Top Ten Songs by Popular Rock Artists - R

Criteria: These songs are ranked based on their intitial and lasting popularity, as well as influence & impact on rock 'n' roll. The lists include songs from every rock related sub-genre including Metal, Rap, Prog, Indie, Alternative, Electronic, and more.

Note: Artists are alphabetical by first name, and sans "The".

Last Updated: 2021-01-17


Top Ten Songs by Popular Rock Artists
R
R. Kelly
1. I Believe I Can Fly
2. Bump N' Grind
3. Ignition
4. Step In the Name of Love
5. Happy People
6. Down Low
7. Fiesta
8. You Remind Me of Something
9. Your Body's Callin'
10. I Can't Sleep Baby
Racer X
1. Scarified
2. Hammer Away
3. Into The Night
4. Godzilla
5. Get Away
6. Dead Man's Shoes
7. Snakebite
8. Hotter Than Fire
9. Give It To Me
10. Poison Eyes
Radiohead
1. Creep
2. Paranoid Android
3. Karma Police
4. Idioteque
5. Fake Plastic Trees
6. No Surprises
7. Everything In Its Right Place
8. Pyramid Song
9. High And Dry
10. Let Down
Rage Against The Machine
1. Killing in the Name
2. Bulls On Parade
3. Freedom
4. Sleep Now in the Fire
5. Bullet in the Head
6. Down Rodeo
7. Bombtrack
8. Guerrilla Radio
9. Know Your Enemy
10. People of the Sun
Rainbow
1. Stargazer
2. Gates of Babylon
3. Man on the Silver Mountain
4. Kill the King
5. Stone Cold
6. Street of Dreams
7. Catch the Rainbow
8. Temple of the King
9. Long Live Rock 'n' Roll
10. Light in the Black
Rammstein
1. Du hast
2. Engel
3. Pussy
4. Amerika
5. Mein Teil
6. Benzin
7. Mein Land
8. Keine Lust
9. Mann gegen Mann
10. Das Modell
Ramones
1. Blitzkrieg Bop
2. I Wanna Be Sedated
3. Rock & Roll High School
4. Sheena Is a Punkrocker
5. Bonzo Goes To Bitzburg
6. Rockaway Beach
7. Do You Wanna Dance
8. The KKK Took My Baby Away
9. Now I Wanna Sniff Some Glue
10. Teenage Lobotomy
Rancid
1. Time Bomb
2. Ruby Soho
3. Fall Back Down
4. Salvation
5. Roots Radicals
6. Bloodclot
7. Last One to Die
8. Nihilism
9. Red Hot Moon
10. Let Me Go
Randy Newman
1. Short People
2. Sail Away
3. You've Got a Friend in Me
4. I Love L.A.
5. Louisiana 1927
6. You Can Leave Your Hat On
7. Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear
8. Rednecks
9. Mama Told Me Not to Come
10. Political Science
Rascals / Young Rascals
1. Groovin'
2. Good Lovin'
3. A Beautiful Morning
4. You Better Run
5. How Can I Be Sure
6. People Got To Be Free
7. Come On Up
8. I Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore
9. A Girl Like You
10. I've Been Lonely Too Long
Raspberries
1. Go All The Way
2. I Wanna Be With You
3. Overnight Sensation (Hit Record)
4. It's Cold Outside [The Choir]
5. Let's Pretend
6. Tonight
7. Don't Want To Say Goodbye
8. I'm A Rocker
9. Drivin' Around
10. Crusin' Music
RATT
1. Round And Round
2. Wanted Man
3. Way Cool Jr
4. Lay It down
5. Body Talk
6. Shame Shame Shame
7. Dance
8. I'm Insane
9. You're In Love
10. Heads I Win, Tails You Lose
Ravens
1. Ol' Man River
2. White Christmas
3. Write Me A Letter
4. Rock Me All Night Long
5. Send For Me If You Need Me
6. A Simple Prayer
7. Bye Bye Baby Blues
8. Don't Have To Ride No More
9. Silent Night
10. Green Eyes
Ray Charles
1. What'd I Say
2. Georgia On My Mind
3. Unchain My Heart
4. I Can't Stop Loving You
5. I've Got A Woman
6. The Right Time, (Night Time Is)
7. Hit The Road Jack
8. A Fool For You
9. One Mint Julep
10. Let's Go Get Stoned
R.E.M.
