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The best hard rock songs of 2020

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2020?

Combining 5 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2020 is "A Little Bit Off" by Five Finger Death Punch, which appeared on 5 of the lists.

Five radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2020: 93.3 WMMR, 93X, 94.3 KILO, 98KUPD and SiriusXM Octane. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2020 is “A Little Bit Off” by Five Finger Death Punch, 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: “Dangerous” by Seether, “Parasite Eve” by Bring Me the Horizon, “Fly On The Wall” by The Violent, “Antisocialist” by Asking Alexandria and “Popular Monster” by Falling in Reverse. Five Finger Death Punch was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 9 times across the countdowns.

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Ranked by combined points across every 2020 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	A Little Bit Off Five Finger Death Punch	420	5	#1	1
2	Unforgettable Godsmack	408	5	#3	–
3	Popular Monster Falling in Reverse	369	4	#1	1
4	Patience Chris Cornell	311	4	#1	1
5	Parasite Eve Bring Me the Horizon	224	4	#2	–
6	Shot In The Dark AC/DC	217	4	#7	–
7	Trials Starset	204	3	#7	–
8	Death By Rock & Roll The Pretty Reckless	204	3	#3	–
9	Wolf Totem The Hu	199	3	#5	–
10	Every Time You Leave I Prevail	188	3	#10	–
11	Dangerous Seether	186	4	#5	–
12	Antisocialist Asking Alexandria	183	2	#1	1
13	Atlas Falls Shinedown	181	3	#5	–
14	Right Now Fire from the Gods	179	3	#8	–
15	Nero Forte Slipknot	178	2	#1	1
16	Inside Out Five Finger Death Punch	177	2	#4	–
17	Another Life Motionless in White	164	2	#3	–
18	Can You Hear Me Korn	157	2	#4	–
19	Pneuma Tool	151	2	#11	–
20	Black Eyes Blue Corey Taylor	151	3	#3	–
21	Shame Shame Foo Fighters	148	2	#6	–
22	Die to Live Volbeat	146	2	#11	–
23	Panic From Ashes to New	140	2	#4	–
24	Hero Weezer	139	2	#6	–
25	Rolling 7's Dirty Honey	137	2	#9	–
26	Caution The Killers	134	2	#5	–
27	I Can't Be The Only One Killswitch Engage	132	2	#10	–
28	Not Mad Enough Smith & Myers	125	2	#4	–
29	All Within My Hands Metallica	118	2	#13	–
30	Trouble's Coming Royal Blood	114	2	#14	–
31	Ohms Deftones	114	2	#2	–
32	Oh Yeah! Green Day	109	2	#16	–
33	Resentment A Day To Remember	108	2	#7	–
34	Hurricane I Prevail	95	1	#6	–
35	We Are Chaos Marilyn Manson	94	1	#7	–
36	Somebody That I Used to Know Three Days Grace	93	2	#24	–
37	Superblood Wolfmoon Pearl Jam	92	2	#21	–
38	Colossus Avatar	91	3	#15	–
39	Sober Bad Wolves	91	2	#9	–
40	The Triumph Of King Freak Rob Zombie	90	2	#14	–
41	30 Badflower	89	1	#12	–
42	Learn To Walk Again Bad Wolves	88	2	#21	–
43	Dear Agony Breaking Benjamin	86	2	#16	–
44	Flowers On A Grave Bush	84	2	#19	–
45	Sickness Grey Daze	83	1	#18	–
46	Under the Graveyard Ozzy Osbourne	82	1	#19	–
47	The Day I Tried to Live Sevendust	81	1	#20	–
48	16 Highly Suspect	80	1	#21	–
49	Shakin' Off the Rust The Blue Stones	79	1	#22	–
50	Animals Architects	77	2	#14	–
51	The Shift 10 Years	77	1	#8	–
52	Killing Me Slowly Bad Wolves	73	1	#27	–
53	As Above So Below In This Moment	73	2	#12	–
54	Come Around Papa Roach	71	1	#29	–
55	History Of Violence Theory of a Deadman	71	2	#20	–
56	Monsters All Time Low	70	1	#7	–
57	My Way, Soon Greta Van Fleet	70	2	#19	–
58	Living The Dream Five Finger Death Punch	68	2	#24	–
59	Attention Attention Shinedown	65	1	#35	–
60	Take What You Want Post Malone & Ozzy Osbourne	65	1	#8	–
61	Yuve Yuve Yu The Hu	64	1	#36	–
62	Protect The Land System of a Down	64	2	#25	–
63	Insidious Any Given Sin	63	1	#12	–
64	These Days Highly Suspect	61	1	#39	–
65	Far Away Breaking Benjamin	60	1	#40	–
66	All Within My Hands (Live for S&M2) Metallica	60	1	#11	–
67	Leviathan Volbeat	59	1	#41	–
68	Fear Inoculum Tool	57	1	#43	–
69	Take Me Away Ayron Jones	57	2	#28	–
70	Straight to Hell Ozzy Osbourne	56	1	#44	–
71	Shooting Stars Rival Sons	55	2	#13	–
72	The Hunted Saint Asonia	54	1	#46	–
73	Talk to a Friend Slaves	53	1	#15	–
74	Work Pop Evil	53	1	#47	–
75	Breathe Again Pop Evil	49	2	#22	–
76	Lowlife Crobot	48	1	#52	–
77	Soak Me in Bleach The Amity Affliction	47	1	#17	–
78	World Keeps Spinning Theory of a Deadman	45	2	#18	–
79	Letter To You Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band	44	1	#15	–
80	King of Misery Saul	43	1	#18	–
81	I Am Broken Too Killswitch Engage	43	1	#57	–
82	They Don't Want What We Want Asking Alexandria	41	1	#59	–
83	Rescue Me A Day To Remember & Marshmello	40	1	#13	–
84	Limits Bad Omens	40	1	#19	–
85	Another World Gojira	40	1	#19	–
86	The Ending Papa Roach	40	1	#60	–
87	Legendary Skillet	39	1	#61	–
88	Hometown Cleopatrick	38	1	#62	–
89	Holy Ghost Fire Larkin Poe	36	1	#17	–
90	The War We Made Red	33	1	#21	–
91	Blind Saint Asonia	33	1	#67	–
92	Living in Ghost Town The Rolling Stones	32	1	#18	–
93	Ludens Bring Me the Horizon	32	1	#68	–
94	A Mannequin Idol (Lullaby) Ded	30	1	#70	–
95	B12 Grey Daze	29	1	#71	–
96	The In-Between In This Moment	27	1	#23	–
97	Bleed Into Me Trivium	27	1	#23	–
98	Hold on to Memories Disturbed	27	1	#73	–
99	Manifest Starset	26	1	#74	–
100	Intercorrupted RA	24	1	#75	–

Every station’s number one of 2020

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93.3 WMMR	Dangerous Seether	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2020
93X	Parasite Eve Bring Me the Horizon	93X Top 20 Songs of 2020
94.3 KILO	Fly On The Wall The Violent	KILO's Top 30 Kountdown of 2020
98KUPD	Antisocialist Asking Alexandria	98KUPD Top 98 of 2020
SiriusXM Octane	Popular Monster Falling in Reverse	SiriusXM Octane Big 'Uns Countdown Songs of 2020

All 2020 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2020 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 2020 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.