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The best rock songs of 2007

Q: What was the top rock song of 2007?

Combining 13 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2007 is "Icky Thump" by The White Stripes, which appeared on 13 of the lists.

13 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2007: KROQ, 91X, Live 105, Q101, WFNX, 107.7 The End, 89X, CD101, CFNY 102.1 The Edge, CHOI Radio X, WCCC The Rock, Studio Brussel and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2007 is “Icky Thump” by The White Stripes, which appeared on 13 of the 13 countdowns. Eight different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Starlight” by Muse (3 stations), “Lazy Eye” by Silversun Pickups (3 stations), “The Pretender” by Foo Fighters (2 stations), “What I've Done” by Linkin Park and “Surrender” by Billy Talent and others. Muse was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 27 times across the countdowns.

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Ranked by combined points across every 2007 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Icky Thump The White Stripes	1,154	13	#2	–
2	The Pretender Foo Fighters	1,010	12	#1	2
3	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	929	12	#1	3
4	Dashboard Modest Mouse	889	11	#3	–
5	Starlight Muse	869	10	#1	3
6	Tarantula The Smashing Pumpkins	826	12	#9	–
7	Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers	825	10	#6	–
8	Read My Mind The Killers	797	10	#2	–
9	What I've Done Linkin Park	796	9	#1	1
10	Hey There Delilah Plain White T's	791	10	#4	–
11	Misery Business Paramore	675	9	#9	–
12	Bleed It Out Linkin Park	670	8	#8	–
13	Phantom Limb The Shins	664	10	#3	–
14	Straight Lines Silverchair	641	11	#2	–
15	Famous Last Words My Chemical Romance	608	11	#5	–
16	Dig Incubus	603	8	#3	–
17	Hang Me Up to Dry Cold War Kids	599	9	#2	–
18	Paralyzer Finger Eleven	591	8	#1	1
19	Prayer of the Refugee Rise Against	585	7	#5	–
20	Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John	582	9	#6	–
21	Supermassive Black Hole Muse	579	8	#7	–
22	Face Down The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	561	8	#8	–
23	The Heinrich Maneuver Interpol	558	10	#18	–
24	Empty Walls Serj Tankian	553	9	#14	–
25	Teenagers My Chemical Romance	548	11	#27	–
26	Anna Molly Incubus	539	8	#2	–
27	Big Casino Jimmy Eat World	519	10	#26	–
28	Thrash Unreal Against Me!	516	8	#15	–
29	Ruby Kaiser Chiefs	508	8	#2	–
30	Capital G Nine Inch Nails	507	8	#23	–
31	Time Won't Let Me Go The Bravery	493	8	#13	–
32	Forever Papa Roach	491	7	#3	–
33	This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Fall Out Boy	491	9	#18	–
34	From Yesterday 30 Seconds to Mars	489	8	#19	–
35	Far Behind Social Distortion	472	8	#17	–
36	Well Thought Out Twinkles Silversun Pickups	470	9	#11	–
37	Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance	446	6	#7	–
38	The Pot Tool	432	6	#10	–
39	Shadow of the Day Linkin Park	431	8	#22	–
40	Knights of Cydonia Muse	421	5	#1	1
41	When You Were Young The Killers	397	5	#6	–
42	Oil and Water Incubus	393	7	#19	–
43	Never Too Late Three Days Grace	390	5	#4	–
44	Keep the Car Running The Arcade Fire	388	9	#14	–
45	Fake It Seether	375	6	#12	–
46	Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters	367	8	#29	–
47	I Still Remember Bloc Party	360	7	#36	–
48	Breath Breaking Benjamin	350	4	#2	–
49	All Around Me Flyleaf	342	6	#31	–
50	The Underdog Spoon	335	5	#3	–
51	Survivalism Nine Inch Nails	334	9	#23	–
52	Everything's Magic Angels & Airwaves	329	7	#35	–
53	You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do What You're Told) The White Stripes	322	7	#42	–
