Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song

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

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Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.

1990s

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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

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2010s

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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 [citation needed]
"Uma Thurman" Fall Out Boy
"Ex's & Oh's" Elle King
"Stressed Out" Twenty One Pilots
"Renegades" X Ambassadors
2017 "Heathens" Twenty One Pilots [citation needed]
"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

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Year Song Artist Ref.
2020 "Hey Look Ma, I Made It" Panic! at the Disco [citation needed]
"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

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References

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  21. "The Weeknd Leads All Finalists for the 2021 Billboard Music Awards: See the Full List". Billboard. Retrieved May 24, 2021.
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