Top Rock Song Chart for the Year of 2025

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Moody	Royel Otis	Alternative Rock
2	Metal	The Beths	Alternative Rock
3	Ankles	Lucy Dacus	Alternative Rock
4	I Want You (Fever)	Momma	Alternative Rock
5	Nothing I Need	Lord Huron	Alternative Rock
6	Everybody Gets Down	NxWorries	Rock
7	Catch These Fists	Wet Leg	Alternative Rock
8	Sugar in the Tank	Julien Baker & TORRES	Alternative Rock
9	Bury Me	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
10	Everybody's Song	Robert Plant	Roots Rock
11	Everybody Laughs	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
12	Wake the Dead	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
13	It's Amazing to Be Young	Fontaines D.C.	Alternative Rock
14	Wreck	Neko Case	Alternative Rock
15	Let Things Go	Caamp	Roots Rock
16	Elderberry Wine	Wednesday	Roots Rock
17	Rushmere	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
18	Afterlife	Sharon Van Etten	Alternative Rock
19	Flower Moon	Durand Jones & The Indications	Alternative Rock
20	The Night Before	The Black Keys	Alternative Rock
21	Much Ado About Nothing	Waxahatchee	Rock
22	The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy	James McMurtry	Roots Rock
23	Gold Rush	Lucius	Alternative Rock
24	Gethsemane	Car Seat Headrest	Alternative Rock
25	Voodoo Charm	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
26	Everybody Scream	Florence + the Machine	Alternative Rock
27	Tough Times Don't Last	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
28	White Horses	Wolf Alice	Alternative Rock
29	Magnetic	Tunde Adebimpe	Alternative Rock
30	Spirits	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
31	Fire Sign	S.G. Goodman	Roots Rock
32	Stay in Your Lane	Courtney Barnett	Alternative Rock
33	Time Waited	My Morning Jacket	Alternative Rock
34	Feeling	Billie Marten	Roots Rock
35	What's Fair	Blondshell	Rock
36	Mockingbird	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
37	Arrow	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
38	Bloom Baby Bloom	Wolf Alice	Alternative Rock
39	Cutthroat	Shame	Alternative Rock
40	Inept Apollo	Nation of Language	Alternative Rock
41	Sweet Southern Sounds	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
42	Floating Parade	Michael Kiwanuka	Rock
43	Gonna Need Someone	Ringo Starr	Roots Rock
44	Mistakes	Caamp	Roots Rock
45	Big Dark Town	Roberta Faceplant	Roots Rock
46	Don't Speak	Loaded Honey	Alternative Rock
47	Float (feat. Jim Adkins)	Jay Som	Alternative Rock
48	Electric Green Lambo	Dope Lemon	Alternative Rock
49	Top of the World	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
50	Spike Island	Pulp	Alternative Rock
51	What You Need	Jay Som	Alternative Rock
52	Make My World	Dorio	Rock
53	Bluephoria	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
54	Before You Accuse Me	Eric Clapton	Pop Rock
55	Joy, Joy!	Valerie June	Roots Rock
56	Woman's Woman	Reckoners	Roots Rock
57	To Space	Kings of Leon	Alternative Rock
58	Knockin' Heart	Hamilton Leithauser	Alternative Rock
59	Heathcliff	Snocaps	Alternative Rock
60	Alone	The Cure	Alternative Rock
61	Shovel	Deep Sea Diver	Alternative Rock
62	Five Long Years	Eric Clapton	Pop Rock
63	I Got a Feeling	A.J. Croce	Roots Rock
64	Big Machine	J'cuuzi	Rock
65	Witness	The Wood Brothers	Roots Rock
66	American Dreaming	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
67	Okay	Girl and Girl	Rock
68	When You Got a Good Friend	Eric Clapton	Pop Rock
69	Something's Wrong	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
70	Boys with the Characteristics of Wolves	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Alternative Rock
71	Chateau Blues	Spoon	Alternative Rock
72	Wish You Would	Los Lonely Boys	Roots Rock
73	Guess I'm Fallin in Love	Spoon	Alternative Rock
74	I Like It I Like It	Moses Sumney	Alternative Rock
75	Late Night Crying	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
76	Magic of the Sale	Teethe	Alternative Rock
77	This Life As We Know It	Warren Haynes	Roots Rock
78	Switch over	Horsegirl	Alternative Rock
79	Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth)	Dion	Roots Rock
80	Ginkgo	Panchiko	Alternative Rock
81	Broken Glass	Neal Francis	Alternative Rock
82	Deep Dish Grit	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
83	Little Black Dress	Francis of Delirium	Alternative Rock
84	I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings)	Amythyst Kiah	Roots Rock
85	Big River	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
86	Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
87	Three Days	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
88	Gotta Get Back to New Orleans	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
89	It's a Mirror	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
90	Orlando in Love	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
91	Bad Information	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
92	Same Old Song	The Lumineers	Alternative Rock
93	Rockin' Bones	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
94	School of Rock and Roll	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
95	Break Up with Everything	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Alternative Rock
96	All in My Head	The Linda Lindas	Alternative Rock
97	Good While It Lasted	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
98	Life Signs	Water From Your Eyes	Alternative Rock
99	Enough is Enough	The Hives	Rock
100	Spanish Fly	Van Halen	Hard Rock
101	Easy Love, Pt. 1	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
102	When It Snows in Texas	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
103	Luxury Television	Gus Baldwin & The Sketch	Punk Rock
104	Lose You	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
105	Back to Me	The Marías	Rock
106	I'm Done Runnin'	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
