What was the top hard rock song of 2017?

Combining 4 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2017 is "Song #3" by Stone Sour, which appeared on 4 of the lists.

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

The best hard rock songs of 2017

Four radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2017: 93.3 WMMR, 98KUPD, 99 Rock and SiriusXM Octane. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2017 is “Song #3” by Stone Sour, which appeared on four of the four countdowns. Four different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Dark Black Makeup” by Radkey, “Atlas, Rise!” by Metallica, “Judas” by Fozzy and “Go to War” by Nothing More. Papa Roach was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 9 times across the countdowns.

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159songs charted

4different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2017

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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	Song #3 Stone Sour	346	4	#2	–
2	Help Papa Roach	327	4	#2	–
3	Little One Highly Suspect	296	4	#6	–
4	Go to War Nothing More	295	3	#1	1
5	Love Falls HELLYEAH	277	3	#2	–
6	Lights Out Royal Blood	269	3	#5	–
7	Show Yourself Mastodon	258	4	#5	–
8	Anti-Everything Ded	239	3	#7	–
9	Let You Down Seether	229	3	#10	–
10	Judas Fozzy	227	4	#1	1
11	Now That We're Dead Metallica	226	3	#6	–
12	American Dreams Papa Roach	226	3	#5	–
13	Highway Tune Greta Van Fleet	221	4	#14	–
14	Alone I Prevail	217	3	#5	–
15	The Sky Is A Neighborhood Foo Fighters	182	3	#19	–
16	The Violence Rise Against	182	2	#7	–
17	Betray and Degrade Seether	179	3	#18	–
18	Rx Theory of a Deadman	177	2	#4	–
19	Oh Lord In This Moment	175	2	#10	–
20	Black Rose Volbeat	175	2	#3	–
21	Atlas, Rise! Metallica	166	3	#1	1
22	Run Foo Fighters	161	3	#13	–
23	Back to the River The Pretty Reckless	159	3	#7	–
24	Madness All That Remains	156	2	#19	–
25	The Way You Used To Do Queens of the Stone Age	156	3	#17	–
26	Monster Starset	146	2	#9	–
27	Still Breathing Green Day	146	2	#3	–
28	Oh My God The Pretty Reckless	139	2	#25	–
29	Satellite Starset	135	2	#32	–
30	Breathe Through Fire	134	2	#17	–
31	Novacaine 10 Years	134	3	#13	–
32	The Resistance Skillet	134	3	#18	–
33	Kill4me Marilyn Manson	133	3	#21	–
34	Black Is the Soul Korn	132	2	#30	–
35	Sick of Me Beartooth	121	2	#27	–
36	Feed the Machine Nickelback	120	2	#37	–
37	We Will Not Go Quietly Sixx A.M.	119	2	#25	–
38	God Damn Avenged Sevenfold	117	2	#26	–
39	Bullfight A Day To Remember	113	2	#29	–
40	Back From the Dead Skillet	112	2	#9	–
41	Trouble Five Finger Death Punch	108	2	#12	–
42	Dark Nights Dorothy	100	1	#1	1
43	Seal the Deal Volbeat	99	1	#2	–
44	Hated Beartooth	97	1	#4	–
45	Door to Door Cannibals Chevelle	95	2	#22	–
46	Less Than Nine Inch Nails	92	2	#49	–
47	Highway Bleeker	90	2	#42	–
48	Into the Fire Asking Alexandria	90	2	#17	–
49	Waking Lions Pop Evil	89	2	#11	–
50	I Apologize Five Finger Death Punch	89	1	#12	–
51	Cold Cold Cold Cage The Elephant	88	1	#4	–
52	Where The Wind Blows Blacktop Mojo	88	1	#13	–
53	Revolution Radio Green Day	87	2	#31	–
54	My Name Is Human Highly Suspect	87	1	#14	–
55	Take Me Down The Pretty Reckless	86	1	#15	–
56	Remember the Enemy Ded	85	2	#33	–
57	Steambreather Mastodon	83	2	#41	–
58	How Did You Love Shinedown	83	1	#18	–
59	Nimble Bastard Incubus	81	1	#20	–
60	New Land Avatar	79	1	#22	–
61	House Of Cards Manafest	78	1	#23	–
62	Take Me Korn	78	1	#23	–
63	Aftermath As Lions	75	2	#58	–
64	Loud (F**k It) Motionless in White	74	1	#27	–
65	The Heart from Your Hate Trivium	73	2	#10	–
66	The Truth In Flames	72	1	#28	–
67	Wish I knew You The Revivalists	72	1	#8	–
68	I Only Lie When I Love You Royal Blood	71	2	#40	–
69	I Want It All Hell or Highwater	69	1	#31	–
70	Where You Lie Through Fire	69	2	#53	–
71	Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb and So Am I) Stone Sour	68	2	#61	–
72	Baby Royal Republic	68	1	#9	–
73	Weight Of the World Righteous Vendetta	68	1	#33	–
74	The Stage Avenged Sevenfold	66	1	#34	–
75	My Champion Alter Bridge	66	1	#35	–
76	Never Again Breaking Benjamin	64	2	#38	–
77	Rebirth A Killer's Confession	62	1	#39	–
78	Out of My Hands Chrysalis	61	1	#40	–
79	Can You Hear Me Shallow Side	60	1	#41	–
80	Black Honey Thrice	58	1	#42	–
81	Dorian Motograter	58	1	#43	–
82	Rx (Medicate) Theory of a Deadman	57	1	#43	–
83	Fade In/Fade Out Nothing More	57	1	#14	–
84	Downfall Kirra	56	1	#45	–
85	Feel Invincible Skillet	53	1	#47	–
86	Raining Down Demon Hunter	53	1	#48	–
87	Dark Black Makeup Radkey	52	2	#25	–
88	Hardwired Metallica	52	1	#48	–
89	Light Me Up Kobra & The Lotus	52	1	#49	–
90	Amnesia Red Sun Rising	50	1	#50	–
91	Stones Manafest	49	1	#51	–
92	Naivety A Day To Remember	49	1	#51	–
93	The Thunder Rolls All That Remains	48	2	#24	–
94	Right Here And Now Message From Sylvia	46	1	#54	–
95	Ready For War (Pray For Peace) Adelitas Way	45	1	#55	–
96	Meadow Stone Temple Pilots	44	2	#26	–
97	If Only for Now Pop Evil	44	1	#56	–
98	Roots In This Moment	41	2	#23	–
99	Impossible Random Hero	40	1	#60	–
100	Run Rabbit Run Black Map	40	1	#16	–

Every station’s number one of 2017

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93.3 WMMR	Dark Black Makeup Radkey	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2017
98KUPD	Atlas, Rise! Metallica	98KUPD Top 98 of 2017
99 Rock	Judas Fozzy	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2017
SiriusXM Octane	Go to War Nothing More	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs 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 four 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.