Top Rock Song Chart for the Year of 2025

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025

Rank	Song Title	Band/Artist Name	Sub Genre
1	Moody	Royel Otis	Alternative Rock
2	Metal	The Beths	Alternative Rock
3	Ankles	Lucy Dacus	Alternative Rock
4	I Want You (Fever)	Momma	Alternative Rock
5	Nothing I Need	Lord Huron	Alternative Rock
6	Everybody Gets Down	NxWorries	Rock
7	Catch These Fists	Wet Leg	Alternative Rock
8	Bury Me	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
9	Sugar in the Tank	Julien Baker & TORRES	Alternative Rock
10	Everybody's Song	Robert Plant	Roots Rock
11	Everybody Laughs	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
12	Wake the Dead	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
13	Wreck	Neko Case	Alternative Rock
14	It's Amazing to Be Young	Fontaines D.C.	Alternative Rock
15	Let Things Go	Caamp	Roots Rock
16	Elderberry Wine	Wednesday	Roots Rock
17	Rushmere	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
18	Afterlife	Sharon Van Etten	Alternative Rock
19	The Night Before	The Black Keys	Alternative Rock
20	Flower Moon	Durand Jones & The Indications	Alternative Rock
21	Much Ado About Nothing	Waxahatchee	Rock
22	Gold Rush	Lucius	Alternative Rock
23	Gethsemane	Car Seat Headrest	Alternative Rock
24	The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy	James McMurtry	Roots Rock
25	Everybody Scream	Florence + the Machine	Alternative Rock
26	Tough Times Don't Last	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
27	Voodoo Charm	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
28	White Horses	Wolf Alice	Alternative Rock
29	Magnetic	Tunde Adebimpe	Alternative Rock
30	Fire Sign	S.G. Goodman	Roots Rock
31	Spirits	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
32	Stay in Your Lane	Courtney Barnett	Alternative Rock
33	Time Waited	My Morning Jacket	Alternative Rock
34	Feeling	Billie Marten	Roots Rock
35	What's Fair	Blondshell	Rock
36	Mockingbird	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
37	Arrow	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
38	Bloom Baby Bloom	Wolf Alice	Alternative Rock
39	Cutthroat	Shame	Alternative Rock
40	Inept Apollo	Nation of Language	Alternative Rock
41	Sweet Southern Sounds	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
42	Floating Parade	Michael Kiwanuka	Rock
43	Gonna Need Someone	Ringo Starr	Roots Rock
44	Mistakes	Caamp	Roots Rock
45	Big Dark Town	Roberta Faceplant	Roots Rock
46	Don't Speak	Loaded Honey	Alternative Rock
47	Float (feat. Jim Adkins)	Jay Som	Alternative Rock
48	I Wish I Didn’t Waste Your Time	Thundercat	Rock
49	Electric Green Lambo	Dope Lemon	Alternative Rock
50	Top of the World	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
51	Spike Island	Pulp	Alternative Rock
52	What You Need	Jay Som	Alternative Rock
53	Make My World	Dorio	Rock
54	Bluephoria	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
55	Woman's Woman	Reckoners	Roots Rock
56	To Space	Kings of Leon	Alternative Rock
57	Knockin' Heart	Hamilton Leithauser	Alternative Rock
58	Heathcliff	Snocaps	Alternative Rock
59	Alone	The Cure	Alternative Rock
60	Shovel	Deep Sea Diver	Alternative Rock
61	All Twisted Up	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
62	Like a Fool	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
63	I Got a Feeling	A.J. Croce	Roots Rock
64	Big Machine	J'cuuzi	Rock
65	Witness	The Wood Brothers	Roots Rock
66	American Dreaming	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
67	Okay	Girl and Girl	Rock
68	Something's Wrong	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
69	Smoke	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
70	BOYS with the CHARACTERISTICS of WOLVES	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Alternative Rock
71	Chateau Blues	Spoon	Alternative Rock
72	Wish You Would	Los Lonely Boys	Roots Rock
73	Guess I'm Fallin in Love	Spoon	Alternative Rock
74	I Like It I Like It	Moses Sumney	Alternative Rock
75	Take It Home	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
76	Talk to Me	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
77	Magic of the Sale	Teethe	Alternative Rock
78	This Life As We Know It	Warren Haynes	Roots Rock
79	Switch over	Horsegirl	Alternative Rock
80	Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth)	Dion	Roots Rock
81	Ginkgo	Panchiko	Alternative Rock
82	Broken Glass	Neal Francis	Alternative Rock
83	Deep Dish Grit	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
84	Late Night Crying	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
85	Little Black Dress	Francis of Delirium	Alternative Rock
86	I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings)	Amythyst Kiah	Roots Rock
87	Big River	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
88	Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
89	Three Days	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
90	Gotta Get Back to New Orleans	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
91	Joy, Joy!	Valerie June	Roots Rock
92	It's a Mirror	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
93	Orlando in Love	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
94	Bad Information	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
95	Rockin' Bones	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
96	School of Rock and Roll	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
97	Same Old Song	The Lumineers	Alternative Rock
98	Break Up with Everything	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Alternative Rock
99	All in My Head	The Linda Lindas	Alternative Rock
100	Good While It Lasted	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
101	Life Signs	Water From Your Eyes	Alternative Rock
102	Enough is Enough	The Hives	Rock
103	Spanish Fly	Van Halen	Hard Rock
104	When It Snows in Texas	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
