What was the top indie rock song of 2025?

Combining 3 year-end radio countdowns, the top indie rock song of 2025 is "mangetout" by Wet Leg, which appeared on 3 of the lists.

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

The best indie rock songs of 2025

Three radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2025: KXT, The Current and WFUV. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2025 is “mangetout” by Wet Leg, which appeared on three of the three countdowns and was voted number one by two of them. Three 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 and “mangetout” by Wet Leg. Wet Leg was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 8 times across the countdowns.

3countdowns

190songs charted

3different #1s

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	298	3	#1	2
2	catch these fists Wet Leg	289	3	#1	1
3	White Horses Wolf Alice	267	3	#3	–
4	This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party	251	3	#3	–
5	Lover Girl Laufey	247	3	#8	–
6	Elderberry Wine Wednesday	241	3	#11	–
7	Everybody Laughs David Byrne	240	3	#7	–
8	Nothing I Need Lord Huron	238	3	#7	–
9	Dracula Tame Impala	229	3	#20	–
10	Horses Jesse Welles	227	3	#4	–
11	Ankles Lucy Dacus	227	3	#5	–
12	Bloom Baby Bloom Wolf Alice	208	3	#20	–
13	Relationships Haim	194	3	#10	–
14	Time Waited My Morning Jacket	188	3	#24	–
15	Archbishop Harold Holmes Jack White	181	2	#4	–
16	Elegantly wasted Hermanos Gutierrez	177	3	#6	–
17	Sally, When The Wine Runs Out Role Model	175	2	#8	–
18	It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C.	172	2	#5	–
19	Cobra Geese	170	2	#9	–
20	Everything Is Peaceful Love Bon Iver	163	2	#11	–
21	Another Life Alabama Shakes	162	3	#29	–
22	Metal The Beths	160	3	#32	–
23	Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down Margo Price	139	2	#14	–
24	Everybody Scream Florence + The Machine	137	2	#6	–
25	Big Money Jon Batiste	133	2	#18	–
26	Returning To Myself Brandi Carlile	131	2	#27	–
27	Incomprehensible Big Thief	131	2	#26	–
28	Sugar In The Tank Julien Baker & Torres	125	2	#24	–
29	One Thing Lola Young	124	2	#21	–
30	Bury Me Jason Isbell	121	3	#43	–
31	The Happy Dictator Gorillaz	119	2	#29	–
32	Crucified Son Charley Crockett	114	2	#10	–
33	NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile	113	2	#37	–
34	moody Royel Otis	109	3	#36	–
35	Parachute Hayley Williams	106	2	#42	–
36	Nice To Each Other Olivia Dean	106	2	#39	–
37	Guess I'm Falling In Love Spoon	101	2	#19	–
38	Straight Line Was A Lie The Beths	100	2	#34	–
39	Messy Lola Young	99	1	#2	–
40	The Subway Chappell Roan	99	1	#2	–
41	tv off Kendrick Lamar	99	1	#2	–
42	Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine	96	1	#5	–
43	Last Girls At The Party The Beaches	94	1	#6	–
44	Lucy Mt. Joy	93	1	#7	–
45	Enough Jeff Tweedy	92	2	#23	–
46	i used to live in england supermodel*	91	1	#9	–
47	Anxiety Doechii	90	1	#10	–
48	Dreams Go Polica	89	1	#11	–
49	What Do I Know Deep Sea Diver	88	1	#12	–
50	Inept Apollo Nation of Language	88	2	#15	–
51	Stranger Alan Sparhawk	88	1	#12	–
52	Human Brandi Carlile	87	1	#13	–
53	U Should Not Be Doing That Amyl and the Sniffers	86	1	#14	–
54	Madalena Goose	86	1	#14	–
55	Rubber Band Man Mumford & Sons	85	2	#50	–
56	First Came The Thunder Chuck Prophet	84	1	#16	–
57	I'm Not Ready for the Change Nation of Language	83	1	#16	–
58	Magnetic Tunde Adebimpe	82	1	#17	–
59	Flood Little Simz	81	1	#18	–
60	Where Is My Husband! RAYE	81	1	#18	–
61	No Rain, No Flowers The Black Keys	79	2	#48	–
62	davina mccall Wet Leg	78	1	#21	–
63	Tunnel Vision Beach Bunny	78	1	#21	–
64	At the Beach, In Every Life Gigi Perez	76	1	#22	–
65	Bad Dreams Teddy Swims	76	1	#23	–
66	Sushi and Coca Cola St. Paul & The Broken Bones	75	2	#47	–
67	Mud Waxahatchee	75	1	#23	–
68	Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett	75	3	#46	–
69	Bang Bang Bang Sports Team	74	1	#25	–
70	Old Tape Lucius	73	1	#26	–
71	Silver Lining Laufey	71	1	#27	–
72	At the Party, In Every Life Gigi Perez	71	1	#27	–
73	Flower Moon Durand Jones & The Indications	70	1	#28	–
74	Save Your Soul Kathleen Edwards	70	2	#47	–
75	The Fate of Ophelia Taylor Swift	70	1	#28	–
76	Conceited Lola Young	70	1	#28	–
77	Spike Island Pulp	69	1	#29	–
78	Idiot Box Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory	68	2	#56	–
79	Tokyo Rain Loaded Honey	68	1	#30	–
80	Fur Elise - Batiste Jon Batiste	67	1	#30	–
81	Down to Be Wrong Haim	66	1	#32	–
82	This Movie Sucks Durry	65	1	#32	–
83	Give It Time Goose	64	1	#33	–
84	Americana Radio J. Isaiah Evans and the Boss Tweed	64	1	#34	–
85	CPR Wet Leg	63	1	#35	–
86	Stay In Your Lane Courtney Barnett	62	1	#35	–
87	End Of Summer Tame Impala	62	1	#36	–
88	Bonnet of Pins Matt Berninger	61	2	#48	–
89	Supersad Suki Waterhouse	60	1	#37	–
90	Worthy Mavis Staples	59	1	#38	–
91	That's Gonna Leave a Mark Molly Tuttle	59	1	#38	–
92	Like A Woman Lady Blackbird	58	1	#39	–
93	Nobody's Soldier Hozier	57	1	#40	–
94	Words Big Thief	57	1	#40	–
95	Nose on the grindstone Tyler Childers	56	1	#40	–
96	Darlin' Jean Dawson	56	1	#41	–
97	Seein' Stars Turnstile	56	1	#41	–
98	23's a Baby Blondshell	55	1	#41	–
99	Gild The Lily Billy Strings	55	1	#42	–
100	NO CAP Disclosure	54	1	#42	–

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

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 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.