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

The best indie rock songs of 2024

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

Combining 3 year-end radio countdowns, the top indie rock song of 2024 is "Starburster" by Fontaines D.C., which appeared on 3 of the lists.

Three radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2024: KXT, The Current and WFUV. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2024 is “Starburster” by Fontaines D.C., 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: “Yes Man” by Remy Reilly, “I'd Miss The Birds” by Joy Oladokun and “She's Leaving You” by MJ Lenderman. Kacey Musgraves was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 7 times across the countdowns.

3countdowns

196songs charted

3different #1s

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.	289	3	#1	1
2	Too Sweet Hozier	276	3	#3	–
3	Cardinal Kacey Musgraves	267	3	#6	–
4	That's How I'm Feeling Jack White	263	3	#2	–
5	All In Good Time Iron and Wine	260	3	#9	–
6	Peaceful Place Leon Bridges	236	3	#3	–
7	Sexy To Someone Clairo	227	3	#19	–
8	Broken Man St. Vincent	223	3	#8	–
9	Texas Hold'Em Beyoncé	204	3	#14	–
10	The Feminine Urge Last Dinner Party	202	3	#22	–
11	Don't Forget Me Maggie Rogers	202	3	#7	–
12	A Fragile Thing The Cure	201	3	#11	–
13	Right Back to It Waxahatchee	199	2	#1	1
14	She's Leaving You M J Lenderman	196	2	#1	1
15	Speyside Bon Iver	180	2	#9	–
16	Burial Ground The Decemberists	177	2	#10	–
17	Deeper Well Kacey Musgraves	170	2	#8	–
18	Supersad Suki Waterhouse	163	2	#10	–
19	Gild The Lily Billy Strings	162	3	#20	–
20	Good Together Lake Street Dive	150	2	#21	–
21	Good Luck Babe! Chappell Roan	149	2	#2	–
22	$10 Cowboy Charley Crockett	144	2	#22	–
23	Worthy Mavis Staples	143	3	#29	–
24	Alone The Cure	132	3	#27	–
25	Capricorn Vampire Weekend	125	2	#33	–
26	Sadness As A Gift Adrianne Lenker	121	2	#26	–
27	Bored Waxahatchee	120	3	#34	–
28	Running Norah Jones	119	2	#28	–
29	She Cleans Up Father John Misty	110	2	#40	–
30	Oh No! The Decemberists	110	2	#23	–
31	A Love International Khruangbin	106	2	#30	–
32	Lunch Billie Eilish	106	2	#17	–
33	Classical Vampire Weekend	105	2	#22	–
34	Wreckage Pearl Jam	104	3	#32	–
35	The Architect Kacey Musgraves	101	2	#6	–
36	Floating Parade Michael Kiwanuka	100	2	#35	–
37	Dance With A Stranger Lake Street Dive	100	2	#24	–
38	Sunshine Getaway JD McPherson	100	2	#20	–
39	Favorite Fontaines D.C.	98	1	#3	–
40	Bury Me Alejandro Escovedo	97	1	#4	–
41	BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish	97	1	#4	–
42	Where The Road Goes Old 97's	96	1	#5	–
43	Sailor Song Gigi Perez	95	2	#44	–
44	Death Valley High Orville Peck	95	2	#32	–
45	Mrs. Postman Black Pumas	95	1	#6	–
46	Common Blue Warpaint	93	1	#7	–
47	Blame Brett The Beaches	93	1	#7	–
48	Beaches Beabadoobee	93	2	#17	–
49	Free Treasure Adrianne Lenker	92	2	#28	–
50	Empty Trainload Gillian Welch & David Rawlings	91	1	#9	–
51	In The Modern World Fontaines D.C.	89	2	#43	–
52	From The Start Laufey	88	1	#12	–
53	Cinderella Remi Wolf	88	1	#12	–
54	Lover's Leap Elbow	87	1	#13	–
55	Nobody's Soldier Hozier	87	1	#13	–
56	Low Sun Hermanos Gutierrez	86	2	#39	–
57	Death Valley High Orville Peck and Beck	84	1	#15	–
58	Rainbow Cage The Elephant	84	1	#16	–
59	I Guess Time Just Makes Fools of us All Father John Misty	83	1	#16	–
60	Happiness The Heavy Heavy	81	2	#42	–
61	The Door Teddy Swims	81	1	#18	–
62	Northern Attitude Noah Kahan	81	1	#18	–
63	I am a Force Field Cloud Cult	80	1	#19	–
64	Save It For Later Eddie Vedder	79	1	#20	–
65	Big Time Nothing St. Vincent	78	2	#35	–
66	Like A Bird Abraham Alexander & Adrian Quesada	78	1	#21	–
67	Say It Like You Mean It Sleater-Kinney	77	2	#55	–
68	Bells and Whistles Bright Eyes	75	2	#36	–
69	Von Dutch Charli XCX	75	1	#23	–
70	Love Of A Girl Avett Brothers	75	2	#48	–
71	All in My Head The Linda Lindas	74	1	#24	–
72	I Guess Time Makes Fools Of Us All Father John Misty	74	1	#25	–
73	Crystal Breath Kim Deal	73	1	#25	–
74	Right Back To It Waxahatchee & MJ Lenderman	73	1	#26	–
75	Murder on the Dancefloor Royel Otis	71	1	#27	–
76	Apple Charli XCX	71	1	#27	–
77	Too Stoned to Cry Margo Price (w/Billy Strings)	70	1	#28	–
78	American Dreaming Sierra Ferrell	69	2	#46	–
79	Kisses Slowdive	69	1	#29	–
80	Atom Bomb Bully	69	1	#29	–
81	Pink Skies Zach Bryan	68	1	#30	–
82	Screamland Father John Misty	67	1	#30	–
83	Joy'All Jenny Lewis	67	1	#31	–
84	F**k My Life Up Again Marcus King	65	1	#33	–
85	Room For You Ber	64	1	#33	–
86	Nothing Matters Last Dinner Party	64	1	#34	–
87	We Were Never Alive Brigitte Calls Me Baby	63	1	#34	–
88	Bored Laufey	62	1	#35	–
89	Do One Frank Turner	62	1	#36	–
90	U Should Not Be Doing That Amyl and the Sniffers	60	1	#37	–
91	Bright Lights The Killers	60	2	#54	–
92	Vertigo Beach Bunny	60	1	#37	–
93	Old Tape Lucius	59	2	#45	–
94	Call Me (Whatever You Like) Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	59	2	#53	–
95	Flea St. Vincent	59	1	#38	–
96	Labour Paris Paloma	59	1	#38	–
97	My Heart Your Heart Bad Bad Hats	58	1	#38	–
98	Docket Blondshell	58	1	#39	–
99	Evolve Phish	58	1	#39	–
100	Florida!!! Taylor Swift and Florence + The Machine	57	1	#40	–

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

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 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.