Adult Alternative Airplay Adult Alternative Airplay (also known as Triple A or Triple A Airplay, and formerly Adult Alternative Songs and Triple A Songs) is a record chart currently published by '' Billboard'' that ranks the most popular songs on adult album alternative ra ...

, also known as Triple A, is a

record chart A record chart, in the music industry, also called a music chart, is a ranking of recorded music according to certain criteria during a given period. Many different criteria are used in worldwide charts, often in combination. These include re ...

that ranks the most-played songs on American

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radio stations. Formulated based on each song's weekly total plays, the chart was introduced in the January 20, 1996 issue of '' Radio & Records'' magazine. Adult Alternative Songs, along with other ''Radio & Records'' airplay charts, was initially compiled using radio airplay data from

Mediabase Mediabase is a music industry service that monitors radio station airplay in 180 US and Canadian markets. Mediabase publishes music charts and data based on the most played songs on terrestrial and satellite radio, and provides in-depth analytic ...

. In August 2006, ''Radio & Records'' was acquired by

The Nielsen Company Nielsen Holdings plc is an American information, data and market measurement firm. Nielsen operates in over 100 countries and employs approximately 44,000 people worldwide. The company was listed on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) and use ...

– then known as VNU Media – parent company of rival publication '' Billboard''. Following the purchase,

Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems Broadcast Data Systems (also known as BDS or Luminate BDS), is a service that tracks radio, television and internet airplay of songs. The service, which is a unit of MRC Data, is a contributing factor to North American charts published by co-owned ...

replaced Mediabase in monitoring airplay for charts, beginning with the issue dated August 11, 2006. ''Billboard'' themselves introduced the chart in their July 5, 2008 issue, appropriating the same Nielsen data, and became its sole publisher after ''Radio & Records'' ceased publication in June 2009. The ''Billboard'' website currently lists Adult Alternative Songs charts dating back to January 1996. These charts are based on data from a Triple A chart that had previously been published in the Billboard-owned ''Airplay Monitor'' magazine from that date until the acquisition of ''Radio & Records'', and which had used Nielsen data that was largely similar to the Mediabase data used in the ''Radio & Records'' chart. On the ''Billboard'' Adult Alternative Songs decade-end chart, "

Use Somebody "Use Somebody" is a song recorded by the American rock group Kings of Leon. It was the second single from the band's fourth studio album '' Only by the Night'' (2008), released on December 8, 2008. The single received heavy airplay in Scandinavi ...

" by American rock band

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, which originally topped the chart for two weeks in 2009, ranked as the overall top single of the 2000s. The decade-end top artist was English alternative rock band

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, who scored eight number-one adult alternative singles during the 2000s.

Number-one singles

;Key : – ''Billboard'' year-end number-one single : – ''Billboard'' decade-end number-one single :↑ – Return of a single to number one

References

External links

Adult Alternative Songs
at '' Billboard'' {{DEFAULTSORT:Billboard number-one adult alternative singles of the 2000s

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United States adult alternative singles