 "Survivalism" had 501 plays and debuted at number 28 on the "Billboard" Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart in the week of February 23, 2007.It eventually climbed to number one for one week, becoming NIN's fourth consecutive number one single (as well as their most recent), and debuted at number 68 on the "Billboard" Hot 100.Since Linkin Park's enormously more successful "What I've Done" single debuted at number one and replaced "Survivalism"'s position, the song however had fallen drastically after one week at number one, almost dropping off the top 20 of the Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart within just one month.