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The best rock songs of 2017

Q: What was the top rock song of 2017?

Combining 6 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2017 is "Feel It Still" by Portugal. The Man, which appeared on 5 of the lists.

Six radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2017: 91X, CFNY 102.1 The Edge, SiriusXM Octane, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2017 is “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man, which appeared on five of the six countdowns and was voted number one by two of them. Five different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Feel It Still” by Portugal. The Man (2 stations), “Knocking at the Door” by Arkells, “Go to War” by Nothing More, “Love” by Lana Del Rey and “Humble” by Kendrick Lamar. The Arcade Fire was the year’s most-charted artist, with two different songs placing 8 times across the countdowns.

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Ranked by combined points across every 2017 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Feel It Still Portugal. The Man	469	5	#1	2
2	The Man The Killers	303	4	#6	–
3	Everything Now The Arcade Fire	288	4	#6	–
4	Up All Night Beck	270	4	#13	–
5	The Way You Used To Do Queens of the Stone Age	263	4	#4	–
6	Green Light Lorde	232	3	#6	–
7	No Roots Alice Merton	230	4	#3	–
8	Creature Comfort The Arcade Fire	224	4	#6	–
9	Lay it On Me Vance Joy	224	3	#9	–
10	Hot Thoughts Spoon	218	3	#13	–
11	The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness The National	217	3	#4	–
12	If We Were Vampires Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit	198	2	#1	1
13	HUMBLE. Kendrick Lamar	197	2	#1	1
14	New York St. Vincent	192	2	#2	–
15	Angela Lumineers	174	3	#12	–
16	Die Young Sylvan Esso	169	2	#8	–
17	Pain The War On Drugs	166	2	#8	–
18	Don't Delete The Kisses Wolf Alice	163	2	#9	–
19	Call The Police LCD Soundsystem	162	3	#12	–
20	Shine On Me Dan Auerbach	161	2	#14	–
21	May I Have This Dance (remix) Francis and the Lights	150	2	#11	–
22	Los Ageless St. Vincent	150	2	#11	–
23	Little One Highly Suspect	149	2	#6	–
24	Holding On The War On Drugs	145	3	#32	–
25	The Violence Rise Against	140	2	#10	–
26	Thunder Imagine Dragons	138	2	#8	–
27	Day I Die The National	136	2	#21	–
28	Over Everything Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile	134	2	#28	–
29	The Sky Is A Neighborhood Foo Fighters	134	2	#9	–
30	Sign of the Times Harry Styles	132	2	#15	–
31	Matter of Time Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings	126	2	#15	–
32	Human Rag'N'Bone Man	122	2	#13	–
33	Want You Back Haim	121	2	#30	–
34	High Ticket Attractions The New Pornographers	120	2	#17	–
35	Knocking At The Door Arkells	120	2	#1	1
36	Total Entertainment Forever Father John Misty	116	2	#26	–
37	On Hold The xx	115	2	#23	–
38	Continental Breakfast Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile	112	2	#5	–
39	Tonite LCD Soundsystem	107	3	#43	–
40	J-Boy Phoenix	107	2	#27	–
41	Call It Dreaming Iron and Wine	103	2	#27	–
42	Walk On Water Thirty Seconds To Mars	102	2	#14	–
43	Go to War Nothing More	100	1	#1	1
44	White Man's World Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit	99	2	#42	–
45	Let Me Down Easy Gang of Youths	99	1	#2	–
46	Believer Imagine Dragons	99	1	#2	–
47	Chateau Angus and Julia Stone	98	1	#3	–
48	Wish I knew You The Revivalists	98	1	#3	–
49	Ubu Methyl Ethel	97	1	#4	–
50	Somebody Else 1975	97	1	#4	–
51	Love Falls HELLYEAH	97	1	#2	–
52	The Deepest Sighs, the Frankest Shadows Gang of Youths	96	1	#5	–
53	Kill For Candy DREAMCAR	96	1	#5	–
54	Makeba Jain	96	1	#5	–
55	Cold Cold Cold Cage The Elephant	95	1	#6	–
56	Go Bang Pnau	94	1	#7	–
57	Cleopatra Lumineers	93	1	#7	–
58	In Cold Blood Alt J	93	3	#59	–
59	Song #3 Stone Sour	93	1	#3	–
60	Sally Thundamentals	93	1	#8	–
61	Love Is Mystical Cold War Kids	92	1	#8	–
62	Me and Your Mama Childish Gambino	91	1	#9	–
63	What Can I Do If the Fire Goes Out? Gang of Youths	91	1	#10	–
64	Everything Is Alright The Glorious Sons	90	1	#3	–
65	Rx Theory of a Deadman	90	1	#4	–
66	My Only True Friend Gregg Allman	90	1	#10	–
67	Sweet Brockhampton	90	1	#11	–
68	Do I Have To Talk You Into It Spoon	90	1	#10	–
69	Heavy Dirty Soul Twenty One Pilots	89	1	#11	–
70	Fake Magic Peking Duk & AlunaGeorge	89	1	#12	–
71	Young Dumb & Broke Khalid	88	1	#13	–
72	High Enough K. Flay	88	1	#12	–
73	Hope the High Road Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit	88	1	#12	–
74	Homemade Dynamite Lorde	87	1	#14	–
75	Alone I Prevail	87	1	#5	–
76	Shark Smile Big Thief	87	1	#13	–
77	Regular Touch Vera Blue	86	1	#15	–
78	The Night We Met Lord Huron	86	1	#14	–
79	Feel the Way I Do The Jungle Giants	85	1	#16	–
80	Marryuna Baker Boy	84	1	#17	–
81	Wild Horses Bishop Briggs	84	1	#16	–
82	Exactly How You Are Ball Park Music	83	1	#18	–
83	You're the Best Thing About Me U2	83	2	#53	–
84	High Sir Sly	82	1	#17	–
85	Way It Goes Hippo Campus	82	1	#17	–
86	Run Foo Fighters	82	2	#30	–
87	Still Breathing Green Day	81	1	#18	–
88	Let You Down Peking Duk	81	1	#20	–
89	Reverend Kings of Leon	80	1	#19	–
90	Freeze Me Death from Above	80	1	#5	–
91	Judas Fozzy	80	1	#7	–
92	Thinking of a place The War On Drugs	80	1	#19	–
93	Birthdays The Smith Street Band	80	1	#21	–
94	Lemon to a Knife Fight Wombats	79	1	#22	–
95	Wake Up Chastity Brown	79	1	#20	–
96	Dig Down Muse	78	1	#21	–
97	Not Worth Hiding Alex the Astronaut	78	1	#23	–
98	Truth Hurts Lizzo	78	1	#21	–
99	Rockstar Post Malone	77	1	#24	–
100	Anti-Everything Ded	77	1	#8	–

Every station’s number one of 2017

Station	Number one song	Countdown
91X	Feel It Still Portugal. The Man	91X Top 91 Songs of 2017
CFNY 102.1 The Edge	Knocking at the Door Arkells	102.1 The Edge's Top 20 Songs of 2017
SiriusXM Octane	Go to War Nothing More	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2017
The Current	Love Lana Del Rey	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2017
WFUV	Feel It Still Portugal. The Man	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2017
Triple J	Humble Kendrick Lamar	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2017

All 2017 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2017 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 2017 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 six qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.