# List of Billboard Alternative Airplay number ones of the 2020s

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. Introduced in September 1988, the chart is based on airplay data compiled from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of spins per week. Stations on the panel are electronically monitored by Mediabase, who replaced Broadcast Data Systems in this capacity beginning with the chart dated November 12, 2022. The first number-one song of the 2020s on the chart was "Orphans" by Coldplay.

## 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 |
| "Orphans" | Coldplay | December 21, 2019 | 4 |
| "Dissolve" | Absofacto | January 18, 2020 | 2 |
| "Running Up That Hill" | Meg Myers | February 1, 2020 | 2 |
| "Might Be Right" | White Reaper | February 15, 2020 | 1 |
| "Everything I Wanted" | Billie Eilish | February 22, 2020 | 3 |
| "Novocaine" | The Unlikely Candidates | March 14, 2020 | 2 |
| "Cradles" | Sub Urban | March 28, 2020 | 1 |
| "Everything I Wanted" ↑ | Billie Eilish | April 4, 2020 | 2 |
| "Oh Yeah!" | Green Day | April 18, 2020 | 1 |
| "Caution" | The Killers | April 25, 2020 | 2 |
| "Level of Concern" † | Twenty One Pilots | May 9, 2020 | 14 |
| "Honeybee" | The Head and the Heart | August 15, 2020 | 1 |
| "Hero" | Weezer | August 22, 2020 | 1 |
| "Hallucinogenics" | Matt Maeson | August 29, 2020 | 3 |
| "Monsters" † | All Time Low featuring Blackbear | September 19, 2020 | 17 |
| "Leave Me Alone" | I Dont Know How But They Found Me | January 16, 2021 | 1 |
| "Monsters" ↑ † | All Time Low featuring Blackbear | January 23, 2021 | 1 |
| "Fire for You" | Cannons | January 30, 2021 | 1 |
| "Therefore I Am" | Billie Eilish | February 6, 2021 | 1 |
| "Skin and Bones" | Cage the Elephant | February 13, 2021 | 4 |
| "My Ex's Best Friend" | Machine Gun Kelly featuring Blackbear | March 13, 2021 | 1 |
| "Heat Waves" | Glass Animals | March 20, 2021 | 3 |
| "My Ex's Best Friend" ↑ | Machine Gun Kelly featuring Blackbear | April 10, 2021 | 2 |
| "Follow You" | Imagine Dragons | April 24, 2021 | 1 |
| "Shy Away" | Twenty One Pilots | May 1, 2021 | 8 |
| "Follow You" ↑ | Imagine Dragons | June 26, 2021 | 4 |
| "All My Favorite Songs" | Weezer | July 24, 2021 | 4 |
| "We Are Between" | Modest Mouse | August 21, 2021 | 2 |
| "Saturday" | Twenty One Pilots | September 4, 2021 | 5 |
| "Beggin'" | Måneskin | October 9, 2021 | 11 |
| "Brightside" | The Lumineers | December 25, 2021 | 4 |
| "The Outside" | Twenty One Pilots | January 22, 2022 | 3 |
| "Enemy" † | Imagine Dragons and JID | February 12, 2022 | 7 |
| "Black Summer" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | April 2, 2022 | 4 |
| "Enemy" ↑ † | Imagine Dragons and JID | April 30, 2022 | 2 |
| "Wild Child" | The Black Keys | May 14, 2022 | 2 |
| "Love Brand New" | Bob Moses | May 28, 2022 | 3 |
| "A Little Bit of Love" | Weezer | June 18, 2022 | 2 |
| "Toxic" | BoyWithUke | July 2, 2022 | 1 |
| "Viva Las Vengeance" | Panic! at the Disco | July 9, 2022 | 3 |
| "Supermodel" | Måneskin | July 30, 2022 | 5 |
| "Boy" | The Killers | September 3, 2022 | 6 |
| "Tippa My Tongue" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | October 15, 2022 | 1 |
| "Here to Forever" | Death Cab for Cutie | October 22, 2022 | 1 |
| "Sex, Drugs, Etc." | Beach Weather | October 29, 2022 | 1 |
| "Edging" | Blink-182 | November 5, 2022 | 13 |
| "This Is Why" | Paramore | February 4, 2023 | 1 |
| "Sleepwalking" | All Time Low | February 11, 2023 | 2 |
| "Records" | Weezer | February 25, 2023 | 1 |
| "Love from the Other Side" | Fall Out Boy | March 4, 2023 | 3 |
| "Lost" † | Linkin Park | March 25, 2023 | 3 |
| "Love from the Other Side" ↑ | Fall Out Boy | April 15, 2023 | 3 |
| "Lost" ↑ † | Linkin Park | May 6, 2023 | 3 |
| "Rescued" | Foo Fighters | May 27, 2023 | 10 |
| "Emergency Contact" | Pierce the Veil | August 5, 2023 | 1 |
| "Rescue Me" | Dirty Heads | August 12, 2023 | 4 |
| "Just Pretend" | Bad Omens | September 9, 2023 | 1 |
| "Dial Drunk" | Noah Kahan and Post Malone | September 16, 2023 | 2 |
| "Under You" | Foo Fighters | September 30, 2023 | 3 |
| "One More Time" | Blink-182 | October 21, 2023 | 20 |
| "Landmines" † | Sum 41 | March 9, 2024 | 2 |
| "Beautiful People (Stay High)" | The Black Keys | March 23, 2024 | 2 |
| "Neon Pill" | Cage the Elephant | April 6, 2024 | 4 |
| "Dilemma" | Green Day | May 4, 2024 | 8 |
| "Too Sweet" | Hozier | June 29, 2024 | 11 |
| "Rainbow" | Cage the Elephant | September 14, 2024 | 2 |
| "Stargazing" | Myles Smith | September 28, 2024 | 1 |
| "The Emptiness Machine" | Linkin Park | October 5, 2024 | 5 |
| "That's How I'm Feeling" | Jack White | November 9, 2024 | 3 |
| "Dopamine" | Sum 41 | November 30, 2024 | 1 |
| "Sad in Carolina" | Dexter and the Moonrocks | December 7, 2024 | 8 |
| "Can't Slow Down" | Almost Monday | February 1, 2025 | 2 |
| "The Line" | Twenty One Pilots | February 15, 2025 | 3 |
| "Neverender" | Justice featuring Tame Impala | March 8, 2025 | 1 |
| "Same Old Song" | The Lumineers | March 15, 2025 | 2 |