Decade consensus · Hard Rock & Metal · 18 year-end countdowns + 2 decade countdowns

The best hard rock songs of the 2010s

This ranking of the 2010s combines 18 year-end countdowns from 2010 through 2019 with two “songs of the decade” countdowns aired by 93X and KISW. The top song of the '10s is “Devil” by Shinedown, which charted on 6 countdowns and reached number one one times. The decade’s most-charted artists are Five Finger Death Punch, Shinedown, Godsmack, Papa Roach and Seether.

694songs charted

18year-end countdowns

2decade countdowns

Top 100 songs of the '10s

Top 1000 →

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Year
1	Devil Shinedown	495	6	#1	1	2018
2	Bulletproof Godsmack	494	6	#1	1	2018
3	Zombie Bad Wolves	488	6	#1	1	2018
4	Help Papa Roach	415	5	#2	–	2017
5	Are You Ready Disturbed	403	6	#3	–	2018
6	When Legends Rise Godsmack	398	6	#1	1	2018
7	Highway Tune Greta Van Fleet	379	6	#4	–	2017
8	Sham Pain Five Finger Death Punch	366	5	#6	–	2018
9	Song #3 Stone Sour	364	5	#2	–	2017
10	Ghost Badflower	353	5	#9	–	2018
11	Rats Ghost	330	5	#2	–	2018
12	Go to War Nothing More	329	4	#1	1	2017
13	Red Cold River Breaking Benjamin	316	4	#7	–	2018
14	Judas Fozzy	315	5	#1	1	2017
15	My Name Is Human Highly Suspect	310	4	#1	1	2016
16	The Mountain Three Days Grace	297	4	#9	–	2018
17	Little One Highly Suspect	296	4	#6	–	2017
18	Wrong Side of Heaven Five Finger Death Punch	289	3	#1	1	2014
19	Alone in a Room Asking Alexandria	287	3	#2	–	2018
20	The Sound of Silence Disturbed	282	3	#1	1	2016
21	Love Falls HELLYEAH	277	3	#2	–	2017
22	Betray and Degrade Seether	277	4	#3	–	2017
23	Lights Out Royal Blood	269	3	#5	–	2017
24	The Sky Is A Neighborhood Foo Fighters	266	5	#19	–	2017
25	Mantra Bring Me the Horizon	259	4	#7	–	2018
26	Gone Away Five Finger Death Punch	258	5	#6	–	2018
27	Show Yourself Mastodon	258	4	#5	–	2017
28	My Demons Starset	253	3	#4	–	2014
29	When The Curtain Falls Greta Van Fleet	252	3	#4	–	2018
30	All Out Life Slipknot	252	3	#5	–	2018
31	The Devil in I Slipknot	247	3	#2	–	2014
32	The Resistance Skillet	246	5	#18	–	2017
33	Disease Beartooth	243	4	#4	–	2018
34	Anti-Everything Ded	239	3	#7	–	2017
35	Deathwish Red Sun Rising	237	4	#10	–	2018
36	Hear Me Now Bad Wolves	235	4	#14	–	2018
37	Do You Really Want It? Nothing More	232	3	#13	–	2018
38	Uncomfortable Halestorm	230	3	#8	–	2018
39	Blue on Black Five Finger Death Punch	229	3	#3	–	2019
40	Let You Down Seether	229	3	#10	–	2017
41	Alone I Prevail	227	4	#5	–	2017
42	Now That We're Dead Metallica	226	3	#6	–	2017
43	American Dreams Papa Roach	226	3	#5	–	2017
44	Torn In Two Breaking Benjamin	226	3	#9	–	2018
45	Kill4me Marilyn Manson	217	4	#17	–	2017
46	Infra-Red Three Days Grace	216	4	#16	–	2018
47	Crazy From Ashes to New	212	4	#1	1	2018
48	Hardwired Metallica	211	4	#2	–	2016
49	Meadow Stone Temple Pilots	208	4	#2	–	2018
50	Rx Theory of a Deadman	206	3	#4	–	2017
