What was the top indie rock song of 2025?

Combining 14 year-end radio countdowns, the top indie rock song of 2025 is "mangetout" by Wet Leg, which appeared on 13 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · Indie & Adult Alternative · 14 countdowns combined

The best indie rock songs of 2025

14 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2025: 107.1 The Peak, 90.9 The Bridge, 91.3 The Summit, Exit 97.7, Indie 102.3, KXT, Lightning 100, The Current, WERS 88.9, WFUV, WNXP 91.ONE, WTMD, WXPN and WYEP. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2025 is “mangetout” by Wet Leg, which appeared on 13 of the 14 countdowns and was voted number one by two of them. 13 different songs were voted number one somewhere: “It's Amazing to Be Young” by Fontaines D.C. (2 stations), “Madalena” by Goose, “Catch These Fists” by Wet Leg, “Grown Now” by D.K. Harrell and “You Won't Dig My Grave” by Josh Ritter and others. Wet Leg was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 27 times across the countdowns.

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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	mangetout Wet Leg	1,096	13	#1	2
2	catch these fists Wet Leg	1,012	11	#1	2
3	Elderberry Wine Wednesday	951	13	#1	1
4	Horses Jesse Welles	949	12	#1	1
5	Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine	943	12	#1	1
6	This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party	900	12	#3	–
7	moody Royel Otis	898	14	#5	–
8	Nothing I Need Lord Huron	897	13	#7	–
9	White Horses Wolf Alice	894	11	#3	–
10	Everybody Laughs David Byrne	840	11	#6	–
11	Dracula Tame Impala	833	11	#4	–
12	Another Life Alabama Shakes	814	13	#3	–
13	It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C.	784	10	#1	2
14	Time Waited My Morning Jacket	766	10	#1	1
15	Sally, When The Wine Runs Out Role Model	760	11	#5	–
16	Lucy Mt. Joy	742	10	#3	–
17	Sushi and Coca Cola St. Paul & The Broken Bones	728	11	#8	–
18	Everything Is Peaceful Love Bon Iver	728	11	#2	–
19	Ankles Lucy Dacus	704	11	#5	–
20	Elegantly wasted Hermanos Gutierrez	692	14	#2	–
21	Enough Jeff Tweedy	688	12	#10	–
22	Metal The Beths	653	10	#18	–
23	Madalena Goose	615	9	#1	1
24	Relationships Haim	611	10	#4	–
25	Bloom Baby Bloom Wolf Alice	588	10	#11	–
26	I Want You (Fever) Momma	555	10	#13	–
27	Returning To Myself Brandi Carlile	536	8	#16	–
28	Big Money Jon Batiste	511	9	#17	–
29	Everyday Magic My Morning Jacket	505	8	#11	–
30	Afterlife Alex G	493	8	#9	–
31	Wreck Neko Case	477	11	#3	–
32	Rubber Band Man Mumford & Sons	462	8	#2	–
33	Same Old Song Lumineers	462	9	#2	–
34	Incomprehensible Big Thief	459	9	#10	–
35	Idiot Box Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory	459	8	#1	1
36	Watch Me Go Lord Huron	458	9	#7	–
37	Spaceman in Tulsa Counting Crows	454	7	#7	–
38	That's Gonna Leave a Mark Molly Tuttle	454	8	#3	–
39	Give It Time Goose	449	7	#4	–
40	Stay In Your Lane Courtney Barnett	447	8	#10	–
41	Let Things Go CAAMP	435	8	#14	–
42	Spike Island Pulp	433	8	#16	–
43	Save Your Soul Kathleen Edwards	428	8	#7	–
44	Human Brandi Carlile	424	6	#10	–
45	Mistakes CAAMP	419	7	#15	–
46	No Rain, No Flowers The Black Keys	410	7	#5	–
47	Coyote Mt. Joy	409	7	#5	–
48	Rushmere Mumford & Sons	398	7	#15	–
49	Cobra Geese	395	7	#9	–
50	Straight Line Was A Lie The Beths	390	8	#16	–
51	Ordinary Creature Of Monsters And Men	389	11	#28	–
52	Guess I'm Falling In Love Spoon	387	8	#12	–
53	Taxes Geese	385	5	#5	–
54	Lover Girl Laufey	379	5	#8	–
55	Archbishop Harold Holmes Jack White	377	4	#2	–
56	What Was That Lorde	370	7	#24	–
57	NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile	370	6	#6	–
58	Caroline Mumford & Sons	365	6	#5	–
59	After The Setting Sun The Head and the Heart	355	6	#12	–
60	Inept Apollo Nation of Language	353	7	#15	–
61	Chateau Blues Spoon	346	7	#26	–
62	Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett	324	8	#9	–
63	The Happy Dictator Gorillaz	321	6	#6	–
64	What Is The Reason For It? David Byrne	321	7	#24	–
65	Wheel Jesse Welles	318	8	#5	–
66	Tanana Portugal. The Man	314	7	#22	–
67	Crucified Son Charley Crockett	308	5	#10	–
68	The Night Before The Black Keys	305	5	#17	–
69	Bury Me Jason Isbell	303	5	#8	–
70	Your Direction Goose	301	6	#10	–
71	Messy Lola Young	295	3	#2	–
72	The Subway Chappell Roan	292	4	#2	–
73	Nose on the grindstone Tyler Childers	287	5	#4	–
74	Downstairs Matt Maeson	284	5	#26	–
75	Joy, Joy! Valerie June	283	5	#17	–
76	Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down Margo Price	281	5	#6	–
77	Sugar In The Tank Julien Baker & Torres	280	7	#24	–
78	Silver Lining Laufey	275	5	#19	–
79	Nice To Each Other Olivia Dean	265	4	#21	–
80	Parachute Hayley Williams	264	4	#12	–
81	Seein' Stars Turnstile	262	4	#1	1
82	Yamaha Dijon	257	7	#4	–
83	Magnetic Tunde Adebimpe	256	4	#17	–
84	Picture Window Japanese Breakfast	256	7	#36	–
85	Anxiety Doechii	256	3	#10	–
86	From Bon Iver	255	6	#31	–
87	Mud Waxahatchee	246	4	#23	–
88	Best Guess Lucy Dacus	239	6	#11	–
89	Gold Rush Lucius	237	7	#13	–
90	Words Big Thief	235	4	#6	–
91	At the Beach, In Every Life Gigi Perez	231	5	#22	–
92	Townies Wednesday	229	5	#34	–
93	After Me? Kashus Culpepper	227	5	#28	–
94	Ultraviolet Clover County	227	5	#23	–
95	People Watching Sam Fender	226	4	#34	–
96	Laredo Leon Bridges	226	5	#25	–
97	Puff Of Smoke Wood Brothers	226	4	#27	–
98	Dang Rainbow Kitten Surprise	221	5	#33	–
99	Lover Richard Ashcroft	219	3	#25	–
100	Down to Be Wrong Haim	212	3	#9	–

