List of artists who reached number one on the U.S. Modern Rock chart

This is a list of recording artists who have reached number one on "Billboard magazine's" Modern Rock Tracks chart. "Billboard" began ranking alternative rock music on the week ending September 10 1988 and this is the standard music popularity chart in the United States for play on modern rock radio.

*All acts are listed alphabetically.
*Solo artists are alphabetized by last name, Groups by group name excluding "A," "An" and "The."
*Each act's total of number-one U.S. modern rock hits is shown after their name.
*All artists who are mentioned in song credits are listed here; this includes one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and those appearing as "featured".
*Artists associated with a group who reached number one, yet have their own solo page in Wikipedia are "not" listed here, unless they hit number one as a solo artist.

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A

*AFI (1)
*Alien Ant Farm (1)
*Tori Amos (1)
*Audioslave (2)

B

*The B-52's (3)
*Barenaked Ladies (1)
*Beastie Boys (1)
*Beck (2)
*Belly (1)
*Better Than Ezra (1)
*Big Audio Dynamite/Big Audio Dynamite II (2)
*Blind Melon (1)
*Blink-182 (2)
*Tracy Bonham (1)
*Bush (4)
*Kate Bush (1)
*Butthole Surfers (1)

C

*Cake (1)
*Camper Van Beethoven (1)
*The Charlatans (1)
*Chevelle (1)
*Chumbawamba (1)
*The Church (1)
*Coldplay (1)
*Concrete Blonde (1)
*Julian Cope (1)
*Elvis Costello (2)
*Counting Crows (1)
*Cracker (1)
*The Cranberries (2)
*Crash Test Dummies (1)
*Crazy Town (1)
*Creed (1)
*The Cure (4)

D

*David J (1)
*Depeche Mode (4)
*Dishwalla (1)

E

*Eels (1)
*Electronic (1)
*Evanescence (1)
*Eve 6 (1)
*Everclear (1)
*Everlast (1)

F

*Faith No More (1)
*Fastball (1)
*Finger Eleven (1)
*Foo Fighters (7)
*Fuel (1)

G

*Peter Gabriel (2)
*Garbage (1)
*Gene Loves Jezebel (1)
*Gin Blossoms (1)
*Goo Goo Dolls (3)
*Gorillaz (1)
*Green Day (8)

H

*Happy Mondays (1)
*The Juliana Hatfield 3 (1)
*Robyn Hitchcock (1)
*Hole (1)
*Hoobastank (1)
*Hoodoo Gurus (1)

I

*Incubus (3)
*INXS (1)

J

*Jane's Addiction (3)
*The Jesus and Mary Chain (1)
*Jesus Jones (2)
*Jet (1)
*Jimmy Eat World (2)

K

*The Killers (1)
*Lenny Kravitz (1)
*Chad Kroeger (1)

L

*The Lemonheads (1)
*Lifehouse (1)
*Limp Bizkit (1)
*Linkin Park (7)
*Lit (1)
*Live (3)
*Lostprophets (1)
*Love and Rockets (1)

M

*Marcy Playground (1)
*Matchbox Twenty (1)
*Paul McCoy (1)
*Ian McCulloch (1)
*Midnight Oil (2)
*The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (1)
*Modest Mouse (1)
*Alanis Morissette (3)
*Morrissey (2)
*Peter Murphy (1)
*My Chemical Romance (1)

N

*Ned's Atomic Dustbin (1)
*New Order (1)
*Nickelback (1)
*Nine Inch Nails (4)
*Nirvana (5)

O

*Oasis (2)
*Sinéad O'Connor (2)
*The Offspring (3)

P

*Papa Roach (1)
*Pearl Jam (3)
*A Perfect Circle (1)
*P.O.D. (1)
*Porno for Pyros (1)
*The Presidents of the United States of America (1)
*Primitive Radio Gods (1)
*Psychedelic Furs (3)
*Public Image Ltd. (1)
*Puddle of Mudd (2)

Q

*Queens of the Stone Age (1)

R

*The Raconteurs (1)
*The Railway Children (1)
*Red Hot Chili Peppers (11)
*Lou Reed (2)
*R.E.M. (6)
*The Replacements (2)

*Saliva (1)
*Josey Scott (1)
*Seether (2)
*Semisonic (1)
*Silverchair (1)
*Simple Minds (1)
*Siouxsie and the Banshees (2)
*The Sisters of Mercy (1)
*Smash Mouth (1)
*The Smashing Pumpkins (1)
*Soul Asylum (2)
*Staind (3)
*Sting (1)
*Sublime (1)
*Sugar Ray (2)
*The Sugarcubes (1)
*Sum 41 (1)
*System of a Down (2)

T

*Talking Heads (1)
*Tears for Fears (2)
*10 Years (1)
*10,000 Maniacs (1)
*Third Eye Blind (1)
*30 Seconds to Mars (1)
*Three Days Grace (3)
*3 Doors Down (1)
*311 (2)
*Toad the Wet Sprocket (1)
*Trapt (1)

U

*U2 (8)
*Unwritten Law (1)

V

*Suzanne Vega (1)
*Velvet Revolver (1)
*The Verve Pipe (1)

W

*The Wallflowers (1)
*Weezer (3)
*The White Stripes (2)
*World Party (1)

X

*XTC (2)

Y

Z

ource

*Information obtained for this list is found within "Billboard's" [http://www.billboard.biz online archive services] and print editions of the magazine.

See also

*List of number-one modern rock hits (United States)