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The Pretender" by American rock band Foo Fighters spent the most weeks at number one on the Alternative Songs chart for any song during the 2000s. Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations.
This is a list of number-one alternative hits as recorded by Billboard ' s Alternative Airplay chart—a weekly national survey of popular songs on U.S. modern rock radio stations. The Alternative Airplay chart is based solely on radio airplay.
Faith Hill's single "Breathe" was the first country music recording to be ranked number one since Johnny Horton's "The Battle of New Orleans" in 1959.(Patsy Cline's "I Fall to Pieces" and Glen Campbell's "Rhinestone Cowboy" had each come close, ranking second.)
The 2000s in rock radio in the United States saw a continued blurring of the playlists among mainstream rock and alternative rock stations. Every track that was ranked by Billboard as the number-one song of the year on its Mainstream Rock Tracks chart during the decade was also a top-five hit on the Alternative Songs chart, most of which topped both charts.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing songs in the United States, published by Billboard magazine. In the 2000s, each chart's "week ending" date was the Saturday of the following two weeks.
This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on Billboard magazine's Alternative Songs chart. Billboard began ranking the chart on the week ending September 10, 1988 (as Modern Rock Tracks), and this is the standard music popularity chart in the United States for play on modern rock radio.
Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2. Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3) Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The 2000s (ISBN 0-89820-182-9)
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales, and airplay. There were 18 number-one singles in 2000.