Twenty One Pilots Score 13th No. 1 on Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘City Walls’

Twenty One Pilots earn their 13th No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, scaling the Dec. 20-dated survey with “City Walls.”

The song, up one spot, marks the duo’s third ruler in a row, following “The Line” for two weeks in August and “The Contract” for three starting in February.

Twenty One Pilots tie Cage the Elephant and Green Day for the third-most No. 1s since Alternative Airplay began in September 1988. They’re two away from the all-time leaders, Red Hot Chili Peppers, with 15.

Most No. 1s, Alternative Airplay:

15, Red Hot Chili Peppers

14, Linkin Park

13, Cage the Elephant

13, Green Day

13, Twenty One Pilots

12, Foo Fighters

8, The Black Keys

8, U2

8, Weezer

7, Imagine Dragons

Twenty One Pilots first reached Alternative Airplay in 2013 with the No. 10-peaking “Holding On to You,” while “Stressed Out” became their first No. 1 in 2015.

Concurrently, “City Walls” ranks at No. 10, after reaching No. 7, on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3 million audience impressions in the week ending Dec. 11, up 2%, according to Luminate.

The song debuted at its No. 11 best on the multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs tally dated Sept. 27, concurrent with the chart start of parent album Breach. The set opened at No. 1 on that week’s Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart and has earned 361,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated Dec. 20 will update on Tuesday, Dec. 16, on Billboard.com.