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- "I Love Rock 'N Roll" (1981) — Joan Jett & the Blackhearts. So what if it's a cover? Joan Jett & the Blackhearts own this song with every ounce of their being.
- "Born to Run" (1975) — Bruce Springsteen. If "At night, we ride through the mansions of glory/In suicide machines" doesn't sound like a typical rock lyric, it's because this ode to love, cars, and unfulfilled American dreams is anything but typical.
- "Starman" (1972) — David Bowie. David Bowie's "Starman" is a soaring wonder, a sparkly tale about an alien communicating with Earth's children via radio (and phone!).
- "Once in a Lifetime" (1980) — Talking Heads. An ode to disassociation, the Talking Heads' signature song is carried by Tina Weymouth's hypnotic rubber-band bassline and (her husband) Chris Frantz's shuddery beats.
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the week’s most popular current rock songs across all genres, ranked by streaming activity data by online music sources tracked by luminate, radio airplay audience impressions as measured by ...
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- Machine Gun Kelly, “Bloody Valentine” Nope, it’s not the simulation going bad — Machine Gun Kelly did indeed release the best rock single of 2020. “Bloody Valentine” hushed any remaining doubts about MGK’s career pivot and eventually brought him to pop’s biggest stages, both figuratively (topping the Billboard 200 with his Tickets to My Downfall album) and literally (playing both the VMAs pre-show and the AMAs main show).
- beabadoobee, “Care” Carefully constructed but delivered with joyful relish, Beabadoobee’s “Care” is a piquant blast of ’90s alt-rock, finding the 20-year-old singer-songwriter brushing off someone’s performative sympathy and opting to find solace in a swirl of jangly guitars and Paisley tones.
- 24kGoldn feat. iann dior, “Mood” Call it rock, call it rap, call it pop — all true, and all insufficient at capturing the energy and jubilation that the opening guitar scrapes of “Mood” produced across seemingly every radio format in 2020.
- Phoebe Bridgers, “Kyoto” In a press statement upon the release of “Kyoto,” Phoebe Bridgers explained that the song is about “impostor syndrome” — about being in Japan, playing her music half a world from where it was conceived, and dissociating with that positive experience.
- Miley Cyrus – “7 Things”
- Britney Spears – “I Will Be There”
- Backstreet Boys – “Just Want You to Know”
- Ed Sheeran Feat. Bruno Mars and Chris Stapleton – “Blow”
- Chick – “Demented”
- Skye Sweetnam – “Tangled Up in Me”
- Fefe Dobson – “Take Me Away”
- Ashlee Simpson – “La La”
- Doja Cat – “Say So (Live at MTV Ema 2020)”
- The Breakfast Club – “Safe Neighborhood”
The lead single from Breakout, Miley Cyrus’s first album that wasn’t linked to her Disney Channel alter ego Hannah Montana, had acoustic verses and a big anthemic pop-punk chorus that many interpreted as being aimed at her ex, Nick Jonas. It was the first of many reinventions for Cyrus, who’d occasionally swerve towards indie rock influences with t...
Britney Spears would gesture at rock most famously with weird, clubby Rodney Jerkins-produced covers of The Rolling Stones and Joan Jett, but her best guitar-driven song is this jangly deep cut from her debut. If “I Will Be There” had been her first single instead of “…Baby One More Time,” Spears probably wouldn’t have been as big a star, but she m...
Max Martin and Dr. Luke appear in this list multiple times, as their guitar-driven productions for Kelly Clarkson, Pink, and others helped swerve pop radio towards power chords and anthemic choruses in the mid-2000s. But the Backstreet Boys took the rock sound of their Max/Luke single “Just Want You To Know” one step further and made a video paying...
Ed Sheeran plays guitar, but his ballads, folky influences, and experiments with dance beats and rapping have always landed him firmly in the “pop” camp. But his 2019 album No. 6 Collaborations Project offered a full-scale hard rock song, which featured country rocker Chris Stapleton and fellow pop star Bruno Mars, who produced and played most of t...
In 1995, Epic Records released an alternative rock album that was written by one of the biggest pop stars in the world, and nobody knew for 25 years. But in 2020, Mariah Carey finally spilled the beans in her memoir, The Meaning of Mariah Carey, that she’d written and recorded an entire album of angsty rock inspired by bands like Hole during the se...
In 2004, Canadian teenager Skye Sweetnam became a Radio Disney staple with her debut album, Noise In The Basement, and toured as an opening act for Britney Spears. But the rock leanings of songs like “Tangled Up In Me” foreshadowed the heavier direction Sweetnam’s music would take. In 2009, she formed the metal band Sumo Cyco (singing under her alt...
Like Skye Sweetnam, Fefe Dobson was a Canadian teen idol who was more successful at home in America in the mid-2000s. But the only Hot 100 hit from her self-titled debut, “Take Me Away,” was one of her hardest-rocking tunes, and she hung portraits of Kurt Cobain and Jeff Buckley in the studio, and aspired to work with Jack White.
Jessica Simpson was one of the blonde pop divas who was inescapable on MTV around the turn of the century, but her rebellious little sister had other ideas when she got her own record deal and reality show. Ashlee Simpson’s biggest hits were introspective mid tempo songs like “Pieces of Me,” but “La La” was a stomping rock anthem a million miles fr...
Doja Catis one of the more chameleonic stars on the current pop landscape, throwing rock-influenced songs like “Bottom Bitch” into her repertoire of pop, R&B, and rap. But she really got to show off her versatility when her 2020 single “Say So” topped the charts and she appeared on countless awards shows and TV specials, putting a different spin on...
When Madonna Lourdes Cicconedropped out of college and moved to New York City, her unlikely first step to pop superstardom was playing drums in a punk band. Madonna only played in The Breakfast Club for a short time, but sang lead on the blistering 1980 song “Safe Neighborhood” before fronting another band, Emmy & The Emmys, and then going solo. Of...
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