What was the top rock song of 2015?

Combining 9 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2015 is "Dreams" by Beck, which appeared on 7 of the lists.

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

The best rock songs of 2015

Nine radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2015: 91X, Live 105, 89X, CD101, SiriusXM Octane, Studio Brussel, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2015 is “Dreams” by Beck, which appeared on seven of the nine countdowns. Nine different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Stressed Out” by Twenty One Pilots, “Renegades” by X Ambassadors, “Tear In My Heart” by Twenty One Pilots, “My Type” by Saint Motel and “Jenny” by Nothing More and others. Tame Impala was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 12 times across the countdowns.

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443songs charted

9different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2015

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Ranked by combined points across every 2015 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Dreams Beck	555	7	#4	–
2	Let It Happen Tame Impala	448	5	#5	–
3	First Cold War Kids	417	5	#2	–
4	Dont Wanna Fight Alabama Shakes	414	6	#1	1
5	Dead Inside Muse	389	5	#5	–
6	Tear In My Heart Twenty One Pilots	368	4	#1	1
7	S.O.B. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	363	4	#1	1
8	Return To The Moon El Vy	335	5	#17	–
9	Renegades X Ambassadors	335	4	#1	1
10	Lampshades On Fire Modest Mouse	332	4	#3	–
11	Ex's & Oh's Elle King	319	4	#15	–
12	Sedona Houndmouth	314	4	#2	–
13	Black Sun Death Cab for Cutie	307	5	#4	–
14	Pedestrian At Best Courtney Barnett	307	5	#8	–
15	Mercy Muse	298	4	#1	1
16	Little Monster Royal Blood	287	4	#6	–
17	King Kunta Kendrick Lamar	287	4	#2	–
18	Moaning Lisa Smile Wolf Alice	278	5	#12	–
19	Electric Love Borns	275	4	#21	–
20	Stressed Out Twenty One Pilots	268	3	#1	1
21	Leave a Trace CHVRCHES	267	5	#20	–
22	The Less I Know the Better Tame Impala	266	3	#4	–
23	The Wolf Mumford & Sons	262	6	#10	–
24	Throne Bring Me the Horizon	260	4	#6	–
25	Mountain At My Gates Foals	258	3	#11	–
26	Nightlight Silversun Pickups	258	4	#18	–
27	Crystals Of Monsters And Men	244	4	#16	–
28	Hello Adele	239	4	#3	–
29	Ship to Wreck Florence + The Machine	239	4	#12	–
30	Nobody Really Cares If You Don't Go To The Party Courtney Barnett	228	5	#31	–
31	Loud Places Jamie xx	222	4	#14	–
32	Ship To Wreck Florence And The Machine	221	3	#16	–
33	Coming Home Leon Bridges	221	4	#10	–
34	The Ground Walks With Time In A Box Modest Mouse	201	4	#16	–
35	Molecules Atlas Genius	197	3	#7	–
36	Long Way Down Robert Delong	192	3	#11	–
37	Could Have Been Me The Struts	191	3	#3	–
38	Failure Breaking Benjamin	190	2	#3	–
39	Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) AWOLNATION	189	2	#5	–
40	Pretty Pimpin' Kurt Vile	184	2	#2	–
41	2 Heads Coleman Hell	176	3	#6	–
42	Footsteps Pop Evil	173	2	#4	–
43	Depreston Courtney Barnett	169	3	#17	–
44	Coming For You The Offspring	169	2	#4	–
45	All Your Favorite Bands Dawes	169	2	#3	–
46	Wherever Is Your Heart Brandi Carlile	168	2	#12	–
47	Weight Of Love The Black Keys	164	3	#14	–
48	Mess Around Cage The Elephant	162	3	#15	–
49	The Eye Brandi Carlile	162	2	#6	–
50	Cut the Cord Shinedown	160	2	#9	–
51	Uptown Funk Mark Ronson	159	2	#13	–
52	Make You Better The Decemberists	158	2	#19	–
53	24 Frames Jason Isbell	148	2	#11	–
54	Black Mambo Glass Animals	148	3	#39	–
55	The Party Line Belle & Sebastian	148	3	#25	–
56	What Kind Of Man Florence And The Machine	147	3	#10	–
57	Believe Mumford & Sons	145	3	#6	–
58	Every Other Freckle Alt J	142	2	#7	–
59	Congregation Foo Fighters	142	4	#27	–
60	Big Decisions My Morning Jacket	141	2	#19	–
61	Outta My Mind The Arcs	141	3	#24	–
62	My Type Saint Motel	140	2	#1	1
63	Shots Imagine Dragons	137	3	#14	–
64	I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) The Dead Weather	137	2	#14	–
65	Hallelujah Panic! at the Disco	134	2	#12	–
66	Bad Blood Ryan Adams	132	3	#24	–
67	Mess Is Mine Vance Joy	127	2	#25	–
68	Magnets Disclosure	124	2	#10	–
69	Should Have Known Better Sufjan Stevens	123	2	#16	–
70	Fire and the Flood Vance Joy	120	3	#16	–
71	Daffodils Mark Ronson	120	3	#44	–
72	Lydia Highly Suspect	114	2	#10	–
73	Eventually Tame Impala	111	2	#34	–
74	I Am AWOLNATION	109	2	#15	–
75	Nearly Forgot My Broken Heart Chris Cornell	109	2	#27	–
76	Greek Tragedy Wombats	108	2	#29	–
77	Go The Chemical Brothers	108	2	#43	–
78	Outside Foo Fighters	104	3	#31	–
79	Happy Song Bring Me the Horizon	102	2	#5	–
80	Things Happen Dawes	101	2	#16	–
81	The Ghosts Of Beverly Drive Death Cab for Cutie	101	3	#23	–
82	Jenny Nothing More	100	1	#1	1
83	Hoops The Rubens	100	1	#1	1
84	Suicide Saturday Hippo Campus	99	1	#2	–
85	Thank God For Girls Weezer	98	3	#25	–
86	Do You Remember Jarryd James	98	2	#7	–
87	Hungry Dotan	98	1	#2	–
88	Lean On Major Lazer & DJ Snake	98	1	#3	–
89	Uma Thurman Fall Out Boy	97	2	#17	–
90	Wash It All Away Five Finger Death Punch	97	1	#2	–
91	Bunker Balthazar	96	1	#3	–
92	Getting Ready to Get Down Josh Ritter	96	1	#5	–
93	Everything Is Wrong Interpol	95	2	#42	–
94	Dearly Departed Shakey Graves	95	1	#6	–
95	The Trouble with Us Marcus Marr & Chet Faker	95	1	#6	–
96	Smooth Sailin' Leon Bridges	95	2	#26	–
97	Midway Bad Bad Hats	94	1	#6	–
98	Joaquim Oscar and the Wolf	94	1	#4	–
99	Budapest George Ezra	93	1	#8	–
100	The Buzz Hermitude	93	1	#8	–

Every station’s number one of 2015

Station	Number one song	Countdown
91X	Stressed Out Twenty One Pilots	91X Top 91 Songs of 2015
Live 105	Renegades X Ambassadors	Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015
89X	Tear In My Heart Twenty One Pilots	89X Top 89 Songs of 2015
CD101	My Type Saint Motel	CD101 Top 102.5 Songs of 2015
SiriusXM Octane	Jenny Nothing More	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2015
Studio Brussel	Mercy Muse	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2015
The Current	Teeth White The Staves	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2015
WFUV	S.O.B. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2015
Triple J	Hoops The Rubens	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2015

All 2015 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2015 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 2015 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 nine qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.