2025 #1 Mainstream Rock Songs

Breaking Benjamin

12/24/24: Awaken

Breaking Benjamin

“Awaken” is Breaking Benjamin’s first single off their upcoming seventh studio album.

The song closed out 2024 at #1 and kicked off 2025 at the top.

Three Days Grace

1/11: Mayday

Three Days Grace

Three Days Grace score their 19^th #1 on the chart.

It’s the band’s first single since the return of original frontman Adam Gontier – splitting lead vocals with Matt Walst.

Of Three Days Grace’s #1s, 11 have been with Gontier, beginning with “Just Like You” in 2004.

Following his departure in ’13, Walst stepped in and racked up six #1s as the band’s sole vocalist, starting in ’14 with “Painkiller.”

Linkin Park

2/15: Heavy Is The Crown

Linkin Park

Having already reached the top of the Billboard Rock & Alternative Airplay chart, Linkin Park has scored its 12^th #1 on the Mainstream Rock Airplay survey with “‘Heavy Is The Crown.”

The track is the second #1 from Linkin Park’s eighth studio album, “From Zero.” “The Emptiness Machine” was the first.

“”From Zero,” a ’24 release, was Linkin Park’s first studio album since ’17’s “One More Light.”

Sleep Theory

2/22: Stuck In My Head

Sleep Theory

It’s the Memphis four-piece’s third song to chart on Mainstream Rock following “Fallout” (#2 last August) and “Numb” (#9 in January ’24).

Sleep Theory formed in ’20 consisting of vocalist Cullen Moore, guitarist Daniel Pruitt, bassist Paolo Vergara, and drummer Ben Pruitt. 

They meld Heavy Metal and R&B and have toured with Shinedown, Falling In Reverse, Beartooth, Nothing More, Wage War and Daughtry 

Falling In Reverse

Bad Guy

3/8: Bad Guy

Falling In Reverse featuring Saraya

Saraya

The band’s second song in a row to top the chart follows “All My Life.”

It’s also Saraya’s first Billboard chart topper. She is a professional wrestler and former girlfriend of Falling In Reverse frontman Ronnie Radlke.

Shinedown

3/15: Dance, Kid, Dance

Shinedown

It’s Shinedown’s 20^th song to reach #1 on the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart. It follows the four-week rule of “A Symptom Of Being Human” in January-February earlier this year.

The band’s first #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart came in 2005 with “Save Me.”

“The last two albums (“Attention! Attention!” and “Planet Zero”) were both conceptual so it was important for us to really ask ourselves creatively where do we want to go,” shared frontman Brent Smith “The answer to that was we want to go everywhere so there was no specific direction.” 

Papa Roach

3/22: Even If It Kills Me

Papa Roach

“Even If It Kills Me” is the band’s fourth #1 in a row following “No Apologies” (’22), “Cut The Line” (’23) and “Leave A Light On” (’24).

“Even If It Kills Me” is also Papa Roach’s eleventh Mainstream Rock #1.

The song was the lead single from Papa Roach’s upcoming untitled twelfth studio album. and was at WWE’s Royal Rumble event as the theme song for the Cody Rhoads vs. Kevin Owens match.

Papa Roach formed in 1993.

Disturbed

I Will Not Break

4/12: I Will Not Break

Disturbed

The track was produced by Drew Fulk (WZRD BLD).

“Drew was kind of a younger guy in his 30s, ” noted Disturbed guitarist Dan Donegan. “I liked what he was doing (with) Wage War and then Motionless In White, and he did a couple of one-off songs with Papa Roach and Pop Evil and stuff like that. And I thought that this could be a really good marriage between him and Disturbed.

“Even though the riff for ‘I Will Not Break’ is brand new, I was kind of in the spirit of that old-school Disturbed, and that’s what we were hoping to do.” Donegan added.

“I Will Not Break” was Disturbed’s first new music since their ’22.

Nothing More Featuring Eric Vanlerberghe

5/3: House On Sand

Nothing More Featuring Eric Vanlerberghe

It marks the third #1 from Nothing More’s “Carnal” album.

Nothing More’s “Angel Song,” featuring Disturbed’s David Draiman, and “If It Doesn’t Hurt” were the first two #1s from “Carnal.”

The band’s seventh studio album has earned 73,000 equivalent album units to date.

“Go To War,” released in 2017, was the band’s first #1 on the Mainstream Rock chart.

5/10: I Will Not Break

Disturbed

“I Will Not Break” had a three-week run atop the Billboard Mainstream Rock chart in April before being knocked off for a week by Nothing More’s “House On Sand.” (See above for audio clip.)

Volbeat

5/17: By A Monster’s Hand

Volbeat

“By A Monster’s Hand” is the lead single from “Gods Of Angels Trust,” Volbeat’s ninth studio album.

“In the past, I’ve taken a long time to write and obsessed over so many elements of the songs before finishing them,” said Volbeat guitarist/vocalist Michael Poulsen. “This time, I wanted to make a Volbeat record without thinking too much about it.”

Volbeat first led Mainstream Rock Airplay in ’12 with “Still Counting.”

Linkin Park

Up From The Bottom

5/31: Up From The Bottom

Linkin Park

Linkin Park’s “Up From The Bottom” owns the top spots on Billboard‘s Alternative Airplay and Mainstream Rock Airplay charts.

It’s the band’s 14th chart topper on Alternative Airplay chart (13th on Mainstream Rock).

The band now are second with the most #1s on the Alternative chart passing Cage The Elephant. Only The Red Hot Chili Peppers have more #1s on the Alternative Airplay survey (with 15).

Linkin Park is eighth on the list of the most #1s on Mainstream Rock

“Up From the Bottom” is on the deluxe version of “From Zero,”

The Funeral Portrait

6/14: Holy Water

The Funeral Portrait

The track features Five Finger Death Punch vocalist Ivan Moody.

“Before our tour together, I wasn’t too familiar with The Funeral Portrait’s music, so I didn’t know what to expect,” shared Moody. “But after watching them night after night, seeing how they commanded the stage and connected with the crowd, I was absolutely hooked.”

Moody also discussed how the collaboration came about. “I heard ‘Holy Water’ on the radio and couldn’t help but sing along. So I hit up Lee (vocalist Lee Jennings) about the possibility of me redoing the song with them. Luckily, he was all in. — and here we are.”