De Song van het Jaar wordt sinds 1985 gekozen. Met Osdorp Posse, Krezip, JOHAN, Kyteman, Dotan en De Staat heeft de prijs zes Nederlandse winnaars. Alleen Pixies, The Smashing Pumpkins en Radiohead wonnen de Song van het Jaar twee keer.
1985 The Jesus and Mary Chain - 'Just Like Honey'
1986 Elvis Costello - 'I Want You'
1987 R.E.M. - 'The One I Love'
1988 Pixies - 'Gigantic'
1989 Pixies - 'Monkey Gone to Heaven'
1990 Living Colour - 'Love Rears Its Ugly Head'
1991 Nirvana - 'Smells Like Teen Spirit'
1992 Pearl Jam - 'Alive'
1993 The Smashing Pumpkins - 'Disarm'
1994 dEUS - 'Suds & Soda'
1995 The Smashing Pumpkins - 'Bullet with Butterfly Wings'
1996 Radiohead - 'Street Spirit'
1997 Radiohead - 'Paranoid Android'
1998 Osdorp Posse - '10 Jaar O.P.'
1999 Red Hot Chili Peppers - 'Scar Tissue'
2000 Krezip - 'I Would Stay'
2001 JOHAN - 'Tumble and Fall'
2002 Queens of the Stone Age - 'No One Knows'
2003 The White Stripes - 'Seven Nation Army'
2004 Franz Ferdinand - Take Me Out'
2005 Kaiser Chiefs - 'Oh My God'
2006 The Raconteurs - 'Steady, As She Goes'
2007 Editors - 'Smokers Outside the Hospital Doors'
2008 Kings of Leon - 'Sex on Fire'
2009 Kyteman - 'Sorry'
2010 Mumford & Sons - 'The Cave'
2011 Gotye ft. Kimbra - 'Somebody That I Used to Know'
2012 Ben Howard - 'Keep Your Head Up'
2013 Daft Punk ft. Pharrell - 'Get Lucky'
2014 Dotan - 'Home'
2015 Tame Impala - 'Let It Happen'
2016 De Staat - 'Make The Call, Leave It All'
2017 Arcade Fire - 'Everything Now'