Green Day Earns 13th Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘Dilemma’

Kevin Rutherford
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Green Day’s 13th No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart comes courtesy of “Dilemma,” which rises to the top of the May 4-dated tally.

Green Day first ruled Alternative Airplay with its premiere entry, “Longview,” for a week in June 1994, marking the first of the band’s two No. 1s that year; “Basket Case” paced the field for five weeks two months later.

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The trio takes over sole possession of the second-most rulers in the Alternative Airplay chart’s 35-year history, breaking out of a tie with Foo Fighters and Linkin Park.

Most No. 1s, Alternative Airplay:

  • 15, Red Hot Chili Peppers

  • 13, Green Day

  • 12, Foo Fighters

  • 12, Linkin Park

  • 11, Cage the Elephant

  • 10, Twenty One Pilots

  • 8, U2

  • 8, Weezer

  • 7, The Black Keys

  • 7, Imagine Dragons

“Dilemma” is Green Day’s first No. 1 since “Oh Yeah!” reigned for a week in April 2020. In between the two, the band hit No. 28 with “Pollyanna” in 2021, followed “The American Dream Is Killing Me” (No. 2, last November).

Concurrently, “Dilemma” leads Mainstream Rock Airplay for a second week. It also tops the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for a fifth week with 8 million audience impressions, up 1%, April 19-25, according to Luminate.

On the most recently published multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart (dated April 27, covering data April 12-18), “Dilemma” ranked at No. 45, a new high. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 307,000 official U.S. streams in that span.

“Dilemma” is the second single, following “The American Dream Is Killing Me,” from Saviors, Green Day’s 14th studio set. It debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated Feb. 3 and has earned 108,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated May 4 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, April 30.

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