Garth Brooks & Pat Alger Top Hard Rock Songwriters Chart, Thanks to Cover of 'The Thunder Rolls'

Alger also has a longstanding career in country music and on Billboard's charts. Among the hits that he's co-written are fellow Brooks Hot Country Songs No. 1s "Unanswered Prayers" (1991), "What She's Doing Now" (1992) and "That Summer" (1993).

Brooks, meanwhile, has prior history mixing rock and country, having charted remakes on Hot Country Songs of tracks by Billy Joel ("Shameless"; No. 1, 1991), Bob Dylan ("To Make You Feel My Love"; No. 1, 1998) and Aerosmith ("The Fever"; No. 23, 1995), as well as updates of songs by Kiss and Little Feat.

Over on the latest Hard Rock Producers chart, State of Mine's BJ Perry and John Pregler each debut at No. 3, thanks to their production work on "Rolls." Greg Kurstin spends his third week at No. 1, thanks to his production on Greta Van Fleet's "My Way, Soon" (No. 3 on Hot Hard Rock Songs) and Foo Fighters' "Waiting on a War" (No. 4).

The weekly Hard Rock Songwriters and Hard Rock Producers charts (which began in June 2019) are based on total points accrued by a songwriter and producer, respectively, for each attributed song that appears on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart; As with Billboard's yearly recaps, multiple writers or producers split points for each song equally (and the dividing of points will lead to occasional ties on rankings).

Check out this week's full Hard Rock Songwriters and Hard Rock Producers charts, in addition to the other full genre rankings, at Billboard.com/biz.