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Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange that top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
2. James Bay – “Let It Go”
3. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
4. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
5. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
6. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
7. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
8. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign, & X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
9. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
10. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
11. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
12. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
13. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
14. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
15. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
16. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
17. Bishop Briggs – “River”
18. blink-182 – “She’s Out of Her Mind”
19. Bastille – “Good Grief”
20. blink-182 – “Cynical”
21. Goo Goo Dolls – “So Alive”
22. Weezer – “I Love the USA”
23. blink-182 – “No Future”
24. The 1975 – “The Sound”
25. blink-182 – “Sober”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. River
3. Way Down We Go
4. The Sound
5. Unsteady
6. Ride
7. Ophelia
8. Dark Necessities
9. Good Grief
10. Stressed Out
11. Heathens
12. I Love the USA
13. Sucker for Pain
14. So Alive
15. The Sound of Silence
16. Hymn for the Weekend
17. Spirits
18. Cynical
19. HandClap
20. She’s Out of Her Mind
21. Let It Go
22. No Future
23. Sober
24. Brand New
25. Bored to Death

Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange that top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
4. James Bay – “Let It Go”
5. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign, & X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
6. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
7. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
8. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
9. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
10. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
11. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
12. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
13. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
14. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
15. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
16. Bishop Briggs – “River”
17. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
18. Fall Out Boy ft. Missy Elliott – “Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)”
19. The 1975 – “The Sound”
20. Bastille – “Good Grief”
21. Beck – “Wow”
22. Goo Goo Dolls – “So Alive”
23. blink-182 – “No Future”
24. Panic! at the Disco – “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time”
25. Cage the Elephant – “Trouble”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. River
3. Way Down We Go
4. Wow
5. The Sound
6. Unsteady
7. Trouble
8. Ride
9. Ophelia
10. Dark Necessities
11. Good Grief
12. Stressed Out
13. Heathens
14. Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time
15. Sucker for Pain
16. So Alive
17. The Sound of Silence
18. Hymn for the Weekend
19. Spirits
20. HandClap
21. No Future
22. Ghostbusters (I’m Not Afraid)
23. Let It Go
24. Brand New
25. Bored to Death

Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange that top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
2. twenty one pilots – “Heathens”
3. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
4. James Bay – “Let It Go”
5. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
6. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
7. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
8. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
9. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
10. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
11. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
12. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
13. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
14. Bastille – “Good Grief”
15. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
16. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
17. Bishop Briggs – “River”
18. Maggie Rogers – “Alaska”
19. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “The Getaway”
20. The 1975 – “The Sound”
21. Beck – “Wow”
22. Goo Goo Dolls – “So Alive”
23. Panic! at the Disco – “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time”
24. Kongos – “Take It From Me”
25. Mumford & Sons X Baaba Maal – “There Will Be Time”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. River
3. Take It From Me
4. Way Down We Go
5. Wow
6. The Sound
7. Unsteady
8. Ophelia
9. Ride
10. Dark Necessities
11. Stressed Out
12. Good Grief
13. The Getaway
14. There Will Be Time
15. Heathens
16. Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time
17. So Alive
18. Alaska
19. The Sound of Silence
20. Spirits
21. Hymn for the Weekend
22. HandClap
23. Let It Go
24. Brand New
25. Bored to Death

Each week, I check out the Billboard Hot Rock Songs chart, and then I rearrange that top 25 based on my estimation of their quality.

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
2. twenty one pilots – “Stressed Out”
3. James Bay – “Let It Go”
4. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
5. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
6. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
7. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
8. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dark Necessities”
9. The Strumbellas – “Spirits”
10. Ben Rector – “Brand New”
11 Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
12. blink-182 – “Bored to Death”
13. Kaleo – “Way Down We Go”
14. Empire of the Sun – “Walking on a Dream”
15. Bishop Briggs – “River”
16. Kongos – “Take It From Me”
17. The 1975 – “The Sound”
18. Beck – “Wow”
19. blink-182 – “Rabbit Hole”
20. Volbeat – “The Devil’s Beating Crown”
21. Elle King – “America’s Sweetheart”
22. Goo Goo Dolls – “So Alive”
23. Panic! at the Disco – “Death of a Bachelor”
24. Panic! at the Disco – “Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time”
25. Cage the Elephant – “Trouble”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Walking on a Dream
2. River
3. Take It From Me
4. Way Down We Go
5. Wow
6. Trouble
7. The Devil’s Beating Crown
8. The Sound
9. Unsteady
10. Ophelia
11. Ride
12. Dark Necessities
13. Stressed Out
14. Don’t Threaten Me with a Good Time
15. So Alive
16. Death of a Bachelor
17. The Sound of Silence
18. America’s Sweetheart
19. Spirits
20. Hymn for the Weekend
21. HandClap
22. Rabbit Hole
23. Let It Go
24. Brand New
25. Bored to Death