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The Black Keys Top Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘Beautiful People’

The song previously led Adult Alternative Airplay.

The Black Keys Top Alternative Airplay Chart With ‘Beautiful People’

The Black Keys snag their seventh No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart via “Beautiful People (Stay High),” which rises to the top of the March 23-dated tally.

The song becomes the duo’s first ruler since “Wild Child” led for two weeks in May 2022. The act first reached No. 1 with “Tighten Up,” a 10-week topper beginning in November 2010.


Concurrently, “Beautiful People” ranks at No. 2 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart, descending after a five-week command. It also remains at its No. 22 high on Mainstream Rock Airplay.

On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, the tune places at its No. 3 best for a seventh straight week, with 5.7 million audience impressions, up 4%, March 8-14, according to Luminate.

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The most recently published multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs list (dated March 16) found “Beautiful People” ranked at No. 49. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 436,000 official U.S. streams March 1-7.

“Beautiful People” is the lead single from Ohio Players, The Black Keys’ 12th studio album, due April 5 via Easy Eye Sound/Nonesuch/Warner Records. The LP’s predecessor, Dropout Boogie, debuted at its No. 2 peak on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in May 2022. It has earned 149,000 equivalent album units to date. On the Billboard 200, the set launched at its No. 8 best, marking the act’s sixth top 10. The Black Keys led the all-genre chart with Turn Blue in May 2014.

All Billboard charts dated March 23 will update on Billboard.com on Tuesday (March 19).

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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EMPIRE's Tina Davis (left) and Girl Connected's Lola Plaku at Conversations with the Pros at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto on March 28, 2025.
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EMPIRE's Tina Davis (left) and Girl Connected's Lola Plaku at Conversations with the Pros at Toronto Metropolitan University in Toronto on March 28, 2025.

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