Mumford & Sons Top Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘Rushmere’

Mumford & Sons move to No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for the fifth time as “Rushmere” lifts a spot to the top of the April 26-dated ranking.

“Rushmere” becomes the trio’s first leader in six years, following the one-week reign of “Guiding Light” in January 2019. The band previously ruled with “Little Lion Man” (2010), “I Will Wait” (2012) and “Believe” (2015). All of Mumford & Sons’ No. 1s were released as the lead singles from their five full-length studio albums to date.

In between “Guiding Light” and “Rushmere,” Mumford & Sons appeared on Alternative Airplay three times, paced by No. 10 peaks for “Beloved” in 2019 and “Good People,” a collaboration with Pharrell Williams, in 2024.

Concurrently, “Rushmere” places at No. 3, after rising as high as No. 2, on Adult Alternative Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it bullets at its No. 3 best with 3.9 million audience impressions (up 4%) in the week ending April 17, according to Luminate. It’s the band’s top-charting release on the latter list since “Guiding Light” peaked at No. 2.

“Rushmere” also ranks at No. 43 on the most recently published multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart (dated April 19, reflecting data tallied April 4-10), after reaching a No. 28 high the previous week. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 888,000 official U.S. streams.

“Rushmere” is the lead single from Mumford & Sons’ new album of the same name, which debuted at No. 2 on the Top Rock Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts dated April 12 via 28,000 equivalent album units earned in week one.

All Billboard charts dated April 26 will update Tuesday, April 22, on Billboard.com.