Save the Eye Roll, Rock Is Really Back — And All Over the Charts
Categoria: Musica
Newcomers like Temper City, Dexter and the Moonrocks and Malcolm Todd sprinkled the Billboard Hot 100 as Jack White, The Strokes and Geese drew major festival crowds this April.
Por Billboard | 08/05/2026
On the Billboard Hot 100 dated April 11, a handful of rock acts launched their debut entries on the chart. Israeli trio Temper City entered at No. 91 with “Self Aware,” a bluesy alt-rock lament going viral for its evocation of 2010s rock hit-makers like The Neighbourhood and Cage the Elephant. Dormant U.K. alt-rockers The Long Faces came in at No. 74 with the pop hooks and blistering six-strings of “Jane!,” a 2018 single revived through memes surrounding the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen . And most improbably, Scottish progressive pop-rock singer-songwriter Chris Rainbow — who died in 2015 — posthumously joined them at No. 94 with 1979’s “Be Like a Woman,” a long-growing trend-soundtracker on TikTok. All three acts came from different eras, with different sounds and different paths to virality. They only had two things in common: They were all rock songs, and they were now all hits in 2026. Related Noah Kahan Charts All 21 Songs From ‘The Great Divide’ on Hot 100, Tops Artist 100 for First Time Foo Fighters Land Eighth Top Hard Rock Albums No. 1 With ‘Your Favorite Toy’ Charli xcx Shares ‘Rock Music’ Song Teaser, Says She’s Not Making a Rock Album They weren’t the only three acts in the genre on that week’s Hot 100, either. Also hitting new peaks were U.K. rock poet Sam Fender (“Rein Me In” with Olivia Dean, No. 64), singer-songwriter Julia Wolf (“In My Room,” No. 57), self-described “y’allternative” group Dexter and The Moonrocks (“Freakin’ Out,” No. 51), alt-leaning Malcolm Todd (“Earrings,” No. 42) and even veteran indie rock outfit Tame Impala (“Dracula” with Jennie, No. 17). Meanwhile, genre-blending but rock-based artists like Dominic Fike (“Babydoll,” No. 16; “White Keys,” No. 34) and sombr (“Homewrecker,” No. 22) also staked out real estate in the top 40. And this week, Noah Kahan lands his first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with folk-rock album The Great Divide , which also places all 21 of its songs on the Hot 100. All in all, the wave of rock and rock-adjacent hits represents the healthiest time for the genre outside its core fans in at least a decade. By the turn of the 2020s, rock had essentially become a fringe genre in the mainstream, with only the very biggest rock artists making a chart impact and the guitar practically an endangered species on top 40 radio and in other pop spaces. But now, rock acts are becoming some of the most exciting and quickest-rising artists in music, and shifting the center of pop in the process. At this year’s Coachella, not only did acts like sombr and Turnstile draw huge crowds at outdoor stages, but legacy acts like The Strokes and Jack White also delivered some of the buzziest sets of the weekend, as did indie standouts like Ethel Cain and Geese (whose frontman, Cameron Winter, was spotted with megastar Olivia Rodrigo between weekends). Even festival headliners Justin Bi