Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats Top Adult Alternative Airplay With ‘Call Me (Whatever You Like)’

Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats ascend to No. 1 on Billboard’s Adult Alternative Airplay chart dated Dec. 7 with “Call Me (Whatever You Like).”

Band leader Rateliff now boasts seven Adult Alternative Airplay leaders overall – six with the Night Sweats and one, “And It’s Still Alright,” in 2020 as a soloist. Rateliff, with the band and on his own, slots into a tie for the eighth-most No. 1s on Adult Alternative Airplay, which began in January 1996.

Most Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1s:

14, U2

13, Coldplay

11, Jack Johnson

11, Dave Matthews (solo and with Dave Matthews Band)

8, The Black Keys

8, Death Cab for Cutie

8, John Mayer

7, Cage the Elephant

7, Sheryl Crow

7, Counting Crows

7, Hozier

7, The Lumineers

7, Nathaniel Rateliff (solo and with Nathaniel Rateliff & the Night Sweats)

7, R.E.M.

“Call Me (Whatever You Like)” is Rateliff and the Night Sweats’ second Adult Alternative Airplay No. 1 in a row, after “Heartless” led for three weeks beginning in July. The band first topped the tally with its initial entry, “S.O.B.,” for four weeks in 2015.

Concurrently, “Call Me (Whatever You Like)” holds at its No. 30 high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 1.1 million audience impressions in the week ending Nov. 28, according to Luminate.

The song is the second single, following “Heartless,” from South of Here, the band’s fourth studio album. The set reached No. 37 on the Top Rock & Alternative Albums chart in July and has earned 30,000 equivalent album units to date.