1. Losing My Religion
2. Radio Free Europe
3. The One I Love
4. Everybody Hurts
5. Man on the Moon
6. It's the End of the World As We Know It
7. What's the Frequency Kenneth?
8. Orange Crush
9. Stand
10. Fall On Me
REO Speedwagon
1. Keep On Lovin You
2. Ridin' The Storm Out
3. Take It On The Run
4. Time For Me To Fly
5. Roll With The Changes
6. Keep Pushing On
7. Like You Do
8. Flying Turkey Trot
9. Golden Country
10. SunDown
Red Hot Chili Peppers
1. Under the Bridge
2. Scar Tissue
3. Give It Away
4. Californication
5. Dani California
6. Otherside
7. By the Way
8. Snow ((Hey Oh))
9. Can't Stop
10. Higher Ground
Regina Spektor
1. Fidelity
2. Better
3. On the Radio
4. Us
5. Hotel Song
6. Laughing With
7. Carbon Monoxide
8. Edit
9. The Ghost of Corporate Future
10. Samson
Rembrandts
1. I'll Be There for You
2. Just the Way It Is, Baby
3. Johnny Have You Seen Her
4. This House Is Not a Home
5. Someone
6. Burning Timber
7. Maybe Tomorrow
8. Drowning In Your Tears
9. Chase the Clouds Away
10. Save Me
Renaissance
1. Song Of Scheherazade
2. Ashes Are Burning
3. Northern Lights
4. Mother Russia
5. Carpet Of The Sun
6. Trip to the Fair
7. Prologue
8. Things I Don't Understand
9. The Vultures Fly High
10. Kiev
Replacements
1. Bastards of Young
2. I Will Dare
3. I'll Be You
4. Alex Chilton
5. Can't Hardly Wait
6. The Ledge
7. Kiss Me on the Bus
8. Here Comes a Regular
9. Merry Go Round
10. Androgynous
Rhapsody
1. Gargoyles, Angels of Darkness
2. Dawn of of Victory
3. Emerald Sword
4. Holy Thunderforce
5. Knightrider of Doom
6. Wings of Destiny
7. Queen of the Dark Horizons
8. Land of Immortals
9. Heart of the Darklands
10. Warrior of Ice
Richard Marx
1. Right Here Waiting
2. Hold On to the Nights
3. Satisfied
4. Endless Summer Nights
5. Don't Mean Nothing
6. Should've Known Better
7. Hazard
8. Angelia
9. Now and Forever
10. Children of the Night
Richard & Linda Thompson
1. 1952 Vincent Black Lightning (Richard solo)
