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This is a '''list of recording artists''' who have reached number one on [[Billboard (magazine)|''Billboard'']]'s [[Hot Alternative Tracks]] chart. ''Billboard'' began ranking the chart on the week ending September 10, 1988 (as Modern Rock Tracks) and this is the standard music popularity chart in the [[United States]] for play on [[modern rock]] radio.

*All acts are listed alphabetically.
*Solo artists are alphabetized by last name, Groups by group name excluding "A," "An" and "The."
*Each act's total of number-one U.S. alternative rock hits is shown after their name.
*All artists who are mentioned in song credits are listed here; this includes one-time pairings of otherwise solo artists and those appearing as "featured".
*Artists associated with a group who reached number one, yet have their own solo page in [[Wikipedia]] are ''not'' listed here, unless they hit number one as a solo artist.

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==A==
*[[AFI (band)|AFI]] (1)
*[[Alien Ant Farm]] (1)
*[[Tori Amos]] (1)
*[[Anberlin]] (1)
*[[Audioslave]] (2)

==B==
*[[The B-52's]] (3)
*[[Barenaked Ladies]] (1)
*[[Beastie Boys]] (1)
*[[Beck]] (2)
*[[Belly (band)|Belly]] (1)
*[[Better Than Ezra]] (1)
*[[Big Audio Dynamite|Big Audio Dynamite/Big Audio Dynamite II]] (2)
*[[Blind Melon]] (1)
*[[Blink-182]] (2)
*[[Tracy Bonham]] (1)
*[[Bush (band)|Bush]] (4)
*[[Kate Bush]] (1)
*[[Butthole Surfers]] (1)

==C==
*[[Cake (band)|Cake]] (1)
*[[Camper Van Beethoven]] (1)
*[[The Charlatans (British band)|The Charlatans]] (1)
*[[Chevelle]] (1)
*[[Chumbawamba]] (1)
*[[The Church (band)|The Church]] (1)
*[[Coldplay]] (1)
*[[Concrete Blonde]] (1)
*[[Julian Cope]] (1)
*[[Elvis Costello]] (2)
*[[Counting Crows]] (1)
*[[Cracker (band)|Cracker]] (1)
*[[The Cranberries]] (2)
*[[Crash Test Dummies]] (1)
*[[Crazy Town]] (1)
*[[Creed (band)|Creed]] (1)
*[[The Cure]] (4)

==D==
*[[David J]] (1)
*[[Depeche Mode]] (4)
*[[Dishwalla]] (1)

==E==
*[[Eels (band)|Eels]] (1)
*[[Electronic (band)|Electronic]] (1)
*[[Evanescence]] (1)
*[[Eve 6]] (1)
*[[Everclear (band)|Everclear]] (1)
*[[Everlast (musician)|Everlast]] (1)

==F==
*[[Faith No More]] (1)
*[[Fastball (band)|Fastball]] (1)
*[[Finger Eleven]] (1)
*[[Foo Fighters]] (7)
*[[Fuel (band)|Fuel]] (1)

==G==
*[[Peter Gabriel]] (2)
*[[Garbage (band)|Garbage]] (1)
*[[Gene Loves Jezebel]] (1)
*[[Gin Blossoms]] (1)
*[[Goo Goo Dolls]] (3)
*[[Gorillaz]] (1)
*[[Green Day]] (9)

==H==
*[[Happy Mondays]] (1)
*[[Juliana Hatfield|The Juliana Hatfield 3]] (1)
*[[Robyn Hitchcock]] (1)
*[[Hole (band)|Hole]] (1)
*[[Hoobastank]] (1)
*[[Hoodoo Gurus]] (1)

==I==
*[[Incubus (band)|Incubus]] (4)
*[[INXS]] (1)

==J==
*[[Jane's Addiction]] (3)
*[[The Jesus and Mary Chain]] (1)
*[[Jesus Jones]] (2)
*[[Jet (band)|Jet]] (1)
*[[Jimmy Eat World]] (2)

==K==
*[[The Killers (band)|The Killers]] (1)
*[[Kings of Leon]] (2)
*[[Lenny Kravitz]] (1)
*[[Chad Kroeger]] (1)

