The Funeral Portrait Earns First No. 1 With ‘Suffocate City’

The Funeral Portrait ranks at No. 1 on a Billboard chart for the first time, as “Suffocate City,” featuring Ice Nine Kills’ Spencer Charnas, tops the Mainstream Rock Airplay tally dated Nov. 16.

Rising a spot to No. 1, “Suffocate City” is the Atlanta-based band’s first entry on any Billboard chart. The act is the third to notch a first ruler on the ranking as a lead act in 2024, following Wage War with “Magnetic” in August and Daughtry with “Artificial” in February.

As for acts ruling with maiden-charting songs in a lead role on Mainstream Rock Airplay, The Funeral Portrait is the first since Jelly Roll led with “Dead Man Walking” in May 2022. As Jelly Roll had made songs-based Billboard charts before then, The Funeral Portrait is the first act to lead with a first charted track on any ranking since Nita Strauss, whose “Dead Inside,” alongside David Draiman, topped Mainstream Rock Airplay in January 2022.

As for Charnas, the frontman of Ice Nine Kills, “Suffocate City” is his first leader on any chart, too. As a soloist, he reached No. 16 on Mainstream Rock Airplay in February 2023 as featured on Fame on Fire’s “Welcome to the Chaos.” Ice Nine Kills’ Mainstream Rock Airplay best is “A Grave Mistake,” which hit No. 9 in 2019.

Concurrently, “Suffocate City” bullets at No. 12 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, after reaching No. 11 a week earlier. It earned 2.5 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 7, up 6%, according to Luminate.

On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs chart (dated Nov. 9, reflecting data in the week ending Oct. 31), “Suffocate City” hit a new No. 17 high. In addition to its radio airplay, it drew 156,000 official U.S. streams.

“Suffocate City” is the lead single from Greetings From Suffocate City, which was released on Sept. 13 and has earned 12,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated Nov. 16 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Nov. 12.