Sombr supplants himself at No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Rock & Alternative Songs chart, rising to the top of the Oct. 18-dated list with “Back to Friends.”
The second leader on the list for the 20-year-old New York native (born Shane Boose) assumes the top spot from his own “Undressed,” which ruled for six weeks and falls to No. 3 on the latest ranking.
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In the week ending Oct. 9, “Back to Friends” drew 11.8 million official U.S. streams and 14.5 million radio audience impressions and sold 1,000, according to Luminate.
Sombr is also the first act to replace itself at No. 1 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs since Panic! at the Disco, which traded off between “High Hopes” and “Hey Look Ma, I Made It,” first on the July 6, 2019, chart and again that Sept. 21. He is the first soloist to achieve the feat.
The last two weeks have featured three sombr songs in the chart’s top five; “12 to 12” concurrently spends its second week at its No. 5 high.
“Back to Friends” also takes over at No. 1 on the Hot Rock Songs and Hot Alternative Songs charts. “Undressed” ruled the latter for the last six weeks and the former for the preceding nine.
“Back to Friends” continues making pop radio gains, reaching new highs of No. 18 on Adult Pop Airplay and No. 21 on Pop Airplay. It dominated Alternative Airplay for five weeks beginning in June. “Undressed” hit No. 4 on both pop tallies in August-September and No. 29 on Alternative Airplay in August. “12 to 12” jumps to a new No. 24 best on the latest Alternative Airplay chart.
All three songs, which sombr solely wrote, are on I Barely Know Her, his debut full-length. The set led Top Rock & Alternative Albums for two weeks (Sept. 13, 20) and has earned 517,000 equivalent album units to date.
