Somewhere in a parallel universe, it’s still 2001 and Fred Durst is stomping across a festival stage in a backwards red cap while nu-metal fun spills over the barricade.
In 2026 though, Durst has dragged that same unhinged energy straight back onto the charts, this time alongside mgk.
The pair’s collaborative single ‘Fix Ur Face’ has officially hit No. 1 on Billboard’s Hot Hard Rock Songs chart, giving mgk his first ever top spot on the ranking and proving Fred Durst still knows exactly how to weaponise a riff built for destruction (per Billboard).
Released on April 21st, the track climbed from No. 4 to No. 1 in its second week on the chart after pulling 1.8 million streams in the US, alongside radio play and digital sales strong enough to shove it to the top.
mgk ‘Fix Ur Face’ featuring Fred Durst video
For mgk, it marks a pretty significant crossover moment, while he’s bounced between rap, pop-punk and alt-rock over the past few years, this is his biggest hard rock chart achievement yet, his only previous entry on the Hot Hard Rock Songs chart came in 2025 with ‘Your Name Forever’, which peaked at No. 4.
Durst, meanwhile, has been here before plenty of times. Limp Bizkit scored two No. 1 entries on the same chart last year with ‘Making Love to Morgan Wallen’ and the immortal wrecking ball that is ‘Break Stuff’, which surged again following the death of bassist Sam Rivers in 2025.
‘Fix Ur Face’ feels engineered to tap directly into that same feral energy, it’s loud, bratty and confrontational in a way that feels ripped from early-2000s hard rock, but still polished enough to survive inside modern streaming culture.
The timing doesn’t hurt either, mgk is currently gearing up for another leg of his ‘Lost Americana’ tour alongside Wiz Khalifa, while Fred Durst continues riding the second wave resurgence Limp Bizkit have turned into a legitimate victory lap.
Whether you love it or hate it, the charts just got punched square in the face by a nu-metal revival that refuses to die, and I’m here for it.
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