After more than two decades away, Sum 41 is back at No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart, as “Landmines” crowns the tally dated March 9.
It’s Sum 41’s second Alternative Airplay ruler, after “Fat Lip” reigned for a week in August 2001.
That break of 22 years, five months and three weeks between No. 1s is by far the longest in the chart’s 35-year history, surpassing the 13 years and six months that The Killers waited between “When You Were Young” in October 2006 and “Caution” in April 2020.
In between “Fat Lip” and “Landmines,” the Deryck Whibley-fronted Sum 41 charted nine Alternative Airplay titles, paced by the No. 7-peaking “Still Waiting” in 2003, with a pair of additional top 10s in “In Too Deep” (No. 10, 2001) and “We’re All to Blame” (No. 10, 2004). Upon its debut in October, “Landmines” marked Sum 41’s first appearance since “Screaming Bloody Murder,” which reached No. 37 in 2011.
“Landmines” takes over No. 1 on Alternative Airplay from Blink-182‘s “One More Time,” which sported a 20-week run atop the chart, tying it with Portugal. The Man‘s “Feel It Still” for the most weeks at No. 1 in the chart’s history.
Concurrently, “Landmines” lifts 40-37 in its second week on Mainstream Rock Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, it rises 6-5 with 4.8 million audience impressions, up 11%, Feb. 23-29, according to Luminate. It’s Sum 41’s top-performing song on the ranking, which began in 2009, having surpassed the No. 46 showing for “Out for Blood” in 2019.
“Landmines” is the lead single from Heaven :x: Hell, Sum 41’s eighth studio album and first since 2019’s Order in Decline, due March 29. It’s billed as the band’s final release, as the group, which formed in Ontario in 1996, plans to disband following a final tour supporting the LP.
All Billboard charts dated March 9 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, March 5.
