Top 2000 of 2025: the top 40
The top 3 according to 22 votes from people: Deep Purple – Child in Time · Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody · Eagles – Hotel California. (Updated Mar 2, 2026.)
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.
Automatically translated (original in Nederlands). See the original
Top 40
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1
Deep Purple – Child in Time
No. 24 in 2025 (2024: 19).
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2
Queen – Bohemian Rhapsody
No. 1 in 2025 (2024: 1).
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3
Eagles – Hotel California
No. 3 in 2025 (2024: 3).
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4
Coldplay – Fix You
No. 4 in 2025 (2024: 2).
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5
Danny Vera – Roller Coaster
No. 5 in 2025 (2024: 4).
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6
Pearl Jam – Black
No. 6 in 2025 (2024: 10).
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7
Boudewijn de Groot – Avond
No. 8 in 2025 (2024: 8).
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8
Golden Earring – Radar Love
No. 9 in 2025 (2024: 20). Back in the top 10 as a tribute to guitarist George Kooymans.
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9
Pink Floyd – Wish You Were Here
No. 10 in 2025 (2024: 12).
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10
Dire Straits – Brothers in Arms
No. 12 in 2025 (2024: 18).
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11
Queen – Love of My Life
No. 14 in 2025 (2024: 9).
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12
Guns N' Roses – November Rain
No. 16 in 2025 (2024: 17).
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13
Racoon – Oceaan
No. 18 in 2025 (2024: 21).
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14
Disturbed – The Sound of Silence
No. 22 in 2025 (2024: 13).
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15
Toto – Africa
No. 23 in 2025 (2024: 24).
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16
Fleetwood Mac – Go Your Own Way
No. 26 in 2025 (2024: 39).
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17
Klein Orkest – Over de muur
No. 29 in 2025 (2024: 42).
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18
Suzan & Freek – Lichtje branden
No. 33 in 2025. New entry, voted in as a show of support for Freek Rikkerink, who is terminally ill.
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19
Led Zeppelin – Stairway to Heaven
No. 7 in 2025 (2024: 7).
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20
Dire Straits – Sultans of Swing
No. 13 in 2025 (2024: 16).
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21
Pink Floyd – Comfortably Numb
No. 15 in 2025 (2024: 15).
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22
The Beach Boys – God Only Knows
No. 17 in 2025 (2024: 53).
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23
Dire Straits – Telegraph Road
No. 19 in 2025 (2024: 23).
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24
DI-RECT – Soldier On
No. 20 in 2025 (2024: 14).
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25
The Cure – A Forest
No. 21 in 2025 (2024: 22).
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26
Pink Floyd – Shine On You Crazy Diamond
No. 25 in 2025 (2024: 25).
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27
Metallica – Master of Puppets
No. 27 in 2025 (2024: 33).
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28
Radiohead – Creep
No. 28 in 2025 (2024: 54).
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29
AC/DC – Thunderstruck
No. 30 in 2025 (2024: 30).
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30
Fleetwood Mac – The Chain
No. 31 in 2025 (2024: 35).
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31
Metallica – One
No. 32 in 2025 (2024: 27).
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32
Prince & The Revolution – Purple Rain
No. 34 in 2025 (2024: 29).
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33
Marco Borsato – De waarheid
No. 35 in 2025 (2024: 1,428).
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34
Linkin Park – In the End
No. 36 in 2025 (2024: 28).
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35
Bruce Springsteen – The River
No. 37 in 2025 (2024: 37).
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36
Phil Collins – In the Air Tonight
No. 38 in 2025 (2024: 45).
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37
Nirvana – Smells Like Teen Spirit
No. 39 in 2025 (2024: 38).
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38
David Bowie – Heroes
No. 40 in 2025 (2024: 31).
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39
Billy Joel – Piano Man
No. 2 in 2025 (2024: 5). Its highest position ever.
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40
Metallica – Nothing Else Matters
No. 11 in 2025 (2024: 11).
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