The Top 150 Rock Songs of 2015
Close Calls
187 Big Grams “Lights On”
186 Nothing More “Here’s To The Heartache”
185 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness “High Dive”
184 Godsmack “What’s Next?”
183 Theory of a Deadman “Blow”
182 George Ezra “Blame It on Me”
181 Linkin Park “Final Masquerade”
180 Chet Faker “Gold”
179 Paramore “Last Hope”
178 Alt-J “Hunger of the Pine”
177 Hozier “Someone New”
176 Phases “I’m In Love With My Life”
175 Milky Chance “Flashed Junk Mind”
174 Coheed and Cambria “You Got Spirit, Kid”
173 Foster The People “Are You What You Want To Be?”
172 Young Guns “I Want Out”
171 Ms Mr “Painted”
170 Big Data/White Sea “The Business of Emotion”
169 Ex Cops “Black Soap”
168 Houndmouth “Sedona”
167 Dreamers “Wolves (You Got Me)”
166 Five Finger Death Punch “Wash It All Away”
165 Young the Giant “Crystallized”
164 Matt and Kim “Get It”
163 P.O.D. “This Goes Out To You”
162 New Politics “Girl Crush”
161 Neon Trees “Songs I Can’t Listen To”
160 The Mowgli’s “I’m Good”
159 Coldplay “Ink”
158 Highly Suspect “Bloodfeather”
157 The Struts “Kiss This”
156 TV On The Radio “Happy Idiot”
155 Volbeat “Doc Holliday”
154 El Vy “Return To The Moon”
153 Paramore/Joy Williams “Hate To See Your Heart Break”
152 The Dirty Heads “Sound Of Change”
151 The Kooks “Bad Habit”
Top 150
150 Ghost “Cirice”
149 Zella Day “Hypnotic”
148 MisterWives “Reflections”
147 The Griswolds “If You Wanna Stay”
146 Paramore “Ain’t It Fun”
145 Kongos “Come With Me Now”
144 JR JR “Gone”
143 Bush “The Only Way Out”
142 Glass Animals “Gooey”
141 Bastille “Flaws”
140 Catfish and The Bottlemen “Cocoon”
139 Foo Fighters “Saint Cecilia”
138 The Black Keys “Gotta Get Away”
137 Saint Motel “Cold Cold Man”
136 The Neighbourhood “R.I.P. 2 My Youth”
135 The Moth and The Flame “Young and Unafraid”
134 Alt-J “Every Other Freckle”
133 Panic! At The Disco “Victorious”
132 Seether “Nobody Praying For Me”
131 Chevelle “An Island”
130 Passion Pit “Lifted Up (1985)”
129 Brandon Flowers “Can’t Deny My Love”
128 X Ambassadors “Unsteady”
127 Mumford and Sons “Ditmas”
126 Nickelback “Million Miles An Hour”
125 Five Finger Death Punch “Wrong Side of Heaven”
124 Night Riots “Contagious”
123 Slipknot “Killpop”
122 Red Sun Rising “The Otherside”
121 Sublime With Rome “Wherever You Go”
120 Of Monsters and Men “Empire”
119 Nothing More “Jenny”
118 Coldplay “A Sky Full Of Stars”
117 Seether “Save Today”
116 In The Valley Below “Peaches”
115 Fall Out Boy “Irresistible”
114 Big Data/Joywave “Dangerous”
113 Alt-J “Left Hand Free”
112 Nate Ruess “Nothing Without Love”
111 Joywave “Now”
110 Meg Myers “Lemon Eyes”
109 Halestorm “I Am The Fire”
108 New Politics “Everywhere I Go (Kings and Queens)”
107 Chris Cornell “Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart”
106 Weezer “Da Vinci”
105 The Arcs “Outta My Mind”
104 The Wombats “Give Me A Try”
103 U2 “Every Breaking Wave”
102 The Pretty Reckless “Follow Me Down”
101 Five Finger Death Punch “Jekyll and Hyde”
