Linkin Park Goes ‘Up’ to No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay Chart for Fifth Straight Time
Written by djfrosty on April 21, 2025
Linkin Park notches its eighth leader and fifth in a row on Billboard’s Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, with “Up From the Bottom” bounding three places to No. 1 on the April 26-dated ranking.
The track leads with 4.7 million radio audience impressions (up 28%) in the week ending April 17, according to Luminate.
The song reigns in its third week on the tally, wrapping the shortest trip to the top since Linkin Park’s own “The Emptiness Machine” hit No. 1 in its second week last September on its way to a 15-week No. 1 command.
The band now boasts five consecutive No. 1s on Rock & Alternative Airplay, from the 20-week leader “Lost” in 2023 through “Friendly Fire,” “The Emptiness Machine” (both in 2024) and “Heavy Is the Crown” (beginning this January). Dating to the chart’s June 2009 start, Linkin Park extends its record for the most consecutive No. 1s, a mark previously broken when it nabbed its fourth straight.
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The streak encompasses the contributions of three vocalists; the last three songs feature newly added singer Emily Armstrong plus longtime singer, rapper and guitarist Mike Shinoda, while the first two were posthumously released after the death of singer Chester Bennington in 2017.
The rockers also led with “New Divide” in 2009, “The Catalyst” in 2010 and “Burn It Down” in 2012 and now tie for the second-most No. 1s in the chart’s history.
Most No. 1s, Rock & Alternative Airplay:
11, Foo Fighters
8, Green Day
8, Linkin Park
6, Cage the Elephant
6, Twenty One Pilots
5, The Black Keys
5, Imagine Dragons
4, Red Hot Chili Peppers
3, Weezer
Concurrently, “Up From the Bottom” breaks into the top 10 of the Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay charts, jumping 11-7 on both. It’s the band’s 22nd top 10 on each tally, with Linkin Park moving into sole possession of the fifth-most on the former, which began in 1988.
Most Top 10s, Alternative Airplay:
31, Foo Fighters
28, Red Hot Chili Peppers
27, Green Day
23, U2
22, Linkin Park
21, Pearl Jam
21, Weezer
20, The Offspring
18, Cage the Elephant
18, Twenty One Pilots
“Up From the Bottom” debuted at No. 2 on the multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart dated April 12 and ranked at No. 3 in its second week. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 2.2 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 April 4-10.
The song is from the deluxe edition of Linkin Park’s eighth studio album, From Zero, due May 16. The standard version debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in November and has earned 350,000 equivalent album units to date.
All Billboard charts dated April 26 will update Tuesday, April 22, on Billboard.com.