"Patience," a GN'R hit in 1989, leads three years after Cornell's death.
More than three years after his death, Chris Cornell posthumously reaches No. 1 on Billboard's Mainstream Rock Songs airplay chart.
The late Soundgarden and Audioslave frontman's cover of Guns N' Roses "Patience," recorded before his May 2017 death, rises 2-1 on the Mainstream Rock Songs list dated Oct. 3.
It's Cornell's second No. 1 as a soloist and first as a solo lead. He previously ruled for two weeks as a featured vocalist on Zac Brown Band's "Heavy Is the Head" in May 2015. Prior to "Patience," Cornell had risen as high as No. 2 as a lead artist with "Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart" in November 2015.