Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song
The Billboard Music Award for Top Rock Song winners and nominees. Collective Soul is the only group/artist to win twice.
Winners and nominees
| Year | Song | Artist | Other nominees |
| 1992 | "Mysterious Ways" "One" | U2 | |
| 1993 | "Plush" | Stone Temple Pilots | Lenny Kravitz – "Are You Gonna Go My Way" Aerosmith – "Livin' on the Edge" Aerosmith – "Cryin'" |
| 1994 | "Shine" | Collective Soul | Soundgarden – "Black Hole Sun" Candlebox – "Far Behind" Alice in Chains – "No Excuses" |
| 1995 | "December" | Collective Soul | Live – "Lightning Crashes" Pearl Jam – "Better Man" Green Day – "When I Come Around" |
| 1996 | "Counting Blue Cars" | Dishwalla | - |
| 1997 | "If You Could Only See" | Tonic | The Offspring – "Gone Away" The Wallflowers – "One Headlight" Matchbox Twenty – "Push" |
| 1998 | "Blue on Black" | Kenny Wayne Shepherd | Creed – "My Own Prison" Days of the New – "The Down Town" Days of the New – "Touch, Peel and Stand" |
| 1999 | "One" | Creed | Collective Soul – "Heavy" Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Scar Tissue" Everlast – "What It's Like" |
| 2000 | "Kryptonite" | 3 Doors Down | Metallica – "I Disappear" Creed – "Higher" Metallica – "No Leaf Clover" |
| 2002 | "Blurry" | Puddle of Mudd | Godsmack – "I Stand Alone" Default – "Wasting My Time" Staind – "For You" |
| 2003 | "Headstrong" | Trapt | The White Stripes – "Seven Nation Army" Audioslave – "Like a Stone" Chevelle – "Send the Pain Below" |
| 2005 | "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | Green Day | Foo Fighters – "Best of You" Gorillaz – "Feel Good Inc." Nine Inch Nails – "The Hand That Feeds" |
| 2006 | "Animal I Have Become" | Three Days Grace | Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Dani California" Godsmack – "Speak" |
| 2011 | "Hey, Soul Sister" | Train | Florence and the Machine – "Dog Days Are Over" Mumford & Sons – "Little Lion Man" Neon Trees – "Animal" The Dirty Heads feat. Rome Ramirez – "Lay Me Down" |
| 2012 | "Pumped Up Kicks" | Foster the People | Coldplay – "Paradise" Foo Fighters – "Walk" Adele – "Rolling in the Deep" Adele – "Someone like You" |
| 2013 | "Somebody That I Used to Know" | Gotye feat. Kimbra | Fun – "Some Nights" Fun feat. Janelle Monáe – "We Are Young" The Lumineers – "Ho Hey" Phillip Phillips – "Home" |
| 2014 | "Royals" | Lorde | Capital Cities – "Safe and Sound" Imagine Dragons – "Demons" Imagine Dragons – "Radioactive" Passenger – "Let Her Go" |
| 2015 | "Take Me to Church" | Hozier | Bastille – "Pompeii" Coldplay – "A Sky Full of Stars" Fall Out Boy – "Centuries" Paramore – "Ain't It Fun" |
| 2016 | "Shut Up and Dance" | Walk the Moon | Fall Out Boy – "Uma Thurman" Elle King – "Ex's & Oh's" twenty one pilots – "Stressed Out" X Ambassadors – "Renegades" |
| 2017 | "Heathens" | Twenty One Pilots | "Ride" – Twenty One Pilots "Stressed Out" – Twenty One Pilots "Sucker for Pain" – Lil Wayne, Wiz Khalifa and Imagine Dragons with Logic and Ty Dolla Sign featuring X Ambassadors "Unsteady" – X Ambassadors |
| 2018 | "Believer" | Imagine Dragons | "Feel It Still" – Portugal. The Man "Heavy" – Linkin Park featuring Kiiara "Thunder" – Imagine Dragons "Wish I Knew You" – The Revivalists |
Superlatives
The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song Awards:| Wins | Artist |
| 2 | Collective Soul |
The following individuals received two or more Top Rock Song nominations:
| Nominations | Artist |
| 7 | Imagine Dragons |
| 3 | Collective Soul |
| 3 | Creed |
| 2 | Adele |
| 2 | Aerosmith |
| 2 | Coldplay |
| 2 | Days of the New |
| 2 | Fall Out Boy |
| 2 | Godsmack |
| 2 | Green Day |
| 2 | Foo Fighters |
| 2 | Fun |
| 2 | Imagine Dragons |
| 2 | Metallica |
| 2 | Red Hot Chili Peppers |