51	Monster Starset	196	3	#9	–	2017
52	Dance Macabre Ghost	194	4	#20	–	2018
53	Monsters Shinedown	188	3	#1	1	2019
54	What It Is Jonathan Davis	187	3	#12	–	2018
55	Words as Weapons Seether	184	2	#2	–	2014
56	Novacaine 10 Years	184	4	#13	–	2017
57	The Violence Rise Against	182	2	#7	–	2017
58	Nightmare Avenged Sevenfold	179	2	#2	–	2010
59	Wash It All Away Five Finger Death Punch	177	2	#2	–	2015
60	Waking Lions Pop Evil	175	3	#11	–	2017
61	Oh Lord In This Moment	175	2	#10	–	2017
62	Walk Foo Fighters	175	3	#1	1	2011
63	Black Rose Volbeat	175	2	#3	–	2017
64	Roll Me Under Stone Temple Pilots	174	3	#9	–	2018
65	Trouble Five Finger Death Punch	174	3	#12	–	2017
66	Get Up Shinedown	173	2	#2	–	2018
67	Hail to the King Avenged Sevenfold	173	2	#4	–	2013
68	Feel Invincible Skillet	172	3	#14	–	2016
69	These Days Foo Fighters	171	3	#9	–	2011
70	Dark Necessities Red Hot Chili Peppers	168	2	#5	–	2016
71	Safari Song Greta Van Fleet	166	4	#7	–	2018
72	Atlas, Rise! Metallica	166	3	#1	1	2017
73	Still Counting Volbeat	164	2	#15	–	2012
74	Something Different Godsmack	163	2	#5	–	2014
75	I Only Lie When I Love You Royal Blood	162	3	#10	–	2017
76	I Apologize Five Finger Death Punch	162	2	#9	–	2017
77	Run Foo Fighters	161	3	#13	–	2017
78	Cut the Cord Shinedown	159	2	#9	–	2015
79	Back to the River The Pretty Reckless	159	3	#7	–	2017
80	16 Highly Suspect	157	3	#6	–	2019
81	Madness All That Remains	156	2	#19	–	2017
82	The Way You Used To Do Queens of the Stone Age	156	3	#17	–	2017
83	Moth HELLYEAH	154	2	#6	–	2014
84	Seal the Deal Volbeat	152	2	#2	–	2017
85	Throne Bring Me the Horizon	152	2	#6	–	2015
86	Rx (Medicate) Theory of a Deadman	151	2	#7	–	2017
87	Lydia Highly Suspect	150	2	#10	–	2015
88	Into the Fire Asking Alexandria	149	3	#17	–	2017
89	A Warrior's Call Volbeat	147	3	#28	–	2011
90	A Crime to Remember Pop Evil	146	2	#19	–	2018
91	Still Breathing Green Day	146	2	#3	–	2016
92	How Did You Love Shinedown	146	2	#12	–	2017
93	Black Honey Thrice	145	2	#5	–	2017
94	Diamond Eyes Shinedown	143	2	#6	–	2011
95	Dirty Sevendust	143	3	#22	–	2018
96	I Miss the Misery Halestorm	142	3	#14	–	2012
97	Breaking Skin Nonpoint	141	2	#6	–	2014
98	Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb and So Am I) Stone Sour	140	3	#29	–	2017
99	Driving Rain Slash	139	3	#10	–	2018
100	Oh My God The Pretty Reckless	139	2	#25	–	2017

Station countdowns of the '10s

Listener-voted “best of the decade” countdowns as broadcast.

About this ranking

The 2010s ranking adds together two kinds of evidence: the year-end countdowns from each year of the decade, and the retrospective “songs of the decade” countdowns that stations aired afterwards. Year-end lists capture what listeners loved at the time; decade countdowns capture what lasted. Every appearance earns percentile-based points, and the totals are ranked. See the methodology for details.