Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · 18 countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2007

Q: What was the top rock song of 2007?

Combining 18 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2007 is "Icky Thump" by The White Stripes, which appeared on 18 of the lists.

18 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, 102.7 WEQX, 88.3 The Sting, KWOD, Studio Brussel, WBER, WXPN and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2007 is “Icky Thump” by The White Stripes, which appeared on 18 of the 18 countdowns and was voted number one by two of them. Twelve 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), “Icky Thump” by The White Stripes (2 stations) and “What I've Done” by Linkin Park and others. Muse was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 32 times across the countdowns.

18countdowns

717songs charted

12different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2007

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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	1,626	18	#1	2
2	Dashboard Modest Mouse	1,369	16	#2	–
3	The Pretender Foo Fighters	1,315	16	#1	2
4	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	1,117	14	#1	3
5	Read My Mind The Killers	1,078	14	#2	–
6	Tarantula The Smashing Pumpkins	1,071	16	#9	–
7	Hey There Delilah Plain White T's	1,054	13	#1	1
8	Starlight Muse	1,023	12	#1	3
9	What I've Done Linkin Park	971	11	#1	1
10	Hang Me Up to Dry Cold War Kids	961	13	#2	–
11	Phantom Limb The Shins	935	14	#3	–
12	The Heinrich Maneuver Interpol	915	15	#18	–
13	Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers	885	11	#6	–
14	Paralyzer Finger Eleven	862	10	#1	1
15	Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John	860	13	#4	–
16	Misery Business Paramore	854	11	#8	–
17	Supermassive Black Hole Muse	852	11	#3	–
18	Dig Incubus	828	11	#3	–
19	Bleed It Out Linkin Park	820	10	#8	–
20	Ruby Kaiser Chiefs	808	12	#2	–
21	Straight Lines Silverchair	742	13	#2	–
22	You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) The White Stripes	740	15	#22	–
23	Prayer of the Refugee Rise Against	729	9	#5	–
24	Capital G Nine Inch Nails	707	12	#23	–
25	Well Thought Out Twinkles Silversun Pickups	697	12	#11	–
26	Famous Last Words My Chemical Romance	682	12	#5	–
27	Time Won't Let Me Go The Bravery	679	11	#13	–
28	Big Casino Jimmy Eat World	678	14	#26	–
29	Forever Papa Roach	669	9	#3	–
30	Oil and Water Incubus	666	11	#13	–
31	Missed the Boat Modest Mouse	654	11	#4	–
32	Empty Walls Serj Tankian	643	10	#12	–
33	The Underdog Spoon	640	9	#3	–
34	Teenagers My Chemical Romance	639	12	#9	–
35	This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race Fall Out Boy	606	11	#18	–
36	From Yesterday 30 Seconds to Mars	605	10	#19	–
37	Thrash Unreal Against Me!	590	9	#15	–
38	Keep the Car Running The Arcade Fire	580	12	#13	–
39	Far Behind Social Distortion	568	10	#17	–
40	Anna Molly Incubus	566	10	#2	–
41	Face Down The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus	561	8	#8	–
42	Never Too Late Three Days Grace	540	7	#4	–
43	Thnks Fr Th Mmrs Fall Out Boy	522	8	#8	–
44	Breath Breaking Benjamin	511	6	#2	–
45	Shadow of the Day Linkin Park	493	9	#22	–
46	1234 Feist	492	9	#2	–
47	Rehab Amy Winehouse	484	7	#3	–
48	Flathead The Fratellis	468	8	#9	–
49	Fake It Seether	461	7	#12	–
50	Working Class Hero Green Day	454	11	#27	–
51	Hard Sun Eddie Vedder	452	12	#19	–
52	Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance	446	6	#7	–
53	Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters	445	10	#29	–
54	I Still Remember Bloc Party	442	10	#36	–
55	You Are the One Shiny Toy Guns	440	7	#6	–
56	Everything's Magic Angels & Airwaves	437	10	#35	–
57	Survivalism Nine Inch Nails	432	11	#23	–
58	The Pot Tool	432	6	#10	–
59	Say This Sooner The Almost	431	9	#20	–
60	On Call Kings of Leon	425	7	#3	–
61	Knights of Cydonia Muse	421	5	#1	1
62	The Bird and the Worm The Used	412	8	#4	–
63	Back in Your Head Tegan and Sara	405	8	#15	–
64	Naïve The Kooks	402	10	#5	–
65	When You Were Young The Killers	397	5	#6	–
66	All Around Me Flyleaf	396	7	#31	–
67	Australia The Shins	360	6	#8	–
68	Fluorescent Adolescent Arctic Monkeys	357	6	#11	–
69	3's and 7's Queens of the Stone Age	354	8	#25	–
70	Believe The Bravery	344	7	#21	–
71	Think I'm in Love Beck	340	5	#7	–
72	Timebomb Beck	336	6	#6	–
73	Pain Three Days Grace	321	8	#11	–
74	Grace Kelly Mika	320	4	#1	1
75	The Good Left Undone Rise Against	319	7	#14	–
76	Wolf Like Me TV on the Radio	308	6	#6	–
77	Love Like Winter AFI	307	6	#25	–
78	Shadowplay The Killers	299	9	#36	–
79	No Cars Go The Arcade Fire	298	6	#7	–
80	All the Same Sick Puppies	296	5	#8	–
81	The Kill 30 Seconds to Mars	295	4	#12	–
82	Stiff Kittens Blaqk Audio	287	8	#39	–
83	Typical Mutemath	286	8	#39	–
84	Well Enough Alone Chevelle	271	5	#22	–
85	O Valencia! The Decemberists	260	4	#12	–
86	She Builds Quick Machines Velvet Revolver	255	7	#22	–
87	The Prayer Bloc Party	250	5	#20	–
88	Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers	246	3	#18	–
89	Honest Goodbye Bad Religion	245	6	#42	–
90	Evolution Korn	242	6	#25	–
91	Jesus Brand New	240	7	#21	–
92	Bodysnatchers Radiohead	238	6	#27	–
93	Sick, Sick, Sick Queens of the Stone Age	233	8	#39	–
94	Fallen Leaves Billy Talent	228	3	#10	–
95	North American Scum LCD Soundsystem	227	5	#9	–
96	The Missing Frame AFI	226	6	#29	–
97	Chelsea Dagger The Fratellis	226	4	#4	–
98	It's Not Over Daughtry	225	3	#24	–
99	Ready to Fall Rise Against	219	3	#18	–
100	Let Me In Hot Hot Heat	218	7	#42	–

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
102.7 WEQX	Icky Thump The White Stripes	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2007
88.3 The Sting	Shadowplay The Killers	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2007
KWOD	Icky Thump White Stripes	KWOD Top 106 Songs of 2007
Studio Brussel	You Don't Know Milow	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2007
WBER	Grace Kelly Mika	WBER Listener Countdown 2007
WXPN	Impossible Germany Wilco	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 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 18 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.