# List of Billboard Alternative Songs number ones of the 2010s

Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. It was introduced by Billboard in September 1988. During the 2010s, the chart was named Alternative Songs and based on electronically monitored airplay data compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of spins per week.
115 songs topped the Alternative Songs chart during the 2010s. The first number one of the 2010s was "Uprising" by Muse, while the last was "Orphans" by Coldplay. From October 2012 to February 2013, Muse's song "Madness" topped the chart for 19 non-consecutive weeks, breaking the record for the most weeks spent at number one by a song in the chart's history. In 2017, "Feel It Still" by Portugal. The Man broke this record by topping the chart for 20 weeks. The American band Cage the Elephant attained nine Alternative Songs number-one hits during the 2010s, the most by any artist within the decade.

## Number-one songs

Key
    † – Billboard year-end number-one song
    ↑ – Return of a song to number one
| Song | Artist | Reached number one | Weeks at number one |
| "Uprising" † | Muse | October 17, 2009 | 15 |
| "Kings and Queens" | Thirty Seconds to Mars | January 30, 2010 | 3 |
| "1901" | Phoenix | February 20, 2010 | 2 |
| "Back Against the Wall" | Cage the Elephant | March 6, 2010 | 2 |
| "Resistance" | Muse | March 20, 2010 | 3 |
| "Mountain Man" | Crash Kings | April 10, 2010 | 1 |
| "Resistance" ↑ | Muse | April 17, 2010 | 1 |
| "Between the Lines" | Stone Temple Pilots | April 24, 2010 | 3 |
| "Lay Me Down" | The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez | May 15, 2010 | 11 |
| "This Is War" | Thirty Seconds to Mars | July 31, 2010 | 1 |
| "In One Ear" | Cage the Elephant | August 7, 2010 | 4 |
| "The Catalyst" | Linkin Park | September 4, 2010 | 4 |
| "Animal" | Neon Trees | October 2, 2010 | 1 |
| "Little Lion Man" | Mumford & Sons | October 9, 2010 | 1 |
| "Radioactive" | Kings of Leon | October 16, 2010 | 3 |
| "Tighten Up" | The Black Keys | November 6, 2010 | 9 |
| "Waiting for the End" | Linkin Park | January 8, 2011 | 3 |
| "Tighten Up" ↑ | The Black Keys | January 29, 2011 | 1 |
| "Waiting for the End" ↑ | Linkin Park | February 5, 2011 | 1 |
| "Shake Me Down" | Cage the Elephant | February 12, 2011 | 6 |
| "Rope" | Foo Fighters | March 26, 2011 | 13 |
| "Pumped Up Kicks" † | Foster the People | June 25, 2011 | 2 |
| "You Are a Tourist" | Death Cab for Cutie | July 9, 2011 | 1 |
| "Pumped Up Kicks" ↑ † | Foster the People | July 16, 2011 | 3 |
| "Walk" | Foo Fighters | August 6, 2011 | 2 |
| "The Adventures of Raindance Maggie" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | August 20, 2011 | 4 |
| "Walk" ↑ | Foo Fighters | September 17, 2011 | 6 |
| "The Sound of Winter" | Bush | October 29, 2011 | 5 |
| "Paradise" | Coldplay | December 3, 2011 | 1 |
| "The Sound of Winter" ↑ | Bush | December 10, 2011 | 1 |
| "Lonely Boy" | The Black Keys | December 17, 2011 | 11 |
| "Somebody That I Used to Know" † | Gotye featuring Kimbra | March 3, 2012 | 7 |
