List of Billboard number-one adult alternative singles of the 2000s
, also known as Triple A, is a record chart that ranks the most-played songs on American adult album alternative radio stations. Formulated based on each song's weekly total plays, the chart was introduced in the January 20, 1996 issue of Radio & Records magazine. Adult Alternative Songs, along with other Radio & Records airplay charts, was initially compiled using radio airplay data from Mediabase. In August 2006, Radio & Records was acquired by The Nielsen Company – then known as VNU Media – parent company of rival publication Billboard. Following the purchase, Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems replaced Mediabase in monitoring airplay for charts, beginning with the issue dated August 11, [|2006]. Billboard themselves introduced the chart in their July 5, [|2008] issue, appropriating the same Nielsen data, and became its sole publisher after Radio & Records ceased publication in June 2009.
The Billboard website currently lists Adult Alternative Songs charts dating back to January 1996. These charts are based on data from a Triple A chart that had previously been published in the Billboard-owned Airplay Monitor magazine from that date until the acquisition of Radio & Records, and which had used Nielsen data that was largely similar to the Mediabase data used in the Radio & Records chart.
On the Billboard Adult Alternative Songs decade-end chart, "Use Somebody" by American rock band Kings of Leon, which originally topped the chart for two weeks in [|2009], ranked as the overall top single of the 2000s. The decade-end top artist was English alternative rock band Coldplay, who scored eight number-one adult alternative singles during the 2000s.
Number-one singles
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