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The best rock songs of 2024

Q: What was the top rock song of 2024?

Combining 4 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2024 is "Starburster" by Fontaines D.C., which appeared on 4 of the lists.

Four radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2024: KXT, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2024 is “Starburster” by Fontaines D.C., which appeared on four of the four countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Four different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Yes Man” by Remy Reilly, “I'd Miss The Birds” by Joy Oladokun, “She's Leaving You” by MJ Lenderman and “Good Luck, Babe!” by Chappell Roan. Billie Eilish was the year’s most-charted artist, with seven different songs placing 11 times across the countdowns.

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278songs charted

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Top 100 songs of 2024

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Ranked by combined points across every 2024 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Starburster Fontaines D.C.	342	4	#1	1
2	Sexy To Someone Clairo	277	4	#19	–
3	Too Sweet Hozier	276	3	#3	–
4	Cardinal Kacey Musgraves	267	3	#6	–
5	That's How I'm Feeling Jack White	263	3	#2	–
6	All In Good Time Iron and Wine	260	3	#9	–
7	Good Luck Babe! Chappell Roan	249	3	#1	1
8	Texas Hold'Em Beyoncé	242	4	#14	–
9	Peaceful Place Leon Bridges	236	3	#3	–
10	The Feminine Urge Last Dinner Party	225	4	#22	–
11	Broken Man St. Vincent	223	3	#8	–
12	Don't Forget Me Maggie Rogers	202	3	#7	–
13	A Fragile Thing The Cure	201	3	#11	–
14	Right Back to It Waxahatchee	199	2	#1	1
15	She's Leaving You M J Lenderman	196	2	#1	1
16	BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish	195	2	#3	–
17	Lunch Billie Eilish	190	3	#17	–
18	Sailor Song Gigi Perez	180	3	#16	–
19	Speyside Bon Iver	180	2	#9	–
20	Burial Ground The Decemberists	177	2	#10	–
21	Deeper Well Kacey Musgraves	170	2	#8	–
22	Supersad Suki Waterhouse	163	2	#10	–
23	Gild The Lily Billy Strings	162	3	#20	–
24	Apple Charli XCX	152	2	#20	–
25	Good Together Lake Street Dive	150	2	#21	–
26	$10 Cowboy Charley Crockett	144	2	#22	–
27	Worthy Mavis Staples	143	3	#29	–
28	Messy Lola Young	141	2	#4	–
29	Von Dutch Charli XCX	140	2	#23	–
30	Alone The Cure	132	3	#27	–
31	Favorite Fontaines D.C.	131	2	#3	–
32	U Should Not Be Doing That Amyl and the Sniffers	127	2	#34	–
33	Capricorn Vampire Weekend	125	2	#33	–
34	Sadness As A Gift Adrianne Lenker	121	2	#26	–
35	Bored Waxahatchee	120	3	#34	–
36	Running Norah Jones	119	2	#28	–
37	She Cleans Up Father John Misty	110	2	#40	–
38	Oh No! The Decemberists	110	2	#23	–
39	A Love International Khruangbin	106	2	#30	–
40	Classical Vampire Weekend	105	2	#22	–
41	Wreckage Pearl Jam	104	3	#32	–
42	The Architect Kacey Musgraves	101	2	#6	–
43	Floating Parade Michael Kiwanuka	100	2	#35	–
44	Dance With A Stranger Lake Street Dive	100	2	#24	–
45	Sunshine Getaway JD McPherson	100	2	#20	–
46	Murder on the Dancefloor (Like a Version) Royel Otis	99	1	#2	–
47	Bury Me Alejandro Escovedo	97	1	#4	–
48	That's So True Gracie Abrams	96	1	#5	–
49	Where The Road Goes Old 97's	96	1	#5	–
50	Guess Charli XCX	95	1	#6	–
51	Death Valley High Orville Peck	95	2	#32	–
52	Mrs. Postman Black Pumas	95	1	#6	–
53	Girls Dom Dolla	94	1	#7	–
54	Common Blue Warpaint	93	1	#7	–
55	Blame Brett The Beaches	93	1	#7	–
56	Beaches Beabadoobee	93	2	#17	–
57	Not Like Us Kendrick Lamar	93	1	#8	–
58	Chihiro Billie Eilish	92	2	#33	–
59	Cruel Summer (Like a Version) G Flip	92	1	#9	–
60	Free Treasure Adrianne Lenker	92	2	#28	–
61	Empty Trainload Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	91	1	#9	–
62	Leavemealone Fred Again and Baby Keem	91	1	#10	–
63	Diet Pepsi Addison Rae	90	1	#11	–
64	Places to Be Fred Again, Anderson .Paak and Chika	89	1	#12	–
65	In The Modern World Fontaines D.C.	89	2	#43	–
66	Backbone Chase & Status and Stormzy	88	1	#13	–
67	From The Start Laufey	88	1	#12	–
68	Cinderella Remi Wolf	88	1	#12	–
69	Cave Dom Dolla and Tove Lo	87	1	#14	–
70	Lover's Leap Elbow	87	1	#13	–
71	Nobody's Soldier Hozier	87	1	#13	–
72	Tangerine Ocean Alley	86	1	#15	–
73	Low Sun Hermanos Gutierrez	86	2	#39	–
74	Death Valley High Orville Peck and Beck	84	1	#15	–
75	Rainbow Cage The Elephant	84	1	#16	–
76	I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of us All Father John Misty	83	1	#16	–
77	One Bad Day Spacey Jane	83	1	#18	–
78	Lithonia Childish Gambino	82	2	#49	–
79	A Bar Song (Tipsy) Shaboozey	82	1	#19	–
80	Happiness The Heavy Heavy	81	2	#42	–
81	The Door Teddy Swims	81	1	#18	–
82	Northern Attitude Noah Kahan	81	1	#18	–
83	I Like the Way You Kiss Me Artemas	80	1	#21	–
84	I am a Force Field Cloud Cult	80	1	#19	–
85	I Love You, I'm Sorry Gracie Abrams	79	1	#22	–
86	Save It For Later Eddie Vedder	79	1	#20	–
87	Big Time Nothing St. Vincent	78	2	#35	–
88	Like A Bird Abraham Alexander & Adrian Quesada	78	1	#21	–
89	Girls The Kid Laroi	78	1	#23	–
90	Misses Dominic Fike	77	1	#24	–
91	Say It Like You Mean It Sleater-Kinney	77	2	#55	–
92	I Had Some Help Post Malone	76	1	#25	–
93	Bells and Whistles Bright Eyes	75	2	#36	–
94	Girl, So Confusing Charli XCX and Lorde	75	1	#26	–
95	Love Of A Girl Avett Brothers	75	2	#48	–
96	All in My Head The Linda Lindas	74	1	#24	–
97	Wildflower Billie Eilish	74	1	#27	–
98	I Guess Time Makes Fools Of Us All Father John Misty	74	1	#25	–
99	Crystal Breath Kim Deal	73	1	#25	–
100	365 Charli XCX	73	1	#28	–

Every station’s number one of 2024

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KXT	Yes Man Remy Reilly	KXT Top 91 Songs of 2024
The Current	I'd Miss The Birds Joy Oladokun	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2024
WFUV	She's Leaving You MJ Lenderman	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2024
Triple J	Good Luck, Babe! Chappell Roan	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2024

All 2024 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2024 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 2024 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 four qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.