Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song

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

Winners and nominees

Year	Song	Artist	Nominees	Ref.
1992	"Mysterious Ways"[1] (Album Rock) "One" (Modern Rock)	U2
1993	"Plush"[2]	Stone Temple Pilots	Lenny Kravitz – "Are You Gonna Go My Way"[2] Aerosmith – "Livin' on the Edge" Aerosmith – "Cryin'"
1994	"Shine"[3]	Collective Soul	Soundgarden – "Black Hole Sun"[3] Candlebox – "Far Behind" Alice in Chains – "No Excuses"
1995	"December"[4]	Collective Soul	Live – "Lightning Crashes"[4] Pearl Jam – "Better Man" Green Day – "When I Come Around"
1996	"Counting Blue Cars"[5]	Dishwalla
1997	"If You Could Only See"[6]	Tonic	The Offspring – "Gone Away"[6] The Wallflowers – "One Headlight" Matchbox Twenty – "Push"
1998	"Blue on Black"[7]	Kenny Wayne Shepherd	Creed – "My Own Prison"[7] Days of the New – "The Down Town" Days of the New – "Touch, Peel and Stand"
1999	"One"[8]	Creed	Collective Soul – "Heavy"[8] Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Scar Tissue" Everlast – "What It's Like"
2000	"Kryptonite"[9]	3 Doors Down	Metallica – "I Disappear"[9] Creed – "Higher" Metallica – "No Leaf Clover"
2002	"Blurry"[10]	Puddle of Mudd	Godsmack – "I Stand Alone"[10] Default – "Wasting My Time" Staind – "For You"
2003	"Headstrong"[11]	Trapt	The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army"[11] Audioslave – "Like a Stone" Chevelle – "Send the Pain Below"
2005	"Boulevard of Broken Dreams"[12]	Green Day	Foo Fighters – "Best of You"[12] Gorillaz – "Feel Good Inc." Nine Inch Nails – "The Hand That Feeds"
2006	"Animal I Have Become"[13]	Three Days Grace	Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Dani California"[13] Godsmack – "Speak"
2011	"Hey, Soul Sister"[14]	Train	Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over"[14] Mumford & Sons – "Little Lion Man" Neon Trees – "Animal" The Dirty Heads feat. Rome Ramirez – "Lay Me Down"
2012	"Pumped Up Kicks"[15]	Foster the People	Coldplay – "Paradise"[15] Foo Fighters – "Walk" Adele – "Rolling in the Deep" Adele – "Someone like You"
2013	"Somebody That I Used to Know"[16]	Gotye feat. Kimbra	Fun – "Some Nights"[16] Fun feat. Janelle Monáe – "We Are Young" The Lumineers – "Ho Hey" Phillip Phillips – "Home"
2014	"Royals"[17]	Lorde	Capital Cities – "Safe and Sound"[17] Imagine Dragons – "Demons" Imagine Dragons – "Radioactive" Passenger – Let Her Go"
2015	"Take Me to Church"[18]	Hozier	Bastille – "Pompeii"[18] 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" Twenty 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"	[19]
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!"[20]	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"	[21]
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 (Willow Smith and Tyler Cole) – "Meet Me at Our Spot"	[22]
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"	[23]
2024	"I Remember Everything"	Zach Bryan featuring Kacey Musgraves	Zach Bryan – "Pink Skies" Djo – "End of Beginning" Hozier – "Too Sweet" Noah Kahan – "Stick Season"	[24]

Superlatives

The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song Awards: Wins Artist 2 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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