List of number-one ''Billboard'' Rock Songs

Hot Rock 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.^[1] However, since the chart dated October 20, 2012, the Hot Rock Songs 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] Before that date the chart was ranked by overall audience impressions (the approximate number of audience impressions made for each play, as determined by BDS data cross-referenced with Arbitron listener information).^[3]

Since its introduction, 48 songs have reached the number-one position on the Rock Songs chart. Imagine Dragons have been the most successful group, having five songs to top the chart. Twenty One Pilots' song "Heathens" is the longest running number-one song, having spent a total of 30 consecutive weeks atop the chart. Imagine Dragons have also spent the longest time atop the chart, as their five number ones have spent a combined 101 weeks at the summit. Out of the 48 songs that hit number one, 12 have spent two separate runs atop the chart. Coldplay's "A Sky Full of Stars" is the only song to have returned to the top position for three distinct runs. Thirty different artists have topped the chart. The first number-one track on the chart was Green Day's "Know Your Enemy".

Imagine Dragons' single "Natural" is the most recent number-one single.

List of number-one songs

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.

The Black Keys' "Lonely Boy" spent 14 weeks atop the chart in 2011, and was later ranked as the year-end number-one song.

Gotye became the first solo artist to reach the number-one position, with the single "Somebody That I Used to Know" in 2012.

Prince's single "Purple Rain" is the first posthumous number-one single.

Twenty One Pilots' single "Heathens" holds the record for most consecutive weeks (30 weeks) at the summit.

Key

No.	nth single to top the chart
re	Return of a single to number one
	Billboard year-end number-one song[lower-alpha 1]

Number-one singles with artist, date, time spent, and references

No.	Artist	Title	Reached number one	Weeks at number one	Ref.
1	Green Day	"Know Your Enemy"	June 20, 2009	1	[6]
2	Linkin Park	"New Divide"	June 27, 2009	12	[7]
3	Alice in Chains	"Check My Brain"	September 19, 2009	8	[8]
4	Foo Fighters	"Wheels"	November 14, 2009	2	[9]
5	Breaking Benjamin	"I Will Not Bow"	November 28, 2009	2	[10]
6	Three Days Grace	"Break"	December 12, 2009	12	[11]
7	Alice in Chains	"Your Decision"	March 6, 2010	6	[12]
8	Stone Temple Pilots	"Between the Lines"	April 17, 2010	7	[13]
9	Three Days Grace	"The Good Life"	June 5, 2010	6	[14]
10	Shinedown	"The Crow & the Butterfly"	July 17, 2010	1	[15]
11	The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez	"Lay Me Down"	July 24, 2010	1	[16]
re	Shinedown	"The Crow & the Butterfly"	July 31, 2010	3	[15]
12	Linkin Park	"The Catalyst"	August 21, 2010	5	[17]
13	Disturbed	"Another Way to Die"	September 25, 2010	1	[18]
14	Stone Sour	"Say You'll Haunt Me"	October 2, 2010	8	[19]
15	The Black Keys	"Tighten Up"	November 27, 2010	2	[20]
re	Stone Sour	"Say You'll Haunt Me"	December 11, 2010	1	[19]
re	The Black Keys	"Tighten Up"	December 18, 2010	10	[20]
16	Cage the Elephant	"Shake Me Down"	February 26, 2011	2	[21]
17	Foo Fighters	"Rope"[22]	March 12, 2011	20	[23]
18		"Walk"	July 30, 2011	1	[24]
19	Red Hot Chili Peppers	"The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie"	August 6, 2011	8	[25]
re	Foo Fighters	"Walk"	October 1, 2011	7	[24]
20	Bush	"The Sound of Winter"	November 19, 2011	5	[26]
21	The Black Keys	"Lonely Boy"[27]	December 24, 2011	14	[28]
22	Gotye featuring Kimbra	"Somebody That I Used to Know"	March 31, 2012	4	[29]
23	Fun featuring Janelle Monáe	"We Are Young"	April 28, 2012	1	[30]
re	Gotye featuring Kimbra	"Somebody That I Used to Know"	May 5, 2012	3	[29]
24	Linkin Park	"Burn It Down"	May 26, 2012	10	[31]
25	Green Day	"Oh Love"	August 4, 2012	1	[32]
re	Linkin Park	"Burn It Down"	August 11, 2012	1	[31]
re	Green Day	"Oh Love"	August 18, 2012	6	[32]
26	The Lumineers	"Ho Hey"	September 29, 2012	2	[33]
27	Mumford and Sons	"I Will Wait"	October 13, 2012	1	[34]
28	Fun	"Some Nights"	October 20, 2012	8	[35]
re	The Lumineers	"Ho Hey"	December 15, 2012	16	[33]
29	Imagine Dragons	"Radioactive"[36]	April 6, 2013	23	[37]
30	Lorde	"Royals"	September 14, 2013	19	[38]
31	Passenger	"Let Her Go"	January 25, 2014	5	[39]
32	Bastille	"Pompeii"[40]	March 1, 2014	12	[41]
33	Paramore	"Ain't It Fun"	May 24, 2014	1	[42]
34	Coldplay	"A Sky Full of Stars"	May 31, 2014	1	[43]
re	Paramore	"Ain't It Fun"	June 7, 2014	10	[42]
re	Coldplay	"A Sky Full of Stars"	August 16, 2014	2	[43]
35	Tove Lo	"Habits"	August 30, 2014	6	[44]
re	Coldplay	"A Sky Full of Stars"	October 11, 2014	3	[43]
36	Hozier	"Take Me to Church"	November 1, 2014	23	[45]
37	Walk the Moon	"Shut Up and Dance"[46]	April 11, 2015	27	[47]
38	X Ambassadors	"Renegades"	October 17, 2015	2	[48]
39	Elle King	"Ex's & Oh's"	October 31, 2015	10	[49]
40	Twenty One Pilots	"Stressed Out"[50]	January 9, 2016	18	[51]
41	Prince	"Purple Rain"	May 14, 2016	1	[52]
re	Twenty One Pilots	"Stressed Out"	May 21, 2016	5	[51]
42		"Ride"	June 25, 2016	9	[53]
43		"Heathens"	August 27, 2016	30	[54]
44	Imagine Dragons	"Believer"	March 25, 2017	29	[55]
45	Portugal. The Man	"Feel It Still"	October 14, 2017	5	[56]
46	Imagine Dragons	"Thunder"	November 18, 2017	21	[57]
47		"Whatever It Takes"	April 3, 2018	17	[58]
re		"Thunder"	July 31 2018	3	[57]
48		"Natural"	August 21, 2018	8	[59]

Statistics

References

External links

• Billboard website