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The best hard rock songs of 2024

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2024?

Combining 4 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2024 is "The Emptiness Machine" by Linkin Park, which appeared on 4 of the lists.

Four radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2024: 93.3 WMMR, 93X, 94.3 KILO and 98KUPD. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2024 is “The Emptiness Machine” by Linkin Park, which appeared on four of the four countdowns. Four different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Pretty Vicious” by The Struts, “Dilemma” by Green Day, “Vilified” by Jerry Cantrell and “Feedback” by A Day To Remember. Linkin Park was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 8 times across the countdowns.

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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	The Emptiness Machine Linkin Park	324	4	#2	–
2	Angel Song Nothing More	229	3	#5	–
3	If It Doesn't Hurt Nothing More	221	4	#1	1
4	Awaken Breaking Benjamin	217	3	#8	–
5	This Is The Way Five Finger Death Punch	207	3	#5	–
6	Mayday Three Days Grace	203	4	#11	–
7	Dilemma Green Day	196	2	#1	1
8	Heavy Is The Crown Linkin Park	187	3	#7	–
9	Magnetic Wage War	173	2	#3	–
10	Landmines Sum 41	172	2	#4	–
11	V.A.N. Bad Omens	169	3	#8	–
12	Sick The Warning	165	2	#1	1
13	Top 10 Statues That Cried Blood Bring Me the Horizon	150	2	#6	–
14	What Remains Pop Evil	149	2	#5	–
15	Judas Mind Seether	145	2	#9	–
16	Can U See Me In The Dark? Halestorm & I Prevail	143	2	#3	–
17	Dark Matter Pearl Jam	143	2	#4	–
18	Savage Tim Montana	141	2	#8	–
19	All My Life Falling in Reverse	139	2	#12	–
20	Pieces Daughtry	130	2	#3	–
21	Dark Void Asking Alexandria	127	2	#16	–
22	Feedback A Day To Remember	117	2	#1	1
23	Make It All Right The Offspring	116	2	#11	–
24	I Was Alive Beartooth	107	2	#6	–
25	That's How I'm Feeling Jack White	102	2	#10	–
26	Suffocate City The Funeral Portrait	99	1	#2	–
27	Fallout Sleep Theory	97	1	#4	–
28	Rise 10 Years	97	1	#2	–
29	Detroit Badflower	96	2	#18	–
30	Top Ten Statues That Cried Blood Bring Me the Horizon	94	1	#7	–
31	Bad Guy Falling in Reverse	93	2	#19	–
32	Can You See Me in the Dark Halestorm	93	1	#8	–
33	Wanting and Waiting Black Crowes	92	1	#3	–
34	Barely Breathing From Ashes to New	92	2	#22	–
35	Legends Never Die Bad Wolves	92	1	#9	–
36	Liar Jelly Roll	91	2	#15	–
37	The American Dream Is Killing Me Green Day	91	1	#10	–
38	S!CK The Warning	90	1	#4	–
39	Black Butterfly Scott Stapp	89	1	#12	–
40	Kool-Aid Bring Me the Horizon	87	2	#14	–
41	Screaming Suicide Metallica	87	1	#14	–
42	Afraid to Die P.O.D.	86	1	#15	–
43	A Symptom of Being Human Shinedown	83	1	#18	–
44	Wreckage Pearl Jam	81	2	#21	–
45	Gone Atreyu	81	1	#20	–
46	Neon Pill Cage The Elephant	80	1	#6	–
47	Hurt Dead Poet Society	80	1	#7	–
48	Mud Dorothy	80	1	#21	–
49	Truth Godsmack	79	1	#6	–
50	Running In Circles Dead Poet Society	77	2	#15	–
51	Beautiful People (Stay High) The Black Keys	76	1	#7	–
52	When The Pain Comes Black Stone Cherry	75	2	#17	–
53	Artificial Daughtry	74	1	#26	–
54	Numb Sleep Theory	73	1	#27	–
55	Vilified Jerry Cantrell	71	3	#16	–
56	New Way Out Poppy	70	1	#30	–
57	The Optimist 10 Years	69	2	#18	–
58	Here and Now Staind	67	1	#33	–
59	Heavy Is The Crown Judas Priest	63	1	#12	–
60	I'm Alright Mammoth WVH	62	1	#38	–
61	Friendly Fire Linkin Park	61	1	#39	–
62	Crack Cocaine Billy Morrison and Ozzy	60	1	#40	–
63	Nightmare From Ashes to New	59	1	#41	–
64	I Am the Lightning Des Rocs	58	1	#42	–
65	Rockstar Hardy	57	1	#43	–
66	Don't Put Out The Fire Dirty Honey	56	1	#12	–
67	Devil You Know Tim Montana	53	1	#47	–
68	TokSik Starset	52	2	#22	–
69	Walls Come Down Seether	52	1	#48	–
70	Never Be You Tom Petty	52	1	#13	–
71	Mattel Avenged Sevenfold	51	1	#49	–
72	Hell You Call a Dream The Warning	50	1	#50	–
73	Won't Take Me Alive Dirty Honey	49	1	#51	–
74	Living Proof Bon Jovi	48	1	#14	–
75	Better Days Staind	48	1	#52	–
76	Already Over Mike Shinoda	46	1	#54	–
77	Stuck In My Head Sleep Theory	45	2	#23	–
78	Don't Tell Me Disturbed	45	1	#55	–
79	The Glass Foo Fighters	44	1	#56	–
80	Spotlight Fozzy	43	1	#57	–
81	Bleeders Black Veil Brides	42	1	#58	–
82	Dogs of War Motley Crue	41	1	#59	–
83	Crack Cocaine Billy Morrison & Ozzy Osbourne	40	2	#17	–
84	Obsidian Crobot	40	1	#19	–
85	Dreamstate Dayseeker	40	1	#60	–
86	Waiting for Stevie Pearl Jam	39	1	#61	–
87	Psycho Hardy	38	1	#62	–
88	Nightmare (The Devil) Fame on Fire	35	1	#65	–
89	Skinny Little Missy Nickelback	34	1	#66	–
90	Plastic Boxes Highly Suspect	33	1	#21	–
91	Nowhere to Go but Everywhere Bush	33	1	#67	–
92	Higher Power Scott Stapp	32	1	#68	–
93	Dynamite Any Given Sin	30	1	#70	–
94	Wolf Saint Asonia	27	1	#23	–
95	Run Plush	27	1	#73	–
96	The Dam Daughtry	24	1	#75	–
97	Mother's Love Collective Soul	24	1	#20	–
98	World Vs. Peace Point North	23	1	#76	–
99	Brave New World Starset	23	1	#24	–
100	Blur Wage War	21	1	#78	–

Every station’s number one of 2024

Station	Number one song	Countdown
93.3 WMMR	Pretty Vicious The Struts	WMMR Top 25 Songs of 2024
93X	Dilemma Green Day	93X Top 24 Songs of 2024
94.3 KILO	Vilified Jerry Cantrell	KILO's Top 30 Kountdown of 2024
98KUPD	Feedback A Day To Remember	98KUPD Top 98 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. 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.