Linkin Park's "Heavy," featuring Kiiara, enters the Hot 100 at No. 52 and roars 21-3 on Hot Rock Songs after its first full week of tracking. The collab's No. 2 start on Rock Digital Song Sales (35,000) marks the band's best rank since 2010, when "The Catalyst" bowed at No. 1.
With its clearly more pop lean than much of Linkin Park's catalog, "Heavy" bows on the Pop Songs airplay chart at No. 27, the band's highest debut on the list among 10 entries, dating to its first, "In the End," in 2001. (Kiiara collects her second Pop Songs hit, following her No. 5 breakthrough "Gold" last year.) "Heavy" jumps 36-30 on the Alternative Songs airplay tally.
"We're super excited about the song, and the excitement around it has been kind of crazy," Linkin Park guitarist/singer Mike Shinoda told Billboard of "Heavy." "We've put out a lot of first singles, and I've actually kind of been taken aback by the amount of excitement over the song."