==L==
*[[The Lemonheads]] (1)
*[[Lifehouse (band)|Lifehouse]] (1)
*[[Limp Bizkit]] (1)
*[[Linkin Park]] (8)
*[[Lit]] (1)
*[[Live (band)|Live]] (3)
*[[Lostprophets]] (1)
*[[Love and Rockets]] (1)

==M==
*[[Marcy Playground]] (1)
*[[Matchbox Twenty]] (1)
*[[Paul McCoy]] (1)
*[[Ian McCulloch (singer)|Ian McCulloch]] (1)
*[[Midnight Oil]] (2)
*[[The Mighty Mighty Bosstones]] (1)
*[[Modest Mouse]] (1)
*[[Alanis Morissette]] (3)
*[[Morrissey]] (2)
*[[Peter Murphy (musician)|Peter Murphy]] (1)
*[[My Chemical Romance]] (1)

==N==
*[[Ned's Atomic Dustbin]] (1)
*[[New Order]] (1)
*[[Nickelback]] (1)
*[[Nine Inch Nails]] (4)
*[[Nirvana (band)|Nirvana]] (5)

==O==
*[[Oasis (band)|Oasis]] (2)
*[[Sinéad O'Connor]] (2)
*[[The Offspring]] (3)

==P==
*[[Papa Roach]] (1)
*[[Pearl Jam]] (4)
*[[A Perfect Circle]] (1)
*[[P.O.D.]] (1)
*[[Porno for Pyros]] (1)
*[[The Presidents of the United States of America (band)|The Presidents of the United States of America]] (1)
*[[Primitive Radio Gods]] (1)
*[[Psychedelic Furs]] (3)
*[[Public Image Ltd.]] (1)
*[[Puddle of Mudd]] (2)

==Q==
*[[Queens of the Stone Age]] (1)

==R==
*[[The Raconteurs]] (1)
*[[The Railway Children (band)|The Railway Children]] (1)
*[[Red Hot Chili Peppers]] (11)
*[[Lou Reed]] (2)
*[[R.E.M.]] (6)
*[[The Replacements]] (2)

==S==
*[[Saliva (band)|Saliva]] (1)
*[[Josey Scott]] (1)
*[[Seether]] (2)
*[[Semisonic]] (1)
*[[Shinedown]] (1)
*[[Silverchair]] (1)
*[[Silversun Pickups]] (1)
*[[Simple Minds]] (1)
*[[Siouxsie and the Banshees]] (2)
*[[The Sisters of Mercy]] (1)
*[[Smash Mouth]] (1)
*[[The Smashing Pumpkins]] (1)
*[[Soul Asylum]] (2)
*[[Staind]] (3)
*[[Sting (musician)|Sting]] (1)
*[[Sublime (band)|Sublime]] (1)
*[[Sugar Ray]] (2)
*[[The Sugarcubes]] (1)
*[[Sum 41]] (1)
*[[System of a Down]] (2)

==T==
*[[Talking Heads]] (1)
*[[Tears for Fears]] (2)
*[[10 Years]] (1)
*[[10,000 Maniacs]] (1)
*[[Third Eye Blind]] (1)
*[[30 Seconds to Mars]] (1)
*[[Three Days Grace]] (3)
*[[3 Doors Down]] (1)
*[[311 (band)|311]] (2)
*[[Toad the Wet Sprocket]] (1)
*[[Trapt]] (1)

==U==
*[[U2]] (8)
*[[Unwritten Law]] (1)

==V==
*[[Suzanne Vega]] (1)
*[[Velvet Revolver]] (1)
*[[The Verve Pipe]] (1)

==W==
*[[The Wallflowers]] (1)
*[[Weezer]] (3)
*[[The White Stripes]] (2)
*[[World Party]] (1)

==X==
*[[XTC (band)|XTC]] (2)

==Y==
==Z==
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==Source==
*Information obtained for this list is found within ''Billboard's'' [http://www.billboard.biz online archive services] and print editions of the magazine.

== See also ==
*[[List of number-one modern rock hits (United States)]]

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[[Category:Billboard charts|*]]
[[Category:Lists of artists by record chart achievement|U.S. Modern Rock chart]]

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