100 The Dead Weather “I Feel Love (Every Million Miles)”
99 Saint Asonia “Better Place
98 Halestorm “Apocalyptic”
97 Theory Of A Deadman “Angel”
96 Disclosure/Lorde “Magnets”
95 James Bay “Hold Back The River”
94 Royal Blood “Figure It Out”
93 Weezer “Back To The Shack”
92 You Me At Six “Room To Breathe”
91 Alabama Shakes “Don’t Wanna Fight”
90 Rise Against “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore”
89 Cage The Elephant “Mess Around”
88 Coldplay “Adventure Of A Lifetime”
87 Nickelback “Edge Of A Revolution”
86 Vance Joy “Fire And The Flood”
85 Night Terrors of 1927/Tegan and Sara “When You Were Mine”
84 Banks “Beggin For Thread”
83 Halestorm “Amen”
82 Vance Joy “Mess Is Mine”
81 Pop Evil “Footsteps”
80 Meg Myers “Sorry”
79 New Politics “West End Kids”
78 Modest Mouse “The Ground Walks, With Time In A Box”
77 CHVRCHES “Leave A Trace”
76 Halsey “New Americana”
75 Atlas Genius “Molecules”
74 Bleachers “Rollercoaster”
73 Robert DeLong “Don’t Wait Up”
72 Foals “Mountain At My Gates”
71 Joywave “Somebody New”
70 Shinedown “State Of My Head”
69 Disturbed “The Light”
68 Three Days Grace “I Am Machine”
67 Lorde “Yellow Flicker Beat”
66 George Ezra “Budapest”
65 Milky Chance “Stolen Dance”
64 Vance Joy “Riptide”
63 Hozier “Take Me To Church”
62 Three Days Grace “Fallen Angel”
61 BØRNS “Electric Love”
60 AC/DC “Rock or Bust”
59 Nothing But Thieves “Trip Switch”
58 Seether “Words As Weapons”
57 Highly Suspect “Lydia”
56 The 1975 “Love Me”
55 The Black Keys “Weight of Love”
54 Fall Out Boy “Centuries”
53 Papa Roach ”Face Everything And Rise”
52 Rise Against “Tragedy + Time”
51 Papa Roach/Maria Blank “Gravity”
50 Incubus “Absolution Calling”
49 Panic! At The Disco “Hallelujah”
48 Imagine Dragons “Shots”
47 Of Monsters and Men “Crystals”
46 Florence + The Machine “What Kind Of Man”
45 AWOLnation “I Am”
44 Coleman Hell “2 Heads”
43 Saint Motel “My Type”
42 Breaking Benjamin “Angels Fall”
41 Imagine Dragons “Roots”
40 Death Cab For Cutie “The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive”
39 Zac Brown Band/Chris Cornell “Heavy Is The Head”
38 Seether “Same Damn Life”
37 Fall Out Boy “Uma Thurman”
36 Mumford and Sons “The Wolf”
35 Walk The Moon “Different Colors”
34 Foo Fighters “Outside”
33 Florence + The Machine “Ship To Wreck”
32 Elle King “Ex’s and Oh’s”
31 Wolf Alice “Moaning Lisa Smile”
30 Muse “Mercy”
29 Silversun Pickups “Nightlight”
28 Royal Blood “Little Monster”
27 Cold War Kids “First”
26 Nathaniel Rateliff and The Night Sweats “S.O.B.”
25 The Struts “Could Have Been Me”
24 Weezer “Thank God For Girls”
23 The Offspring “Coming For You”
22 Foo Fighters “Something From Nothing”
21 Catfish and The Bottlemen “Kathleen”
20 Arctic Monkeys “R U Mine?”
19 Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness “Cecilia And The Satellite”
18 Death Cab For Cutie “Black Sun”
17 Mumford and Sons “Believe”
16 Cage The Elephant “Cigarette Daydreams”
15 Twenty|one|pilots “Tear In My Heart”
