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The best hard rock songs of 2019

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2019?

Combining 1 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2019 is "Breaking Down" by I Prevail, which appeared on 1 of the lists.

One radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2019: SiriusXM Octane. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2019 is “Breaking Down” by I Prevail, which appeared on one of the one countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Slipknot was the year’s most-charted artist, with two different songs placing 2 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2019

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

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Breaking Down I Prevail	100	1	#1	1
2	Unsainted Slipknot	97	1	#2	–
3	Cross Off Mark Morton	93	1	#3	–
4	Savages Ice Nine Kills	90	1	#4	–
5	Brother Saul	87	1	#5	–
6	Monsters Shinedown	83	1	#6	–
7	Brand New Numb Motionless in White	80	1	#7	–
8	The Safety of Disbelief Light the Torch	77	1	#8	–
9	Wonderful Life Bring Me the Horizon	73	1	#9	–
10	I Am Broken Too Killswitch Engage	70	1	#10	–
11	Welcome Home HELLYEAH	67	1	#11	–
12	Under Your Scars Godsmack	63	1	#12	–
13	You'll Never Find Me Korn	60	1	#13	–
14	One of Us Fever 333	57	1	#14	–
15	You Never Know Beartooth	53	1	#15	–
16	16 Highly Suspect	50	1	#16	–
17	The Jester Badflower	47	1	#17	–
18	The Violence Asking Alexandria	43	1	#18	–
19	The Hunted Saint Asonia	40	1	#19	–
20	Right Now Fire from the Gods	37	1	#20	–
21	Manifest Starset	33	1	#21	–
22	Killing Me Slowly Bad Wolves	30	1	#22	–
23	Legendary Skillet	27	1	#23	–
24	Blurry (Out of Place) Crown the Empire	23	1	#24	–
25	Heavy Is the Weight Memphis May Fire	20	1	#25	–
26	House of Gold Atreyu	17	1	#26	–
27	Dynamite Any Given Sin	13	1	#27	–
28	I Am Above In Flames	10	1	#28	–
29	All Animal Through Fire	7	1	#29	–
30	Nero Forte Slipknot	3	1	#30	–

Every station’s number one of 2019

Station	Number one song	Countdown
SiriusXM Octane	Breaking Down I Prevail	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019

All 2019 countdowns in this ranking

SiriusXM Octane SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2019 30 songs

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 one 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.