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Billboard Declares Imagine Dragons the Top Rock Band of the Decade

 

In case you missed it - not only is 2019 coming to an end - prompting countless year end best of lists - but the decade is also coming to an end ... and Billboard Magazine has released its top 50 Hot Rock Songs of the decade.  

 

The list has some solid entries - like Foo Fighters, The Black Keys, and Portugal. the Man. Some questionable entries - Lil Wayne?  And a lot of Imagine Dragons and twenty one pilots.  

 

 

 

Yep - it was Imagine Dragons who apparently ruled the decade (despite our brief boycott of the band in 2018 LOL) - claiming 8 spots on the list - including the top three for their songs Believer, Thunder, and Radioactive. 

 

 

The list has naturally sent the internet into a frenzy - with people saying they "respectfully beg to differ. Violently" or "Huge end times vibe to this list"

 

Here's a recap of the full list:  

 

1.  Believer - Imagine Dragons

2.  Thunder -Imagine Dragons 

3.  Radioactive - Imagine Dragons

4.  High Hopes - Panic! at the Disco

5.  Ho Hey - The Lumineers 

6.  Heathens - twenty one pilots 

7.  Shut Up and Dance - Walk the Moon

8.  Feel it Still - Portugal. The Man 

9.  Ride - twenty one pilots 

10.  Stressed Out - twenty one pilots 

11.  Pompeii - Bastille 

12.  Take Me to Church - Hozier 

13.  Natural - Imagine Dragons 

14.  Sail - AWOLNATION 

15.  Royals - LORDE 

16.  Rope - Foo Fighters 

17.  Centuries - Fall Out Boy 

18.  Tighten Up - The Black Keys 

19.  Walk - Foo Fighters 

20.  It's Time - Imagine Dragons 

21.  Whatever It Takes - Imagine Dragons 

22.  Savior - Rise Against

23.  Demons - Imagine Dragons 

24.  Say You'll Haunt Me - Stone Sour 

25.  Unsteady - X Ambassadors 

26.  Broken - Lovely The Band 

27.  Ex's and Oh's - Elle King 

28.  Some Nights - fun

29.  Lay Me Down - The Dirty Heads 

30 .  Uprising - Muse 

31.  Team - lorde 

32. Let Her Go - Passenger 

33.  Renegades - X Ambassadors 

34. Riptide - Vance Joy 

35.  Lonely Boy - The Black Keys 

36.  Ain't it Fun - Paramore 

37.  A Sky Full of Stars - Coldplay 

38.  Little Talks - Of Monsters and Men 

39.  Best Day of My Life - American Authors 

40.  Animal - Neon Trees 

41.  Pimped Up Kicks - Foster the People 

42.  Sucker for Pain - Lil Wayne, Imagine Dragons, and Wiz Khalifa 

43.  The Sound of Winter - Bush 

44.  Uma Thurman - Fall Out Boy 

45.  Little Lion Man - Mumford & Sons 

46.  Hey Look Ma, I Made It - Panic! at the Disco

47.  Safe and Sound - Capital Cities 

48.  Waiting For The End - Linkin Park 

49.  The Sound of Silence - Disturbed 

50. Ophelia - The Lumineers