Twenty One Pilots’ ‘The Line,’ From Netflix’s ‘Arcane,’ Tops Alternative Airplay Chart

Twenty One Pilots lead Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for the first time in three years, reigning on the Feb. 15-dated list via the 2-1 rise of “The Line.”

The song marks the duo’s 11th No. 1 and first since “The Outside” ruled for three weeks beginning in January 2022.

Since then, the band had notched three chart entries, including two No. 2-peaking tracks in “Overcompensate” and “The Craving” in 2024.

With 11 rulers, Twenty One Pilots, who first led with “Stressed Out” in 2015, rank as the act with the sixth-most No. 1s since Alternative Airplay began in 1988.

Most No. 1s, Alternative Airplay:
15, Red Hot Chili Peppers
13, Green Day
13, Linkin Park
12, Cage the Elephant
12, Foo Fighters
11, Twenty One Pilots
8, U2
8, Weezer
7, The Black Keys
7, Imagine Dragons

Of the band’s 11 No. 1s, two have now come from soundtracks to TV or film. “The Line” is featured on the soundtrack to Netflix’s Arcane, which premiered its second and final season in November, while “Heathens” was heard in the 2016 movie Suicide Squad.

Concurrently, “The Line” ranks at No. 17 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.4 million audience impressions in the week ending Feb. 6, according to Luminate. It reached a No. 14 high in December.

The song appeared at No. 28 on the most recently published multimetric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs tally (dated Feb . 8, reflecting data accumulated Jan. 24-30); it hit No. 13 in December. In addition to its radio airplay, “The Line” earned 2 million official U.S. streams in that span.

The soundtrack to Arcane’s second season peaked at No. 24 on the Billboard 200 in December and has earned 220,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated Feb. 15 will update Tuesday, Feb. 11, on Billboard.com.