Adult Alternative Songs, also known as Triple A, is a record chart that ranks the most-played songs on American adult album alternative radio stations. Formulated based on each song's weekly total plays, the chart was introduced in the September 22, 1995, issue of Radio & Records magazine, while Billboard's chart archives begin on January 20, 1996.^[1][2][3] Adult Alternative Songs, along with other Radio & Records airplay charts, was initially compiled using radio airplay data from Mediabase.^[4] In August 2006, Radio & Records was acquired by The Nielsen Company – then known as VNU Media – parent company of rival publication Billboard.^[5] Following the purchase, Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems replaced Mediabase in monitoring airplay for charts, beginning with the issue dated August 11, 2006.^[6][7] Billboard themselves introduced the chart in their July 5, 2008, issue, appropriating the same Nielsen data,^[3] and became its sole publisher after Radio & Records ceased publication in June 2009.^[8]

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The Billboard website currently lists Adult Alternative Songs charts dating back to January 1996.^[9] These charts are based on data from a Triple A chart that had previously been published in the Billboard-owned Airplay Monitor magazine from that date until the acquisition of Radio & Records, and which had used Nielsen data that was largely similar to the Mediabase data used in the Radio & Records chart.

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† – Radio & Records year-end number-one single

↑ – Return of a single to number one