Dexter and the Moonrocks are No. 1 on Billboard’s Alternative Airplay chart for the second time, lifting a spot to the top of the June 20-dated survey with “Freakin’ Out.”
The song follows the eight-week reign for “Sad in Carolina,” the band’s breakout single, in 2024-25.
The group has gone three-for-three in the top 10. In between the two leaders, it hit No. 4 with “Ritalin” last June.
Concurrently, “Freakin’ Out” leaps 12-7 on the all-rock-format, audience-based Rock & Alternative Airplay chart with 3.1 million audience impressions in the week ending June 11, a gain of 13%, according to Luminate. That’s now Dexter and the Moonrocks’ top-performing song on the tally, as “Sad in Carolina” peaked at No. 9.
“Freakin’ Out” became the act’s first entry on the multimetric Billboard Hot 100 when it premiered at No. 91 in April; it reached the top 40, hitting No. 33 in May and appearing at No. 40 on the latest ranking. In addition to its radio airplay, the song earned 7.3 million chart-eligible streams and sold 1,000 in the United States in the tracking week.
Released March 11, “Freakin’ Out” achieved virality on shortform video platforms such as TikTok. The tune is currently a standalone single, one of three by the band in 2026, alongside “Flavorless” and “12 Steps,” the latter a collaboration with Treaty Oak Revival.
The Texas-based band has released four EPs since 2021, most recently 2025’s Donkey Flats.
“I have always believed Dexter could be the biggest band in the world, and I would tell that to anyone who would listen,” Severance Records president Steve “Stevo” Robertson recently told Billboard. “James Tuffs is one of the greatest singers in rock music right now, and the band absolutely rips live. And we have to mention an absolute weapon in the band, Fox: Along with being an awesome drummer, he understands internet culture better than anyone, as evidenced by the worldwide explosion of ‘Freakin’ Out.'”