After nearly 2 million votes from over 117,000 of you rock-loving legends, the #1 track for this year’s Rock 2000 is ‘War Pigs’.<\/p>\n
Given that we said goodbye<\/a> to Ozzy Osbourne in July, it’s no surprise the Black Sabbath frontman was all over the top 10 – but it is a great tribute to his unreal legacy.\u00a0<\/p>\n While Black Sabbath’s 70s anti-war anthem took out number one, the Prince of Darkness also featured at #10, #4 and #2 for ‘No More Tears’, ‘Crazy Train’, and ‘Mama I’m Coming Home’, respectively. <\/p>\n On top of that, Yungblud’s<\/a> cover of Black Sabbath’s ‘Changes’ – which Ozzy re-recorded with his daughter<\/a> in 2003 – made an epic debut straight into the #7 spot.\u00a0<\/p>\n Yungblud’s version comes from his performance at Villa Park for Black Sabbath’s ‘Back to the Beginning<\/a>‘ gig, which took place just weeks before Ozzy tragically died<\/a> of a heart attack.\u00a0<\/p>\n Here are the top 10 songs of The Rock 2000 for 2025:\u00a0<\/p>\n 10. ‘No More Tears’ – Ozzy Osbourne\u00a0<\/p>\n 9. ‘Black’ – Pearl Jam\u00a0<\/p>\n 8. ‘One’ – Metallica\u00a0<\/p>\n 7. ‘Changes (Live From Villa Park)’ – Yungblud\u00a0<\/p>\n 6. ‘Chop Suey!’ – System Of A Down\u00a0<\/p>\n 5. ‘Home Again’ – Shihad\u00a0<\/p>\n 4. ‘Crazy Train’ – Ozzy Osbourne\u00a0<\/p>\n 3. ‘Nil By Mouth’ – Blindspott\u00a0<\/p>\n 2. ‘Mama I’m Coming Home’ – Ozzy Osbourne\u00a0<\/p>\n 1. ‘War Pigs’ – Black Sabbath\u00a0<\/p>\n ‘War Pigs’ jumped up 18 spots from last year to take out the title of Rock 2000 winner, with last year’s number one<\/a>, ‘Everlong’ by Foo Fighters, bumped from the top 20 entirely. <\/p>\n It’s the first time ‘War Pigs’ has ever won the countdown, but it’s come close more than once. As recently as 2023, it came in at number 4, and made it to number 5 a full decade before that. <\/p>\n Blindspott, who headlined<\/a> the live show, took out third place with ‘Nil By Mouth’, and they were in good Kiwi company in the top five. ‘Home Again’ by Shihad cracked the number 5 spot, after they played their last ever show<\/a> earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n Of course, it wouldn’t be the Rock 2000 without Pearl Jam, Metallica and System of a Down, who all made appearances in the top 10 and throughout the countdown.\u00a0<\/p>\n And more importantly, there would BE no Rock 2000 without all of you who voted, listened, yelled at the radio and sang along – we bloody love you, and we can’t wait to do it all again next year.\u00a0<\/p>\n As Ozzy would say: “Rock n’ fucking ROOOOOLLL!”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After nearly 2 million votes from over 117,000 of you rock-loving legends, the #1 track for this year’s…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44203,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,157,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-44202","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44202\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44203"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}