wrld & Marshmello | "Come & Go" | July 25, 2020 | 2 |
Statistics
By artist
| Artist | Weeks at number-one | |
| Imagine Dragons | 104 | |
| Panic! at the Disco | 76 | |
| Twenty One Pilots | 71 | |
| Foo Fighters | 30 | |
| Linkin Park | 28 | |
| Walk the Moon | 27 |