| "We Are Young" | Fun featuring Janelle Monáe | April 21, 2012 | 2 |
| "Somebody That I Used to Know" ↑ † | Gotye featuring Kimbra | May 5, 2012 | 5 |
| "Gold on the Ceiling" | The Black Keys | June 9, 2012 | 3 |
| "Tongue Tied" | Grouplove | June 30, 2012 | 1 |
| "Gold on the Ceiling" ↑ | The Black Keys | July 7, 2012 | 2 |
| "Little Talks" | Of Monsters and Men | July 21, 2012 | 2 |
| "Burn It Down" | Linkin Park | August 4, 2012 | 1 |
| "Some Nights" | Fun | August 11, 2012 | 2 |
| "Too Close" | Alex Clare | August 25, 2012 | 4 |
| "Some Nights" ↑ | Fun | September 22, 2012 | 1 |
| "Ho Hey" | The Lumineers | September 29, 2012 | 2 |
| "Madness" | Muse | October 13, 2012 | 1 |
| "I Will Wait" | Mumford & Sons | October 20, 2012 | 1 |
| "Madness" ↑ | Muse | October 27, 2012 | 18 |
| "Radioactive" † | Imagine Dragons | March 2, 2013 | 13 |
| "Sweater Weather" | The Neighbourhood | June 1, 2013 | 2 |
| "Safe and Sound" | Capital Cities | June 15, 2013 | 1 |
| "Sweater Weather" ↑ | The Neighbourhood | June 22, 2013 | 9 |
| "Royals" | Lorde | August 24, 2013 | 7 |
| "Out of My League" | Fitz and the Tantrums | October 12, 2013 | 2 |
| "Pompeii" | Bastille | October 26, 2013 | 4 |
| "Come a Little Closer" | Cage the Elephant | November 23, 2013 | 10 |
| "Do I Wanna Know?" † | Arctic Monkeys | February 1, 2014 | 10 |
| "Come with Me Now" | Kongos | April 12, 2014 | 3 |
| "The Walker" | Fitz and the Tantrums | May 3, 2014 | 1 |
| "Come with Me Now" ↑ | Kongos | May 10, 2014 | 2 |
| "Fever" | The Black Keys | May 24, 2014 | 11 |
| "I Wanna Get Better" | Bleachers | August 9, 2014 | 1 |
| "Dangerous" | Big Data featuring Joywave | August 16, 2014 | 1 |
| "Riptide" | Vance Joy | August 23, 2014 | 5 |
| "Stolen Dance" | Milky Chance | September 27, 2014 | 10 |
| "Something from Nothing" | Foo Fighters | December 6, 2014 | 8 |
| "Cigarette Daydreams" | Cage the Elephant | January 31, 2015 | 4 |
| "Shut Up and Dance" | Walk the Moon | February 28, 2015 | 4 |
| "Lampshades on Fire" | Modest Mouse | March 28, 2015 | 3 |
| "Believe" | Mumford & Sons | April 18, 2015 | 3 |
| "Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)" | Awolnation | May 9, 2015 | 2 |
| "Dead Inside" | Muse | May 23, 2015 | 5 |
| "Renegades" † | X Ambassadors | June 27, 2015 | 11 |
| "First" | Cold War Kids | September 12, 2015 | 1 |
| "Ex's & Oh's" | Elle King | September 19, 2015 | 3 |
| "First" ↑ | Cold War Kids | October 10, 2015 | 6 |
| "Stressed Out" | Twenty One Pilots | November 21, 2015 | 12 |
| "Mess Around" | Cage the Elephant | February 13, 2016 | 1 |
| "Adventure of a Lifetime" | Coldplay | February 20, 2016 | 2 |
| "Mess Around" ↑ | Cage the Elephant | March 5, 2016 | 2 |
| "Mountain at My Gates" | Foals | March 19, 2016 | 1 |
| "Trip Switch" | Nothing but Thieves | March 26, 2016 | 2 |
| "Ride" | Twenty One Pilots | April 9, 2016 | 6 |
| "Spirits" | The Strumbellas | May 21, 2016 | 2 |
| "Ride" ↑ | Twenty One Pilots | June 4, 2016 | 1 |
| "Ophelia" † | The Lumineers | June 11, 2016 | 4 |
| "Bored to Death" | Blink-182 | July 9, 2016 | 5 |
| "Dark Necessities" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | August 13, 2016 | 1 |
