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

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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