105	Luxury Television	Gus Baldwin & The Sketch	Punk Rock
106	Easy Love, Pt. 1	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
107	Lose You	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
108	Back to Me	The Marías	Rock
109	I'm Done Runnin'	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
110	Little Bit	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
111	Born Runnin' Outta Time	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Roots Rock
112	Green Light	Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors	Roots Rock
113	Black & Gold	Joanne Shaw Taylor	Rock
114	Bai Lan (Let It Rot)	Jonas Wilson	Alternative Rock
115	Tanana	Portugal. The Man	Alternative Rock
116	Gózalo	The Animeros	Alternative Rock
117	Pleasure Point	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
118	Wildflower	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
119	What is the Reason for It? (feat. Hayley Williams)	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
120	Backseat Banton	Bartees Strange	Alternative Rock
121	First Came the Thunder (feat. Qiensave)	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
122	That and $20	Shinyribs	Roots Rock
123	Deadstick	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Alternative Rock
124	Just As Long As We're Together	Jalen Ngonda	Rock
125	Ride to Robert's	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
126	Nothing Above You	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
127	Incomprehensible	Big Thief	Roots Rock
128	It's a Good Day to Be Alive	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
129	Life Behind Bars	Vandoliers	Roots Rock
130	Bombora	The Atlantics	Surf
131	Country Brat	Patton Magee	Alternative Rock
132	Die Your Daughter	Susannah Joffe	Alternative Rock
133	Road Trip	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
134	I Forget (I’m So Young)	Sofie Royer	Alternative Rock
135	GRIN	Sophia Warren	Alternative Rock
136	Fly	Half Dream	Rock
137	Maggie's Farm	Rage Against the Machine	Rock
138	After the Setting Sun	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
139	Blue and Gray	Dulcie Taylor	Roots Rock
140	Pearls	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
141	Overlander	The Budos Band	Psychedelic
142	Patterns	Laura Marling	Alternative Rock
143	Plover	Variety	Alternative Rock
144	Not Gonna Miss You	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
145	Wyoming Bound	3 Twins	Roots Rock
146	Junkies and Hookers	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
147	Rooster	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
148	Another Life	Alabama Shakes	Roots Rock
149	She Wants to Go Dancing	Mt. Joy	Rock
150	Do You Want to	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
151	Cause of It All	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
152	Mama Bear	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
153	Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation	jasmine.4.t	Alternative Rock
154	Get It	Cardinals	Alternative Rock
155	Almost Home	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
156	Enough	Jeff Tweedy	Alternative Rock
157	Dunes of Djoser	Arc De Soleil	Psychedelic
158	Paper Doll	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
159	Adagio	Σtella	Rock
160	Without the Medicine	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
161	No Particular Place to Go	Chuck Berry	Rock & Roll
162	Early Grave	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
163	Cobra	Geese	Alternative Rock
164	Mona	Jonathan Terrell	Rock
165	Queen	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
166	Save Me Now	Wisp	Rock
167	Kinky	bby	Alternative Rock
168	Blame	Girl Tones	Alternative Rock
169	Steal Your Love	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
170	Dirty Dishes Blues	Gary Clark Jr.	Rock
171	Thunderhead	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
172	Condensation	Sports Team	Alternative Rock
173	You Are	LP Giobbi	Alternative Rock
174	The Sea	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
175	The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)	Gorillaz	Alternative Rock
176	Picture Window	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
177	Afterlife	(Sandy) Alex G	Alternative Rock
178	Caroline	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
179	Disinfectant	Peter Perrett	Alternative Rock
180	Empty Trainload of Sky	Gillian Welch and David Rawlings	Roots Rock
181	Detour	La Sécurité	Rock
182	World's Worst Girlfriend	Shura	Alternative Rock
183	Blame It on Me	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
184	Let the Rains Fall	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
185	Test of Time	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
186	Scuttle Buttin'	Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Rock
187	Feel It Coming	Grandmaster	Rock
188	Arrival	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
189	Departure	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
190	Wormwood	moe.	Rock
191	Solo Modelo	Jeffrey Foucault	Roots Rock
192	Face the Music	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
193	Stop Using My Love	The Sha La Das	Rock
194	Dance with a Stranger	Lake Street Dive	Alternative Rock
195	Courage My Love	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
196	Life is Just a Vapor	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
197	Riff Raft	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
198	Nice Shoes	Steve Lacy	Rock
199	Hard to Love	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
200	Half As High	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock

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The Roots Music Report's Top Rock Song Chart for the Year of 2025

The Roots Music Report's
Top Rock Song Chart
for the Year of 2025