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This chart began with the stations. The Rock Tracks chart originally listed 60 songs. The first number-one song was "I Can't Stand It" by Eric Clapton . The chart changed its name to Album Rock Tracks in April 1986. During the 1980s, a subgenre of rock music began to develop and gain popularity, known as New Wave , or Modern Rock . The Album Rock Tracks chart included some New Wave songs, but usually only those with Crossover appeal to mainstream listeners. Radio stations devoted entirely to this new category of rock music began to grow in popularity, but data from these stations were not included in compiling the Album Rock chart. In order to give more recognition to Modern Rock, ''Billboard'' began a separate Modern Rock Tracks chart, beginning with the September 10 , 1988 issue. The Album Rock Tracks chart remained as before, and it continued to include Modern Rock songs with crossover appeal. Within two months of the first Modern Rock Tracks chart, the song " Desire " by U2 became the first song to reach number-one on both of these two Rock Tracks charts. In 1996, Album Rock Tracks once again changed its name, to Mainstream Rock Tracks. This occurred soon after ''Billboard'' established the Adult Top 40 chart. Like Modern Rock Tracks, Adult Top 40 also had some songs in common with Mainstream Rock Tracks. Ironically, Adult Top 40 has often featured artists who were once prominent on the Rock Tracks charts, but were now considered too "soft" for rock radio. Mainstream Rock Tracks was published in the print edition of ''Billboard'' for the last time in its July 26 , 2003 issue. The chart is still compiled, but it is only available through the magazine's website. In recent years, fewer and fewer classic rock artists have released new music which has appeared on the chart; as such, the artists appearing on this chart have almost become a subset of those appearing on Modern Rock Tracks . For six and a half years, following " Jaded " by Aerosmith in 2001, every number one song on Mainstream Rock Tracks also appeared on Modern Rock Tracks. This string was finally broken by Ozzy Osbourne 's " I Don't Wanna Stop " in July 2007. The Mainstream Rock Tracks has had 307 number one hits. The current number-one song on ''Mainstream Rock Tracks'' (for the week ending September 15 , 2007 ) is " Never Too Late " by Three Days Grace . Shown below are the songs which have spent ten or more weeks in the number one spot. Most of these songs are from recent years, in part because the top spot experiences much less turnover than it used to. Prior to 1994, only three songs had spent ten or more weeks at number one: 21 weeks
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