US Alternative Songs chart
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The US Alternative Songs chart is a Billboard music ranking that tracks the most-played songs on American alternative rock radio stations.
All labels observed (5)
| Label | Occurrences |
|---|---|
| Billboard Alternative Songs | 5 |
| Alternative Songs | 2 |
| US Alternative Songs chart canonical | 2 |
| Billboard Alternative Songs chart | 1 |
| Billboard alternative songs charts | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T524114 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
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Target entity: US Alternative Songs chart Context triple: [Testify, chartPosition, US Alternative Songs chart]
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A.
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
The U.S. Billboard Hot 100 is the premier American music industry chart that ranks the most popular songs each week based on a combination of sales, radio airplay, and streaming data.
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B.
Billboard 200
Billboard 200 is a weekly U.S. music industry chart that ranks the most popular albums across all genres based on sales, streaming, and other consumption metrics.
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C.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
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D.
Billboard
Billboard is an American entertainment media brand best known for its music charts, industry news, and analysis of trends in the recording industry.
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E.
Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes
Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes was a historical U.S. music industry chart that ranked the songs most frequently played on jukeboxes nationwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: US Alternative Songs chart Target entity description: The US Alternative Songs chart is a Billboard music ranking that tracks the most-played songs on American alternative rock radio stations.
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A.
U.S. Billboard Hot 100
The U.S. Billboard Hot 100 is the premier American music industry chart that ranks the most popular songs each week based on a combination of sales, radio airplay, and streaming data.
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B.
Billboard 200
Billboard 200 is a weekly U.S. music industry chart that ranks the most popular albums across all genres based on sales, streaming, and other consumption metrics.
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C.
Nielsen SoundScan
Nielsen SoundScan is a music sales tracking system that monitors and reports physical and digital music purchases in the United States and Canada for industry charts and analysis.
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D.
Billboard
Billboard is an American entertainment media brand best known for its music charts, industry news, and analysis of trends in the recording industry.
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E.
Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes
Billboard Most Played in Jukeboxes was a historical U.S. music industry chart that ranked the songs most frequently played on jukeboxes nationwide.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Billboard chart
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music industry record chart ⓘ record chart ⓘ |
| alsoKnownAs |
Alternative Airplay
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surface form:
Alternative Airplay chart
US Alternative Songs chart ⓘ
surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs
|
| chartType | airplay chart ⓘ |
| compiledBy | Billboard ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
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surface form:
United States
|
| countryScope | national ⓘ |
| currentName | Alternative Airplay ⓘ |
| dataSource | American alternative rock radio stations ⓘ |
| excludes | non-alternative radio formats ⓘ |
| firstIssueDate | 1988-09-10 ⓘ |
| focusesOn | alternative radio programmers and labels ⓘ |
| formerName |
US Alternative Songs chart
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Alternative Songs
Modern Rock Tracks ⓘ |
| frequencyOfPublication | weekly ⓘ |
| genreTracked |
alternative rock
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modern rock ⓘ |
| hasDigitalVersion |
Billboard
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surface form:
Billboard.com
|
| hasGeographicFocus | United States alternative rock radio market ⓘ |
| hasSection | weekly top 40 songs ⓘ |
| inception | 1988 ⓘ |
| industryRole | indicator of success on US alternative rock radio ⓘ |
| isPublishedIn |
Billboard
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surface form:
Billboard magazine
|
| language | English ⓘ |
| measures | most-played songs on US alternative rock radio ⓘ |
| medium | radio ⓘ |
| operator | Billboard ⓘ |
| organizationHeadquarters | New York City ⓘ |
| partOf |
Billboard Modern Rock Tracks
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surface form:
Billboard airplay charts
Billboard ⓘ
surface form:
Billboard genre charts
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| primaryMetric |
audience impressions
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number of plays ⓘ |
| publisher | Billboard ⓘ |
| rankingCriterion |
number of spins on reporting stations
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radio airplay ⓘ |
| rankingUnit | songs ⓘ |
| startYear | 1988 ⓘ |
| subjectArea | alternative rock music in the United States ⓘ |
| targetFormat | alternative rock radio format ⓘ |
| tracks | radio singles ⓘ |
| usedBy |
music journalists
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radio programmers ⓘ record labels ⓘ |
| usesMonitoringService |
Luminate
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surface form:
Luminate Data
Nielsen Company ⓘ
surface form:
Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems
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How these facts were elicited
The pipeline generated the facts above by prompting gpt-5.1 with this entity's name + description and the instruction below.
Instruction
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Input
Subject: US Alternative Songs chart Description of subject: The US Alternative Songs chart is a Billboard music ranking that tracks the most-played songs on American alternative rock radio stations.
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Alternative Songs
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs
this entity surface form:
Billboard alternative songs charts
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs
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Alternative Songs
Feel Good Drag reached number 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart
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chart
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US Alternative Songs chart
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subject surface form:
Feel Good Drag
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs
Feel Good Drag reached number 1 on the Billboard Alternative Songs chart
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achievedNumberOneOn
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US Alternative Songs chart
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subject surface form:
Feel Good Drag
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs chart
this entity surface form:
Billboard Alternative Songs