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Linkin Park’s ‘Lost’ Launches at No. 1 on Hot Hard Rock Songs Chart

  For the first time in over a decade, there’s a No. 1 debut on  Billboard ’s  Rock & Alternative Airplay  chart. Linkin Park ’s “Lost,” recorded during the sessions for the band’s 2003 album,  Meteora , and released Feb. 10, bows at No. 1 on the all- rock -format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay list dated Feb. 25. In the Feb. 10-16 tracking week, “Lost” earned 10.1 million audience impressions, according to Luminate. That’s the best weekly impression count for any song since  Lana Del Rey ’s “Doin’ Time” earned 10.5 million in its sixth and final week at No. 1 (Oct. 12, 2019). The last song to debut with a higher audience total than “Lost”? “Jumpsuit” by  Twenty One Pilots  (10.2 million, July 21, 2018; it opened at No. 4 that week). “Lost” is one of just four songs to bound in at No. 1 on Rock & Alternative Airplay dating to the chart’s June 2009 inception – and Linkin Park is the first act to achieve the feat twice. The band’s “The Catalyst” began atop the Aug