107	Little Bit	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
108	Green Light	Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors	Roots Rock
109	Born Runnin' Outta Time	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Roots Rock
110	Bai Lan (Let It Rot)	Jonas Wilson	Alternative Rock
111	Tanana	Portugal. The Man	Alternative Rock
112	Pleasure Point	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
113	Wildflower	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
114	What is the Reason for It? (feat. Hayley Williams)	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
115	Backseat Banton	Bartees Strange	Alternative Rock
116	First Came the Thunder (feat. Qiensave)	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
117	That and $20	Shinyribs	Roots Rock
118	Deadstick	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Alternative Rock
119	Just As Long As We're Together	Jalen Ngonda	Rock
120	Ride to Robert's	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
121	Nothing Above You	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
122	Incomprehensible	Big Thief	Roots Rock
123	It's a Good Day to Be Alive	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
124	Life Behind Bars	Vandoliers	Roots Rock
125	Bombora	The Atlantics	Surf
126	Country Brat	Patton Magee	Alternative Rock
127	Die Your Daughter	Susannah Joffe	Alternative Rock
128	Road Trip	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
129	I Forget (I’m So Young)	Sofie Royer	Alternative Rock
130	GRIN	Sophia Warren	Alternative Rock
131	Fly	Half Dream	Rock
132	Maggie's Farm	Rage Against the Machine	Rock
133	After the Setting Sun	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
134	Blue and Gray	Dulcie Taylor	Roots Rock
135	Pearls	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
136	Overlander	The Budos Band	Psychedelic
137	Patterns	Laura Marling	Alternative Rock
138	Plover	Variety	Alternative Rock
139	Not Gonna Miss You	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
140	Wyoming Bound	3 Twins	Roots Rock
141	Junkies and Hookers	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
142	Rooster	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
143	Another Life	Alabama Shakes	Roots Rock
144	She Wants to Go Dancing	Mt. Joy	Rock
145	Do You Want to	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
146	Cause of It All	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
147	Mama Bear	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
148	Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation	jasmine.4.t	Alternative Rock
149	Get It	Cardinals	Alternative Rock
150	Almost Home	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
151	Enough	Jeff Tweedy	Alternative Rock
152	Afterlife	(Sandy) Alex G	Alternative Rock
153	Dunes of Djoser	Arc De Soleil	Psychedelic
154	Paper Doll	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
155	Adagio	Σtella	Rock
156	Without the Medicine	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
157	Empty Trainload of Sky	Gillian Welch and David Rawlings	Roots Rock
158	No Particular Place to Go	Chuck Berry	Rock & Roll
159	Early Grave	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
160	Dirty Dishes Blues	Gary Clark Jr.	Rock
161	Cobra	Geese	Alternative Rock
162	Mona	Jonathan Terrell	Rock
163	Queen	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
164	Save Me Now	Wisp	Rock
165	Kinky	bby	Alternative Rock
166	I'm Tore Down	Eric Clapton	Pop Rock
167	Blame	Girl Tones	Alternative Rock
168	Steal Your Love	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
169	Thunderhead	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
170	Condensation	Sports Team	Alternative Rock
171	Oscar Winning Tears. (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)	RAYE	Pop Rock
172	You Are	LP Giobbi	Alternative Rock
173	The Sea	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
174	The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)	Gorillaz	Alternative Rock
175	Picture Window	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
176	Caroline	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
177	Disinfectant	Peter Perrett	Alternative Rock
178	Detour	La Sécurité	Rock
179	World's Worst Girlfriend	Shura	Alternative Rock
180	Blame It on Me	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
181	Let the Rains Fall	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
182	Test of Time	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
183	Feel It Coming	Grandmaster	Rock
184	Arrival	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
185	Departure	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
186	Wormwood	moe.	Rock
187	Solo Modelo	Jeffrey Foucault	Roots Rock
188	Face the Music	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
189	Stop Using My Love	The Sha La Das	Rock
190	Dance with a Stranger	Lake Street Dive	Alternative Rock
191	Courage My Love	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
192	Life is Just a Vapor	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
193	Riff Raft	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
194	Nice Shoes / in Your World	Steve Lacy	Alternative Rock
195	Hard to Love	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
196	Fallen Champions	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
197	Half As High	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
198	If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Eric Clapton)	Dion	Roots Rock
199	Memphis is a Calling	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
200	Memphis	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Rock & Roll

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Song Chart for the Year of 2025

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025