2. When I Get to the Border (Richard & Linda)
3. Turning of the Tide (Richard solo)
4. Walking on a Wire (Richard & Linda)
5. Beeswing (Richard solo)
6. I Feel So Good (Richard solo)
7. Down Where the Drunkards Roll (Richard & Linda)
8. I Want to See the Bright Lights Tonight (Richard & Linda)
9. I Can't Wake Up to Save My Life (Richard solo)
10. Sights and Sounds of London Town (Richard solo)
Rick Astley
1. Never Gonna Give You Up
2. Together Forever
3. She Wants to Dance with Me
4. Cry for Help
5. It Would Take a Strong Strong Man
6. Hopelessly
7. Giving Up on Love
8. Move Right Out
9. When I Fall in Love
10. Whenever You Need Somebody
Rick Derringer
1. Rock And Roll, Hoochie Koo
2. Don't Ever Say Goodbye
3. Real American
4. Hang On Sloopy
5. Teenage Love Affair
6. Jump, Jump, Jump
7. Sittin' By The Pool
8. Let Me In
9. Everything
10. I Didn't Ask To Be Born
Rick James
1. Super Freak
2. You and I
3. Cold Blooded
4. Mary Jane
5. Give it to Me Baby
6. High On Your Love Suite
7. 17
8. Bustin' Out (On Funk)
9. Dance wit' Me
10. Ghetto Life
Ricky Nelson
1. Hello Mary Lou
2. Garden Party
3. It's Late
4. Travelin' Man
5. Believe What You Say
6. Poor Little Fool
7. Lonesome Town
8. Be-Bop Baby
9. Stood Up
10. Waitin' In School
Righteous Brothers
1. You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'
2. Unchained Melody
3. (You're My) Soul And Inspiration
4. Just Once In My Life
5. Little Latin Lupe Lu
6. Ebb Tide
7. Rock And Roll Heaven
8. Hung On You
9. Go Ahead And Cry
10. Brown Eyed Woman (Bill Medley)
Rihanna
1. Umbrella
2. We Found Love
3. Rude Boy
4. S.O.S.
5. Disturbia
6. Only Girl (in the World)
7. Take a Bow
8. Diamonds
9. What's My Name?
10. Bitch Better Have My Money
Ringo Starr
1. It Don't Come Easy
2. Photograph
3. Back Off Boogaloo
4. You're Sixteen
5. No No Song
6. Oh My My
7. A Dose Of Rock 'N' Roll
8. Only You
9. It's All Down To Goodnight Vienna
10. Wrack My Brain
Rise Against
1. Savior
2. Prayer of the Refugee
3. The Good Left Undone
4. Help is on the Way
5. Re-Education (Through Labor)
6. Swing Life Away
7. Audience of One
8. Satellite
9. Ready to Fall
10. I Don't Want to Be Here Anymore
Rob Thomas
1. Lonely No More
2. Her Diamonds
3. This Is How A Heart Breaks
4. Little Wonders
5. Streetcorner Symphony
6. Ever The Same
7. Mockingbird
8. Someday
9. ...Something To Be
10. Give Me The Meltdown
Rob Zombie
1. Dragula
2. Demonoid Phenomenon
3. Never Gonna Stop
4. Dead Girl Superstar
5. Iron Head
6. Spookshow Baby
7. Demon Speeding
8. Superbeast
9. Scum of the Earth
10. House of 1000 Corpses
Robbie Williams
1. Angels
2. Millennium
3. Rock DJ
4. Feel
5. Tripping
6. Rudebox
7. Somethin' Stupid
8. The Road To Mandalay
9. She's the One
10. Supreme
Robert Palmer
1. Addicted To Love
2. Bad Case Of Lovin' You (Doctor, Doctor)
3. Simply Irresistible
4. Every Kind Of People
5. I Didn't Mean To Turn You On
6. Sneakin' Sally Through The Alley
7. Some Like It Hot (with The Power Station)
8. Give Me An Inch
9. You're Gonna Get What's Coming
10. Hyperactive
Robert Plant
1. 29 Palms
2. Hurting Kind (I've Got My Eyes On You)
3. Big Log
4. Tall Cool One
5. In The Mood
6. Heaven Knows
7. Little By Little
8. Down To The Sea
9. Dance On My Own
10. Darkness, Darkness
Roberta Flack
1. Killing Me Softly with His Song
2. The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face
3. Feel Like Makin' Love
4. Where Is the Love [with Donny Hathaway]
5. The Closer I Get to You [with Donny Hathaway]
6. Tonight, I Celebrate My Love [with Peabo Bryson]
7. Compared to What
8. Set the Night to Music [with Maxi Priest]
9. You've Got a Friend [with Donny Hathaway]
10. Making Love
Robin Thicke
1. Blurred Lines
2. Lost Without U
3. Give It 2 U
4. Magic
5. When I Get You Alone
6. Love After War
7. Get Her Back
8. Sex Therapy
9. Can U Believe
10. The Sweetest Love
Robin Trower
1. Too Rolling Stoned
2. Day Of The Eagle
3. Bridge Of Sighs
4. Shame The Devil
5. Little Bit Of Sympathy
6. Farther Up The Road
7. Man Of The World
8. In This Place
9. Somebody Calling
10. Daydream
Rod Stewart
1. Maggie May
2. Tonight's The Night (Gonna Be Alright)
3. Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?
