# Top 2000 of 2025: the top 40

In the 2025 NPO Radio 2 Top 2000, the Netherlands' huge year-end listener poll, Queen's Bohemian Rhapsody was number one again, for the 22nd time in 27 editions. Billy Joel's Piano Man reached its highest position ever at number two, and the Eagles' Hotel California came third. The edition had a record 397 Dutch songs, and for the first time more than half of the songs were from 1990 or later. Here is the top 40, with each song's 2024 position.

- 22 votes · 40 items
- Mar 2, 2026 · L. de Boer
- https://even.best/en/l/5474/top-2000-of-2025-the-top-40

## Top 40

1. **Deep Purple – Child in Time** (2 · ▲2 ▼0) — No. 24 in 2025 (2024: 19).
2. **Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 1 in 2025 (2024: 1).
3. **Eagles – Hotel California** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 3 in 2025 (2024: 3).
4. **Coldplay – Fix You** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 4 in 2025 (2024: 2).
5. **Danny Vera – Roller Coaster** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 5 in 2025 (2024: 4).
6. **Pearl Jam – Black** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 6 in 2025 (2024: 10).
7. **Boudewijn de Groot – Avond** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 8 in 2025 (2024: 8).
8. **Golden Earring – Radar Love** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 9 in 2025 (2024: 20). Back in the top 10 as a tribute to guitarist George Kooymans.
9. **Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 10 in 2025 (2024: 12).
10. **Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 12 in 2025 (2024: 18).
11. **Queen – Love of My Life** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 14 in 2025 (2024: 9).
12. **Guns N' Roses – November Rain** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 16 in 2025 (2024: 17).
13. **Racoon – Oceaan** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 18 in 2025 (2024: 21).
14. **Disturbed – The Sound of Silence** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 22 in 2025 (2024: 13).
15. **Toto – Africa** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 23 in 2025 (2024: 24).
16. **Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 26 in 2025 (2024: 39).
17. **Klein Orkest – Over de muur** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 29 in 2025 (2024: 42).
18. **Suzan & Freek – Lichtje branden** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — No. 33 in 2025. New entry, voted in as a show of support for Freek Rikkerink, who is terminally ill.
19. **Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 7 in 2025 (2024: 7).
20. **Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 13 in 2025 (2024: 16).
21. **Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 15 in 2025 (2024: 15).
22. **The Beach Boys – God Only Knows** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 17 in 2025 (2024: 53).
23. **Dire Straits – Telegraph Road** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 19 in 2025 (2024: 23).
24. **DI-RECT – Soldier On** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 20 in 2025 (2024: 14).
25. **The Cure – A Forest** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 21 in 2025 (2024: 22).
26. **Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 25 in 2025 (2024: 25).
27. **Metallica – Master of Puppets** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 27 in 2025 (2024: 33).
28. **Radiohead – Creep** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 28 in 2025 (2024: 54).
29. **AC/DC – Thunderstruck** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 30 in 2025 (2024: 30).
30. **Fleetwood Mac – The Chain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 31 in 2025 (2024: 35).
31. **Metallica – One** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 32 in 2025 (2024: 27).
32. **Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 34 in 2025 (2024: 29).
33. **Marco Borsato – De waarheid** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 35 in 2025 (2024: 1,428).
34. **Linkin Park – In the End** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 36 in 2025 (2024: 28).
35. **Bruce Springsteen – The River** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 37 in 2025 (2024: 37).
36. **Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 38 in 2025 (2024: 45).
37. **Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 39 in 2025 (2024: 38).
38. **David Bowie – Heroes** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — No. 40 in 2025 (2024: 31).
39. **Billy Joel – Piano Man** (-1 · ▲0 ▼1) — No. 2 in 2025 (2024: 5). Its highest position ever.
40. **Metallica – Nothing Else Matters** (-2 · ▲0 ▼2) — No. 11 in 2025 (2024: 11).

How is this ranking ordered? By people's votes: each ▲ adds a point and each ▼ takes one away. Anyone can vote and add what is missing.