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"
The Pretender " by American rock band
Foo Fighters spent the most weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart for any song during the 2000s.
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. It was introduced by Billboard in September 1988.
[1] During the 2000s, the chart was based on electronically monitored airplay data compiled by
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of
spins per week.
[2] The chart was known as Modern Rock Tracks until June 2009, when it was renamed Alternative Songs in order to "better [reflect] the descriptor used among those in the [modern rock radio] format."
[3]
106 songs topped the chart in the 2000s; the first was "
All the Small Things " by
Blink-182 , while the last was "
Uprising " by
Muse .
[5] "
The Pretender " by
Foo Fighters spent eighteen weeks atop the chart in 2007—the most for any song during the decade—and broke the previous all-time record for most weeks at number one set by "
Scar Tissue " by
Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1999 and later tied by "
It's Been Awhile " by
Staind in 2001 and "
Boulevard of Broken Dreams " by
Green Day in 2005.
[6]
The top song of the 2000s on Billboard ' s Alternative Songs decade-end list was "
Headstrong " by
Trapt ,
[7] which topped the chart for three weeks and was also its year-end number-one song for 2003.
[8] The decade-end top Alternative Songs artist was
Linkin Park ,
[7] who scored eight number-one songs—"
In the End ", "
Somewhere I Belong ", "
Faint ", "
Numb ", "
Lying from You ", "
Breaking the Habit ", "
What I've Done " and "
New Divide "—and spent a record sixty-two weeks atop the chart during the 2000s.
[9]
Key
† –
Billboard year-end number-one song
‡ – Billboard decade-end number-one song
↑ – Return of a song to number one
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