Green Day Earns Ninth Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1 With ‘Dilemma’
Written by Kevin Rutherford on April 19, 2024
Green Day’s “Dilemma” lifts to No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart dated April 27, marking the trio’s ninth leader and second in a row.
The Billie Joe Armstrong-led trio first led Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Boulevard of Broken Dreams” in 2005 and had last topped the list with “The American Dream Is Killing Me” for eight weeks beginning last November.
“Dilemma” makes it three straight albums for Green Day topping Mainstream Rock Airplay with each set’s first two singles. “Bang Bang” and “Still Breathing” from 2016’s Revolution Radio started the current streak, followed by “Father of All…” and “Oh Yeah!” from 2020’s Father of All…, while “The American Dream Is Killing Me” and “Dilemma” are via Saviors, released in February.
Concurrently, “Dilemma” dominates the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for a fourth week, racking up 7.9 million audience impressions April 12-18, up 4%, according to Luminate.
The song also ranks at its No. 2 high for a second week on Alternative Airplay; Green Day has so far notched 12 No. 1s on the chart.
Saviors, Green Day’s 14th studio album, debuted at No. 1 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart dated Feb. 3 and has earned 106,000 equivalent album units to date.
“It definitely deals with mental health and addiction,” Armstrong told People about “Dilemma” earlier this year. “When I say, ‘I was sober, now I’m drunk again,’ that could be looked at two different ways. It could be someone going, ‘F-k, yeah. I was sober, now I’m drunk again,’ at a party, or it could be someone that’s fallen. That’s what it means to me, anyway.”
All Billboard charts dated April 27 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday, April 23.
