Year-end consensus · Indie & Adult Alternative · three countdowns combined

The best indie rock songs of 2022

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

Combining 3 year-end radio countdowns, the top indie rock song of 2022 is "About Damn Time" by Lizzo, which appeared on 3 of the lists.

Three radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2022: KXT, The Current and WFUV. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2022 is “About Damn Time” by Lizzo, which appeared on three of the three countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Three different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Off My Mind” by Joe P, “Want Want” by Maggie Rogers and “Jackie Down The Line” by Fontaines D.C.. Spoon was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 6 times across the countdowns.

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191songs 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	About Damn Time Lizzo	291	3	#1	1
2	Simulation Swarm Big Thief	276	3	#6	–
3	Burning Yeah Yeah Yeahs	267	3	#2	–
4	Wild Spoon	258	3	#2	–
5	Bad Habit Steve Lacy	247	3	#10	–
6	Out Of My Head First Aid Kit	246	3	#9	–
7	That's Where I Am Maggie Rogers	240	3	#15	–
8	Wild Child The Black Keys	234	3	#16	–
9	As It Was Harry Styles	232	3	#2	–
10	Goodbye Mr. Blue Father John Misty	212	3	#13	–
11	Weird Goodbyes The National	196	3	#27	–
12	New Body Rhumba LCD Soundsystem	190	2	#4	–
13	Break My Soul Beyoncé	187	2	#6	–
14	Jackie Down The Line Fontaines D.C.	172	2	#1	1
15	Too Late Now Wet Leg	170	2	#1	1
16	Once Twice Melody Beach House	166	2	#3	–
17	Love Me More Mitski	162	2	#15	–
18	Cracker Island Gorillaz	150	3	#20	–
19	Next To Normal Lucius	148	3	#29	–
20	Becoming All Alone Regina Spektor	144	2	#14	–
21	My Babe Spoon	141	2	#18	–
22	Tongo Barra Vieux Farka Toure & Khruangbin	137	2	#24	–
23	2AM Foals	130	2	#14	–
24	Problem With It Plains	128	3	#21	–
25	Roman Holiday Fontaines D.C.	127	2	#4	–
26	Mistakes Sharon Van Etten	126	2	#31	–
27	Sidelines Phoebe Bridgers	125	2	#17	–
28	Alpha Zulu Phoenix	123	3	#31	–
29	Part Of The Band 1975	121	3	#39	–
30	Here To Forever Death Cab for Cutie	118	3	#7	–
31	All The Good Times Angel Olsen	117	2	#19	–
32	Angelica Wet Leg	116	2	#33	–
33	There'd Better Be A Mirrorball Arctic Monkeys	116	2	#26	–
34	Big Time Angel Olsen	114	2	#30	–
35	I'm Just a Clown Charley Crockett	108	2	#27	–
36	All Comes Crashing Metric	108	2	#37	–
37	You Will Never Work In Television Again Smile	108	2	#11	–
38	Edge of the Edge Panda Bear and Sonic Boom	107	2	#30	–
39	The Perfect Pair Beabadoobee	107	2	#42	–
40	Training Montage The Mountain Goats	107	2	#26	–
41	Hawk For The Dove Amanda Shires	100	2	#17	–
42	Speeding 72 Momma	99	2	#9	–
43	Wet Dream Wet Leg	98	1	#3	–
44	The Curse of the Blackened Eye Orville Peck	98	1	#3	–
45	Miles And Miles The Heavy Heavy	97	3	#39	–
46	Spitting Off the Edge of the World Yeah Yeah Yeahs	97	1	#4	–
47	One Way Out of a Hole Cloud Cult	94	1	#6	–
48	What, Me Worry? Portugal. The Man	94	2	#33	–
49	Should've Been Me Mitski	92	1	#8	–
50	Shotgun Soccer Mommy	92	3	#32	–
51	You're Not Alone Allison Russell (w/Brandi Carlile)	92	1	#8	–
52	Saturdays Broken Bells	92	2	#44	–
53	Softly Arlo Parks	91	3	#47	–
54	It's So Hard To Hold On Trampled by Turtles	91	1	#9	–
55	Silk Chiffon Muna	90	1	#10	–
56	Free Florence + The Machine	89	1	#11	–
57	Snow On The Beach Taylor Swift & Lana Del Rey	88	1	#12	–
58	The Hardest Cut Spoon	88	1	#12	–
59	Warning Signs Band of Horses	87	1	#13	–
60	Oh! The Linda Lindas	87	2	#25	–
61	Hey Baby The Cactus Blossoms	87	1	#13	–
62	Falling Apart (Right Now) Wilco	86	2	#18	–
63	2 Be Loved Lizzo	85	1	#14	–
64	Snap Rosa Linn	85	2	#50	–
65	Matilda Harry Styles	84	1	#15	–
66	Wretched Bartees Strange	84	1	#16	–
67	Sitting In The Corner Cuco (feat. Kacey Musgraves & Adriel Favela)	83	2	#51	–
68	Until I Found You Stephen Sanchez	83	1	#16	–
69	My Love Florence And The Machine	83	1	#17	–
70	Losers Club Durry	78	1	#21	–
71	Selfish Soul Sudan Archives	77	1	#22	–
72	Just A Clown Charley Crockett	76	1	#23	–
73	Spitting Off The Edge Of The World Yeah Yeah Yeahs (w/Perfume Genius)	76	1	#23	–
74	N95 Kendrick Lamar	75	1	#23	–
75	Sweet Soul Song Tedeschi Trucks Band	74	1	#24	–
76	Free Florence And The Machine	73	1	#25	–
77	Pretend Love Glitter	72	1	#27	–
78	Music for a Sushi Restaurant Harry Styles	69	1	#29	–
79	In The Wake Of Your Leave Gang of Youths	68	1	#30	–
80	Postman Toro Y Moi	67	2	#58	–
81	Taking Me Back Jack White	66	1	#32	–
82	Hi-De-Ho Jack White	66	1	#31	–
83	Slide Tackle Japanese Breakfast	65	1	#32	–
84	Tonight Phoenix	65	2	#47	–
85	Brighter Day Michael Franti & Spearhead	64	1	#34	–
86	The Tipping Point Tears for Fears	63	1	#35	–
87	Angel First Aid Kit	63	1	#34	–
88	Want Want Maggie Rogers	62	2	#36	–
89	Avalanche Remy Reilly	62	1	#36	–
90	B-Side Khruangbin & Leon Bridges	62	1	#35	–
91	First High Nikki Lane	62	2	#53	–
92	RHODODENDRON Hurray For The Riff Raff	61	1	#36	–
93	Lemon Tree Mt. Joy	60	1	#37	–
94	The Only Way Out Danielle Ponder	60	1	#38	–
95	These Are the Days Inhaler	59	1	#39	–
96	My Love Florence + The Machine	57	1	#40	–
97	Elizabeth Taylor Pete Yorn	57	1	#41	–
98	Blush Dessa	56	1	#40	–
99	Easy On Your Own Alvvays	56	1	#41	–
100	Lost Track Haim	55	1	#41	–

Every station’s number one of 2022

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KXT	Off My Mind Joe P	KXT Top 91.7 Songs of 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

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 indie & aaa results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.