Its persistence rewarded after more than two decades of appearances on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, Black Label Society has its first top 10 — and it’s a record breaker.
The Zakk Wylde-led band rises to No. 9 on the June 6-dated survey with “Name in Blood.”
Black Label Society first hit Mainstream Rock Airplay with “Stillborn,” which peaked at No. 12 in 2003. Prior to “Name in Blood,” “Stillborn” stood as the band’s top-peaking song on the chart; the group has 14 career entries, including three top 20s.
The band’s wait of 23 years, one month and three weeks between its first appearance and first top 10 is the lengthiest for any act in the chart’s 45-year history. It passes the anticipation felt by Killswitch Engage, which went 20 years, eight months and two weeks between “The End of Heartache” in 2004 and maiden top 10 “Believe” last year.
While Black Label Society notches its first top 10 on the tally, frontman Wylde previously reached the region as featured on My Darkest Days’ “Porn Star Dancing” (No. 1 for two weeks in 2010). His guitar playing has appeared in the top 10 via his role as lead guitarist for Ozzy Osbourne from the late legend’s 1988 album No Rest for the Wicked through 2022’s Patient Number 9.
Black Label Society had one previous top 10 on a Billboard airplay chart: “Stillborn” peaked at No. 3 on the since-discontinued Heritage Rock Airplay in 2003.
Concurrently, “Name in Blood” rises 37-31 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.2 million audience impressions in the week ending May 28, according to Luminate.
The song is the lead single from Engines of Demolition, Black Label Society’s 12th studio album. The set bowed at No. 1 on the Top Hard Rock Albums chart dated April 11 and has earned 51,000 equivalent album units to date.
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