Bad Omens Earns Its Fastest Rise to No. 1 With ‘Specter’

Bad Omens implicit their quickest travel to No. 1 connected Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, topping the Oct. 18-dated survey with “Specter,” which rises 2 spots to go the band’s 2nd leader.

“Specter” rules the tally successful its eighth week, acold surpassing the 27 frames it took the band’s erstwhile leader, “Just Pretend,” to reign successful 2023. (That 27-week tally to No. 1 remains the sixth-longest successful the Mainstream Rock Airplay chart’s 44-year history.)

In betwixt “Just Pretend” and “Specter,” Bad Omens reached Mainstream Rock Airplay twice, peaking astatine No. 2 successful 2023 with “The Death of Peace of Mind” and No. 9 successful 2024 with its Poppy collaboration “V.A.N.”

The Richmond, Va., set archetypal appeared connected Mainstream Rock Airplay successful 2020 with “Limits,” which reached No. 19, and initially reached the apical 10 successful 2022 with the No. 10-peaking “Like a Villain.”

Concurrently, “Specter” climbs 19-15 on Alternative Airplay. On the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, the opus bullets astatine its No. 3 champion with 4.1 cardinal assemblage impressions successful the week ending Oct. 9, up 10%, according to Luminate. The second is Bad Omens’ best, topping the No. 4 highest of “Just Pretend.”

“Specter” ranked astatine No. 2 connected the astir precocious published, multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs database (dated Oct. 11, reflecting information accumulated Sept. 26-Oct. 2), aft spending 2 weeks astatine No. 1. In summation to its vigor airplay, the opus earned 1.7 cardinal authoritative U.S. streams and sold 1,000 successful that span.

Bad Omens released their astir caller due workplace album, The Death of Peace of Mind, successful 2022, followed by 2024’s Concrete Jungle (a guest-heavy companion to the graphic caller Bad Omens – Concrete Jungle, Volume 1) and chap caller way “Impose” past month. A caller medium has not yet been announced.

All Billboard charts dated Oct. 18 volition update connected Billboard.com Tuesday, Oct. 14.