The Rock 95 Top 500 Countdown: Top Songs of 2026
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Rock 95's Top 500 Countdown From 2026
- Queen - Bohemian Rhapsody
- Eagles - Hotel California
- Led Zeppelin - Stairway To Heaven
- Tragically Hip - Wheat Kings
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Freebird
- Pink Floyd - Comfortably Numb
- Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
- Ozzy Osbourne - Crazy Train
- AC/DC - Thunderstruck
- Tragically Hip - New Orleans Is Sinking
- Boston - More Than A Feeling
- Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
- Don Mclean - American Pie
- Triumph - Magic Power
- Billy Joel - Piano Man
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Simple Man
- Rush - Tom Sawyer
- Fleetwood Mac - The Chain
- Bob Seger - Old Time Rock & Roll
- AC/DC - You Shook Me All Night Long
- Guns N Roses - November Rain
- Ozzy Osbourne - Mama, I'm Coming Home
- AC/DC - Back In Black
- Tragically Hip - Nautical Disaster
- Pink Floyd - Money
- Dire Straits - Money For Nothing
- Bryan Adams - Summer Of 69
- Queen - Fat Bottomed Girls
- Led Zeppelin - Over The Hills And Far Away
- Beatles - Hey Jude
- Lynyrd Skynyrd - Sweet Home Alabama
- Led Zeppelin - Kashmir
- Metallica - Nothing Else Matters
- Tragically Hip - Grace, Too
- Foo Fighters - Everlong
- Tom Cochrane - Life Is A Highway
- Pearl Jam - Black
- ZZ Top - La Grange
- Dire Straits - Sultans Of Swing
- Band - The Weight
- Guns N Roses - Sweet Child O Mine
- Aerosmith - Dream On
- Blue Rodeo - Hasn't Hit Me Yet
- Jimi Hendrix - All Along The Watchtower
- John Lennon - Imagine
- Janis Joplin - Me & Bobby McGee
- Journey - Don't Stop Believing
- Aerosmith - Sweet Emotion
- Bob Seger - Turn The Page
- Led Zeppelin - Rock & Roll
- Phil Collins - In The Air Tonight
- Metallica - Enter Sandman
- AC/DC - Highway To Hell
- Tragically Hip - Bobcaygeon
- Pink Floyd - Mother
- Rolling Stones - Gimmie Shelter
- Neil Young - Rockin' In The Freeworld
- Nirvana - Smells Like Teen Spirit
- Beatles - Sgt. Pepper/A Day In The Life
- Led Zeppelin - Black Dog
- Queen - We Will Rock You/We Are The Champions
- AC/DC - TNT
- Elton John - Tiny Dancer
- Ram Jam - Black Betty
- Led Zeppelin - Ramble On
- Foo Fighters - My Hero
- Big Brother & Holding Company - Piece Of My Heart
- Styx - Come Sail Away
- Tragically Hip - Ahead By A Century
- Joan Jett & The Blackhearts - I Love Rock & Roll
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Under The Bridge
- Pink Floyd - Run Like Hell
- Heart - Barracuda
- Blue Rodeo - Lost Together
- Meatloaf - Paradise By The Dashboard Light
- U2 - Where The Streets Have No Name
- Counting Crows - Mr. Jones
- Doors - People Are Strange
- Eddie Vedder - Hard Sun
- Guns N Roses - Knockin' On Heaven's Door
- Temple Of The Dog - Hunger Strike
- Van Halen - Jump
- Bon Jovi - Living on a Prayer
- Fleetwood Mac - Dreams
- Rolling Stones - Jumpin' Jack Flash
- Led Zeppelin - All My Love
- Black Sabbath - Paranoid
- CCR - Bad Moon Rising
- Guns N Roses - Paradise City
- White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
- Green Day - When I Come Around
- Motley Crue - Kickstart My Heart
- Nirvana - Come As You Are
- AC/DC - Hells Bells
- Guess Who - American Woman
- Rolling Stones - Sympathy For The Devil
