What was the top rock song of 2019?

Combining 6 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2019 is "Bad Guy" by Billie Eilish, which appeared on 4 of the lists.

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

The best rock songs of 2019

Six radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2019: 91X, CD101, SiriusXM Octane, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2019 is “Bad Guy” by Billie Eilish, which appeared on four of the six countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Six different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Low/Hi” by The Black Keys, “Still Feel” by Half Alive, “Breaking Down” by I Prevail, “History Repeats” by Brittany Howard and “Juice” by Lizzo and others. Billie Eilish was the year’s most-charted artist, with seven different songs placing 16 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2019

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Ranked by combined points across every 2019 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Bad Guy Billie Eilish	359	4	#1	1
2	Doin' Time Lana Del Rey	318	5	#4	–
3	Juice Lizzo	273	3	#1	2
4	Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend	268	3	#5	–
5	Longshot Catfish and the Bottlemen	245	3	#6	–
6	This Life Vampire Weekend	233	4	#12	–
7	Bury A Friend Billie Eilish	222	3	#15	–
8	Missed Connection The Head and the Heart	218	4	#18	–
9	Cringe Matt Maeson	191	2	#3	–
10	Borderline Tame Impala	188	3	#18	–
11	Ready to Let Go Cage The Elephant	188	3	#2	–
12	Seventeen Sharon Van Etten	188	2	#5	–
13	Saying Goodbye J.S. Ondara	187	2	#4	–
14	This Land Gary Clark Jr.	187	2	#3	–
15	Not Big Thief	185	2	#6	–
16	Superposition Young the Giant	181	2	#4	–
17	Stay High Brittany Howard	174	2	#4	–
18	Gloria Lumineers	174	3	#9	–
19	Go The Black Keys	173	3	#12	–
20	Patience Tame Impala	167	4	#32	–
21	Dylan Thomas Better Oblivion Community Center	165	2	#14	–
22	Hurt Oliver Tree	161	2	#9	–
23	Lo/Hi The Black Keys	159	3	#28	–
24	Heads Gonna Roll Jenny Lewis	158	2	#19	–
25	Still Feel Half Alive	157	2	#1	1
26	Redesigning Women Highwomen	156	2	#17	–
27	Highwomen Highwomen	156	2	#15	–
28	Redbull and Hennessy Jenny Lewis	152	2	#12	–
29	Might Be Right White Reaper	152	4	#23	–
30	3 Nights Dominic Fike	148	2	#7	–
31	Saw Lightning Beck	148	3	#36	–
32	Wasted Youth Jenny Lewis	145	2	#13	–
33	Social Cues Cage The Elephant	144	2	#14	–
34	Sisyphus Andrew Bird	143	2	#25	–
35	When Am I Gonna Lose You Local Natives	141	3	#29	–
36	Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile The New Pornographers	136	2	#6	–
37	Hey, Ma Bon Iver	131	2	#7	–
38	Colors Black Pumas	129	2	#2	–
39	Burning Maggie Rogers	127	2	#30	–
40	Love Is Everywhere (Beware) Wilco	126	2	#24	–
41	Hero Michael Kiwanuka	123	2	#22	–
42	Peach Fuzz CAAMP	123	2	#14	–
43	Good Twin XL	122	2	#10	–
44	Uneventful Days Beck	113	2	#26	–
45	Unsainted Slipknot	112	2	#2	–
46	Alligator Of Monsters And Men	108	2	#34	–
47	Chlorine Twenty One Pilots	107	2	#25	–
48	Exits Foals	106	2	#21	–
49	Fast Talk Houses	105	2	#14	–
50	Bags Clairo	103	2	#41	–
51	I Get No Joy Jade Bird	102	2	#13	–
52	Sing Along Sturgill Simpson	102	2	#29	–
53	Low/Hi The Black Keys	100	1	#1	1
54	Breaking Down I Prevail	100	1	#1	1
55	All Mirrors Angel Olsen	100	2	#39	–
56	Rushing Back Flume	99	1	#2	–
57	Father of All.. Green Day	98	2	#17	–
58	All the Good Girls Go to Hell Billie Eilish	98	4	#44	–
59	Choke I Don't Know How But They Found Me	98	1	#2	–
60	Charlie Mallrat	98	1	#3	–
61	Fear Inoculum Tool	98	1	#3	–
62	Truth Hurts Lizzo	98	1	#3	–
63	Dance Monkey Tones and I	97	1	#4	–
64	Now That You're Gone The Raconteurs	97	2	#37	–
65	Bulls on Parade (Like a Version) Denzel Curry	96	1	#5	–
66	Sunday Driver The Raconteurs	96	1	#5	–
67	Drink Too Much G Flip	95	1	#6	–
68	Robbery Lime Cordiale	94	1	#7	–
69	Cross Off Mark Morton	93	1	#3	–
70	Hello Sunshine Bruce Springsteen	93	1	#7	–
71	It Might Be Time Tame Impala	93	2	#43	–
72	Heavy Hearted The Jungle Giants	93	1	#8	–
73	Change The Revivalists	93	2	#15	–
74	Choke iDKHOW	92	1	#8	–
75	Cuz I Love You Lizzo	92	1	#8	–
76	Home Morgxn	92	1	#5	–
77	Better in Blak Thelma Plum	92	1	#9	–
78	Exit Sign Hilltop Hoods	91	1	#10	–
79	Love It If We Made It 1975	90	1	#10	–
80	Savages Ice Nine Kills	90	1	#4	–
81	Circles Post Malone	90	1	#11	–
82	Like A Girl Lizzo	90	1	#10	–
83	Crowded Table Highwomen	89	2	#20	–
84	By Myself FIDLAR	89	1	#12	–
85	Everyone Hides Wilco	89	1	#11	–
86	Everything I Wanted Billie Eilish	88	2	#16	–
87	Inappropriate Behaviour Lime Cordiale	88	1	#13	–
88	2all Catfish and the Bottlemen	88	2	#36	–
89	Purple Hat Sofi Tukker	87	1	#14	–
90	Brother Saul	87	1	#5	–
91	Dissolve Absofacto	86	1	#8	–
92	Never Seen the Rain Tones and I	86	1	#15	–
93	Northern Lights Death Cab for Cutie	85	1	#15	–
94	I Touch Myself (Like a Version) Lime Cordiale	84	1	#17	–
95	My Blood Twenty One Pilots	84	1	#16	–
96	Monsters Shinedown	83	1	#6	–
97	Old Black Magic Josh Ritter	83	1	#16	–
98	Velodrome - Live Dessa & the Minnesota Orchestra	83	1	#16	–
99	Summer Girl Haim	83	2	#45	–
100	Black Moon Rising Black Pumas	82	1	#17	–

Every station’s number one of 2019

Station	Number one song	Countdown
91X	Low/Hi The Black Keys	91X Top 91 Songs of 2019
CD101	Still Feel Half Alive	CD101 Top 50 Songs of 2019
SiriusXM Octane	Breaking Down I Prevail	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019
The Current	History Repeats Brittany Howard	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2019
WFUV	Juice Lizzo	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019
Triple J	Bad Guy Billie Eilish	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2019

All 2019 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2019 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 2019 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.