Ranked by the number of spins, here are the 40 most-played songs on rock radio during the 2015 chart year (December 6, 2014 to November 28, 2015) from Nielsen BDS. “Renegades” by U.S. group X Ambassadors was tops with 16,555 spins. The top song by a Canadian artist was “Leather Jacket” by Arkells at #2 overall. Canadian entries numbered at 12 for the year, down from 16 last year. They have been bolded in red in the chart below.
TITLE | ARTIST | PLAYS | |
1 | Renegades | X Ambassadors | 16,555 |
2 | Leather Jacket | Arkells | 16,103 |
3 | The Wolf | Mumford & Sons | 14,759 |
4 | Figure It Out | Royal Blood | 12,508 |
5 | Lampshades On Fire | Modest Mouse | 11,564 |
6 | What Kind Of Man | Florence + The Machine | 11510 |
7 | Dreams | Beck | 11,037 |
8 | Congregation | Foo Fighters | 10,741 |
9 | Heavy Is The Head | Zac Brown Band | 10678 |
10 | Coming For You | The Offspring | 10,195 |
11 | Exs & Ohs | Elle King | 9,975 |
12 | Believe | Mumford & Sons | 9,388 |
13 | Little Monster | Royal Blood | 9,318 |
14 | Take It Back | Temperance Movement | 9,224 |
15 | Something From Nothing | Foo Fighters | 9,028 |
16 | Mess Is Mine | Vance Joy | 8,727 |
17 | Lightning | The Glorious Sons | 8,627 |
18 | Wolves And Doors | Finger Eleven | 8,493 |
19 | Same Damn Life | Seether | 8,219 |
20 | Downtown | The Sheepdogs | 8,111 |
21 | Crystals | Of Monsters And Men | 7,994 |
22 | The Contender | The Glorious Sons | 7872 |
23 | My Type | Saint Motel | 7,768 |
24 | Tear In My Heart | Twenty One Pilots | 7,640 |
25 | First | Cold War Kids | 7,410 |
26 | Budapest | George Ezra | 7,407 |
27 | Black To Gold | Dear Rouge | 7,295 |
28 | Trainwreck 1979 | Death From Above 1979 | 7,281 |
29 | I Bet My Life | Imagine Dragons | 7,278 |
30 | 2 Heads | Coleman Hell | 7,045 |
31 | Monkey Tree | Mother Mother | 6,974 |
32 | Rock Or Bust | AC/DC | 6,939 |
33 | Cigarette Daydreams | Cage the Elephant | 6,901 |
34 | The Shade | Metric | 6,865 |
35 | Wasted Love | City And Colour | 6,820 |
36 | Outside | Foo Fighters | 6,667 |
37 | Do You Wanna Rock | Danko Jones | 6,575 |
38 | Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf) | AWOLNATION | 6,295 |
39 | Rock The Blues Away | AC/DC | 6,293 |
40 | Ship To Wreck | Florence + The Machine | 6,277 |
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