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The best rock songs of 2019

Q: What was the top rock song of 2019?

Combining 20 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2019 is "Harmony Hall" by Vampire Weekend, which appeared on 15 of the lists.

20 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2019: 91X, CD101, 102.7 WEQX, 107.1 The Peak, 88.3 The Sting, 90.9 The Bridge, 93.3 WMMR, ALT 104.5, Exit 97.7, Lightning 100, SiriusXM Octane, The Current, WBER, WERS 88.9, WFUV, WRNR 103.1, WTMD, WXPN, X96 and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2019 is “Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend, which appeared on 15 of the 20 countdowns and was voted number one by three of them. 19 different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Harmony Hall” by Vampire Weekend (2 stations), “Low/Hi” by The Black Keys, “Still Feel” by Half Alive, “Mariners Apartment Complex” by Lana Del Rey and “Ready To Let Go” by Cage The Elephant and others. Vampire Weekend was the year’s most-charted artist, with six different songs placing 39 times across the countdowns.

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849songs charted

19different #1s

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	Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend	1,281	15	#1	3
2	Lo/Hi The Black Keys	1,087	17	#2	–
3	Ready to Let Go Cage The Elephant	1,025	13	#1	1
4	Missed Connection The Head and the Heart	989	15	#2	–
5	Gloria Lumineers	947	13	#5	–
6	Doin' Time Lana Del Rey	898	14	#2	–
7	Bad Guy Billie Eilish	889	10	#1	2
8	Stay High Brittany Howard	873	11	#4	–
9	This Life Vampire Weekend	841	12	#3	–
10	Go The Black Keys	779	13	#9	–
11	Social Cues Cage The Elephant	778	11	#8	–
12	When Am I Gonna Lose You Local Natives	758	12	#9	–
13	Saw Lightning Beck	726	11	#6	–
14	Peach Fuzz CAAMP	662	11	#5	–
15	Patience Tame Impala	652	11	#5	–
16	I Get No Joy Jade Bird	644	9	#9	–
17	Redbull and Hennessy Jenny Lewis	627	10	#11	–
18	Sing Along Sturgill Simpson	627	12	#4	–
19	Saying Goodbye J.S. Ondara	620	8	#3	–
20	Seventeen Sharon Van Etten	618	10	#5	–
21	Sisyphus Andrew Bird	602	10	#5	–
22	Longshot Catfish and the Bottlemen	587	10	#6	–
23	Might Be Right White Reaper	583	10	#3	–
24	Overexcited Guster	583	9	#1	1
25	Alligator Of Monsters And Men	582	10	#6	–
26	No Bullets Spent Spoon	574	10	#7	–
27	Dylan Thomas Better Oblivion Community Center	531	8	#9	–
28	Colors Black Pumas	505	7	#1	2
29	Uneventful Days Beck	500	8	#14	–
30	High Steppin' Avett Brothers	486	10	#6	–
31	Trampoline SHAED	479	6	#2	–
32	Burning Maggie Rogers	476	7	#2	–
33	Love is Love Grace Potter	460	7	#12	–
34	Bury A Friend Billie Eilish	452	7	#15	–
35	Life In The City Lumineers	451	10	#5	–
36	Almost (Sweet Music) Hozier	443	8	#8	–
37	Juice Lizzo	439	6	#1	2
38	Fighter Joseph	438	8	#21	–
39	Movement Hozier	433	8	#20	–
40	Exits Foals	429	9	#13	–
41	Falling Down The Stairs Of Your Smile The New Pornographers	428	7	#6	–
42	Father of All.. Green Day	421	8	#5	–
43	Rylan The National	416	8	#11	–
44	Fear Inoculum Tool	408	5	#2	–
45	Help Me Stranger The Raconteurs	399	8	#22	–
46	Hard Case Tedeschi Trucks Band	387	6	#1	1
47	Running Up That Hill Meg Myers	385	6	#9	–
48	Superposition Young the Giant	375	5	#4	–
49	Change Mavis Staples	375	6	#1	1
50	Complainer Cold War Kids	373	5	#7	–
51	Old Black Magic Josh Ritter	371	5	#9	–
52	Love Is Everywhere (Beware) Wilco	368	6	#7	–
53	Hero Michael Kiwanuka	366	6	#11	–