- Def Leppard - Pour Some Sugar On Me
- Aerosmith - Walk This Way
- Pearl Jam - Jeremy
- Van Halen - Panama
- Who - Baba O'Riley
- Tom Petty - Free Fallin'
- Steve Miller Band - The Joker
- Nazareth - This Flight Tonight
- Creed - One
- Band - Up On Cripple Creek
- Rod Stewart - Maggie May
- Nickelback - Photograph
- Metallica - Turn The Page
- Rush - Red Barchetta
- Creed - Higher
- Triumph - Lay It On The Line
- Beatles - While My Guitar Gently Weeps
- Loverboy - Working For The Weekend
- Audioslave - Like A Stone
- Red Rider - Lunatic Fringe
- Kinks - Lola
- Verve - Bittersweet Symphony
- Guns N Roses - Welcome To The Jungle
- Seether/Amy Lee - Broken
- Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
- Soundgarden - Black Hole Sun
- Nickelback - Burn It To The Ground
- Glorious Sons - Sawed Off Shotgun
- Pink Floyd - Learning to Fly
- Radiohead - Creep
- Steve Miller Band - Take the Money & Run
- Alice In Chains - Man In The Box
- Tragically Hip - 38 Years Old
- Loverboy - Turn Me Loose
- Kansas - Carry On Wayward Son
- Rush - Limelight
- Pink Floyd - Another Brick In The Wall
- Van Halen - Runnin' With The Devil
- Hollies - Long Cool Woman (In a Black Dress)
- Survivor - Eye of the Tiger
- Elton John - The Bitch Is Back
- Big Wreck - That Song
- Green Day - Good Riddence (Time Of Your Life)
- Honeymoon Suite - New Girl Now
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Soul To Squeeze
- Sloan - Money City Maniacs
- Beatles - Let It Be
- Oasis - Wonderwall
- John Mellencamp - Jack And Diane
- Mumford and Sons - I Will Wait
- AC/DC - It's A Long Way To the Top (If You Wanna Rock & Roll)
- Queen - You're My Best Friend
- April Wine - Tonight Is A Wonderful Time
- Deep Purple - Hush
- Nickelback - Someday
- Blue Oyster Cult - Don't Fear The Reaper
- Bad Company - Fell Like Making Love
- CCR - Have You Ever Seen The Rain
- Talk - Run Away To Mars
- George Thorogood - One Burbon, One Scotch, One Beer
- Max Webster/Rush - Battlescar
- Pink Floyd - Hey You
- Steeler's Wheel - Stuck In The Middle With You
- Trooper - Raise A Little Hell
- Whitesnake - Here I Go Again
- Trews - Highway Of Heroes
- Tom Petty - I Won't Back Down
- Aaron Lewis/Fred Durst - Outside
- Led Zeppelin - Dazed and Confused
- Soundgarden - Spoonman
- Nathanial Ratelff & The Nightsweats - S.O.B
- AC/DC - Shoot To Thrill
- Eagles - Take It To The Limit
- ZZ Top - Legs
- Tragically Hip - It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken
- Third Eye Blind - Semi Charmed Life
- Cream - Sunshine Of Your Love
- 54-40 - Ocean Pearl
- Aerosmith - Back In The Saddle
- Genesis - Land of Confusion
- Bob Seger - Night Moves
- ZZ Top - Sharp Dressed Man
- Scorpions - Winds of Change
- Ted Nugent - Stranglehold
- Wallflowers - One Headlight
- Bon Jovi - Wanted Dead Or Alive
- Bush - Glycerine
- Triumph - Hold On
- Sheepdogs - I Don't Know
- Huey Lewis & The News - Heart of Rock & Roll
- Green Day - Basketcase
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - American Girl
- Kansas - Dust In The WInd
- Tragically Hip - Locked In The Trunk Of A Car
- Rolling Stones - You Can't Always Get What You Want
- Pearl Jam - Alive
- B.T.O. - Let It Ride
- Pink Floyd - Time
- Chilliwack - Fly At Night
- John Fogerty - Centerfield
- Ozzy Osbourne - No More Tears
