Year-end consensus · Hard Rock & Metal · two countdowns combined

The best hard rock songs of 2014

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2014?

Combining 2 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2014 is "Wrong Side of Heaven" by Five Finger Death Punch, which appeared on 2 of the lists.

Two radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2014: 94.3 KILO and SiriusXM Octane. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2014 is “Wrong Side of Heaven” by Five Finger Death Punch, which appeared on two of the two countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Two different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Romantic Dreams” by Deftones and “This Is the Time (Ballast)” by Nothing More. Seether was the year’s most-charted artist, with two different songs placing 3 times across the countdowns.

2countdowns

53songs charted

2different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2014

Ranked by combined points across every 2014 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Wrong Side of Heaven Five Finger Death Punch	193	2	#1	1
2	The Devil in I Slipknot	192	2	#2	–
3	Words as Weapons Seether	184	2	#2	–
4	My Demons Starset	183	2	#4	–
5	Something Different Godsmack	163	2	#5	–
6	Moth HELLYEAH	154	2	#6	–
7	Breaking Skin Nonpoint	141	2	#6	–
8	This Means War Avenged Sevenfold	126	2	#8	–
9	Painkiller Three Days Grace	118	2	#15	–
10	Hater Korn	117	2	#9	–
11	Sick Like Me In This Moment	103	2	#12	–
12	This Is the Time (Ballast) Nothing More	100	1	#1	1
13	Rainbow In The Dark Corey Taylor	85	1	#7	–
14	Would You Still Be There Of Mice & Men	83	2	#21	–
15	Room to Breathe You Me at Six	80	1	#7	–
16	Take the Bullets Away We as Human	78	2	#16	–
17	Rebellion Linkin Park	78	1	#10	–
18	Torn to Pieces Pop Evil	77	1	#8	–
19	I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore Rise Against	75	1	#11	–
20	Drop Dead Cynical Amaranthe	70	1	#10	–
21	Dead But Rising Volbeat	70	1	#13	–
22	Guilty All The Same Linkin Park	68	1	#14	–
23	Moving On Asking Alexandria	63	1	#12	–
24	Same Damn Life Seether	63	1	#16	–
25	The Last One Alive Demon Hunter	60	1	#13	–
26	Sangre Por Sangre HELLYEAH	60	1	#17	–
27	Respect Devour the Day	57	2	#25	–
28	Villainy Thrives Trivium	57	1	#14	–
29	Take Out the Gunman Chevelle	56	2	#24	–
30	This Is The Time Nothing More	55	1	#19	–
31	Heaven Knows The Pretty Reckless	53	1	#20	–
32	I Am Machine Three Days Grace	48	1	#22	–
33	Stars Sixx A.M.	47	1	#17	–
34	Break Down The Walls Asking Alexandria	45	1	#23	–
35	Reincarnate Motionless in White	43	2	#24	–
36	Darker Side of the Moon Otherwise	40	1	#19	–
37	Something From Nothing Foo Fighters	38	1	#26	–
38	House Of The Rising Sun Five Finger Death Punch	35	1	#27	–
39	1000HP Godsmack	33	1	#28	–
40	World On Fire Slash	30	1	#29	–
41	Hail the Apocalypse Avatar	29	2	#29	–
42	Drown Theory of a Deadman	27	1	#23	–
43	Spike In My Veins Korn	25	1	#31	–
44	Wish You Hell Like a Storm	20	1	#25	–
45	The Hate Song Soil	18	1	#34	–
46	Nowhere to Hide Crobot	15	1	#35	–
47	Sleepwalking Bring Me the Horizon	13	1	#36	–
48	Doc Holliday Volbeat	10	1	#28	–
49	One More Body Hed P.E.	10	1	#37	–
50	Coming For You Twelve Foot Ninja	8	1	#38	–
51	Beaten In Lips Beartooth	5	1	#39	–
52	Drown Bring Me the Horizon	3	1	#30	–
53	Romantic Dreams Deftones	3	1	#40	–

Every station’s number one of 2014

Station	Number one song	Countdown
94.3 KILO	Romantic Dreams Deftones	KILO 2014 Top 40 Rock Countdown
SiriusXM Octane	This Is the Time (Ballast) Nothing More	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2014

All 2014 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2014 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 2014 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 two qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the hard rock results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.