54	The Hype Twenty One Pilots	366	5	#7	–
55	Cringe Matt Maeson	365	6	#3	–
56	Not Big Thief	353	4	#6	–
57	Sunflower Vampire Weekend	350	8	#14	–
58	Orphans Coldplay	347	6	#12	–
59	Still Feel Half Alive	342	6	#1	1
60	3 Nights Dominic Fike	340	5	#6	–
61	I Was Wrong Bailen	337	7	#8	–
62	Sunday Driver The Raconteurs	334	7	#5	–
63	Summer Girl Haim	331	6	#14	–
64	Moderation Florence And The Machine	327	6	#15	–
65	You Had Your Soul With You The National	321	7	#10	–
66	This Land Gary Clark Jr.	317	4	#3	–
67	Everyone Hides Wilco	317	5	#6	–
68	Black Moon Rising Black Pumas	314	5	#7	–
69	Mariners Apartment Complex Lana Del Rey	304	4	#1	1
70	Hello Sunshine Bruce Springsteen	294	6	#7	–
71	Redesigning Women Highwomen	291	4	#17	–
72	Borderline Tame Impala	288	5	#18	–
73	Crowded Table Highwomen	278	6	#20	–
74	Hurt Oliver Tree	271	5	#9	–
75	Bad Case Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	271	4	#3	–
76	Love All Night (Work All Day) Yola	268	4	#13	–
77	Wasted Youth Jenny Lewis	266	4	#13	–
78	Change The Revivalists	262	6	#15	–
79	Hey Look Ma, I Made It Panic! at the Disco	262	3	#2	–
80	Beloved Mumford & Sons	252	7	#27	–
81	Heart Rainbow Kitten Surprise	248	4	#24	–
82	100 Bad Days Ajr	243	3	#1	1
83	Faraway Look Yola	243	3	#6	–
84	Love You For A Long Time Maggie Rogers	241	4	#15	–
85	Chlorine Twenty One Pilots	241	4	#4	–
86	Bags Clairo	240	4	#10	–
87	Doesn't Matter Why Silversun Pickups	239	5	#11	–
88	Funny Business Alice Merton	239	5	#20	–
89	Justice Citizen Cope	238	6	#39	–
90	My Blood Twenty One Pilots	232	3	#12	–
91	Hey, Ma Bon Iver	232	4	#7	–
92	Outside Of This Town Christone Kingfish Ingram	232	4	#11	–
93	All the Good Girls Go to Hell Billie Eilish	228	6	#18	–
94	Now That You're Gone The Raconteurs	228	5	#26	–
95	Gotta Get To Know Ya Seratones	227	5	#14	–
96	Cuz I Love You Lizzo	225	3	#8	–
97	Boys In The Better Land Fontaines D.C.	222	3	#4	–
98	Different Kind of Love Adia Victoria	221	7	#35	–
99	All Your'n Tyler Childers	213	4	#38	–
100	Dissolve Absofacto	209	4	#6	–

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
102.7 WEQX	Mariners Apartment Complex Lana Del Rey	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2019
107.1 The Peak	Ready To Let Go Cage The Elephant	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2019
88.3 The Sting	Maybe I'm Afraid Lovelytheband	88.3 The Sting WBWC Top 88 Songs of 2019
90.9 The Bridge	Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2019
93.3 WMMR	Low Life Crobot	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2019
ALT 104.5	Bad Guy The Interrupters	Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2019
Exit 97.7	Hard Case Tedeschi Trucks Band	WEXT Top 97 of 2019
Lightning 100	Tell Me When It's Over Sheryl Crow feat. Chris Stapleton	Lightning 100 Top 200 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
WBER	Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend	WBER Listener Countdown 2019
WERS 88.9	Overexcited Guster	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2019
WFUV	Juice Lizzo	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2019
WRNR 103.1	You're the 103.1 for Me Mary Prankster	WRNR Top 103.1 Songs of 2019
WTMD	Colors Black Pumas	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2019
WXPN	I Found Out The Head and the Heart	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019
X96	I See You Missio	X96 Top 50 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 20 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.