Cage the Elephant’s ‘Rainbow’ Floats to No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay Chart

Cage the Elephant’s “Rainbow” leaps three spots to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Sept. 7.

The six-piece adds its seventh leader and second in a row, after “Neon Pill” ruled for four weeks beginning in March.

The group enters a four-way tie for the eighth-most No. 1s in the Adult Alternative Airplay chart’s 28-year history, alongside Counting Crows, Sheryl Crow and R.E.M. U2 leads all acts with 14 leaders.

Cage the Elephant first reigned in 2014 with “Come a Little Closer,” followed by 2016’s “Mess Around” and three consecutive No. 1s – “Ready to Let Go,” “Social Cues” and “Black Madonna” – in 2019-20, prior to “Neon Pill” and “Rainbow.”

“Rainbow” concurrently rises to a new No. 3 high on Alternative Airplay, where Cage the Elephant boasts 11 No. 1s, including two in a row — “Skin and Bones” and “Neon Pill” — ahead of “Rainbow.”

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Rainbow” holds at its No. 6 best with 3.6 million audience impressions, up 13%, in the week ending Aug. 29, according to Luminate. The band has notched six No. 1s on the chart, most recently “Skin and Bones” in 2021.

“Rainbow” is the second single from Neon Pill, Cage the Elephant’s sixth studio album. The LP debuted at No. 15 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated June 1 and has earned 60,000 equivalent album units to date.

All charts dated Sept. 7 will update on Billboard.com Wednesday, Sept. 4, a day later than usual due to the Labor Day holiday Sept. 2.