Panic! At the Disco Scores Third Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘Viva Las Vengeance’
The act reigns with the title-track lead single from its forthcoming album.
Panic! at the Disco returns to No. 1 on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay chart, as “Viva Las Vengeance” rises to the top of the July 9-dated survey.
The song is the Brendon Urie-fronted outfit’s third No. 1 on the survey. The band first ruled with “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” for two weeks in June-July 2018, followed by a 16-week reign for “High Hopes” beginning that November.
In between “Hopes” and “Vengeance,” the band reached No. 6 with “Hey Look Ma, I Made It” in July 2019.
Panic! at the Disco first reached Alternative Airplay in 2006 with the No. 5-peaking “The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide Is Press Coverage.” As of “Vengeance,” the band boasts 14 chart entries, seven of which have hit the top 10.
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“Vengeance” reaches No. 1 in its fifth week on the ranking, the quickest climb to the top in over a year. In May 2021, Twenty One Pilots‘ “Shy Away” surged to the summit in its third frame.
Concurrently, “Vengeance” ranks at No. 11 on Rock & Alternative Airplay, after reaching No. 10 in June, with 2.4 million audience impressions in the June 24-30 tracking week, according to Luminate.
The track also reached No. 14 on the multi-metric Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart in June; it currently ranks at No. 36. In addition to its radio airplay, “Vengeance” earned 820,000 official U.S. streams in the latest tracking week.
“Vengeance” is the title-track lead single from Panic! At the Disco’s seventh studio set, due Aug. 19. It’s the follow-up to Pray for the Wicked, which debuted as the act’s second No. 1 on the Billboard 200 in July 2018.