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97X Top 97 of the Year

RockLists has 4 editions of the 97X Top 97 of the Year, from 2001 to 2013. Across all of them, the most successful song is “Sail” by AWOLNATION, which appears in 3 editions.

4editions

2001–2013years

4different #1s

9missing years

Every edition and its number one

Year	Countdown	Number one	Size
2001	Top 97 Songs of 2001	Crawling Linkin Park	97
2011	Top 97 of 2011	The Cave Mumford & Sons	97
2012	Top 97 Songs of 2012	We Are Young fun.	97
2013	Top 97 of 2013	Atlas Coldplay	97

Missing from the archive: 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010. Have one of these?

How the top songs moved between editions

Each song’s position in every edition. A dash means it did not appear.

#	Song	'01	'11	'12	'13
1	Sail AWOLNATION	–	6	12	15
2	Madness Muse	–	–	5	7
3	I Will Wait Mumford & Sons	–	–	4	9
4	Ho Hey Lumineers	–	–	7	8
5	Little Talks Of Monsters And Men	–	–	6	16
6	Pumped up Kicks Foster The People	–	2	21	–
7	Radioactive Imagine Dragons	–	–	29	2
8	It's Time Imagine Dragons	–	–	11	20
9	Walk Foo Fighters	–	8	25	–
10	My Body Young the Giant	–	10	23	–
11	Tighten Up The Black Keys	–	11	24	–
12	Gold On The Ceiling The Black Keys	–	–	9	28
13	Little Black Submarines The Black Keys	–	–	16	22
14	Help Is On The Way Rise Against	–	4	35	–
15	Some Nights fun.	–	–	8	31
16	Lay Me Down Dirty Heads	–	18	26	–
17	Midnight City M83	–	–	20	29
18	Shake Me Down Cage The Elephant	–	5	48	–
19	Take A Walk Passion Pit	–	–	14	41
20	Cough Syrup Young the Giant	–	28	30	–
21	The Sound Of Winter Bush	–	29	33	–
22	Burn It Down Linkin Park	–	–	15	49
23	Mountain Sound Of Monsters And Men	–	–	57	10
24	Trojans Atlas Genius	–	–	53	23
25	Panic Sublime with Rome	–	14	71	–
26	Howlin' for You The Black Keys	–	19	68	–
27	Dark Horses Switchfoot	–	47	41	–
28	The Pit Silversun Pickups	–	–	67	24
29	Tonight Seether	–	55	36	–
30	Too Close Alex Clare	–	–	17	75
31	Lonely Boy The Black Keys	–	73	19	–
32	Holding On To You Twenty One Pilots	–	–	90	3
33	Face to the Floor Chevelle	–	71	22	–
34	We Are Young fun.	–	96	1	–
35	Kill Your Heroes AWOLNATION	–	–	40	59
36	Crawling Linkin Park	1	–	–	–
37	Royals Lorde	–	–	–	1
38	The Cave Mumford & Sons	–	1	–	–
39	Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye	–	–	2	–
40	Hash Pipe Weezer	2	–	–	–
41	Waiting For The End Linkin Park	–	3	–	–
42	These Days Foo Fighters	–	–	3	–
43	It's Been Awhile Staind	3	–	–	–
44	Safe and Sound Capital Cities	–	–	–	4
45	Fat Lip Sum 41	4	–	–	–
46	Colours Grouplove	–	38	65	–
47	Your Disease Saliva	5	–	–	–
48	Sweater Weather Neighbourhood	–	–	–	5
49	Schism Tool	6	–	–	–
50	Demons Imagine Dragons	–	–	–	6
51	Make It Stop (september's Children)Rise Against	–	22	82	–
52	Country Song Seether	–	32	72	–
53	Not Your Fault AWOLNATION	–	87	18	–
54	Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons	–	7	–	–
55	My Way Limp Bizkit	7	–	–	–
56	All I Want A Day To Remember	–	13	93	–
57	Paradise Coldplay	–	51	55	–
58	Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm	8	–	–	–
59	Satellite Rise Against	–	94	13	–
60	Animal Neon Trees	–	9	–	–