noah | October 30, 2008 3:30 am

The title track from Guns N’ Roses’ Chinese Democracy debuted at No. 12 on Billboard‘s Mainstream Rock chart, where that Metallica song is still in the No. 1 spot. A look at Radio & Records‘ airplay charts shows the song getting played about 1,400 times across the rock-leaning radio board last week; it even snuck into their Alternative chart at No. 37, right between Slipknot and M.I.A. (Insert “who are a bunch of people who have never been in my kitchen” joke here.) [Billboard / Radio & Records]