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	Magic of the Sale	Teethe	Alternative Rock
76	This Life As We Know It	Warren Haynes	Roots Rock
77	Switch over	Horsegirl	Alternative Rock
78	Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth)	Dion	Roots Rock
79	Ginkgo	Panchiko	Alternative Rock
80	Broken Glass	Neal Francis	Alternative Rock
81	Deep Dish Grit	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
82	Little Black Dress	Francis of Delirium	Alternative Rock
83	I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings)	Amythyst Kiah	Roots Rock
84	Big River	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
85	Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
86	Three Days	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
87	Gotta Get Back to New Orleans	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
88	It's a Mirror	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
89	Orlando in Love	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
90	Bad Information	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
91	Same Old Song	The Lumineers	Alternative Rock
92	Rockin' Bones	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
93	School of Rock and Roll	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
94	Break Up with Everything	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Alternative Rock
95	All in My Head	The Linda Lindas	Alternative Rock
96	Good While It Lasted	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
97	Life Signs	Water From Your Eyes	Alternative Rock
98	Enough is Enough	The Hives	Rock
99	Spanish Fly	Van Halen	Hard Rock
100	Easy Love, Pt. 1	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
101	When It Snows in Texas	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
102	Luxury Television	Gus Baldwin & The Sketch	Punk Rock
103	Lose You	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
104	Back to Me	The Marías	Rock
105	I'm Done Runnin'	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
106	Little Bit	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
107	Green Light	Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors	Roots Rock
108	Born Runnin' Outta Time	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Roots Rock
109	Bai Lan (Let It Rot)	Jonas Wilson	Alternative Rock
110	Tanana	Portugal. The Man	Alternative Rock
111	Pleasure Point	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
112	Wildflower	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
113	What is the Reason for It? (feat. Hayley Williams)	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
114	Backseat Banton	Bartees Strange	Alternative Rock
115	First Came the Thunder (feat. Qiensave)	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
116	That and $20	Shinyribs	Roots Rock
117	Deadstick	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Alternative Rock
118	Just As Long As We're Together	Jalen Ngonda	Rock
119	Ride to Robert's	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
120	Nothing Above You	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
121	Incomprehensible	Big Thief	Roots Rock
122	It's a Good Day to Be Alive	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
123	Life Behind Bars	Vandoliers	Roots Rock
124	Bombora	The Atlantics	Surf
125	Country Brat	Patton Magee	Alternative Rock
126	Die Your Daughter	Susannah Joffe	Alternative Rock
127	Road Trip	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
128	I Forget (I’m So Young)	Sofie Royer	Alternative Rock
129	GRIN	Sophia Warren	Alternative Rock
130	Fly	Half Dream	Rock
131	Maggie's Farm	Rage Against the Machine	Rock
132	After the Setting Sun	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
133	Blue and Gray	Dulcie Taylor	Roots Rock
134	Pearls	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
135	Overlander	The Budos Band	Psychedelic
136	Patterns	Laura Marling	Alternative Rock
137	Plover	Variety	Alternative Rock
138	Not Gonna Miss You	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
139	Wyoming Bound	3 Twins	Roots Rock
140	Junkies and Hookers	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
141	Rooster	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
142	Another Life	Alabama Shakes	Roots Rock
143	She Wants to Go Dancing	Mt. Joy	Rock
144	Do You Want to	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
145	Cause of It All	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
146	Mama Bear	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
147	Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation	jasmine.4.t	Alternative Rock
148	Get It	Cardinals	Alternative Rock
149	Almost Home	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
150	Enough	Jeff Tweedy	Alternative Rock
151	Afterlife	(Sandy) Alex G	Alternative Rock
152	Dunes of Djoser	Arc De Soleil	Psychedelic
153	Paper Doll	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
154	Adagio	Σtella	Rock
155	Without the Medicine	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
156	Empty Trainload of Sky	Gillian Welch and David Rawlings	Roots Rock
157	No Particular Place to Go	Chuck Berry	Rock & Roll
158	Early Grave	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
159	Dirty Dishes Blues	Gary Clark Jr.	Rock
160	Cobra	Geese	Alternative Rock
161	Mona	Jonathan Terrell	Rock
162	Queen	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
163	Save Me Now	Wisp	Rock
164	Kinky	bby	Alternative Rock
165	I'm Tore Down	Eric Clapton	Pop Rock
166	Blame	Girl Tones	Alternative Rock
167	Steal Your Love	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
168	Thunderhead	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
169	Condensation	Sports Team	Alternative Rock
170	Oscar Winning Tears. (Live at the Royal Albert Hall)	RAYE	Pop Rock
171	You Are	LP Giobbi	Alternative Rock
172	The Sea	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
173	The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)	Gorillaz	Alternative Rock
174	Picture Window	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
175	Caroline	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
176	Disinfectant	Peter Perrett	Alternative Rock
177	Detour	La Sécurité	Rock
178	World's Worst Girlfriend	Shura	Alternative Rock
179	Blame It on Me	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
180	Let the Rains Fall	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
181	Test of Time	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
182	Feel It Coming	Grandmaster	Rock
183	Arrival	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
184	Departure	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
185	Wormwood	moe.	Rock
186	Solo Modelo	Jeffrey Foucault	Roots Rock
187	Face the Music	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
188	Stop Using My Love	The Sha La Das	Rock
189	Dance with a Stranger	Lake Street Dive	Alternative Rock
190	Courage My Love	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
191	Life is Just a Vapor	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
192	Riff Raft	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
193	Nice Shoes / in Your World	Steve Lacy	Alternative Rock
194	Hard to Love	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
195	Fallen Champions	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
196	Half As High	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
197	If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Eric Clapton)	Dion	Roots Rock
198	Memphis is a Calling	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
199	Memphis	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Rock & Roll
200	Rolling in Again	Roger Street Friedman	Roots 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