The Most Divisive Songs

An average hides disagreement. A song everyone rates five and a song rated zero by half the room and eleven by the other half both average around five, but only one of them starts fights. This chart ranks songs by how widely their ratings are spread, so the top entries are the ones people genuinely cannot agree on.

Top 25 of 312 songs with at least 10 ratings. Ranked by how widely the ratings are spread.

1
Faint
Linkin Park
Starts at eleven and flatly refuses to come down.
±4.8avg 5.814 ratings
2
High Voltage
Linkin Park
From back when they still had a DJ front and centre.
±4.7avg 5.423 ratings
3
A Place for My Head
Linkin Park
The most cathartic thirty seconds on Hybrid Theory.
±4.5avg 5.512 ratings
4
Girl Crush
Little Big Town
Radio misread the lyrics and tried to ban it. Read them again.
±4.5avg 6.910 ratings
5
From the Inside
Linkin Park
Peak 2003 angst, and 2003 angst was undefeated.
±4.5avg 5.617 ratings
6
Sk8er Boi
Avril Lavigne
She had a preppy boyfriend, he had a skateboard. Everyone got what they deserved.
±4.5avg 6.022 ratings
7
As It Was
Harry Styles
Sad lyrics, cheerful synths, total global domination.
±4.5avg 6.746 ratings
8
Clocks
Coldplay
That piano riff was almost thrown away. Imagine.
±4.5avg 5.331 ratings
9
Pushing Me Away
Linkin Park
Hybrid Theory's quiet closer. Underrated by absolutely everyone.
±4.4avg 3.916 ratings
10
Forgotten
Linkin Park
The deep cut Hybrid Theory fans will defend to the death.
±4.4avg 5.624 ratings
11
Runaway
Linkin Park
Two minutes, no filler, all urgency.
±4.4avg 5.732 ratings
12
Gold Digger
Kanye West ft. Jamie Foxx
Jamie Foxx doing Ray Charles over a Ray Charles sample. Layers.
±4.4avg 5.338 ratings
13
Don't You Worry Child
Swedish House Mafia
Designed to make eighty thousand people cry at once.
±4.4avg 5.617 ratings
14
Sharp Edges
Linkin Park
An acoustic Linkin Park song. It really did happen.
±4.4avg 4.115 ratings
15
My December
Linkin Park
The saddest thing they ever recorded, and it's a B-side.
±4.4avg 6.220 ratings
16
Talking to Myself
Linkin Park
Written about someone they were losing. Knowing that changes it.
±4.4avg 5.921 ratings
17
Confessions Part II
Usher
Four minutes of the worst possible news, sung beautifully.
±4.3avg 6.215 ratings
18
Heavy
Linkin Park
The one the old fans threw beers at. Give it another go.
±4.3avg 5.816 ratings
19
Vampire
Olivia Rodrigo
Starts as a piano ballad, ends as an execution.
±4.3avg 5.515 ratings
20
The Long and Winding Road
The Beatles
Spector added the strings. Paul never forgave him.
±4.3avg 3.330 ratings
21
Better Off Alone
Alice Deejay
Do you think you're better off alone? At beer six, yes.
±4.3avg 7.113 ratings
22
Autobahn
Kraftwerk
Twenty-two minutes about a motorway. They invented the future.
±4.3avg 2.519 ratings
23
Bless the Broken Road
Rascal Flatts
Wedding playlists have never recovered.
±4.3avg 6.511 ratings
24
The Middle
Jimmy Eat World
It just takes some time. Roughly four beers.
±4.3avg 3.522 ratings
25
Ever Blazin'
Sean Paul
Mid-2000s Sean Paul, cruising comfortably at altitude.
±4.3avg 6.215 ratings