Volbeat tops the Billboard Mainstream chart

With the song “Time Will Heal,” Volbeat leaps two spots to the top of the Nov. 1-dated poll and achieves a historic No. 1 on Billboard’s Mainstream Rock Airplay chart, as reported by blabbermouth.net. It’s Volbeat‘s 12th number one and their second consecutive number one, after “By a Monster’s Hand,” which dominated for two weeks in May. Since Mainstream Rock Airplay started in 1981, the Danish band has tied Papa Roach for the tenth-most No. 1s with their most recent single.

A year after debuting on the chart with “Fallen” (No. 11), Volbeat had its first visit at the top of Mainstream Rock Airplay in 2012 with “Still Counting.” The band ranks second among non-American acts, after Canada’s Three Days Grace, and is the highest-ranking European-based band on the all-time No. 1 list.

This is what band leader Michael Poulsen had to say about the track:

Musically, it’s one of those songs, I’ll say, that’s also a signature Volbeat song when it comes to the more pop-rock songs from Volbeat. But yeah, lyrically, we are talking about struggling a little bit with life where I think we all know the feeling — suddenly we wake up and we don’t know why we feel bad. Why is this day so terrible? Nothing had happened yet. It’s a feeling. It’s like getting the wrong leg out of the bed. But with life experience, we just know that’s part of life. You will have days where you don’t feel good and suddenly it’s like turning on a switch and the light is there. Where there’s darkness, there will be light. So it’s something where I’m trying to keep a balance in the lyric where you have to accept the bad days just as much as you have to accept the good ones. And while you are in the bad ones, just tell yourself constantly it might get better in two minutes or tomorrow or the day after that everything’s gonna be all right. So the message in that is we all have those days where everything feels wrong and going against you, but tomorrow’s gonna be another day. And it’s very much about appreciating just waking up, being alive. Appreciate what you’ve got.