Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of December 10, 2016

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

Original Version
1. twenty one pilots – Heathens”
2. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
3. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
4. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
5. John Mayer – “Love on the Weekend”
6. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
7. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
8. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
9. The xx – “On Hold”
10. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
11. The Lumineers – “Sleep on the Floor”
12. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
13. Bastille – “Good Grief”
14. The Lumineers – “Cleopatra”
15. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
16. Metallica – “Atlas, Rise!”
17. Metallica – “Hardwired”
18. Metallica – “Moth Into Flame”
19. Judah & the Lion – “Take It All Back”
20. The Head and the Heart – “All We Ever Knew”
21. Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah”
22. twenty one pilots – “Cancer”
23. Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah”
24. Five Finger Death Punch – “I Apologize”
25. Green Day – “Still Breathing”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
2. My Name is Human
3. Unsteady
4. On Hold
5. Ride
6. Good Grief
7. Moth Into Flame
8. Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
9. Atlas, Rise!
10. Ophelia
11. Heathens
12. Waste a Moment
13. Cleopatra
14. Take It All Back
15. Cancer
16. Hymn for the Weekend
17. I Apologize
18. Sleep on the Floor
19. Hardwired
20. All We Ever Knew
21. Still Breathing
22. HandClap
23. Love on the Weekend
24. Sucker for the Pain
25. Chain Breaker

Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of December 3, 2016

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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 – “Heathens”
2. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
3. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
4. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
5. Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah”
6. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
7. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
8. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
9. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
10. Jeff Buckley – “Hallelujah”
11. The xx – “On Hold”
12. John Mayer – “Love on the Weekend”
13. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
14. Bastille – “Good Grief”
15. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
16. Rufus Wainwright – “Hallelujah”
17. Skillet – “Feel Invincible”
18. Judah & the Lion – “Take It All Back”
19. The Head and the Heart – “All We Ever Knew”
20. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
21. The Lumineers – “Cleopatra”
22. Leonard Cohen – “You Want It Darker”
23. twenty one pilots – “Cancer”
24. blink-182 – “She’s Out of Her Mind”
25. Leonard Cohen – “Suzanne”

Jmunney’s Revision
1. Hallelujah (Leonard Cohen)
2. You Want It Darker
3. My Name is Human
4. Unsteady
5. On Hold
6. Ride
7. Good Grief
8. Suzanne
9. Hallelujah (Jeff Buckley)
10. Hallelujah (Rufus Wainwright)
11. Ophelia
12. Heathens
13. Waste a Moment
14. Cleopatra
15. Take It All Back
16. Cancer
17. Hymn for the Weekend
18. All We Ever Knew
19. The Sound of Silence
20. She’s Out of Her Mind
21. HandClap
22. Love on the Weekend
23. Feel Invincible
24. Sucker for Pain
25. Chain Breaker

Billboard Hot Rock Songs – Week of November 26, 2016

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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 – “Heathens”
2. X Ambassadors – “Unsteady”
3. twenty one pilots – “Ride”
4. Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa, & Imagine Dragons with Logic, Ty Dolla $ign ft. X Ambassadors – “Sucker for Pain”
5. Coldplay – “Hymn for the Weekend”
6. Fitz and the Tantrums – “HandClap”
7. Disturbed – “The Sound of Silence”
8. The Lumineers – “Ophelia”
9. Bastille – “Good Grief”
10. Zach Williams – “Chain Breaker”
11. Kings of Leon – “Waste a Moment”
12. Skillet – “Feel Invincible”
13. The Head and the Heart – “All We Ever Knew”
14. Judah & the Lion – “Take It All Back”
15. Highly Suspect – “My Name is Human”
16. Metallica – “Atlas, Rise!”
17. The Lumineers – “Cleopatra”
18. Green Day – “Bang Bang”
19. twenty one pilots – “Cancer”
20. Leonard Cohen – “Hallelujah”
21. Five Finger Death Punch – “I Apologize”
22. blink-182 – “She’s Out of Her Mind”
23. Avenged Sevenfold – “The Stage”
24. Grouplove – “Welcome to Your Life”
25. Alex da Kid ft. X Ambassadors, Elle King, & Wiz Khalifa – “Not Easy”

Jmunney’s Revision
1.Hallelujah
2. Welcome to Your Life
3. My Name is Human
4. Unsteady
5. Ride
6. Good Grief
7. The Stage
8. Ophelia
9. Heathens
10. Waste a Moment
11. Cleopatra
12. I Apologize
13. Take It All Back
14. Cancer
15. Hymn for the Weekend
16. All We Ever Knew
17. Bang Bang
18. The Sound of Silence
19. Atlas, Rise!
20. She’s Out of Her Mind
21. HandClap
22. Feel Invincible
23. Sucker for Pain
24. Not Easy
25. Chain Breaker

Watch And/Or Listen to This: Panic! at the Disco’s “Hallelujah”

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This song begins with a sample of Chicago’s “Questions 67 and 68.” The rest of it does not sound Chicago, but it does sound good.