- Glorious Sons - Pink Motel
- Blind Melon - No Rain
- Jimi Hendrix - Purple Haze
- Twisted Sister - We're Not Going To Take It
- Sam Roberts Band - Hard Road
- Fleetwood Mac - Go Your Own Way
- Weezer - Beverly Hills
- Who - My Generation
- Kenny Wayne Sheppard - Blue on Black
- Pearl Jam - Elderly Woman Behind A Counter In A Small Town
- Jimi Hendrix - Voodoo Child
- Steve Miller Band - Fly Like An Eagle
- Cheap Trick - I Want You To Want Me
- Collective Soul - Shine
- David Wilcox - Downtown Came Uptown
- Elton John - Rocket Man
- Led Zeppelin - What Is And What Should Never Be
- Trews - I Wanna Play
- Linkin Park - In The End
- Kim Mitchell - Lager & Ale
- Cars - You're All I Got Tonight
- Rick Springfield - Jessie's Girl
- Gordon Lightfoot - The Wreck Of The Edmund Fitzgerald
- Ramones - I Wanna Be Sedated
- Eagles - Desperado
- Supertramp - Dreamer
- U2 - I Stll Haven't Found What I'm Looking For
- Elton John - Your Song
- Doucette - Mama Let Him Play
- Beatles - Come Together
- Helix - Rock You
- Weezer - Say it Ain't So
- Aerosmith - Janie's Got A Gun
- Steve Earle - Copperhead Road
- Nickelback - Rockstar
- Steely Dan - Reeling In The Years
- Big Wreck - Blown WIde Open
- Pretty Reckless - Heaven Knows
- Killers - All These Things That I've Done
- Colin James - Five Long Years
- Beatles - Revolution
- B.T.O. - Taking Care Of Business
- Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorn
- Eric Clapton - Cocaine
- Neil Young - Old Man
- Lovin' Spoonful - Summer In The City
- Blue Stones - Be My Fire
- Pearl Jam - Even Flow
- Tragically Hip - Boots Or Hearts
- Kim Mitchell - Patio Lanterns
- CCR - Fortunate Son
- Gowan - A Criminal Mind
- David Bowie - Fame
- AC/DC - Money Talks
- Led Zeppelin - Fool In The Rain
- Def Leppard - Love Bites
- Deep Purple - Smoke On The Water
- Police - Don't Stand So Close To Me
- 3 Doors Down - Kryptonite
- Thin Lizzy - The Boys Are Back In Town
- Rolling Stones - Under My Thumb
- April Wine - Sign of the Gypsy Queen
- Cream - White Room
- Sloan - The Rest Of My Life
- Skid Row - 18 & Life
- Guess Who - No Sugar Tonight/New Mother Nature
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Otherside
- Neil Young - Cinnnamon Girl
- Huey Lewis & The News - I Want A New Drug
- Tom Cochrane - No Regrets
- Pearl Jam - Yellow Ledbetter
- Dire Straits - Walk Of Life
- Sheepdogs - Feeling Good
- ZZ Top - Tush
- Cage The Elephant - Ain't No Rest For The Wicked
- AC/DC - Have A Drink On Me
- Big Wreck/Chad Kroeger - Middle Of Nowhere
- Blue Oyster Cult - Burnin' For You
- Monster Truck - Seven Seas Blues
- B.T.O. - Roll On Down The Highway
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Don't Come Around Here No More
- Big Sugar - Diggin' A Hole
- Rolling Stones - Ruby Tuesday
- Glorious Sons - Mama
- Eagles - Take It Easy
- Kim Mitchell - Go For Soda
- Alice Cooper - School's Out
- Billy Idol - Rebel Yell
- Guess Who - These Eyes
- Red Hot Chili Peppers - Scar Tissue
- Steppenwolf - Born To Be Wild
- Jimi Hendrix - Fire
- Nirvana - All Apologies
- Tragically Hip - 50 Mission Cap
- Rush - Closer To The Heart
- AC/DC - Who Made Who
- Traffic - Dear Mr. Fantasy
- Pearl Jam - Better Man
- Yes - Owner Of A Lonely Heart
- Kings Of Leon - Use Somebody
- Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Ohio
