Shinedown pads its record for the most No. 1s in the history of Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart as “Searchlight” rules the March 7-dated tally.
The song becomes the band’s 22nd Mainstream Rock Airplay leader, dating to its first in 2005. The survey began in 1981.
“Searchlight” also marks the band’s second No. 1 in a row, following “Killing Fields” in September.
Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:
22, Shinedown 20, Three Days Grace 17, Five Finger Death Punch 15, Foo Fighters 14, Metallica 13, Disturbed 13, Godsmack 13, Linkin Park 13, Van HalenShinedown first topped the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated Nov. 19, 2005, with the 12-week leader “Save Me.” (That song and “Bully,” in 2012, represent the band’s longest No. 1 runs.) The group has logged eight of its 22 leaders this decade, after 10 in the 2010s and four in the ‘00s.
“Searchlight” is already the third No. 1 from EI8HT, Shinedown’s eighth studio album, despite the set not being due until May 29. In addition to “Searchlight” and “Killing Fields,” “Dance, Kid, Dance” led for a week in March 2025.
Concurrently, “Searchlight” climbs 10-7 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.4 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 26, a gain of 12%, according to Luminate. Each of the songs to reach the ranking from Eight has hit the top 10, paced by the No. 5 peak for “Dance, Kid, Dance.”
EI8HT is the follow-up to Shinedown’s Planet Zero. The latter debuted at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart in July 2022 and has earned 452,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated March 7 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 3.
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