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Three Days Grace Scores 18th Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1 With ‘Mayday’

The song is the Canadian band's first leader with vocalist Adam Gontier in over a decade and puts them within one spot of the all-time No. 11 record.

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Matt Barnes

Three Days Grace notches its 18th No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart – and its first featuring vocals from original frontman Adam Gontier since “Misery Loves My Company” in 2013 – as “Mayday” lifts two spots to the top of the Jan. 11-dated tally.

The band moves to within one spot of the all-time No. 1 record on Mainstream Rock Airplay, which began in 1981, behind only Shinedown’s 19 leaders.


Most No. 1s, Mainstream Rock Airplay:

  • 19, Shinedown
  • 18, Three Days Grace
  • 15, Five Finger Death Punch
  • 14, Foo Fighters
  • 14, Metallica
  • 13, Godsmack
  • 13, Van Halen
  • 12, Disturbed
  • 11, Linkin Park

Of Three Days Grace’s 18 Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1s, 11 have been with Gontier, the group’s original lead singer, beginning with “Just Like You” in 2004. Following his departure in 2013, succeeding frontman Matt Walst racked up six rulers as the band’s sole vocalist, starting in 2014 with “Painkiller.”

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“Mayday” is the first single since Gontier rejoined the band, with the singers trading vocals.

Meanwhile, “Mayday” rules in its sixth week on Mainstream Rock Airplay, completing Three Days Grace’s swiftest rise to No. 1 since “Chalk Outline” wrapped a four-week sprint in 2012.

Concurrently, “Mayday” ascends 37-36 on Alternative Airplay, marking the band’s highest charted entry since “The High Road,” which peaked at No. 24 in 2013. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, “Mayday” leaps 6-2 with 3.9 million audience impressions, up 6%, in the week ending Jan. 2, according to Luminate. That’s the band’s highest spot in the standings since “The Good Life” was No. 1 for six weeks in 2010.

On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs list (dated Jan. 4, reflecting data tracked Dec. 20-26, 2024), “Mayday” ranked at No. 4, after debuting at its No. 2 best on the Dec. 7-dated survey. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 871,000 official U.S. streams.

“Mayday” is currently a standalone single, with Three Days Grace recording its eighth studio album and first since 2022’s Explosions. The new set will mark Gontier’s first with the band since 2012’s Transit of Venus.

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All Billboard charts dated Jan. 11 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Jan. 7.

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.

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