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Michael Kiwanuka Collects First Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1 With ‘Floating Parade’


Michael Kiwanuka's "Floating Parade" rises to No. 1 on the Adult Alternative Airplay chart.

After 12 years of appearing on Billboard’ s Adult Alternative Airplay chart, Michael Kiwanuka achieves his first No. 1 marks the longest on Adult Alternative Airplay since an exceptionally fab break: The Beatles went a record 27 years, 10 months and two weeks between “Free as a Bird,” which ranked on the inaugural list in January 1996, and the coronation of “Now and Then” in December 2023. Concurrently, “Floating Parade” rises 26-25 on the all- rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.2 million audience impressions, up 4%, in the week ending Sept. 19, according to Luminate.

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