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Test your music knowledge with the Billboard Weekly Alternative Number One Songs Quiz. Can you name the songs that reached #1 on the chart since 1988?

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Billboard Weekly Alternative Number One Songs

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Name the songs to reach #1 on the Billboard Weekly Alternative Songs Chart since it began in September, 1988. First two words accepted for longer titles. Date first reached #1 shown, followed by artist and weeks at #1 (not necessarily consecutive). Object is most weeks at #1, not songs.

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