Pearl Jam scores their first No. 1 Advertising signAirplay's Adult Alternative Airplay chart over 10 years as “Wreckage” climbs to the top of the August 10th-dated survey.
“Wreckage,” Pearl Jam's third chart-topper, follows “Sirens,” which ruled for three weeks in November-December 2013. The band led with “Just Breathe” for 13 weeks in 2010.
The group's 10-year, eight-month hiatus between No. 1s is the longest on Adult Alternative Airplay since John Mayer spanned 11 years and eight months between the reign of “Who Says” in 2009 and “Last Train Home” in 2021 .
Between “Sirens” and “Wreckage,” Pearl Jam scored four Adult Alternative Airplay entries, on pace with 2020's No. 2 chart-topper “Dance of the Clairvoyants.”
“Wreckage” is the second single from Dark matter, Pearl Jam's 12th studio album. The title track peaked at No.19 in March.
Meanwhile, “Wreckage” ranks No. 6, after peaking at No. 2 in June, on Rock & Alternative Airplay, with 3.4 million audience impressions in the week ending Aug. 1, according to Luminate. It ruled Mainstream Rock Airplay for a week in July, becoming the band's fifth No. 1 and peaked at No. 3 on Alternative Airplay.
Topping both Adult Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay, “Wreckage” becomes the first song to reach No. 1 on the charts, spanning the sonic fringes of rock radio, since The Black Keys' “Lo/Hi” in 2019.
On the most recently released Hot Hard Rock Songs multimetric chart (dated Aug. 3, reflecting data from July 19-25), “Wreckage” landed at No. 6, after a week at No. 1 in May. In addition to his radio broadcast, he attracted 265,000 official US streams.
Dark matter debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated May 4 and has earned 107,000 equivalent album units to date.
All charts dated August 10 will be updated on Billboard.com on Tuesday, August 6.
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