Billboard's all-time hard rock digital song leaders

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stevejazz
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Billboard's all-time hard rock digital song leaders

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Listed below are the overall leaders in Billboard's hard-rock digital song charts from the first one in January 2010 through December 2018. I'm missing some charts from 2017, and several weeks each from 2014 and early 2015. The biggest difference from the rock charts is that these include more pre-2000 songs, thanks to groups like Queen, AC-DC, and Guns 'n Roses.

1.Sounds of Silence (2016) - Disturbed (54 weeks at #1, 161 total weeks)
2.Thunderstruck (1990) - AC/DC (27 weeks at #1, 315 total weeks)
3.Bohemian Rhapsody (1976) - Queen (12 weeks at #1, 415 total weeks)
4.Livin’ on a Prayer (1986) - Bon Jovi (4 weeks at #1, 385 total weeks)
5.Sweet Child o’ Mine (1988) - Guns ‘n Roses (4 weeks at #1, 394 total weeks)
6.Enter Sandman (1991) - Metallica (4 weeks at #1, 383 total weeks)
7.We Will Rock You (1977) - Queen (#2 peak, 383 weeks)
8.Back in Black (1980) - AC-DC (4 weeks at #1, 310 total weeks)
9.You Shook Me All Night Long (1980) - AC-DC (#2 peak, 304 weeks)
10.Bring Me to Life (2003) - Evanescence with Paul McCoy (5 weeks at #1, 260 total weeks)

11.Dream On (1973) - Aerosmith (4 weeks at #1, 219 total weeks)
12.Stairway to Heaven (1971) - Led Zeppelin (#4 peak, 239 weeks)
13.Burn It Down (2012) - Linkin Park (20 weeks at #1, 29 total weeks)
14.Zombie (2018) - Bad Wolves (17 weeks at #1, 48 total weeks)
15.Carry On Wayward Son (1977) - Kansas (#2 peak, 217 weeks)
16.In the End (2017) - Linkin Park (5 weeks at #1, 172 total weeks)
17.Welcome to the Jungle (1988) - Guns ‘n Roses (#3 peak, 206 weeks)
18.Highway to Hell (1979) - AC/DC (#4 peak, 205 weeks)
19.Kryptonite (2000) - Three Doors Down (4 weeks at #1, 145 total weeks)
20.Wanted Dead or Alive (1987) - Bon Jovi (#2 peak, 163 weeks)

21.Under Pressure (1981) - Queen & David Bowie
22.Crazy Train (1980) - Ozzy Osbourne
23.Wrong Side of Heaven (2013) - Five Finger Death Punch
24.Rockstar (2005) - Nickelback
25.We Are the Champions (1977) - Queen
26.Pour Some Sugar on Me (1988) - Def Leppard
27.Another One Bites the Dust (1980) - Queen
28.Down with the Sickness (2017) - Disturbed
29. Numb (2003) - Linkin Park
30.Immigrant Song (1970) - Led Zeppelin

31.Blank Space (2016) - I Prevail
32.Black Betty (1977) - Ram Jam
33.The Final Countdown (1987) - Europe
34.Everlong (1997) - Foo Fighters
35.Gone Away (2018) - 5 Finger Death Punch
36.Here I Go Again (1987) - Whitesnake
37.TNT (1976) - AC-DC
38.Feel Invincible (2016) - Skillet
39.It’s Been Awhile (2001) - Staind
40.How You Remind Me (2001) - Nickelback

41.Somebody to Love (1976) - Queen
42.Bulletproof (2018) - Godsmack
43.Sharp Dressed Man (1983) - Z.Z. Top
44.Every Rose Has Its Thorn (1988) - Poison
45.Sweet Emotion (1975) - Aerosmith
46.Paradise City (1989) - Guns ‘n Roses
47.She Talks to Angels (1991) - Black Crowes
48.Country Song (2011) - Seether
49.One (1989) - Metallica
50.Simple Man (2018) - Shinedown

51.Get Up! (2011) - Korn featuring Skillrex
52.Walk (2011) - Foo Fighters
53.You Give Love a Bad Name (1986) - Bon Jovi
54.Fat Bottomed Girls (1978) - Queen
55.My Name is Human (2016) - Highly Suspect
56.Knockin’ on Heaven’s Door (1991) - Guns ‘n Roses
57.November Rain (1992) - Guns ‘n Roses
58.Dragula (2016) - Rob Zombie
59.I Apologize (2016) - 5 Finger Death Punch
60.Hell’s Bells (1980) - AC-DC

Selected Others in alpha order:
Feel Like Makin’ Love (1975) - Bad Company
School’s Out (1972) - Alice Cooper
Photograph (1983) - Def Leppard
The Sky is a Neighborhood (2018) - Foo Fighters
Nothing Else Matters (1992) - Metallica
Hardwired to Self-Destruct (2016) - Metallica
Closer (1994) - Nine Inch Nails
Last Roach (2000) - Papa Roach
Killer Queen (1975) - Queen
Don’t Stop Me Now (1979) - Queen
Broken (2004) - Seether featuring Amy Lee
Everything About You (2016) Three Days Grace
Jump (1984) - Van Halen
The Devil’s Bleeding Crown (2016) - Volbeat
Baba O’Riley (1971) - The Who

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Re: Billboard's all-time hard rock digital song leaders

Post by Henry »

Thanks for sharing this ranking.

I haven't heard all of these yet, but plan to dive in those unheard songs soon.
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