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98KUPD Top 98 Countdown

RockLists has 9 editions of the 98KUPD Top 98 Countdown, from 2011 to 2025. Across all of them, the most successful song is “What Remains” by Pop Evil, which appears in 2 editions.

9editions

2011–2025years

9different #1s

6missing years

Every edition and its number one

Year	Countdown	Number one	Size
2011	Top 98 of 2011	Blame It On The Boom Boom Black Stone Cherry	98
2012	Top 98 of 2012	45 The Gaslight Anthem	98
2017	Top 98 of 2017	Atlas, Rise!Metallica	98
2018	Top 98 of 2018	Bulletproof Godsmack	98
2020	Top 98 of 2020	Antisocialist Asking Alexandria	98
2021	Top 98 of 2021	Trouble's Coming Royal Blood	98
2022	Top 98 of 2022	Voices in My Head Falling in Reverse	98
2024	Top 98 of 2024	Feedback A Day To Remember	98
2025	Top 98 of 2025	Bad Guy Falling in Reverse	98

Missing from the archive: 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2019, 2023. Have one of these?

How the top songs moved between editions

Each song’s position in every edition. A dash means it did not appear.

#	Song	'11	'12	'17	'18	'20	'21	'22	'24	'25
1	What Remains Pop Evil	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	5	8
2	Black Butterfly Scott Stapp	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	12	10
3	Heavy Is The Crown Linkin Park	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	25	4
4	Awaken Breaking Benjamin	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	23	7
5	The Emptiness Machine Linkin Park	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	11	20
6	Bad Guy Falling in Reverse	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	32	1
7	Betray and Degrade Seether	–	–	30	3	–	–	–	–	–
8	Trouble's Coming Royal Blood	–	–	–	–	34	1	–	–	–
9	New Way Out Poppy	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	30	12
10	Walls Come Down Seether	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	48	2
11	I Only Lie When I Love You Royal Blood	–	–	40	10	–	–	–	–	–
12	The Sky Is A Neighborhood Foo Fighters	–	–	19	31	–	–	–	–	–
13	Mayday Three Days Grace	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	46	5
14	Kill4me Marilyn Manson	–	–	35	17	–	–	–	–	–
15	Kill the Noise Papa Roach	–	–	–	–	–	52	4	–	–
16	Hunter's Moon Ghost	–	–	–	–	–	29	27	–	–
17	Shotgun Blues Volbeat	–	–	–	–	–	39	17	–	–
18	A Warrior's Call Volbeat	28	29	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
19	Living The Dream Five Finger Death Punch	–	–	–	–	55	4	–	–	–
20	Hometown Cleopatrick	–	–	–	–	62	5	–	–	–
21	Dead Inside Nita Strauss	–	–	–	–	–	45	23	–	–
22	Alone Again Asking Alexandria	–	–	–	–	–	12	57	–	–
23	Go to War Nothing More	–	–	3	66	–	–	–	–	–
24	Collapse Adelitas Way	18	52	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
25	Learn To Walk Again Bad Wolves	–	–	–	–	45	28	–	–	–
26	The Ending Papa Roach	–	–	–	–	60	14	–	–	–
27	So Called Life Three Days Grace	–	–	–	–	–	76	2	–	–
28	Face to the Floor Chevelle	45	33	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
29	Stuck In My Head Sleep Theory	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	63	17
30	Not Mad Enough Smith & Myers	–	–	–	–	63	17	–	–	–
31	Bullet In My Hand Redlight King	64	18	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
32	Breathe Again Pop Evil	–	–	–	–	80	3	–	–	–
33	Start The Healing Korn	–	–	–	–	–	73	10	–	–
34	Taking Me Back Jack White	–	–	–	–	–	70	14	–	–
35	That Fire Black Tide	13	73	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
36	Take Me Away Ayron Jones	–	–	–	–	53	33	–	–	–
37	Love Dies Young Foo Fighters	–	–	–	–	–	68	19	–	–
38	My Way, Soon Greta Van Fleet	–	–	–	–	58	30	–	–	–
39	Supercharged Ayron Jones	–	–	–	–	–	48	40	–	–
40	Not Again Staind	11	78	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
41	Animals Architects	–	–	–	–	79	11	–	–	–
42	Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb and So Am I)Stone Sour	–	–	61	29	–	–	–	–	–
43	They Don't Want What We Want Asking Alexandria	–	–	–	–	59	31	–	–	–
44	Trouble Five Finger Death Punch	–	–	55	35	–	–	–	–	–
45	The Last Time All That Remains	1	89	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
46	Fallen Volbeat	10	81	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
47	Blur Wage War	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	78	13
48	Teardrops Bring Me the Horizon	–	–	–	–	83	9	–	–	–
49	Detroit Badflower	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	34	58
50	Waking Lions Pop Evil	–	–	77	15	–	–	–	–	–
51	Get Up Korn	7	86	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
52	Undone Aranda	68	25	–	–	–	–	–	–	–
53	Shame Shame Foo Fighters	–	–	–	–	32	62	–	–	–
54	Lifeline Bad Wolves	–	–	–	–	–	47	47	–	–
55	The Dam Daughtry	–	–	–	–	–	–	–	75	22
56	The River Is Rising Slash	–	–	–	–	–	53	44	–	–
57	Safari Song Greta Van Fleet	–	–	91	7	–	–	–	–	–
58	Into the Fire Asking Alexandria	–	–	57	41	–	–	–	–	–
59	Built by Nations Greta Van Fleet	–	–	–	–	–	51	49	–	–
60	45 The Gaslight Anthem	–	1	–	–	–	–	–	–	–