Dexter and the Moonrocks’ ‘Unhappy in Carolina’ Laws Selection Airplay

Dexter and the Moonrocks’ first access on Billboard’s Selection Airplay chart, “Unhappy in Carolina,” rises a place to No. 1 at the Dec. 7-dated rating.

“Unhappy in Carolina” is the Texas rockers’ first music on any Billboard chart. They’re the second one act to earn a primary Selection Airplay No. 1 in 2024, following Myles Smith, whose “Stargazing” crowned the Sept. 28-dated survey, and the primary band with an introductory chief since Dangerous Omens dominated with “Simply Faux” in September 2023.

As “Unhappy in Carolina” additionally first made any Billboard chart when it debuted on Selection Airplay at the Aug. 3-dated checklist, Dexter and the Moonrocks succeed in a feat comparable to fresh Mainstream Rock Airplay No. 1 act The Funeral Portrait, whose “Suffocate Town,” that includes Spencer Charnas, likewise sparked its first Billboard look when it debuted, adopted through its coronation in November.

At the same time as, “Unhappy in Carolina” bullets at its No. 11 prime at the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Selection Airplay chart with 3 million viewers impressions (up 4%) within the week finishing Nov. 28, consistent with Luminate.

“Unhappy in Carolina” is from the act’s Western House Grunge, launched through in July. The gang’s first liberate since signing to Giant Loud Rock has earned 8,000 identical album devices so far. The band’s drummer, Ryan Fox, describes its sound at the band’s site as “nation with twang and grunge with a chew,” impressed partly through Johnny Money’s duvet of 9 Inch Nails’ “Harm” and singer-songwriters Zach Bryan, Tyler Childers and Noah Kahan. “When you are taking that sound and plug it into amps with electrical guitars, you get Dexter and the Moonrocks.”