KROQ Inspired Top 106 Songs of 2025
KROQ no longer appears to publish a full official year-end Top 106.7 countdown, so this 2025 list is a KROQ-inspired snapshot of the year in Southern California alternative radio. It pulls from KROQ weekly playlists across 2025, national alternative-airplay charts, and year-end radio summaries, with extra weight for songs that felt at home on KROQ: big comeback records, indie crossovers, modern rock staples, and the tracks that kept showing up all year.
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Download Song List (TXT)| Rank | Artist | Song | Album |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Hozier | Too Sweet | Unreal Unearth: Unheard (2024) |
| 2 | Myles Smith | Stargazing | A Minute... (2024) |
| 3 | almost monday | can't slow down | Dive (2024) |
| 4 | Lola Young | Messy | This Wasn't Meant for You Anyway (2024) |
| 5 | sombr | Back To Friends | I Barely Know Her (2025) |
| 6 | The Head And The Heart | Arrow | Aperture (2025) |
| 7 | Gigi Perez | Sailor Song | At The Beach, In Every Life (2025) |
| 8 | Dexter and The Moonrocks | Sad In Carolina | Western Space Grunge (2024) |
| 9 | Myles Smith | Nice To Meet You | A Minute... (2024) |
| 10 | Balu Brigada | So Cold | Portal (2025) |
| 11 | Jonah Kagen | God Needs The Devil | Non-album Single (2024) |
| 12 | Djo | Basic Being Basic | The Crux (2025) |
| 13 | Linkin Park | The Emptiness Machine | From Zero (2024) |
| 14 | Green Day | One Eyed Bastard | Saviors (2024) |
| 15 | Justice ft. Tame Impala | Neverender | Hyperdrama (2024) |
| 16 | Jack White | Archbishop Harold Holmes | No Name (2024) |
| 17 | Yellowcard | Better Days | Better Days (2025) |
| 18 | ROLE MODEL | Sally, When the Wine Runs Out | Kansas Anymore (The Longest Goodbye) (2024) |
| 19 | Badflower | Detroit | No Place Like Home (2025) |
| 20 | Turnstile | NEVER ENOUGH | Never Enough (2025) |
| 21 | Mumford & Sons | Rushmere | Rushmere (2025) |
| 22 | The Offspring | OK, But This Is The Last Time | SUPERCHARGED (2024) |
| 23 | Cage The Elephant | Metaverse | Neon Pill (2024) |
| 24 | Sublime | Ensenada | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on Until The Sun Explodes (2026)] |
| 25 | Shinedown | Three Six Five | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on EI8HT (2026)] |
| 26 | Linkin Park | Heavy Is The Crown | From Zero (2024) |
| 27 | Papa Roach | Even If It Kills Me | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 28 | Twenty One Pilots | The Line | Arcane League of Legends: Season 2 (2024) |
| 29 | Green Day | Bobby Sox | Saviors (2024) |
| 30 | Royel Otis | moody | hickey (2025) |
| 31 | Sum 41 | Dopamine | Heaven :x: Hell (2024) |
| 32 | The Lumineers | Same Old Song | Automatic (2025) |
| 33 | Wet Leg | Catch These Fists | Moisturizer (2025) |
| 34 | The Black Keys | The Night Before | No Rain, No Flowers (2025) |
| 35 | Linkin Park | Up From The Bottom | From Zero (Deluxe Edition) (2025) |
| 36 | The Lumineers | A**hole (First We Ever Met) | Automatic (2025) |
| 37 | Dexter and The Moonrocks | Ritalin | Happy To Be Here (2025) |
| 38 | Jack White | That's How I'm Feeling | No Name (2024) |
| 39 | Good Neighbours | Ripple | Good Neighbours (2024) |
| 40 | Nine Inch Nails | As Alive As You Need Me To Be | Tron: Ares (2025) |
| 41 | almost monday ft. Jordana | Jupiter | Dive (2024) |
| 42 | Twenty One Pilots | The Contract | Breach (2025) |
| 43 | All Time Low | The Weather | Everyone's Talking! (2025) |
| 44 | Foo Fighters | Today's Song | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 45 | Balu Brigada | Backseat | Portal (2025) |
| 46 | beabadoobee | Beaches | This Is How Tomorrow Moves (2024) |
| 47 | AWOLNATION | Barbarian | The Phantom Five (2024) |
| 48 | Blue October | Hot Stuff | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 49 | Good Charlotte | Rejects | Motel Du Cap (2025) |
| 50 | Glass Animals | A Tear In Space (Airlock) | I Love You So F***ing Much (2024) |
| 51 | Pierce The Veil | So Far So Fake | The Jaws of Life (2023) |
