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The best hard rock songs of 2022

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2022?

Combining 3 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2022 is "Black Summer" by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which appeared on 3 of the lists.

Three radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2022: 93.3 WMMR, 93X and 98KUPD. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2022 is “Black Summer” by Red Hot Chili Peppers, which appeared on three of the three countdowns. Three different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Spillways” by Ghost, “Zombified” by Falling in Reverse and “Voices in My Head” by Falling in Reverse. Shinedown was the year’s most-charted artist, with two different songs placing 5 times across the countdowns.

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108songs charted

3different #1s

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	Black Summer Red Hot Chili Peppers	265	3	#4	–
2	Dead Man Walking Jelly Roll	199	3	#5	–
3	Zombified Falling in Reverse	188	2	#1	1
4	Wild Child The Black Keys	187	3	#1	1
5	So Called Life Three Days Grace	185	2	#2	–
6	Daylight Shinedown	178	3	#8	–
7	Love Dies Young Foo Fighters	174	2	#3	–
8	Rest in Peace Dorothy	170	2	#5	–
9	Call Me Little Sunshine Ghost	169	2	#6	–
10	Masterpiece Motionless in White	166	2	#7	–
11	Like a Villain Bad Omens	157	2	#2	–
12	Planet Zero Shinedown	153	2	#3	–
13	AfterLife Five Finger Death Punch	145	2	#8	–
14	Hey You Disturbed	141	3	#12	–
15	The Steeple Halestorm	139	2	#7	–
16	No Apologies Papa Roach	138	3	#11	–
17	Won't Stand Down Muse	130	2	#13	–
18	Epiphany Mammoth WVH	128	2	#6	–
19	Dead Inside Nita Strauss	126	2	#14	–
20	Taking Me Back Jack White	123	2	#14	–
21	Patient Number 9 Ozzy Osbourne	121	2	#16	–
22	Natural Born Killer Highly Suspect	117	2	#12	–
23	Voices in My Head Falling in Reverse	114	2	#1	1
24	Ramon Ayala Giovannie and the Hired Guns	101	2	#9	–
25	Lifetime Three Days Grace	98	2	#19	–
26	Kill the Noise Papa Roach	97	1	#4	–
27	The Wire Dirty Honey	96	1	#2	–
28	Lux Aeterna Metallica	94	1	#7	–
29	Beggin' Maneskin	91	1	#3	–
30	Start The Healing Korn	91	1	#10	–
31	Eye of the Storm Pop Evil	90	1	#11	–
32	Bad Things I Prevail	86	2	#16	–
33	Strangers Bring Me the Horizon	85	2	#14	–
34	Shotgun Blues Volbeat	84	1	#17	–
35	If Tomorrow Never Comes Bad Wolves	83	1	#18	–
36	DiE4u Bring Me the Horizon	76	1	#25	–
37	Yen Slipknot	74	1	#26	–
38	Hunter's Moon Ghost	73	1	#27	–
39	Never Gonna Learn Asking Alexandria	72	1	#28	–
40	Tired of Winning Nothing More	71	1	#29	–
41	I Still Burn Fozzy	70	1	#30	–
42	San Quentin Nickelback	68	1	#32	–
43	Anarchy Lilith Czar	68	1	#9	–
44	More Than Machines Bush	66	1	#34	–
45	One of Those Days Ozzy Osbourne	65	1	#35	–
46	Behind Your Walls The Offspring	64	1	#10	–
47	Spillways Ghost	63	2	#25	–
48	Tippa My Tongue Red Hot Chili Peppers	63	2	#18	–
49	Waiting on the Sky to Change Starset	62	1	#38	–
50	Supermodel Maneskin	61	2	#12	–
51	Supercharged Ayron Jones	60	1	#40	–
52	The Worst Is on Its Way Korn	58	1	#42	–
53	Times Like These Five Finger Death Punch	57	1	#43	–
54	The River Is Rising Slash	56	1	#44	–
55	Surrender Godsmack	55	1	#45	–
56	Lifeline Bad Wolves	53	1	#47	–
57	Beguiled The Smashing Pumpkins	52	1	#48	–
58	Mystery Turnstile	52	1	#13	–
59	Built by Nations Greta Van Fleet	51	1	#49	–
60	Temple of Ekur Volbeat	50	1	#50	–
61	Riptide Beartooth	49	1	#51	–
62	Blow Eva Under Fire	47	1	#53	–
63	Circle the Drain Wage War	46	1	#54	–
64	Teardrinker Mastodon	45	1	#55	–
65	Alone Again Asking Alexandria	43	1	#57	–
66	You Don't Know What Love Means Nothing More	42	1	#58	–
67	Holiday Turnstile	41	1	#59	–
68	Edging blink-182	40	1	#60	–
69	The Retaliators Theme Song The Retaliators	39	1	#61	–
70	Dinosaur Theory of a Deadman	37	1	#63	–
71	Paranoid (Crash & Burn) Pop Evil	36	1	#64	–
72	Just Pretend Bad Omens	35	1	#65	–
73	Rainy Day Ice Nine Kills	34	1	#66	–
74	Becoming Volbeat	33	1	#67	–
75	I Am the Weapon Three Days Grace	32	1	#68	–
76	Untouchable Atreyu	30	1	#70	–
77	Welcome to the Circus Five Finger Death Punch	29	1	#71	–
78	A Little Bit Of Love Weezer	28	1	#19	–
79	Shoulders Coheed and Cambria	28	1	#72	–
80	The Shower Scene Ice Nine Kills	27	1	#73	–
81	The Comeback All Good Things	26	1	#74	–
82	Re-Entry A Day To Remember	24	1	#75	–
83	Cage Billy Idol	24	1	#20	–
84	When We Were Young Architects	23	1	#76	–
85	Stand Up Papa Roach	22	1	#77	–
86	Talking to Ourselves Rise Against	21	1	#78	–
87	The Liar's Club Coheed and Cambria	21	2	#23	–
88	Faded Out Asking Alexandria	20	1	#79	–
89	Records Weezer	20	1	#21	–
90	Will of the People Muse	19	1	#80	–
91	Changes Are Coming Daughtry	18	1	#81	–
92	On the Dark Side Corey Taylor	17	1	#82	–
93	Jack Hardy	16	1	#83	–
94	Welcome to the Chaos Fame on Fire	15	1	#84	–
95	Savior II Black Veil Brides	14	1	#85	–
96	Black Sheep Dorothy	13	1	#86	–
97	Hurts Like Hell New Years Day	12	1	#87	–
98	Tear Gas Architects	11	1	#88	–
99	Saturation (Strange Love) Grey Daze	10	1	#89	–
100	Something in the Way Nirvana	8	1	#91	–

Every station’s number one of 2022

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93.3 WMMR	Spillways Ghost	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2022
93X	Zombified Falling in Reverse	93X Top 22 Songs of 2022
98KUPD	Voices in My Head Falling in Reverse	98KUPD Top 98 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 three 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.