What was the top rock song of 2025?

Combining 4 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2025 is "Dracula" by Tame Impala, which appeared on 4 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · four countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2025

Four radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2025: KXT, The Current, WFUV and Triple J. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2025 is “Dracula” by Tame Impala, which appeared on four of the four countdowns. Four different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose” by Father John Misty, “Man On A Mission” by The Black Keys, “mangetout” by Wet Leg and “Man I Need” by Olivia Dean. Wet Leg was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 9 times across the countdowns.

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270songs charted

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Top 100 songs of 2025

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Ranked by combined points across every 2025 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Dracula Tame Impala	327	4	#3	–
2	mangetout Wet Leg	319	4	#1	2
3	catch these fists Wet Leg	289	3	#1	1
4	White Horses Wolf Alice	267	3	#3	–
5	Sally, When The Wine Runs Out Role Model	263	3	#8	–
6	Lover Girl Laufey	256	4	#8	–
7	This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party	251	3	#3	–
8	Elderberry Wine Wednesday	241	3	#11	–
9	Everybody Laughs David Byrne	240	3	#7	–
10	Nothing I Need Lord Huron	238	3	#7	–
11	Horses Jesse Welles	227	3	#4	–
12	Ankles Lucy Dacus	227	3	#5	–
13	Bloom Baby Bloom Wolf Alice	208	3	#20	–
14	It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C.	205	3	#5	–
15	Nice To Each Other Olivia Dean	200	3	#7	–
16	Relationships Haim	194	3	#10	–
17	Time Waited My Morning Jacket	188	3	#24	–
18	The Subway Chappell Roan	185	2	#2	–
19	Archbishop Harold Holmes Jack White	181	2	#4	–
20	Elegantly wasted Hermanos Gutierrez	177	3	#6	–
21	Where Is My Husband! RAYE	177	2	#5	–
22	moody Royel Otis	176	4	#34	–
23	Cobra Geese	170	2	#9	–
24	One Thing Lola Young	168	3	#21	–
25	Everything Is Peaceful Love Bon Iver	163	2	#11	–
26	Anxiety Doechii	162	2	#10	–
27	Another Life Alabama Shakes	162	3	#29	–
28	Metal The Beths	160	3	#32	–
29	Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down Margo Price	139	2	#14	–
30	Everybody Scream Florence + The Machine	137	2	#6	–
31	Big Money Jon Batiste	133	2	#18	–
32	Returning To Myself Brandi Carlile	131	2	#27	–
33	Incomprehensible Big Thief	131	2	#26	–
34	End Of Summer Tame Impala	127	2	#36	–
35	Parachute Hayley Williams	126	3	#42	–
36	Sugar In The Tank Julien Baker & Torres	125	2	#24	–
37	Bury Me Jason Isbell	121	3	#43	–
38	The Happy Dictator Gorillaz	119	2	#29	–
39	Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine	119	2	#5	–
40	Crucified Son Charley Crockett	114	2	#10	–
41	NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile	113	2	#37	–
42	What Was That Lorde	109	2	#22	–
43	Guess I'm Falling In Love Spoon	101	2	#19	–
44	Man I Need Olivia Dean	100	1	#1	1
45	Straight Line Was A Lie The Beths	100	2	#34	–
46	Dancing2 Keli Holiday	99	1	#2	–
47	Messy Lola Young	99	1	#2	–
48	tv off Kendrick Lamar	99	1	#2	–
49	Keith Playlunch	97	1	#4	–
50	back to friends sombr	97	2	#19	–
51	Whateverrrr Spacey Jane	95	1	#6	–
52	Last Girls At The Party The Beaches	94	1	#6	–
53	Lucy Mt. Joy	93	1	#7	–
54	12 to 12 sombr	93	1	#8	–
55	Enough Jeff Tweedy	92	2	#23	–
56	No Broke Boys Disco Lines and Tinashe	92	1	#9	–
57	i used to live in england supermodel*	91	1	#9	–
58	Please Don't Move to Melbourne Ball Park Music	91	1	#10	–
59	So Easy (To Fall in Love) Olivia Dean	90	1	#11	–
60	Victory Lap Fred Again, PlaqueBoyMax and Skepta	89	1	#12	–
61	Dreams Go Polica	89	1	#11	–
62	What Do I Know Deep Sea Diver	88	1	#12	–
63	Inept Apollo Nation of Language	88	2	#15	–
64	Stranger Alan Sparhawk	88	1	#12	–
65	Rein Me In Sam Fender and Olivia Dean	87	1	#14	–
66	Human Brandi Carlile	87	1	#13	–
67	Delete Ya Djo	86	2	#45	–
68	U Should Not Be Doing That Amyl and the Sniffers	86	1	#14	–
69	Madalena Goose	86	1	#14	–
70	Dreamin' Dom Dolla	85	1	#16	–
71	Rubber Band Man Mumford & Sons	85	2	#50	–
72	Love Balloon Ocean Alley	84	1	#17	–
73	First Came The Thunder Chuck Prophet	84	1	#16	–
74	I'm Not Ready for the Change Nation of Language	83	1	#16	–
75	Undressed sombr	83	1	#18	–
76	Sugar On My Tongue Tyler, the Creator	83	2	#24	–
77	Magnetic Tunde Adebimpe	82	1	#17	–
78	Basic Being Basic Djo	82	2	#30	–
79	Flood Little Simz	81	1	#18	–
80	Fame Is a Gun Addison Rae	81	1	#20	–
81	Car Royel Otis	80	1	#21	–
82	No Rain, No Flowers The Black Keys	79	2	#48	–
83	davina mccall Wet Leg	78	1	#21	–
84	Disco Cowgirl G Flip	78	1	#23	–
85	Tunnel Vision Beach Bunny	78	1	#21	–
86	At the Beach, In Every Life Gigi Perez	76	1	#22	–
87	All the Noise Spacey Jane	76	1	#25	–
88	Bad Dreams Teddy Swims	76	1	#23	–
89	Sushi and Coca Cola St. Paul & The Broken Bones	75	2	#47	–
90	Mud Waxahatchee	75	1	#23	–
91	Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett	75	3	#46	–
92	Sports Car Tate McRae	75	1	#26	–
93	Who's Your Boyfriend Royel Otis	75	2	#35	–
94	iPod Touch Ninajirachi	74	1	#27	–
95	Bang Bang Bang Sports Team	74	1	#25	–
96	Loser Tame Impala	73	1	#28	–
97	Old Tape Lucius	73	1	#26	–
98	Silver Lining Laufey	71	1	#27	–
99	At the Party, In Every Life Gigi Perez	71	1	#27	–
100	Flower Moon Durand Jones & The Indications	70	1	#28	–

Every station’s number one of 2025

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KXT	Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose Father John Misty	KXT Top 91 Songs of 2025
The Current	Man On A Mission The Black Keys	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2025
WFUV	mangetout Wet Leg	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025
Triple J	Man I Need Olivia Dean	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2025

All 2025 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2025 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 2025 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.