The Foo Fighters have officially set a Modern Rock Tracks chart record with their song "The Pretender".  This week marks the seventeenth week it has been number one, making it the longest time a song has been #1 on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.  For the time being, it doesn't look like anything else is coming close to challenging it on the Modern Rock Tracks chart, so it may number one for weeks to come.

Prior to "The Pretender" setting this record, there were three other songs who were tied for the record at sixteen weeks.  These included:
Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue (1999)
Staind - Its Been Awhile (2001)
Green Day - Boulevard of Broken Dreams (2004-2005)

So, thoughts?  I think the song is good, but not so much to the point where it deserves to set a record for most weeks at #1.  Then again, "Its Been Awhile" spent 16 weeks at number one and I don't think the song was THAT great (good, but not deserving of its success).

Seventeen weeks at #1 seems a bit too much, I agree.

Although I'm not the world's biggest Foo Fighters fan, I did like this particular song. I remember seeing the video and thinking: this sounds like a hit record! Boy, was I wrong (well, over here anyway). It did absolutely nothing in our charts...
We've already moved on to "Long Road to Ruin" now. Not half as good.

It's a good song, best rock song ever? no but it's one of the better rock tracks of the year.

17 weeks does seem a bit too long at the top though.  It's a good song, but not that good LOL

"The Pretender" not only set "The Modern Rock Track' Record for being #1 on that chart for 17 straight weeks but it also cracked the Top 40 on the Billboard Hot 100 which is pretty good for a song for a rock band.