 The song reached number one on the "Billboard" Alternative Songs chart in February 2006 during its twenty-seventh week on the chart, making it one of the slowest-rising number-one singles in the chart's history.It also spent an unprecedented ten weeks at the number two position on the "Billboard" Mainstream Rock Tracks chart.In December 2017, the RIAA gave "Wasteland" a gold certification for selling 500,000 copies.