| 52 | The Paradox | Get The Message | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 53 | Tame Impala | Dracula | Deadbeat (2025) |
| 54 | Wet Leg | mangetout | Moisturizer (2025) |
| 55 | Deftones | infinite source | Private Music (2025) |
| 56 | Bad Omens | Specter | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 57 | Foo Fighters | Asking For A Friend | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on Your Favorite Toy (2026)] |
| 58 | Evanescence | Afterlife | Non-album Single (2025) [From Devil May Cry Soundtrack (2025)] |
| 59 | Evanescence ft. K.Flay | Fight Like A Girl | Non-album Single (2025) [From Ballerina Soundtrack (2025)] |
| 60 | Mumford & Sons with Hozier | Rubber Band Man | Rushmere (Deluxe) (2025) |
| 61 | Joyce Manor | All My Friends Are So Depressed | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on I Used To Go To This Bar (2026)] |
| 62 | Matt Maeson | Downstairs | A Quiet and Harmless Living (2025) |
| 63 | Royel Otis | Linger | Non-album Single (2024) |
| 64 | Sublime x Stick Figure ft. Bradley Nowell | Feel Like That | Non-album Single (2024) |
| 65 | YUNGBLUD | Zombie | Idols (2025) |
| 66 | Twenty One Pilots | City Walls | Breach (2025) |
| 67 | Turnstile | LOOK OUT FOR ME | Never Enough (2025) |
| 68 | Florence + The Machine | Everybody Scream | Everybody Scream (2025) |
| 69 | The All-American Rejects | Easy Come, Easy Go | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on Sandbox (2026)] |
| 70 | blink-182 | TAKE ME IN | One More Time... Part-2 (2024) |
| 71 | Sleep Token | Emergence | Even in Arcadia (2025) |
| 72 | Fontaines D.C. | It's Amazing To Be Young | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 73 | Halsey | safeword | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 74 | Lorde | What Was That | Virgin (2025) |
| 75 | Jakobs Castle | Garden Grove | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 76 | Rise Against | I Want It All | Ricochet (2025) |
| 77 | Bush | The Land of Milk and Honey | I Beat Loneliness (2025) |
| 78 | Muse | Unravelling | Non-album Single (2025) [Later on The Wow! Signal (2026)] |
| 79 | Artemas | i like the way you kiss me | Yustyna (2024) |
| 80 | Coldplay | feelslikeimfallinginlove | Moon Music (2024) |
| 81 | Smashing Pumpkins | Sighommi | Aghori Mhori Mei (2024) |
| 82 | The Linda Lindas | All In My Head | No Obligation (2024) |
| 83 | 311 | Full Bloom | Full Bloom (2024) |
| 84 | Sam Fender | People Watching | People Watching (2025) |
| 85 | Franz Ferdinand | Audacious | The Human Fear (2025) |
| 86 | Coldplay | ALL MY LOVE | Moon Music (2024) |
| 87 | The Cure | A Fragile Thing | Songs of a Lost World (2024) |
| 88 | Badflower | Haunting You | No Place Like Home (2025) |
| 89 | The Head And The Heart | After The Setting Sun | Aperture (2025) |
| 90 | Bleachers | you and forever | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 91 | Noah Kahan | The Great Divide | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 92 | Cannons | Starlight | Everything Glows (2026) |
| 93 | Papa Roach | Wake Up Calling | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 94 | Arctic Monkeys | Opening Night | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 95 | Edgehill | Doubletake | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 96 | Young The Giant | Different Kind Of Love | Victory Garden (2026) |
| 97 | Social Distortion | Born To Kill | Born to Kill (2026) |
| 98 | Weezer | Go Away | Everything Will Be Alright in the End (2014) |
| 99 | Temper City | Self Aware | Non-album Single (2025) |
| 100 | The Strokes | Going Shopping | Reality Awaits (2026) |
| 101 | Sublime | Until The Sun Explodes | Until The Sun Explodes (2026) |
| 102 | Death Cab For Cutie | Riptides | Plans: 20th Anniversary Edition (2025) |
| 103 | In Color | Headlights | Non-album Single (2026) |
| 104 | The All-American Rejects | Get This | Sandbox (2026) |
| 105 | sombr | Homewrecker | Non-album Single (2026) |
| 106 | Evanescence | Who Will You Follow | Sanctuary (2026) |