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	Electric Green Lambo	Dope Lemon	Alternative Rock
49	Top of the World	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
50	Spike Island	Pulp	Alternative Rock
51	What You Need	Jay Som	Alternative Rock
52	Make My World	Dorio	Rock
53	Bluephoria	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
54	Woman's Woman	Reckoners	Roots Rock
55	To Space	Kings of Leon	Alternative Rock
56	Knockin' Heart	Hamilton Leithauser	Alternative Rock
57	Heathcliff	Snocaps	Alternative Rock
58	Alone	The Cure	Alternative Rock
59	Shovel	Deep Sea Diver	Alternative Rock
60	All Twisted Up	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
61	Like a Fool	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
62	I Got a Feeling	A.J. Croce	Roots Rock
63	Big Machine	J'cuuzi	Rock
64	Witness	The Wood Brothers	Roots Rock
65	American Dreaming	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
66	Okay	Girl and Girl	Rock
67	Something's Wrong	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
68	Smoke	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
69	BOYS with the CHARACTERISTICS of WOLVES	Unknown Mortal Orchestra	Alternative Rock
70	Chateau Blues	Spoon	Alternative Rock
71	Wish You Would	Los Lonely Boys	Roots Rock
72	Guess I'm Fallin in Love	Spoon	Alternative Rock
73	I Like It I Like It	Moses Sumney	Alternative Rock
74	Take It Home	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
75	Talk to Me	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
76	Magic of the Sale	Teethe	Alternative Rock
77	This Life As We Know It	Warren Haynes	Roots Rock
78	Switch over	Horsegirl	Alternative Rock
79	Cryin’ Shame (feat. Sonny Landreth)	Dion	Roots Rock
80	Ginkgo	Panchiko	Alternative Rock
81	Broken Glass	Neal Francis	Alternative Rock
82	Deep Dish Grit	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
83	Late Night Crying	The B. Christopher Band	Surf
84	Little Black Dress	Francis of Delirium	Alternative Rock
85	I Will Not Go Down (feat. Billy Strings)	Amythyst Kiah	Roots Rock
86	Big River	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
87	Right String, Wrong Yo-Yo	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
88	Three Days	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
89	Gotta Get Back to New Orleans	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
90	Joy, Joy!	Valerie June	Roots Rock
91	It's a Mirror	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
92	Orlando in Love	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
93	Bad Information	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
94	Rockin' Bones	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
95	School of Rock and Roll	The Reverend Horton Heat	Rock & Roll
96	Same Old Song	The Lumineers	Alternative Rock
97	Break Up with Everything	Michael Franti & Spearhead	Alternative Rock
98	All in My Head	The Linda Lindas	Alternative Rock
99	Good While It Lasted	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
100	Life Signs	Water From Your Eyes	Alternative Rock
101	Enough is Enough	The Hives	Rock
102	Spanish Fly	Van Halen	Hard Rock
103	When It Snows in Texas	Sierra Ferrell	Roots Rock
104	Luxury Television	Gus Baldwin & The Sketch	Punk Rock
105	Easy Love, Pt. 1	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
106	Lose You	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
107	Back to Me	The Marías	Rock
108	I'm Done Runnin'	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
109	Little Bit	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
110	Born Runnin' Outta Time	Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real	Roots Rock
111	Green Light	Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors	Roots Rock
112	Bai Lan (Let It Rot)	Jonas Wilson	Alternative Rock
113	Tanana	Portugal. The Man	Alternative Rock
114	Gózalo	The Animeros	Alternative Rock
115	Pleasure Point	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
116	Wildflower	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
117	What is the Reason for It? (feat. Hayley Williams)	David Byrne	Alternative Rock
118	Backseat Banton	Bartees Strange	Alternative Rock
119	First Came the Thunder (feat. Qiensave)	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