| "Way Down We Go" | Kaleo | August 20, 2016 | 2 |
| "Trouble" | Cage the Elephant | September 3, 2016 | 1 |
| "Heathens" | Twenty One Pilots | September 10, 2016 | 9 |
| "Bang Bang" | Green Day | November 12, 2016 | 1 |
| "Heathens" ↑ | Twenty One Pilots | November 19, 2016 | 2 |
| "Waste a Moment" | Kings of Leon | December 3, 2016 | 1 |
| "All We Ever Knew" | The Head and the Heart | December 10, 2016 | 1 |
| "Waste a Moment" ↑ | Kings of Leon | December 17, 2016 | 3 |
| "Take It All Back" | Judah & the Lion | January 7, 2017 | 4 |
| "Still Breathing" | Green Day | February 4, 2017 | 5 |
| "Cleopatra" | The Lumineers | March 11, 2017 | 2 |
| "Human" | Rag'n'Bone Man | March 25, 2017 | 1 |
| "Believer" † | Imagine Dragons | April 1, 2017 | 7 |
| "Wish I Knew You" | The Revivalists | May 20, 2017 | 1 |
| "Believer" ↑ † | Imagine Dragons | May 27, 2017 | 6 |
| "Feel It Still" | Portugal. The Man | July 8, 2017 | 17 |
| "Thunder" | Imagine Dragons | November 4, 2017 | 3 |
| "Feel It Still" ↑ | Portugal. The Man | November 25, 2017 | 3 |
| "Up All Night" | Beck | December 16, 2017 | 7 |
| "One Foot" | Walk the Moon | January 27, 2018 | 4 |
| "No Roots" | Alice Merton | February 24, 2018 | 1 |
| "Sober Up" | AJR featuring Rivers Cuomo | March 3, 2018 | 2 |
| "Whatever It Takes" | Imagine Dragons | March 17, 2018 | 2 |
| "Live in the Moment" | Portugal. The Man | March 31, 2018 | 2 |
| "Whatever It Takes" ↑ | Imagine Dragons | April 14, 2018 | 1 |
| "Broken" † | Lovelytheband | April 21, 2018 | 7 |
| "Thought Contagion" | Muse | June 9, 2018 | 1 |
| "Broken" ↑ † | Lovelytheband | June 16, 2018 | 2 |
| "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" | Panic! at the Disco | June 30, 2018 | 1 |
| "I Feel Like I'm Drowning" | Two Feet | July 7, 2018 | 2 |
| "Say Amen (Saturday Night)" ↑ | Panic! at the Disco | July 21, 2018 | 1 |
| "Jumpsuit" | Twenty One Pilots | July 28, 2018 | 2 |
| "Africa" | Weezer | August 11, 2018 | 3 |
| "Jumpsuit" ↑ | Twenty One Pilots | September 1, 2018 | 1 |
| "Natural" | Imagine Dragons | September 8, 2018 | 9 |
| "Happier" | Marshmello and Bastille | November 10, 2018 | 1 |
| "High Hopes" | Panic! at the Disco | November 17, 2018 | 10 |
| "Guiding Light" | Mumford & Sons | January 26, 2019 | 1 |
| "High Hopes" ↑ | Panic! at the Disco | February 2, 2019 | 6 |
| "Ready to Let Go" | Cage the Elephant | March 16, 2019 | 6 |
| "Chlorine" | Twenty One Pilots | April 27, 2019 | 3 |
| "Lo/Hi" | The Black Keys | May 18, 2019 | 1 |
| "Bury a Friend" | Billie Eilish | May 25, 2019 | 2 |
| "Trampoline" † | Shaed | June 8, 2019 | 2 |
| "Gloria" | The Lumineers | June 22, 2019 | 5 |
| "Missed Connection" | The Head and the Heart | July 27, 2019 | 2 |
| "Bad Guy" | Billie Eilish | August 10, 2019 | 2 |
| "Cringe" | Matt Maeson | August 24, 2019 | 4 |
| "3 Nights" | Dominic Fike | September 21, 2019 | 1 |
| "Doin' Time" | Lana Del Rey | September 28, 2019 | 3 |
| "Social Cues" | Cage the Elephant | October 19, 2019 | 2 |
| "The Hype" | Twenty One Pilots | November 2, 2019 | 7 |
| "Orphans" | Coldplay | December 21, 2019 | 4 |