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The 2025 year-end countdowns

Every December, rock stations count down their listeners’ favorite songs of the year. This page follows the 2025 season as the countdowns come in: 23 countdowns so far, with 4 stations that counted down 2024 still to come. Combining them, the song of 2025 right now is “catch these fists” by Wet Leg.

23 of 27 expected countdowns are in. Heard one that is missing? Send it in.

The combined 2025 ranking so far

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Points from every 2025 alternative countdown, added up. It changes as each station’s list arrives.

  1. 1catch these fistsWet Leg6 lists
  2. 2As Alive As You Need to BeNine Inch Nails5 lists
  3. 3back to friendssombr5 lists
  4. 4MessyLola Young4 lists
  5. 5EnsenadaSublime4 lists
  6. 6Sally, When The Wine Runs OutRole Model4 lists
  7. 7NEVER ENOUGHTurnstile5 lists
  8. 8Everybody ScreamFlorence And The Machine5 lists
  9. 9moodyRoyel Otis5 lists
  10. 10This Is The Killer SpeakingLast Dinner Party4 lists
  11. 11RushmereMumford & Sons4 lists
  12. 12mangetoutWet Leg6 lists
  13. 13FavoriteFontaines D.C.3 lists
  14. 14Today's SongFoo Fighters3 lists
  15. 15Archbishop Harold HolmesJack White4 lists
  16. 16ArrowThe Head and the Heart3 lists
  17. 17Up From The BottomLinkin Park3 lists
  18. 18What Was ThatLorde5 lists
  19. 19The ContractTwenty One Pilots3 lists
  20. 20So Far So FakePierce The Veil3 lists
  21. 21DraculaTame Impala3 lists
  22. 22Bobby SoxGreen Day4 lists
  23. 23Same Old SongLumineers4 lists
  24. 24Basic Being BasicDjo3 lists
  25. 25MetaverseCage The Elephant4 lists

Countdowns in

StationCountdownNumber oneSongs
102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) Top 102.7 of 2025 Messy Lola Young 103
107.1 The Peak Westchester County, NY Top 107 Songs of 2025 Madalena Goose 107
88.3 The Sting Cleveland, OH Top 88 Songs of 2025 Glide NEIKED 88
90.5 WERG Erie, PA Top 90 of 2025 Ensenada Sublime 90
90.9 The Bridge Kansas City, MO Top 90 Songs of 2025 catch these fists Wet Leg 90
91.3 The Summit Akron, OH Top 91 Songs of 2025 Grown Now D.K. Harrell 91
93X Minneapolis-Saint Paul, MN Top 25 Songs of 2025 NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile 25
98KUPD Phoenix, AZ Top 98 of 2025 Bad Guy Falling in Reverse 98
Exit 97.7 Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY Top 106 of 2025 You Won't Dig My Grave Josh Ritter 106
Indie 102.3 Denver, CO Top 102.3 Songs of 2025 It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C. 103
KALX 90.7 San Francisco Bay Area 300 Most Played New Songs in 2025 Hyperglyph Chicago Underground Duo 300
KXT Dallas–Fort Worth, TX Top 91 Songs of 2025 Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose Father John Misty 91
Lightning 100 Nashville, TN Top 200 Songs of 2025 Pyramid Scheme Hurray For The Riff Raff 200
The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC Top 99 Songs of 2025 NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile 99
The Current Minneapolis-St. Paul, MN Top 89 Songs of 2025 Man On A Mission The Black Keys 89
Triple J Australia (national) Hottest 100 of 2025 Man I Need Olivia Dean 100
WBER Rochester, NY Listener Countdown 2025 catch these fists Wet Leg 57
WERS 88.9 Boston, MA Top 88 Songs of 2025 Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine 88
WFUV New York, NY Top 90 Songs of 2025 mangetout Wet Leg 90
WNXP 91.ONE Nashville, TN 91 Most Played Songs of 2025 It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C. 91
WTMD Baltimore, MD Top 89 Songs of 2025 City Lights Seven Teller 90
WXPN Philadelphia, PA Top 100 Songs of 2025 The World's Gone Wrong Lucinda Williams 100
WYEP Pittsburgh, PA Top 91 Songs of 2025 Horses Jesse Welles 91

Still to come

These stations published a 2024 year-end countdown, but their 2025 list is not in the archive yet.