{"id":2171909,"date":"2025-11-22T06:17:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:17:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2171909"},"modified":"2025-11-22T06:17:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T06:17:23","slug":"mumford-sons-and-hozier-make-fastest-flight-to-no-1-on-adult-alternative-airplay-this-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/mumford-sons-and-hozier-make-fastest-flight-to-no-1-on-adult-alternative-airplay-this-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Mumford &#038; Sons and Hozier Make Fastest Flight to No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay This Year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><span>Mumford &amp; Sons<\/span> and <span>Hozier<\/span>\u2019s \u201cRubber Band Man\u201d completes a speedy four-week trip to No. 1 on <em>Billboard<\/em>\u2019s <span>Adult Alternative Airplay<\/span> chart, rocketing six spots to the top of the Nov. 29-dated list.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The collaboration completes the fastest rise to No. 1 since <span>The Black Keys<\/span>\u2019 \u201cBeautiful People (Stay High)\u201d took four frames to reign in February 2024.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hozier earns his quickest coronation, exceeding the five weeks it took for his \u201cToo Sweet\u201d last year and the <span>Mavis Staples<\/span>-featuring \u201cNina Cried Power\u201d in 2018. As for Mumford &amp; Sons\u2019 best, \u201cI Will Wait\u201d and \u201cBelieve\u201d each needed only three weeks to lead in 2012 and 2015, respectively.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Hozier now boasts eight No. 1s. Mumford &amp; Sons nab their sixth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Most No. 1s, Adult Alternative Airplay:<br \/><\/strong>14, U2<br \/>13, Coldplay<br \/>11, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)<br \/>11, Jack Johnson<br \/>9, The Black Keys<br \/>8, Death Cab for Cutie<br \/>8, Hozier<br \/>8, John Mayer<br \/>8, The Lumineers<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRubber Band Man\u201d is Hozier\u2019s sixth No. 1 in a row, tying him with <span>U2<\/span> for the longest streak in the chart\u2019s nearly 30-year history. His run began in 2023 with \u201cEat Your Young.\u201d U2 linked its six straight leaders in 2001-05.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Mumford &amp; Sons last topped Adult Alternative Airplay with their <span>Pharrell Williams<\/span> collaboration \u201cGood People\u201d in April 2024. (In between, they hit Nos. 2 and 3 with \u201cRushmere\u201d and \u201cCaroline,\u201d respectively.)<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Concurrently, \u201cRubber Band Man\u201d leaps 16-10 on <span>Alternative Airplay<\/span>, becoming Mumford &amp; Sons\u2019 12th top 10 and Hozier\u2019s third. On the all-rock-format, audience-based <span>Rock &amp; Alternative Airplay<\/span> chart, the song holds at its No. 7 best with 3.6 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 20, a gain of 7%, according to Luminate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The track placed at No. 28 on the most recently published, multimetric <span>Hot Rock &amp; Alternative Songs<\/span> tally (dated Nov. 22, reflecting data Nov. 7-13). In addition to its radio airplay, it drew 1.6 million official U.S. streams and sold 1,000 downloads in that span.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cRubber Band Man\u201d is the lead single from <em>Prizefighter<\/em>, Mumford &amp; Sons\u2019 sixth studio album, due Feb. 13, 2026. Their LP <em>Rushmere <\/em>debuted and peaked at No. 3 on the Top Rock &amp; Alternative Albums chart this April and has earned 98,000 equivalent album units to date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">All <em>Billboard<\/em> charts dated Nov. 29 will update Tuesday, Nov. 25, on Billboard.com.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><strong>Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sign up for <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/cloud.email.billboard.com\/signup\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Billboard's Newsletter;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Billboard&#8217;s Newsletter<\/a>. 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The collaboration completes the fastest rise to No. 1 since The Black Keys\u2019 \u201cBeautiful People (Stay High)\u201d took four frames to reign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2171910,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25172],"tags":[391715,341005,412823,29110,363037,374212,371464,349942],"class_list":["post-2171909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-adult-alternative-airplay","tag-alternative-airplay","tag-alternative-albums","tag-billboard","tag-dave-matthews","tag-dave-matthews-band","tag-hozier","tag-mumford-sons"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/Mumford-Sons-and-Hozier-Make-Fastest-Flight-to-No.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2171909"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2171911,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2171909\/revisions\/2171911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2171910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2171909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2171909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2171909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}