Wage War Lands Its First No. 1 Song With ‘Magnetic’

Wage War triumphs with its first No. 1 song on a Billboard chart via “Magnetic,” which lifts to the top of the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey dated Aug. 24.

“Magnetic” previously became the Florida rockers’ first top 10 song, exceeding the No. 13 peak of “Circle the Drain” on Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2022.

The band has made one other Mainstream Rock Airplay appearance, as “Godspeed” reached No. 32 in 2022.

Wage War is the first act to snag a maiden No. 1 on Mainstream Rock Airplay as a lead artist since Beartooth, whose “Might Love Myself” reigned for a week last November. Since then, DMX also led for the first time as a posthumous featured artist on Five Finger Death Punch’s “This Is the Way,” for two weeks in June.

Concurrently, “Magnetic” leaps to the top 10 (11-8) on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 2.7 million audience impressions (up 10%) in the week ending Aug. 15, according to Luminate. Wage War logged its previous highest-charting entry on the list with “Circle the Drain” (No. 35).

On the most recently published multimetric Hot Hard Rock Songs tally (dated Aug. 17, reflecting data Aug. 2-8), “Magnetic” placed at No. 11; it debuted at its No. 10 best in April. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 355,000 official U.S. streams.

“Magnetic” is the lead single from Stigma, Wage War’s fifth studio album, released June 21. The set has earned 20,000 equivalent album units to date.

All Billboard charts dated Aug. 24 will update on Billboard.com Tuesday, Aug. 20.