14 Imagine Dragons “I Bet My Life”
13 Robert DeLong “Long Way Down”
12 Breaking Benjamin “Failure”
11 Beck “Dreams”
10 Twenty|one|pilots “Stressed Out”
9 Modest Mouse “Lampshades On Fire”
8 Disturbed “The Vengeful One”
7 AWOLnation “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)”
6 Three Days Grace “Human Race”
5 Shinedown “Cut The Cord”
4 Foo Fighters “Congregation”
3 X Ambassadors “Renegades”
2 Walk The Moon “Shut Up And Dance”
1 Muse “Dead Inside”
Top 30/150 (2014):
30 The Pretty Reckless “Heaven Knows”
29 Hozier “Take Me To Church”
28 Coldplay “A Sky Full Of Stars”
27 Imagine Dragons “Radioactive”
26 Nickelback “Edge Of A Revolution”
25 Vance Joy “Riptide”
24 Milky Chance “Stolen Dance”
23 Linkin Park “Until It’s Gone”
22 The Neighbourhood “Afraid”
21 Young The Giant “It’s About Time”
20 Lorde “Team”
19 Big Data/Joywave “Dangerous”
18 Bastille “Pompeii”
17 Fitz and The Tantrums “The Walker”
16 Royal Blood “Figure It Out”
15 Bleachers “I Wanna Get Better”
14 Linkin Park/Rakim “Guilty All The Same”
13 Bastille “Bad Blood”
12 Imagine Dragons “Demons”
11 Chevelle “Take Out The Gunman”
10 The Black Keys “Fever”
9 Cage The Elephant “Come A Little Closer”
8 Three Days Grace “Painkiller”
7 Rise Against “I Don’t Want To Be Here Anymore”
6 Foster The People “Coming of Age”
5 Weezer “Back To The Shack”
4 Arctic Monkeys “Do I Wanna Know?”
3 Paramore “Ain’t It Fun”
2 Foo Fighters “Something From Nothing”
1 Kongos “Come With Me Now”
Notable Snubs:
AC/DC “Rock The Blues Away”
Adelitas Way “Bad Reputation”
The All-American Rejects “There’s A Place”
AWOLnation “Woman Woman”
Bleachers “Like A River Runs”
BØRNS “10,000 Emerald Pools”
Bullet for My Valentine “You Want A Battle? (Here’s A War)”
Chet Faker/Banks “1989”
Civil Twilight “Holy Dove”
Family of the Year “Hero”
Family Of The Year “Make You Mine”
Fitz and The Tantrums “Fools Gold”
Foo Fighters “The Feast and The Famine”
Glass Animals “Black Mambo”
Godsmack “Something Different”
Good Charlotte “Makeshift Love”
Grizfolk “Troublemaker”
I Prevail “Blank Space”
Joywave ‘Destruction”
Kongos “I Want To Know”
Marian Hill “One Time”
Miike Snow “Genghis Khan”
Muse “Reapers”
My Morning Jacket “Big Decisions”
The Neighbourhood “Cry Baby”
Odesza/Zyra “Say My Name”
Of Monsters and Men “Wolves Without Teeth”
Pop Evil “Ways To Get High”
Ryan Adams “Bad Blood”
St. Lucia “Dancing On Glass”
Smallpools “Karaoke”
Sublime With Rome/The Dirty Heads “Sirens”
Third Eye Blind “Everything Is Easy”
Trans-Siberian Orchestra/Lzzy Hale “Forget About The Blame”
Trapt “Passenger”
The War on Drugs “Under The Pressure”
We Are Harlot “Dancing On Nails”
Past #1s:
2015: Muse “Dead Inside”
2014: Kongos “Come With Me Now”
2013: Paramore “Still Into You”
2012: Linkin Park “Burn It Down”
2011: Foo Fighters “Rope”
2010: Muse “Resistance”
2009: Green Day “Know Your Enemy”
2008: Paramore “Decode”
2007: Paramore “Crushcrushcrush”
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