The 40 Most-Played Songs on Rock Radio in 2022 (2024)

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The 40 Most-Played Songs on Rock Radio in 2022? ›

The most popular song in 2022 was “As It Was” by Harry Styles.

The most popular song in 2022 was “As It Was” by Harry Styles.

1) LED ZEPPELIN - STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN

From its original birth in the fabled Bron-Yr-Aur cottage, to accusations of backwards Satanic messages, to copyright lawsuits, to the famous Gibson doubleneck guitar, it's rightly gone down in legend as the greatest rock song ever.

In the music industry, the Top 40 is a list of the 40 currently most popular songs in a particular genre. It is the best-selling or most frequently broadcast popular music. Record charts have traditionally consisted of a total of 40 songs. "Top 40" or "contemporary hit radio" is also a radio format.

"Heat Waves", the 2020 single by British indie-pop band Glass Animals, topped the Hot 100 in 2022 for five weeks. It became the best-charting song of the year.

Glass Animals' 'Heat Waves' Is the No. 1 Billboard Hot 100 Song, Bad Bunny Is Top Artist: Year in Charts 2022. "Heat Waves" took a record 59 weeks to hit No.

What is the #1 most played song? ›

"Blinding Lights" by the Weeknd is the most-streamed song on Spotify, with over 4 billion streams. As of June 2024, "Blinding Lights" (2019) by Canadian singer the Weeknd is the most-streamed song to date.

It was never a hit single and got almost no play on Top 40 radio. There's even a dispute over the exact title. Yet “It's a Small World,” also known as “It's a Small, Small World” and “It's a Small World (After All),” is very likely the most played song in music history — nearly 50 million times.

This is a list of best-selling singles in the world. The Guinness World Records named the holiday single "White Christmas" (1942) by Bing Crosby as the best-selling single worldwide. According to Guinness, "White Christmas" sold over 50 million copies. The single is known as the "best-selling single of all time".

Best-selling artists worldwide as of 2022

Perhaps unsurprisingly, British rock band The Beatles are top of the list for best-selling artists worldwide, with 183 million units certified sales.

Stairway to Heaven is the quintessential multi-segmented rock song, resulting in a sonically pleasing, complex, eight-minute-long rock masterpiece.

Why did the artists write such long songs? The longest rock song ever written was Jethro Tull's 43-minute “Thick as a Brick.” It is so long they had to split it into two pieces to fit it on the record.

Indeed, the rock band that's logged the most Billboard No. 1 hits is The Beatles, with 20 chart-toppers that hit the airwaves from 1964 to 1970. The Beatles are also the rock band that's sold the most albums, moving 600 million LPs worldwide, with 183 million sold in the U.S. alone.

In a very distant first place when looking at which musicians have charted the most top 40 hits on the Hot 100 is Drake. The Canadian hip-hop star has already accrued 145 smashes that have peaked inside the top 40 region on the weekly list, and he's nowhere near done adding to that total.