What was the top rock song of 2022?

Combining 7 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2022 is "About Damn Time" by Lizzo, which appeared on 5 of the lists.

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

The best rock songs of 2022

Seven radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2022: 91X, CFNY 102.1 The Edge, KXT, Studio Brussel, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2022 is “About Damn Time” by Lizzo, which appeared on five of the seven countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Seven different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Edging” by Blink 182, “All Comes Crashing” by Metric, “Off My Mind” by Joe P, “Gone” by The Haunted Youth and “Want Want” by Maggie Rogers and others. Wet Leg was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 9 times across the countdowns.

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428songs charted

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Top 100 songs of 2022

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Ranked by combined points across every 2022 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	About Damn Time Lizzo	449	5	#1	1
2	Wild Child The Black Keys	380	5	#10	–
3	Wild Spoon	352	4	#2	–
4	Bad Habit Steve Lacy	344	4	#4	–
5	Burning Yeah Yeah Yeahs	344	4	#2	–
6	As It Was Harry Styles	319	5	#2	–
7	Cracker Island Gorillaz	297	5	#4	–
8	Wet Dream Wet Leg	290	3	#2	–
9	Simulation Swarm Big Thief	276	3	#6	–
10	All Comes Crashing Metric	273	4	#1	1
11	Weird Goodbyes The National	269	4	#27	–
12	Jackie Down The Line Fontaines D.C.	246	3	#1	1
13	Out Of My Head First Aid Kit	246	3	#9	–
14	Break My Soul Beyoncé	246	3	#6	–
15	That's Where I Am Maggie Rogers	240	3	#15	–
16	There'd Better Be A Mirrorball Arctic Monkeys	215	4	#26	–
17	Goodbye Mr. Blue Father John Misty	212	3	#13	–
18	Here To Forever Death Cab for Cutie	208	4	#7	–
19	Edging blink-182	206	3	#1	1
20	Boy The Killers	198	5	#17	–
21	Roman Holiday Fontaines D.C.	197	4	#4	–
22	My Babe Spoon	195	3	#18	–
23	My Love Florence + The Machine	192	3	#7	–
24	New Body Rhumba LCD Soundsystem	190	2	#4	–
25	New Gold Gorillaz	188	3	#13	–
26	Love Brand New Bob Moses	188	2	#2	–
27	Black Summer Red Hot Chili Peppers	187	3	#9	–
28	Once Twice Melody Beach House	186	3	#3	–
29	In The Wake Of Your Leave Gang of Youths	182	3	#9	–
30	Alpha Zulu Phoenix	181	4	#31	–
31	Won't Stand Down Muse	180	2	#5	–
32	Too Late Now Wet Leg	170	2	#1	1
33	Taking Me Back Jack White	164	2	#3	–
34	I'm In Love With You 1975	163	3	#14	–
35	Love Me More Mitski	162	2	#15	–
36	This Is Why Paramore	159	3	#31	–
37	My Love Florence And The Machine	157	2	#17	–
38	Tonight Phoenix	153	3	#12	–
39	What, Me Worry? Portugal. The Man	150	3	#33	–
40	Next To Normal Lucius	148	3	#29	–
41	Part Of The Band 1975	145	4	#39	–
42	Becoming All Alone Regina Spektor	144	2	#14	–
43	Tongo Barra Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin	137	2	#24	–
44	N95 Kendrick Lamar	135	2	#23	–
45	Mistakes Sharon Van Etten	133	3	#31	–
46	Lemon Tree Mt. Joy	133	2	#26	–
47	2AM Foals	130	2	#14	–
48	Problem With It Plains	128	3	#21	–
49	Sidelines Phoebe Bridgers	127	3	#17	–
50	Speeding 72 Momma	125	3	#9	–
51	Free Florence + The Machine	125	2	#11	–
52	The Hardest Cut Spoon	123	2	#12	–
53	All The Good Times Angel Olsen	117	2	#19	–
54	TV Billie Eilish	117	2	#32	–
55	Angelica Wet Leg	116	2	#33	–
56	Run Away To Mars Talk	115	2	#15	–
57	2 Be Loved (Am I Ready) Lizzo	115	2	#36	–
58	Big Time Angel Olsen	114	2	#30	–
59	Chapstick Coin	113	2	#3	–
60	Saturdays Broken Bells	111	3	#44	–
61	I'm Just a Clown Charley Crockett	108	2	#27	–
62	Seventeen Going Under Sam Fender	108	2	#9	–
63	You Will Never Work In Television Again Smile	108	2	#11	–
64	The Only Heartbreaker Mitski	108	2	#35	–
65	Everything's Electric Liam Gallagher	107	3	#13	–
66	Edge of the Edge Panda Bear and Sonic Boom	107	2	#30	–
67	The Perfect Pair Beabadoobee	107	2	#42	–
68	Training Montage The Mountain Goats	107	2	#26	–
69	Brother The Cloud Eddie Vedder	105	2	#30	–
70	I Don't Live Here Anymore The War On Drugs	105	2	#33	–
71	Shotgun Soccer Mommy	102	4	#32	–
72	Gone The Haunted Youth	100	1	#1	1
73	Say Nothing Flume	100	1	#1	1
74	Hawk For The Dove Amanda Shires	100	2	#17	–
75	Easy On Your Own Alvvays	100	2	#41	–
76	Zeit Rammstein	99	1	#2	–
77	B.O.T.A. (Baddest of Them All) Eliza Rose and Interplanetary Criminal	99	1	#2	–
78	L'Enfer Stromae	98	1	#3	–
79	Hardlight Spacey Jane	98	1	#3	–
80	The Curse of the Blackened Eye Orville Peck	98	1	#3	–
81	All Cool All Fine High Hi	97	1	#4	–
82	Miles And Miles The Heavy Heavy	97	3	#39	–
83	Spitting Off the Edge of the World Yeah Yeah Yeahs	97	1	#4	–
84	Leave Me Dry Ila	96	1	#5	–
85	It's Been a Long Day Spacey Jane	96	1	#5	–
86	Life's Coming in Slow Nothing But Thieves	95	1	#6	–
87	A Little Bit Of Love Weezer	95	3	#16	–
88	Sitting Up Spacey Jane	95	1	#6	–
89	One Way Out of a Hole Cloud Cult	94	1	#6	–
90	Mystery Turnstile	93	1	#7	–
91	Stars in My Eyes Ball Park Music	93	1	#8	–
92	The Lightning I + II The Arcade Fire	93	1	#9	–
93	Should've Been Me Mitski	92	1	#8	–
94	You're Not Alone Allison Russell (w/Brandi Carlile)	92	1	#8	–
95	Dicke Titten Rammstein	92	1	#10	–
96	Softly Arlo Parks	91	3	#47	–
97	It's So Hard To Hold On Trampled by Turtles	91	1	#9	–
98	Glimpse of Us Joji	91	1	#10	–
99	Nothing SONS	91	1	#11	–
100	Silk Chiffon Muna	90	1	#10	–

Every station’s number one of 2022

Station	Number one song	Countdown
91X	Edging Blink 182	91X Top 91 Songs of 2022
CFNY 102.1 The Edge	All Comes Crashing Metric	102.1 The Edge The Top 22 of 2022
KXT	Off My Mind Joe P	KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 2022
Studio Brussel	Gone The Haunted Youth	Studio Brussel De Eindafrekening 2022
The Current	Want Want Maggie Rogers	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2022
WFUV	Jackie Down The Line Fontaines D.C.	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2022
Triple J	Say Nothing Flume featuring May-a	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2022

All 2022 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2022 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 2022 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 seven qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.