Adrian Quesada & His Black Pumas Earn Second No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay Chart with “More Than a Love Song”

Adrian Quesada is back at the top of the charts…

More than three years after their first No. 1, the Grammy-winning Latino guitarist/producer and his fellow Black Pumas band mate Eric Burton return to the top of Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart with “More Than a Love Song,” which tops the list dated September 30.

Adrian Quesada, Black PumasThe track crowns the chart following a 15% swell in plays that made the song the most-played title on U.S. monitored adult alternative airplay (triple A) stations in the week ending September 21, according to Luminate.

With “More Than a Love Song,” Black Pumas achieve a second No. 1 on Adult Alternative Airplay, after “Colors” ruled for one week in 2020.

Unlike the first champ, which needed 18 weeks to arrive at the top slot, “More than a Love Song” sprints to the summit in just four frames.

The tear is the fastest run to No. 1 by any song on the list in more than a year, since Death Cab for Cutie’s “Here to Forever” wrapped its four-week journey in August 2022.

Elsewhere, “More than a Love Song” holds at its No. 29 high on the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart for a third straight week.

Despite no movement in rank, the track picked up a 1% gain to 1.4 million in audience in the latest tracking week.

“More than a Love Song” is the lead single from Black Pumas’ forthcoming studio album, Chronicles of a Diamond.

The set, expected October 27 through ATO Records, is the follow-up to the act’s 2019 self-titled effort; that project’s deluxe edition was nominated for a Grammy Award for album of the year.

Giovannie & the Hired Guns Earns First No. 1 on a Billboard chart with “Ramon Ayala” Single

Giovannie Yanez and his band mates are celebrating a massive first…

The Latino vocalist and acoustic guitarist and his Giovannie & the Hired Guns band mates have scored their first No. 1 on a Billboard chart, as “Ramon Ayala” rises from No. 3 to the top of the Rock & Alternative Airplay chart dated July 23.

Giovannie & the Hired GunsThe song earned 4.8 million audience impressions, a 14% boost, in the week ending July 17, according to Luminate. The song ascends to No. 1 in its 20th week on the chart.

Giovannie & the Hired Guns is the second act to notch a first No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay in 2022, after Jack White led with “Taking Me Back” in February.

Giovannie & the Hired Guns are the first such act to rule with a first charted title this year; White accumulated seven solo appearances before “Back.”

“Ramon Ayala” is Giovannie & the Hired Guns’ first Billboard chart entry as well, making the band the first act to send a first charted title to No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay since lovelytheband led with “Broken” for nine weeks beginning in June 2018.

Concurrently, “Ramon Ayala” jumps 4-2 on Mainstream Rock Airplay (led at the format by 45 plays in the tracking week on KKBA Corpus Christi, Texas) and 10-7 on Alternative Airplay (paced by an overall-best 73 plays on WPOI-HD2 Tampa, Fla.), both new best ranks for the song.

On the multi-metric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, “Ramon Ayala” bullets at No. 6 (after reaching No. 3 earlier in July) with 568,000 official U.S. streams in addition to its radio airplay. The song also ranks at No. 40 on Hot Rock & Alternative Songs, after reaching No. 37.

“Ramon Ayala” is slated to appear on Giovannie & the Hired Guns’ forthcoming LP Tejano Punk Boys. 

In addition to Yanez, the band is also comprised of Chance Bannister (lead guitar), Adam Urbanczyk (rhythm, lead guitar), Alex Trejo (bass guitar), and Milton Toles (drums).