Twenty One Pilots Score 12th Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘The Contract’
Twenty One Pilots snags its 12th No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart and second in a row, rising two spots on the Aug. 2-dated ranking with “The Contract.”
The duo of Tyler Joseph and Josh Dun first led Alternative Airplay in 2015 with “Stressed Out.” Its most recent No. 1 before “The Contract,” “The Line,” from the soundtrack to the second season of Netflix’s Arcane League of Legends, reigned for three weeks beginning this February.
Twenty One Pilots tie Foo Fighters for the fifth-most leaders since Alternative Airplay began in 1988.
Most No. 1s, Alternative Airplay:
- 15, Red Hot Chili Peppers
- 14, Linkin Park
- 13, Cage the Elephant
- 13, Green Day
- 12, Foo Fighters
- 12, Twenty One Pilots
- 8, The Black Keys
- 8, U2
- 8, Weezer
- 7, Imagine Dragons
Reigning in its seventh week on the survey, “The Contract” marks the duo’s quickest trip to No. 1 since “Shy Away” ruled in its third frame in 2021.
Concurrently, “The Contract” leaps 11-8 for a new high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.9 million audience impressions (up 7%) in the week ending July 24, according to Luminate.
“The Contract” is the lead single from Breach, Twenty One Pilots’ eighth studio album, due Sept. 12. Its predecessor, Clancy, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock Albums chart in June 2024 and has earned 535,000 equivalent album units. It scored a pair of No. 2-peaking Alternative Airplay singles in “Overcompensate” and “The Craving.”
All Billboard charts dated Aug. 2 will update Tuesday, July 29, on Billboard.com.
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