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Four
For the first time, the top
four positions of the Hot
Rock Songs chart are
occupied by the same
artist. Imagine Dragons
(above) rank at Nos. 1-4
as new single “Natural”
surges 13-4 following its
first full week of tracking. It
follows “Thunder,” which
returns to No. 1 for a 22nd
week, “Whatever It Takes”
(which spent 17 weeks at
No. 1) and “Believer” (29).
Previously, the Las Vegas-
based rockers had infused
the chart’s top three in
15 weeks, joined in that
distinction by twenty one
pilots (five such weeks).
“Natural,” released as
the anthem for ESPN’s
college football coverage
for the 2018-19 season,
concurrently rules Rock
Digital Song Sales and
Alternative Digital Song
Sales, marking the
band’s seventh leader on
each chart, with 36,000
downloads sold, according
to Nielsen Music. It
also starts at No. 4 on
Rock Streaming Songs
(5.7 million streams) and
breaks into the top 10
of Rock Airplay and
Alternative at Nos. 9 and
10, respectively (5.8 million
audience impressions).
Meanwhile, Tom Petty
posthumously rises 12-7 on
the Triple A airplay chart
with “Keep a Little Soul
(Outtake, 1982).” The first
single from An American
Tre asure, a 60-song box set
due Sept. 28, helps Petty
become the first artist in
the chart’s history, which
dates to 1996, to reach the
Triple A top 10 after dying.
Petty died last October of
mixed drug toxicity, at age- —Kevin Rutherford
68 Go to BILLBOARD.COM/BIZ for complete chart data Data for week of 08.04.2018
ELIOT LEE HAZELSALES, AIRPLAY & STREAMING DATA COMPILED BYHOT ROCK SONGS:The week’s most popular current rock songs, ranked byradio airplay audience impressions as measured by Nielsen Music, sales data as compiled by Nielsen Music and streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by Nielsen Music. Songs are defined as current if they are newly-released titles, or songs receivingwidespread airplay and/or sales activity for the first time.TOP ROCK ALBUMS:The week’s most popular rock albums of the week, ascompiled by Nielsen Music, based on multi-metric consumption (blending traditional album sales, track equivalent albums, and streaming equivalent albums).TRIPLE A:The week’s most popular adult alternative songs,ranked by radio airplay detections as measured by Nielsen Music. Stations are electronically monitored 24 hours a day, 7 days aweek. See Charts Legend on billboard.com/biz forcomplete rules and explanations. © 2018, Prometheus Global Media, LLC and Nielsen Music, Inc. All rights reserved.