Not to fear: what follows is a breakdown of every song that appeared on the chart’s first week, from how it did elsewhere to where it falls, chart success-wise, in greater context of the artists’ careers - not to mention whether the song sounds any good in 2018.Īll I can say is: get ready for a lot of earnest British and Australian rock. ![]() Those are some big names of modern and alternative rock past and present - and taking a look at the inaugural week of the chart, you might notice a near-total absence of big names. The Man’s “Feel It Still” spent a record-breaking 20 weeks at the top, while Linkin Park’s 2003 album Meteora notched five number-one singles. The chart tracked songs that received heavy airplay on college and modern rock stations, rather than more mainstream airplay, and as the very nature of “modern” and “alternative” rock music changed over the past few decades, so did the chart makeup.Īs of this writing, Imagine Dragons’ deathless “Natural” currently sits atop it, with pop-rockers twenty one pilots’ “Jumpsuit” and Weezer’s baffling cover of Toto’s “Africa” preceding it as chart-toppers last year, Portugal. ![]() ![]() Thirty years ago today, Billboard launched the “Modern Rock Tracks” chart, which currently exists under the Alternative Songs nomenclature.
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