Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song

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The Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song winners and nominees. Collective Soul, Panic! at the Disco, and Zach Bryan are the only groups/artists to win twice.

Winners and nominees

Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s

Year Song Artist Ref.
1992 "Mysterious Ways" (Album Rock) U2 [1]
"One" (Modern Rock)
1993 "Plush" Stone Temple Pilots [2]
"Are You Gonna Go My Way" Lenny Kravitz
"Livin' on the Edge" Aerosmith
"Cryin'" Aerosmith
1994 "Shine" Collective Soul [3]
"Black Hole Sun Soundgarden
"Far Behind" Candlebox
"No Excuses" Alice in Chains
1995 "December" Collective Soul [4]
"Lightning Crashes" Live
"Better Man" Pearl Jam
"When I Come Around" Green Day
1996 "Counting Blue Cars" Dishwalla [5]
1997 "If You Could Only See" Tonic [6]
"Gone Away" The Offspring
"One Headlight" The Wallflowers
"Push" Matchbox Twenty
1998 "Blue on Black" Kenny Wayne Shepherd [7]
"My Own Prison" Creed
"The Down Town" Days of the New
"Touch, Peel and Stand" Days of the New
1999 "One" Creed [8]
"Heavy" Collective Soul
"Scar Tissue" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"What It's Like" Everlast

2000s

Year Song Artist Ref.
2000 "Kryptonite" 3 Doors Down [9]
"I Disappear" Metallica
"Higher" Creed
"No Leaf Clover" Metallica
2001 —N/a
2002 "Blurry" Puddle of Mudd [10]
"I Stand Alone" Godsmack
"Wasting My Time" Default
"For You" Staind
2003 "Headstrong" Trapt [11]
"Seven Nation Army" The White Stripes
"Like a Stone" Audioslave
"Send the Pain Below" Chevelle
2004 —N/a
2005 "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" Green Day [12]
"Best of You" Foo Fighters
"Feel Good Inc." Gorillaz
"The Hand That Feeds" Nine Inch Nails
2006 "Animal I Have Become" Three Days Grace [13]
"Dani California" Red Hot Chili Peppers
"Speak" Godsmack
2007-09 —N/a

2010s

Year Song Artist Ref.
2010 —N/a
2011 "Hey, Soul Sister" Train [14]
"Dog Days Are Over" Florence and the Machine
"Little Lion Man" Mumford & Sons
"Animal" Neon Trees
"Lay Me Down" The Dirty Heads feat. Rome Ramirez
2012 "Pumped Up Kicks" Foster the People [15]
"Paradise" Coldplay
"Walk" Foo Fighters
"Rolling in the Deep" Adele
"Someone like You" Adele
2013 "Somebody That I Used to Know" Gotye feat. Kimbra [16]
"Some Nights" Fun
"We Are Young" Fun feat. Janelle Monáe
"Ho Hey" The Lumineers
"Home" Phillip Phillips
2014 "Royals" Lorde [17]
"Safe and Sound" Capital Cities
"Demons" Imagine Dragons
"Radioactive" Imagine Dragons
Let Her Go" Passenger
2015 "Take Me to Church" Hozier [18]
"Pompeii" Bastille
"A Sky Full of Stars" Coldplay
"Centuries" Fall Out Boy
"Ain't It Fun" Paramore
2016 "Shut Up and Dance" Walk the Moon
"Uma Thurman" Fall Out Boy
"Ex's & Oh's" Elle King
"Stressed Out" Twenty One Pilots
"Renegades" X Ambassadors
2017 "Heathens" Twenty One Pilots
"Ride" Twenty One Pilots
"Stressed Out" Twenty One Pilots
"Sucker for Pain" Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors
"Unsteady" X Ambassadors
2018 "Believer" Imagine Dragons [19]
"Thunder" Imagine Dragons
"Feel It Still" Portugal. The Man
"Heavy" Linkin Park featuring Kiiara
"Wish I Knew You" The Revivalists
2019 "High Hopes" Panic! at the Disco
"Sit Next to Me" Foster the People
"Natural" Imagine Dragons
"Whatever It Takes" Imagine Dragons
"Broken" Lovelytheband

2020s

Year Song Artist Ref.
2020 "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" Panic! at the Disco
"Bad Liar" Imagine Dragons
"I Think I'm Okay" Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud and Travis Barker
"Chlorine" Twenty One Pilots
"The Hype" Twenty One Pilots
2021 "Bang!" AJR [20][21]
"Monsters" All Time Low featuring Blackbear
"Heat Waves" Glass Animals
"My Ex's Best Friend" Machine Gun Kelly featuring Blackbear
"Level of Concern" Twenty One Pilots
2022 "Beggin'" Måneskin [22]
"My Universe" Coldplay and BTS
"Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)" Elle King and Miranda Lambert
"Follow You" Imagine Dragons
"Meet Me at Our Spot" The Anxiety (Willow Smith and Tyler Cole)
2023 "Something in the Orange" Zach Bryan [23]
"I Remember Everything" Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves
"Need a Favor" Jelly Roll
"Bad Habit" Steve Lacy
"Until I Found You" Stephen Sanchez
2024 "I Remember Everything" Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves [24]
"Pink Skies" Zach Bryan
"End of Beginning" Djo
"Too Sweet" Hozier
"Stick Season" Noah Kahan

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song Awards:

Wins Artist
2 Zach Bryan
Collective Soul
Panic! At the Disco

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song nominations:

Nominations Artist
7 Imagine Dragons
6 Twenty One Pilots
4 Zach Bryan
3 Collective Soul
Creed
Coldplay
2 Adele
Aerosmith
Days of the New
Fall Out Boy
Foo Fighters
Foster the People
Fun
Godsmack
Green Day
Hozier
Fun
Metallica
Red Hot Chili Peppers

References

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