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WBCN Top Songs of the Year

RockLists has 4 editions of the WBCN Top Songs of the Year, from 1996 to 2003. Across all of them, the most successful song is “Southside” by Moby, which appears in 2 editions.

4editions
1996–2003years
4different #1s
4missing years

Every edition and its number one

YearCountdownNumber oneSize
1996 Top 104 Songs of 1996 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper HeartStone Temple Pilots 104
2000 Top 104 Songs of Y2K partial OutsideAaron Lewis 102
2001 Top 41 Songs of 2001 partial SchismTool 40
2003 Top 104 Songs of 2003 Like a StoneAudioslave 104

Missing from the archive: 1997, 1998, 1999, 2002. 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'96'00'01'03
1 SouthsideMoby – 72 13 –
2 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper HeartStone Temple Pilots 1 – – –
3 Like a StoneAudioslave – – – 1
4 SchismTool – – 1 –
5 OutsideAaron Lewis – 1 – –
6 Just A GirlNo Doubt 2 – – –
7 Can't StopRed Hot Chili Peppers – – – 2
8 Pardon MeIncubus – 2 – –
9 ZeroThe Smashing Pumpkins 3 – – –
10 Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes – – – 3
11 Sleep Now in the FireRage Against the Machine – 3 – –
12 Hash PipeWeezer – – 2 –
13 PepperButthole Surfers 4 – – –
14 Times Like TheseFoo Fighters – – – 4
15 JudithA Perfect Circle – 4 – –
16 MachineheadBush 5 – – –
17 You Know You're RightNirvana – – – 5
18 OthersideRed Hot Chili Peppers – 5 – –
19 Pretty NooseSoundgarden 6 – – –
20 Somewhere I BelongLinkin Park – – – 6
21 Break StuffLimp Bizkit – 6 – –
22 Chop SueySystem of a Down – – 3 –
23 Bring Me to LifeEvanescence – – – 7
24 Too MuchDave Matthews Band 7 – – –
25 Kryptonite3 Doors Down – 7 – –
26 WarpedRed Hot Chili Peppers 8 – – –
27 Lose YourselfEminem – – – 8
28 Rock SuperstarCypress Hill – 8 – –
29 Machine Renegades of FunkRage Against The – – 4 –
30 Only Happy When It RainsGarbage 9 – – –
31 Hey Ya!Outkast – – – 9
32 Make Me BadKorn – 9 – –
33 Santa MonicaEverclear 10 – – –
34 HurtJohnny Cash – – – 10
35 StupifyDisturbed – 10 – –
36 Tahitian MoonPorno for Pyros 11 – – –
37 ClocksColdplay – – – 11
38 StanEminem – 11 – –
39 BreakdownTantric – – 5 –
40 GuiltyGravity Kills 12 – – –
41 No One KnowsQueens of the Stone Age – – – 12
42 Sour GirlStone Temple Pilots – 12 – –
43 Down311 13 – – –
44 HeadstrongTrapt – – – 13
45 Guerilla RadioRage Against the Machine – 13 – –
46 DriveIncubus – – 6 –
47 Where It's AtBeck 14 – – –
48 AlwaysSaliva – – – 14
49 I DisappearMetallica – 14 – –
50 In The MeantimeSpacehog 15 – – –
51 DosedRed Hot Chili Peppers – – – 15
52 Loser3 Doors Down – 15 – –
53 SpiderwebsNo Doubt 16 – – –
54 Show Me How to LiveAudioslave – – – 16
55 CalifornicationRed Hot Chili Peppers – 16 – –
56 CrawlingLinkin Park – – 7 –
57 AgainAlice In Chains 17 – – –
58 All My LifeFoo Fighters – – – 17
59 The Real Slim ShadyEminem – 17 – –
60 What I GotSublime 18 – – –