What was the top hard rock song of 2018?

Combining 5 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2018 is "Devil" by Shinedown, which appeared on 5 of the lists.

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

The best hard rock songs of 2018

Five radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2018: 93.3 WMMR, 94.3 KILO, 98KUPD, 99 Rock and SiriusXM Octane. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2018 is “Devil” by Shinedown, which appeared on five of the five countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Five different songs were voted number one somewhere: “The One You Know” by Alice In Chains, “Driving Rain” by Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators, “Bulletproof” by Godsmack, “Crazy” by From Ashes to New and “Zombie” by Bad Wolves. Godsmack was the year’s most-charted artist, with two different songs placing 9 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2018

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Ranked by combined points across every 2018 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Devil Shinedown	465	5	#1	1
2	Bulletproof Godsmack	451	5	#1	1
3	Are You Ready Disturbed	402	5	#3	–
4	Sham Pain Five Finger Death Punch	328	4	#6	–
5	Zombie Bad Wolves	324	4	#1	1
6	Red Cold River Breaking Benjamin	316	4	#7	–
7	When Legends Rise Godsmack	305	4	#1	1
8	The Mountain Three Days Grace	297	4	#9	–
9	Alone in a Room Asking Alexandria	287	3	#2	–
10	Rats Ghost	274	4	#2	–
11	All Out Life Slipknot	252	3	#5	–
12	Disease Beartooth	243	4	#4	–
13	Mantra Bring Me the Horizon	237	3	#7	–
14	Deathwish Red Sun Rising	237	4	#10	–
15	Hear Me Now Bad Wolves	235	4	#14	–
16	Do You Really Want It? Nothing More	232	3	#13	–
17	Uncomfortable Halestorm	230	3	#8	–
18	Torn In Two Breaking Benjamin	226	3	#9	–
19	Ghost Badflower	221	3	#11	–
20	Infra-Red Three Days Grace	216	4	#16	–
21	Crazy From Ashes to New	212	4	#1	1
22	Gone Away Five Finger Death Punch	203	3	#6	–
23	What It Is Jonathan Davis	187	3	#12	–
24	Roll Me Under Stone Temple Pilots	174	3	#9	–
25	Get Up Shinedown	173	2	#2	–
26	When The Curtain Falls Greta Van Fleet	164	2	#13	–
27	Meadow Stone Temple Pilots	163	2	#2	–
28	A Crime to Remember Pop Evil	146	2	#19	–
29	Dirty Sevendust	143	3	#22	–
30	Safari Song Greta Van Fleet	142	2	#7	–
31	Driving Rain Slash	139	3	#10	–
32	Walking in My Shoes Fever 333	137	3	#14	–
33	House On Fire Rise Against	136	2	#28	–
34	The Line Foo Fighters	131	2	#23	–
35	Dance Macabre Ghost	128	3	#20	–
36	Shadow of Your Love Guns N Roses	124	2	#34	–
37	The Void Parkway Drive	122	3	#16	–
38	Just Say When Nothing More	121	2	#40	–
39	Black Wedding In This Moment	117	2	#13	–
40	The Grey Thrice	115	3	#21	–
41	The One You Know Alice In Chains	112	3	#25	–
42	Basic Needs Jonathan Davis	105	3	#28	–
43	Who Do You Trust? Papa Roach	105	3	#23	–
44	Prey Parkway Drive	103	2	#12	–
45	Betray and Degrade Seether	98	1	#3	–
46	Make This Life Messer	97	1	#4	–
47	Hole in Your Heart Royal Blood	94	2	#50	–
48	Never Fade Alice In Chains	94	2	#20	–
49	Painless Fozzy	93	2	#24	–
50	Mad Hatter Avenged Sevenfold	93	3	#25	–
51	The King Wants You Avatar	92	2	#52	–
52	Midnight Train To Memphis Chris Stapleton	92	1	#3	–
53	I Only Lie When I Love You Royal Blood	91	1	#10	–
54	Judas Fozzy	88	1	#4	–
55	Waking Lions Pop Evil	86	1	#15	–
56	Talktalk A Perfect Circle	85	2	#48	–
57	Burnout 10 Years	85	2	#17	–
58	Kill4me Marilyn Manson	84	1	#17	–
59	A Grave Mistake Ice Nine Kills	83	1	#6	–
60	Born for Greatness Papa Roach	81	1	#20	–
61	Life to Fix The Record Company	80	1	#6	–
62	Dream On Blacktop Mojo	80	1	#21	–
63	Zombies Bad Wolves	79	1	#22	–
64	The Time Is Now Atreyu	74	3	#20	–
65	Save Myself Messer	73	1	#28	–
66	Flawless Dorothy	72	1	#8	–
67	Rose Red Violent Blue (This Song Is Dumb and So Am I) Stone Sour	71	1	#29	–
68	When the Seasons Change Five Finger Death Punch	71	2	#53	–
69	Straight Jacket Theory of a Deadman	71	2	#33	–
70	What Else You Got The Protest	71	1	#30	–
71	The Sky Is A Neighborhood Foo Fighters	69	1	#31	–
72	Spit Out the Bone Metallica	68	1	#32	–
73	Trouble Five Finger Death Punch	65	1	#35	–
74	S.O.S. (Sawed Off Shotgun) The Glorious Sons	63	2	#19	–
75	Living Not Alive Veer Union	63	1	#38	–
76	Lifelines I Prevail	62	1	#38	–
77	The Resistance Skillet	61	1	#39	–
78	Sleep Walking Elite Chevelle	61	2	#21	–
79	Chaos and Earthquakes Nonpoint	61	3	#22	–
80	Body Talks The Struts	60	1	#11	–
81	Against the Wall Seether	60	2	#69	–
82	Howl Co-Op	60	1	#41	–
83	Into the Fire Asking Alexandria	59	1	#41	–
84	Leaving Home Once Around	59	1	#42	–
85	You Worry Me Nathaniel Rateliff	56	1	#12	–
86	Be Legendary Pop Evil	54	3	#26	–
87	Roots In This Moment	54	1	#46	–
88	Unforgiven Sevendust	54	2	#16	–
89	Underneath Zahna	54	1	#47	–
90	Thought Contagion Muse	53	2	#18	–
91	Letting Go Tantric	52	1	#49	–
92	Novacaine 10 Years	50	1	#50	–
93	Lightning Strike Judas Priest	50	3	#22	–
94	Dance Sweet Blood	49	1	#51	–
95	Look What We've Done Butcher Babies	48	1	#52	–
96	Can't Deny Me Pearl Jam	48	2	#17	–
97	Hate Me Ded	47	1	#53	–
98	Ghost Once Around	46	1	#54	–
99	Wire The Outfit	45	1	#55	–
100	Over It Bullet for My Valentine	44	2	#25	–

Every station’s number one of 2018

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93.3 WMMR	The One You Know Alice In Chains	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2018
94.3 KILO	Driving Rain Slash feat. Myles Kennedy & The Conspirators	KILO 2018 Top 30 Kountdown
98KUPD	Bulletproof Godsmack	98KUPD Top 98 of 2018
99 Rock	Crazy From Ashes to New	99Rock WFRD Top 99 of 2018
SiriusXM Octane	Zombie Bad Wolves	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2018

All 2018 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2018 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 2018 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 five 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.