Billboard Canada 2015 Top 40 Rock Airplay Tunes

Rock Radio1Ranked 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