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

YearSongArtistNomineesRef.
1992"Mysterious Ways"
"One" 		U2
1993"Plush"Stone Temple Pilots
1994"Shine"Collective Soul
  • Soundgarden – "Black Hole Sun"
  • Candlebox – "Far Behind"
  • Alice in Chains – "No Excuses"
    • 1995"December"Collective Soul
  • Live – "Lightning Crashes"
  • Pearl Jam – "Better Man"
  • Green Day – "When I Come Around"
    • 1996"Counting Blue Cars"Dishwalla
    1997"If You Could Only See"Tonic
  • The Offspring – "Gone Away"
  • The Wallflowers – "One Headlight"
  • Matchbox Twenty – "Push"
    • 1998"Blue on Black"Kenny Wayne Shepherd
  • Creed – "My Own Prison"
  • Days of the New – "The Down Town"
  • Days of the New – "Touch, Peel and Stand"
    • 1999"One"Creed
  • Collective Soul – "Heavy"
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Scar Tissue"
  • Everlast – "What It's Like"
    • 2000"Kryptonite"3 Doors Down
  • Metallica – "I Disappear"
  • Creed – "Higher"
  • Metallica – "No Leaf Clover"
    • 2002"Blurry"Puddle of Mudd
  • Godsmack – "I Stand Alone"
  • Default – "Wasting My Time"
  • Staind – "For You"
    • 2003"Headstrong"Trapt
  • The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"
  • Audioslave – "Like a Stone"
  • Chevelle – "Send the Pain Below"
    • 2005"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"Green Day
  • Foo Fighters – "Best of You"
  • Gorillaz – "Feel Good Inc."
  • Nine Inch Nails – "The Hand That Feeds"
    • 2006"Animal I Have Become"Three Days Grace
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Dani California"
  • Godsmack – "Speak"
    • 2011"Hey, Soul Sister"Train
  • Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over"
  • Mumford & Sons – "Little Lion Man"
  • Neon Trees – "Animal"
  • The Dirty Heads feat. Rome Ramirez – "Lay Me Down"
    • 2012"Pumped Up Kicks"Foster the People
  • Coldplay – "Paradise"
  • Foo Fighters – "Walk"
  • Adele – "Rolling in the Deep"
  • Adele – "Someone like You"
    • 2013"Somebody That I Used to Know"Gotye feat. Kimbra
  • Fun – "Some Nights"
  • Fun feat. Janelle Monáe – "We Are Young"
  • The Lumineers – "Ho Hey"
  • Phillip Phillips – "Home"
    • 2014"Royals"Lorde
  • Capital Cities – "Safe and Sound"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Demons"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Radioactive"
  • Passenger – Let Her Go"
    • 2015"Take Me to Church"Hozier
  • Bastille – "Pompeii"
  • Coldplay – "A Sky Full of Stars"
  • Fall Out Boy – "Centuries"
  • Paramore – "Ain't It Fun"
    • 2016"Shut Up and Dance"Walk the Moon
  • Fall Out Boy – "Uma Thurman"
  • Elle King – "Ex's & Oh's"
  • One Pilots – "Stressed Out"
  • X Ambassadors – "Renegades"
    • 2017"Heathens"Twenty One Pilots
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Ride"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Stressed Out"
  • Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors – "Sucker for Pain"
  • X Ambassadors – "Unsteady"
    • 2018"Believer"Imagine Dragons
  • Imagine Dragons – "Thunder"
  • Portugal. The Man – "Feel It Still"
  • Linkin Park featuring Kiiara – "Heavy"
  • The Revivalists – "Wish I Knew You"
    • 2019"High Hopes"Panic! at the Disco
  • Foster the People – "Sit Next to Me"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Natural"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Whatever It Takes"
  • Lovelytheband – "Broken"
    • 2020"Hey Look Ma, I Made It"Panic! at the Disco
  • Imagine Dragons – "Bad Liar"
  • Machine Gun Kelly, Yungblud and Travis Barker – "I Think I'm Okay"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Chlorine"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "The Hype"
    • 2021"[Bang! (AJR song)|]"AJR
  • All Time Low featuring Blackbear – "Monsters"
  • Glass Animals – "Heat Waves"
  • Machine Gun Kelly featuring Blackbear – "My Ex's Best Friend"
  • Twenty One Pilots – "Level of Concern"
    • 2022"Beggin'"Måneskin
  • Coldplay and BTS – "My Universe"
  • Elle King and Miranda Lambert – "Drunk (And I Don't Wanna Go Home)"
  • Imagine Dragons – "Follow You"
  • The Anxiety – "Meet Me at Our Spot"
    • 2023"Something in the Orange"Zach Bryan
  • Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves – "I Remember Everything"
  • Jelly Roll – "Need a Favor"
  • Steve Lacy – "Bad Habit"
  • Stephen Sanchez – "Until I Found You"
    • 2024"I Remember Everything"Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves
  • Zach Bryan – "Pink Skies"
  • Djo – "End of Beginning"
  • Hozier – "Too Sweet"
  • Noah Kahan – "Stick Season"

    • Superlatives

    The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song Awards:
    WinsArtist
    2Zach Bryan
    2Collective Soul
    2Panic! At the Disco

    The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song nominations:
    NominationsArtist
    7Imagine Dragons
    6Twenty One Pilots
    4Zach Bryan
    3Collective Soul
    3Creed
    3Coldplay
    2Adele
    2Aerosmith
    2Days of the New
    2Fall Out Boy
    2Foo Fighters
    2Foster the People
    2Fun
    2Godsmack
    2Green Day
    2Hozier
    2Fun
    2Metallica
    2Red Hot Chili Peppers