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Hot Rock Songs

The week's most popular current alternative, ... more mainstream rock and triple A songs, ranked by radio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen BDS, sales data as compiled by Nielsen SoundScan and streaming activity data from online music sources tracked by Nielsen BDS. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receiving widespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time.

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Megalithic Symphony

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Dave Matthews Band
Away from the World [CD/DVD] [Super Deluxe Edition]

36Peak position
42Last week's position
2Weeks on chart

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Too Close

Alex Clare
NRJ Hit List 2012, Vol. 2

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15Last week's position
9Weeks on chart

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Weekly Chart Notes:
Pop Radio's Folk Balancing Act

After last year brought a marked shift to an acceptance of unlikely alternative hits at pop radio from the likes of Gotye, fun., Alex Clare and more, early 2013 finds the format welcoming even softer guitar-based fare among top 40's still-dominant dance/pop center.

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Shinedown
Amaryllis

9Peak position
13Last week's position
10Weeks on chart

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The A Team

Ed Sheeran

41Peak position
45Last week's position
6Weeks on chart

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Dead Sara
Dead Sara

31Peak position
33Last week's position
10Weeks on chart

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Take A Walk

Passion Pit
Gossamer

34Peak position
36Last week's position
7Weeks on chart

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Ho Hey

The Lumineers
Live At KEXP, Vol. 8

12Peak position
14Last week's position
13Weeks on chart

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Chart Highlights: Black Sabbath Returns To Rock Radio

Chart Highlights offers a sneak peek at a select group of Billboard charts every Monday. Find out the top songs, Greatest Gainers and debuts on the surveys listed below.

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Days Go By

The Offspring
Days Go By [Clean]

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5Last week's position
12Weeks on chart

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Walk The Moon
Walk the Moon

21Peak position
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Jan 5th Rock Songs 1 Airplay Gainer Ho Hey The Lumineers
Jan 5th Rock Songs 5 Digital Sales Gainer It's Time Imagine Dragons
Jan 5th Rock Songs 18 Hot Shot Debut Here With Me The Killers
Jan 12th Rock Songs 2 Greatest Gainer Home Phillip Phillips
Jan 12th Rock Songs 18 Pace Setter Yeah Yeah Willy Moon
Jan 12th Rock Songs 39 Hot Shot Debut Bleeding Out Imagine Dragons
Jan 19th Rock Songs 1 Pace Setter Ho Hey The Lumineers
Jan 19th Rock Songs 40 Hot Shot Debut Because We Can Bon Jovi
Jan 26th Rock Songs 9 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Jan 26th Rock Songs 13 Airplay Gainer Carry On fun.
Jan 26th Rock Songs 20 Hot Shot Debut Where Are We Now? David Bowie
Jan 26th Rock Songs 21 Digital Sales Gainer Kiss Me Ed Sheeran
Feb 2nd Rock Songs 3 Airplay Gainer It's Time Imagine Dragons
Feb 2nd Rock Songs 8 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Feb 2nd Rock Songs 25 Digital Sales Gainer Gone, Gone, Gone Phillip Phillips
Feb 2nd Rock Songs 29 Hot Shot Debut Stairway To Heaven (Live At The Kennedy Center Honors) Heart
Feb 9th Rock Songs 7 Airplay Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Feb 9th Rock Songs 8 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Feb 9th Rock Songs 12 Digital Sales Gainer Stubborn Love The Lumineers
Feb 9th Rock Songs 16 Hot Shot Debut Now Paramore
Feb 16th Rock Songs 7 Airplay Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Feb 16th Rock Songs 16 Pace Setter Closer Tegan And Sara
Feb 16th Rock Songs 38 Hot Shot Debut Breakers Local Natives
Feb 23rd Rock Songs 2 Greatest Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Feb 23rd Rock Songs 8 Hot Shot Debut My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
Feb 23rd Rock Songs 22 Pace Setter Lover Of The Light Mumford & Sons
Mar 2nd Rock Songs 2 Pace Setter I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Mar 2nd Rock Songs 3 Digital Sales Gainer Carry On fun.
Mar 2nd Rock Songs 41 Hot Shot Debut A Tattered Line Of String The Postal Service
Mar 9th Rock Songs 3 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Mar 9th Rock Songs 7 Airplay Gainer Carry On fun.
Mar 9th Rock Songs 25 Hot Shot Debut Entertainment Phoenix
Mar 16th Rock Songs 2 Airplay Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Mar 16th Rock Songs 6 Pace Setter Sail AWOLNATION
Mar 16th Rock Songs 29 Hot Shot Debut The Stars (Are Out Tonight) David Bowie
Mar 23rd Rock Songs 2 Digital Sales Gainer Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Mar 23rd Rock Songs 3 Airplay Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Mar 23rd Rock Songs 35 Pace Setter Breezeblocks alt-J
Mar 23rd Rock Songs 38 Hot Shot Debut Lead Me Home Jamie N Commons
Mar 30th Rock Songs 5 Airplay Gainer Carry On fun.
Mar 30th Rock Songs 7 Pace Setter My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
Mar 30th Rock Songs 12 Digital Sales Gainer Gone, Gone, Gone Phillip Phillips
Mar 30th Rock Songs 39 Hot Shot Debut From Can To Can't Corey Taylor, Dave Grohl, Rick Nielsen & Scott Reeder
Apr 6th Rock Songs 1 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Apr 6th Rock Songs 3 Airplay Gainer I Will Wait Mumford & Sons
Apr 6th Rock Songs 6 Digital Sales Gainer My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
Apr 6th Rock Songs 16 Hot Shot Debut Up In The Air Thirty Seconds To Mars
Apr 13th Rock Songs 1 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
Apr 13th Rock Songs 2 Airplay Gainer Carry On fun.
Apr 13th Rock Songs 14 Hot Shot Debut The Phoenix Fall Out Boy
Apr 20th Rock Songs 2 Digital Sales Gainer Ho Hey The Lumineers
Apr 20th Rock Songs 3 Airplay Gainer Carry On fun.
Apr 20th Rock Songs 17 Pace Setter The Phoenix Fall Out Boy
Apr 20th Rock Songs 50 Hot Shot Debut I'll Follow You Shinedown
Apr 27th Rock Songs 7 Pace Setter Sail AWOLNATION
Apr 27th Rock Songs 11 Airplay Gainer Gone, Gone, Gone Phillip Phillips
Apr 27th Rock Songs 12 Hot Shot Debut Still Into You Paramore
Apr 27th Rock Songs 17 Digital Sales Gainer The Phoenix Fall Out Boy
May 4th Rock Songs 1 Airplay Gainer Radioactive Imagine Dragons
May 4th Rock Songs 2 Pace Setter My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
May 4th Rock Songs 6 Digital Sales Gainer Sail AWOLNATION
May 4th Rock Songs 26 Hot Shot Debut God Is Dead? Black Sabbath
May 11th Rock Songs 2 Greatest Gainer My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
May 11th Rock Songs 13 Hot Shot Debut Young And Beautiful Lana Del Rey
May 11th Rock Songs 25 Pace Setter Entertainment Phoenix
May 18th Rock Songs 1 Pace Setter Radioactive Imagine Dragons
May 18th Rock Songs 2 Airplay Gainer My Songs Know What You Did In The Dark (Light Em Up) Fall Out Boy
May 18th Rock Songs 6 Digital Sales Gainer Little Talks Of Monsters And Men
May 18th Rock Songs 26 Hot Shot Debut Wild Horses Sarah Simmons

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