4. You Wear It Well
5. Sailing
6. I Don't Want To Talk About It
7. You're In My Heart
8. A Reason To Believe
9. Hot Legs
10. Young Turks
Rolling Stones
1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. Sympathy For The Devil
3. Paint It Black
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Jumping Jack Flash
6. Brown Sugar
7. Street Fighting Man
8. You Can't Always Get What You Want
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Under My Thumb
Romantics, The
1. What I Like About You
2. Talking in Your Sleep
3. One in a Million
4. Test of Time
5. Rock You Up
6. Mystified
7. Tell It to Carrie
8. When I Look in Your Eyes
9. No One Like You
10. A Night Like This
Ronettes
1. Be My Baby
2. Best Part Of Breakin' Up
3. Baby I Love You
4. Walking In The Rain
5. Do I Love You?
6. Keep On Dancing
7. Is This What I Get For Loving You?
8. When I Saw You
9. Born To Be Together
10. I Can Hear Music
Roots
1. You Got Me
2. Proceed
3. What They Do
4. The Seed (2.0)
5. Clones
6. Break You Off
7. Distortion To Static
8. Silent Treatment
9. The Next Movement
10. Don't Say Nuthin'
Rose Royce
1. Car Wash
2. I Wanna Get Next To You
3. Love Don't Live Here Anymore
4. Wishing On a Star
5. Im Going Down
6. Is It Love You're After?
7. Do Your Dance
8. Ooh Boy
9. R.R. Express
10. It Makes You Feel Like Dancin'
Roxanne Shante
1. Roxanne's Revenge
2. Have a Nice Day
3. Go On, Girl
4. Queen of Rox
5. Bite This
6. Runaway
7. Def Fresh Crew
8. Pay Back
9. Sharp As a Knife
10. Independent Woman
Roxette
1. It Must Have Been Love
2. Joyride
3. The Look
4. Dressed for Success
5. Listen to Your Heart
6. Dangerous
7. Fading Like a Flower (Every Time You Leave)
8. How Do You Do!
9. The Centre of the Heart (Is a Suburb to the Brain)
10. Sleeping in My Car
Roxy Music
1. Love Is the Drug
2. More Than This
3. Virginia Plain
4. Dance Away
5. Over You
6. Jealous Guy
7. Do the Strand
8. Angel Eyes
9. Avalon
10. Street Life
Roy Brown
1. Hard Luck Blues
2. Long About Midnight
3. Rockin' At Midnight
4. Boogie At Midnight
5. Good Rockin' Tonight
6. Love Don't Love Nobody
7. Miss Fannie Brown
8. Bar Room Blues
9. Cadillac Baby
10. Let The Four Winds Blow
Roy Orbison
1. Oh, Pretty Woman
2. Crying
3. Only The Lonely
4. Running Scared
5. In Dreams
6. Ooby Dooby
7. Dream Baby
8. Blue Angel
9. Blue Bayou
10. It's Over
Rufus Thomas
1. Walkin' The Dog
2. Bear Cat
3. Do The Push & Pull
4. The Breakdown
5. Do The Funky Chicken
6. The Dog
7. Do The Funky Penguin
8. Tiger Man
9. Jump Back
10. Sophisticated Cissy
Run-D.M.C.
1. Walk This Way (with Aerosmith)
2. It's Like That
3. King of Rock
4. Sucker M.C.'s
5. You Be Illin'
6. My Adidas
7. Rock Box
8. Down With the King
9. Run's House
10. Rock the House
Rush
1. 2112
2. Tom Sawyer
3. The Spirit of Radio
4. Limelight
5. La Villa Strangiato
6. YYZ
7. Freewill
8. Closer to the Heart
9. Working Man
10. Xanadu
Ruth Brown
1. Mama, He Treats Your Daughter Mean
2. Teardrops From My Eyes
3. 5-10-15 Hours
4. Oh, What A Dream
5. Wild, Wild Young Men
6. So Long
7. Daddy Daddy
8. Lucky Lips
9. Mambo Baby
10. This Little Girl's Gone Rockin'
Ryan Adams
1. New York, New York
2. Let It Ride
3. So Alive
4. Lucky Now
5. Answering Bell
6. Nuclear
7. Bad Blood
8. Gimme Something Good
9. Come Pick Me Up
10. Wonderwall
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