120	That and $20	Shinyribs	Roots Rock
121	Deadstick	King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard	Alternative Rock
122	Just As Long As We're Together	Jalen Ngonda	Rock
123	Ride to Robert's	Jason Isbell	Roots Rock
124	Nothing Above You	Frankie V and the Lonely Club	Roots Rock
125	Incomprehensible	Big Thief	Roots Rock
126	It's a Good Day to Be Alive	Chuck Prophet	Roots Rock
127	Life Behind Bars	Vandoliers	Roots Rock
128	Bombora	The Atlantics	Surf
129	Country Brat	Patton Magee	Alternative Rock
130	Die Your Daughter	Susannah Joffe	Alternative Rock
131	Road Trip	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	Roots Rock
132	I Forget (I’m So Young)	Sofie Royer	Alternative Rock
133	GRIN	Sophia Warren	Alternative Rock
134	Fly	Half Dream	Rock
135	Maggie's Farm	Rage Against the Machine	Rock
136	After the Setting Sun	The Head and The Heart	Alternative Rock
137	Blue and Gray	Dulcie Taylor	Roots Rock
138	Pearls	Larkin Poe	Roots Rock
139	Overlander	The Budos Band	Psychedelic
140	Patterns	Laura Marling	Alternative Rock
141	Plover	Variety	Alternative Rock
142	Not Gonna Miss You	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
143	Wyoming Bound	3 Twins	Roots Rock
144	Junkies and Hookers	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
145	Rooster	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
146	Another Life	Alabama Shakes	Roots Rock
147	She Wants to Go Dancing	Mt. Joy	Rock
148	Do You Want to	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
149	Cause of It All	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
150	Mama Bear	Sandy Atkinson	Roots Rock
151	Guy Fawkes Tesco Dissociation	jasmine.4.t	Alternative Rock
152	Get It	Cardinals	Alternative Rock
153	Almost Home	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
154	Enough	Jeff Tweedy	Alternative Rock
155	Dunes of Djoser	Arc De Soleil	Psychedelic
156	Paper Doll	Samantha Fish	Roots Rock
157	Adagio	Σtella	Rock
158	Without the Medicine	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
159	No Particular Place to Go	Chuck Berry	Rock & Roll
160	Early Grave	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
161	Cobra	Geese	Alternative Rock
162	Mona	Jonathan Terrell	Rock
163	Queen	Perfume Genius	Alternative Rock
164	Save Me Now	Wisp	Rock
165	Kinky	bby	Alternative Rock
166	Blame	Girl Tones	Alternative Rock
167	Steal Your Love	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
168	Dirty Dishes Blues	Gary Clark Jr.	Rock
169	Thunderhead	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
170	Condensation	Sports Team	Alternative Rock
171	You Are	LP Giobbi	Alternative Rock
172	The Sea	JJ Grey & Mofro	Roots Rock
173	The Happy Dictator (feat. Sparks)	Gorillaz	Alternative Rock
174	Picture Window	Japanese Breakfast	Alternative Rock
175	Afterlife	(Sandy) Alex G	Alternative Rock
176	Caroline	Mumford & Sons	Alternative Rock
177	Disinfectant	Peter Perrett	Alternative Rock
178	Empty Trainload of Sky	Gillian Welch and David Rawlings	Roots Rock
179	Detour	La Sécurité	Rock
180	World's Worst Girlfriend	Shura	Alternative Rock
181	Blame It on Me	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
182	Let the Rains Fall	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
183	Test of Time	Babaux and The Peacemakers	Roots Rock
184	Scuttle Buttin'	Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble	Rock
185	Feel It Coming	Grandmaster	Rock
186	Arrival	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
187	Departure	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
188	Wormwood	moe.	Rock
189	Solo Modelo	Jeffrey Foucault	Roots Rock
190	Face the Music	The Coffis Brothers	Roots Rock
191	Stop Using My Love	The Sha La Das	Rock
192	Dance with a Stranger	Lake Street Dive	Alternative Rock
193	Courage My Love	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
194	Life is Just a Vapor	Paul Thorn	Roots Rock
195	Riff Raft	Ed Rawlings	Roots Rock
196	Nice Shoes	Steve Lacy	Rock
197	Hard to Love	Christone "Kingfish" Ingram	Roots Rock
198	Half As High	The Devil Makes Three	Roots Rock
199	If You Wanna Rock 'n' Roll (feat. Eric Clapton)	Dion	Roots Rock
200	Memphis is a Calling	Stormin' Norman and the Cyclones	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