- Def Leppard - Animal
- David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
- Our Lady Piece - Somewhere Out There
- Beatles - Penny Lane
- Tragically Hip - Courage
- Aerosmith - Livin' On The Edge
- Kiss - Rock & Roll All Night
- John Mellencamp - Pink Houses
- Bleeker - Highway
- Supertramp - Give A Little Bit
- Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers - Mary Jane's Last Dance
- Tragically Hip - Blow At High Dough
- Led Zeppelin - D'yer M'ker
- Spirit of the West - Home for a Rest
- Offspring - Come Out And Play
- U2 - Desire
- Cars - Just What I Needed
- Guns N Roses - Don't Cry
- Van Halen - You Really Got Me
- Finger Eleven - Paralyzer
- Cult - Firewoman
- AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
- Led Zeppelin - The Ocean
- Neil Young - Southern Man
- Golden Earring - Radar Love
- Def Leppard - Photograph
- Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels
- Glorious Sons - Heavy
- Motley Crue - Dr. Feelgood
- INXS - Never Tear Us Apart
- Our Lady Piece - Innocent
- REM - Losing My Religion
- Nazareth - Hair Of The Dog
- Who - Won't Get Fooled Again
- Rush - New World Man
- Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly
- U2 - Pride (In The Name Of Love)
- Def Leppard - Foolin
- Heart - Crazy On You
- Police - Every Breath You Take
- Bryan Adams - Cuts Like A Knife
- Steppenwolf - Magic Carpet Ride
- Led Zeppelin - When The Levee Breaks
- Billy Idol - White Wedding
- Kim Mitchell - I Am A Wild Party
- Doobie Brothers - Listen To The Music
- Doors - Break On Through (To The Other Side)
- April Wine - You Could've Been A Lady
- U2 - With Or Without You
- CCR - Travellin' Band
- Who - Who Are You
- Motley Crue - Smokin' In The Boysroom
- Bon Jovi - You Give Love A Bad Name
- Def Leppard - Rock Of Ages
- Trews - Tired Of Waiting
- Pink Floyd - Young Lust
- Sam Roberts Band - Brother Down
- Led Zeppelin - Hey Hey What Can I Do
- Rush - Working Man
- Midnight Oil - Beds Are Burning
- AC/DC - Girls Got Rhythm
- Arkells - Years In The Making
- Eagles - Already Gone
- Glorious Sons - Mama
- Rolling Stones - Start Me Up
- Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
- Tom Petty - Running Down A Dream
- Our Lady Peace - "4am"
- Don Henley - Boys Of Summer
- Foreigner - Jukebox Hero
- David Wilcox - Riverboat Fantasy
- Supertramp - School
- Peter Gabriel - Sledgehammer
- Boston - Don't Look Back
- Three Days Grace - Just Like You
- CCR - Up Around The Bend
- Stone Temple Pilots - Plush
- B.T.O - You Ain't Seen Nothing Yet
- Queen/David Bowie - Under Pressure
- Elton John - Bennie And The Jets
- Bruce Springsteen - Dancing In The Dark
- Aerosmith - Duces Are Wild
- Beastie Boys - (You Gotta) Fight For Your Right
- Live - Lightning Crashes
- Rush - The Spirit Of Radio
- E.L.O. - Evil Woman
- Def Leppard - Rocket
- Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman
- Jeff Healy Band - Angel Eyes
- George Thorogood - Bad To The Bone
- David Bowie - Space Oddity
- Led Zeppelin - Misty Mountain Hop
- Pink Floyd - Brain Damage/Eclipse
- Nickelback - How You Remind Me
- ZZ Top - Gimmie All Your Lovin'
- Police - Message In A Bottle
- Tragically Hip - Fully Completly
- Eagles - The Long Run
- Neil Young - Heart Of Gold
- Clash - Should I Stay Or Should I Go
