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\n\tJonah Kagen<\/a> reigns on Billboard<\/em>\u2019s Alternative Airplay<\/a> chart for the first time, topping the May 24-dated survey with \u201cGod Needs the Devil.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe song, which rises a spot, marks Kagen\u2019s first ruler on any Billboard<\/em> ranking, earned with his second charted title. Previously, Kagen spent a week on Hot Dance\/Electronic Songs in 2021 with the Matoma<\/a> collaboration \u201cSummer Feeling.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tKagen becomes the sixth act to rule Alternative Airplay for the first time in 2025. Almost Monday <\/a>accomplished the feat first in February (\u201cCan\u2019t Slow Down\u201d), followed by Justice<\/a> and Tame Impala<\/a> (both on \u201cNeverender\u201d in March), Balu Brigada<\/a> (\u201cSo Cold,\u201d March) and Lola Young<\/a> (\u201cMessy,\u201d April). Of that group, Justice, Balu Brigada and Young led in their first appearances on the list, like Kagen.<\/p>\n \n\tRoughly halfway through 2025, the year is the best for acts notching inaugural Alternative Airplay No. 1s with their first entries on the chart in five years; in 2020, Absofacto<\/a>, White Reaper<\/a>, Sub Urban<\/a> and All Time Low<\/a> all reigned on their first tries.<\/p>\n \n\tKagen\u2019s 29-week trip to No. 1 is the lengthiest since 2023, when Bad Omens<\/a>\u2019 \u201cJust Pretend\u201d took 32 weeks.<\/p>\n \n\tConcurrently, \u201cGod Needs the Devil\u201d lifts 9-8 for a new high on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay<\/a> chart with 2.6 million audience impressions, up 10%, in the week ending May 15, according to Luminate. The song peaked at No. 22 on Adult Alternative Airplay in November.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cGod Needs the Devil\u201d is on Kagen\u2019s EP Black Dress<\/em>, which was released in November and has earned 27,000 equivalent album units to date.<\/p>\n