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