54	Naïve The Kooks	311	8	#5	–
55	On Call Kings of Leon	309	5	#3	–
56	Pain Three Days Grace	306	7	#11	–
57	Missed the Boat Modest Mouse	305	6	#4	–
58	You Are the One Shiny Toy Guns	304	5	#6	–
59	Working Class Hero Green Day	303	8	#27	–
60	3's and 7's Queens of the Stone Age	300	6	#25	–
61	1234 Feist	295	6	#15	–
62	The Kill 30 Seconds to Mars	295	4	#12	–
63	Flathead The Fratellis	291	5	#9	–
64	Fluorescent Adolescent Arctic Monkeys	287	5	#11	–
65	Love Like Winter AFI	282	5	#25	–
66	Say This Sooner The Almost	281	6	#29	–
67	Believe The Bravery	277	6	#21	–
68	Hard Sun Eddie Vedder	273	9	#43	–
69	All the Same Sick Puppies	259	4	#8	–
70	The Bird and the Worm The Used	253	6	#20	–
71	Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers	246	3	#18	–
72	Think I'm in Love Beck	231	3	#7	–
73	Evolution Korn	229	5	#25	–
74	Fallen Leaves Billy Talent	228	3	#10	–
75	Stiff Kittens Blaqk Audio	228	7	#39	–
76	Shadowplay The Killers	225	5	#36	–
77	It's Not Over Daughtry	225	3	#24	–
78	Ready to Fall Rise Against	219	3	#18	–
79	The Good Left Undone Rise Against	218	5	#38	–
80	Almost Easy Avenged Sevenfold	216	4	#2	–
81	Underclass Hero Sum 41	211	4	#15	–
82	Rehab Amy Winehouse	206	3	#4	–
83	Sick, Sick, Sick Queens of the Stone Age	205	7	#39	–
84	Back in Your Head Tegan and Sara	199	5	#39	–
85	Let Me In Hot Hot Heat	198	6	#42	–
86	Australia The Shins	198	4	#18	–
87	Everything Buckcherry	193	4	#33	–
88	Typical Mutemath	190	6	#39	–
89	I Get It Chevelle	188	3	#34	–
90	Surrender Billy Talent	187	2	#1	1
91	Well Enough Alone Chevelle	185	3	#22	–
92	Jesus Brand New	181	6	#21	–
93	Timebomb Beck	180	4	#36	–
94	She Builds Quick Machines Velvet Revolver	179	6	#36	–
95	The Prayer Bloc Party	173	4	#20	–
96	So Hott Kid Rock	172	5	#39	–
97	Fidelity Regina Spektor	172	3	#25	–
98	Bodysnatchers Radiohead	166	4	#27	–
99	I Don't Wanna Stop Ozzy Osbourne	162	2	#15	–
100	Satellite Guster	160	3	#23	–

Every station’s number one of 2007

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KROQ	The Pretender Foo Fighters	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2007
91X	The Pretender Foo Fighters	91X Top 91 Songs of 2007
Live 105	Starlight Muse	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007
Q101	What I've Done Linkin Park	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2007
WFNX	Starlight Muse	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2007
107.7 The End	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	The End Top 107 Songs of 2007
89X	Starlight Muse	89X Top 89 Songs of 2007
CD101	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2007
CFNY 102.1 The Edge	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	102.1 The Edge Top 102 Songs of 2007
CHOI Radio X	Surrender Billy Talent	CHOI Top 101 Songs of 2007
WCCC The Rock	Paralyzer Finger Eleven	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2007
Studio Brussel	You Don't Know Milow	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2007
Triple J	Knights of Cydonia Muse	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2007

All 2007 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2007 ranking

Radio stations count down their listeners’ favorite songs at the end of every year. Each station’s list reflects its own audience, so a song that ruled Los Angeles could miss the top ten in Chicago. To find the songs that defined 2007 everywhere, RockLists gives every appearance percentile-based points (a number one earns 100, the last position earns close to zero) and adds them up across all 13 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.