Every station’s number one of 2025

Station	Number one song	Countdown
107.1 The Peak	Madalena Goose	WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2025
90.9 The Bridge	Catch These Fists Wet Leg	90.9 The Bridge Top 90 Songs of 2025
91.3 The Summit	Grown Now D.K. Harrell	The Summit FM Top 91 Songs of 2025
Exit 97.7	You Won't Dig My Grave Josh Ritter	WEXT Top 106 of 2025
Indie 102.3	It's Amazing to Be Young Fontaines D.C.	Indie 102.3 Top 102.3 Songs of 2025
KXT	Josh Tillman and the Accidental Dose Father John Misty	KXT Top 91 Songs of 2025
Lightning 100	Pyramid Scheme Hurray For The Riff Raff	Lightning 100 Top 200 Songs of 2025
The Current	Man On A Mission The Black Keys	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2025
WERS 88.9	Everybody Scream Florence + The Machine	WERS Top 88 Songs of 2025
WFUV	mangetout Wet Leg	WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025
WNXP 91.ONE	It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C.	WNXP 91 Most Played Songs of 2025
WTMD	City Lights Seven Teller	WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2025
WXPN	The World's Gone Wrong Lucinda Williams	WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025
WYEP	Horses Jesse Welles	WYEP Top 91 Songs 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 14 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.