- War - Low Rider
- The Pursuit Of Happiness - I'm An Adult Now
- Aerosmith - Love In An Elevator
- Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
- Theory Of A Deadman - Santa Monica
- Van Helen - Why Can't This Be Love
- Staind - It's Been A While
- Trews - Hold Me In Your Arms
- Animals - House Of The Rising Sun
- Bryan Adams - Run To You
- Tom Petty - You Don't Know How It Feels
- Cranberries - Zombie
- Rush - Time Stand Still
- Jimi Hendrix - Foxey Lady
- April Wine - Oowatanite
- Who - I Can See For Miles
- Lenny Kravitz - Are You Going To Go My Way
- Bob Marley - Three Little Birds
- Finger Eleven - One Thing
- AC/DC - For Those About To Rock
- CCR - Proud Mary
- Our Lady Peace - One Man Army
- Led Zeppelin - Going To California
- Max Webster - Paradise Skies
- Queensryche - Silent Lucidity
- Rolling Stones - Paint It Black
- Big Sugar - Turn The Lights On
- Stevie Ray Vaughn - Pride & Joy
- Derek & The Dominoes - Layla
- Glorious Sons - Sometimes On A Sunday
- Doobie Brothers - China Grove
- JJ Wilde - The Rush
- Mountain - Mississippi Queen
- Smashing Pumpkins - "1979"
- Odds - It Falls Apart
- INXS - New Sensation
- Who - Behind Blue Eyes
- T-Rex - Bang A Gong (Get It On)
- Pearl Jam - Daughter
- Tragically Hip - Little Bones
- Talking Heads - Once In A Lifetime
- 38 Special - Hold On Loosely
- Jet - Are You Going To Be My Girl
- Peter Gabriel - Games WIthout Frontiers
- Lenny Kravitz - American Woman
- ZZ Top - Cheap Sunglasses
- Stevie Nicks/Tom Petty - Stop Draggin' My Heart Around
- Neil Young - Hey, Hey, My, My
- Incubus - Drive
- Monster Tuck - Sweet Mountain River
- Doobie Brothers - Takin' It To The Streets
- Stone Temple Pilots - Interstate Love Song
- Foghat - Slowride
- Guess Who - Undone
- Nirvana - About A Girl
- Joni Mitchell - Big Yellow Taxi
- Warren Zevon - Werewolves Of London
- Grand Funk Railroad - Some Kinda Wonderful
- Blondie - One Way Or Another
- Tragically Hip - Looking For A Place To Happen
- Edgar WInter Group - Freeride
- Big Sugar - If I Had My Way
- Travelling Willburys - End Of The Line
- Judas Priest - You've Got Another Thing Coming
- Eagles - Heartache Tonight
- Evanescence - Bring Me To Life
- Our Lady Peace - Superman's Dead
- Foreigner - Cold As Ice
- Rolling Stones - Get Off My Cloud
- Jon Bon Jovi - Blaze of Glory
- Arkells - Knockin' At The Door
- CCR - Susie Q
- Black Crowes - Twice As Hard
- Van Halen - Jamie's Crying
- Rush - Subdivisions
- Foo Fighters - Times Like These
- Barenaked Ladies - One Week
- Supertramp - Bloody Well Right
- Nirvana - In Bloom
- Foreigner - Urgent
- Tragically Hip - My Music At Work
- Poison - Nothin' But A Good Time
- Creed - My Sacrifice
- Our Lady Peace - Clumsy
- Led Zeppelin - Whole Lotta Love
- Jethro Tull - Locomotive Breath
- Van Halen - Dance The Night Away
- Guess Who - Runnin' Back To Saskatoon
- Autograph - Turn Up The Radio
- Knack - My Sharona
- Tragically Hip - Trickle Down
- Sammy Hagar - I Can't Drive 55
- Police - Roxanne
- Bleeker - Let's Go
- Killers - Mr. Brightside
- Bruce Springsteen - Born To Run
- Blue Rodeo - Til I Am Myself Again
- Aerosmith - Rag Doll
- Glorious Sons - Mercy Mercy
- Jackson Browne - Running On Empty
- Kings Of Leon - Sex On Fire
- Elton John - Saturday Night's Alright For Fighting