Year-end countdown · Q101 · 2006

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2006

The year-end countdown for 2006 from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “The Denial Twist” by The White Stripes at number one. The list features 74 different artists; Death Cab for Cutie has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 The Denial Twist The White Stripes 27 #1
2 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
3 Hate Me Blue October 23 #3
4 Crazy Gnarls Barkley 45 #1
5 John the Revelator Depeche Mode 3 #5
6 When You Were Young The Killers 61 #2
7 Talk Coldplay 37 #7
8 Precious Depeche Mode 35 #3
9 Woman Wolfmother 28 #6
10 Miss Murder AFI 33 #1
11 Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs 48 #2
12 How to Save a Life The Fray 22 #10
13 The Pot Tool 37 #10
14 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 40 #1
15 Vicarious Tool 36 #1
16 Wings of a Butterfly HIM 11 #16
17 I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie 40 #1
18 The Diary of Jane Breaking Benjamin 19 #6
19 Every Day is Exactly the Same Nine Inch Nails 31 #12
20 Upside Down Jack Johnson 21 #20
21 Only Nine Inch Nails 44 #5
22 DOA Foo Fighters 43 #9
23 MakeDamnSure Taking Back Sunday 13 #11
24 Through Glass Stone Sour 23 #2
25 The Kill 30 Seconds to Mars 32 #2
26 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
27 Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance 51 #1
28 Where'd You Go Fort Minor 4 #24
29 Land of Confusion Disturbed 13 #3
30 The Adventure Angels & Airwaves 18 #6
31 Animal I Have Become Three Days Grace 23 #1
32 Ready to Fall Rise Against 18 #9
33 Tear You Apart She Wants Revenge 28 #14
34 Hate (I Really Don't Like You) Plain White T's 9 #34
35 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys 48 #2
36 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
37 I Write Sins Not Tragedies Panic! at the Disco 22 #9
38 Knights of Cydonia Muse 60 #1
39 Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers 40 #2
40 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
41 World Wide Suicide Pearl Jam 20 #4
42 Dark Blue Jack's Mannequin 6 #23
43 The Only Difference Between Martyrdom and Suicide is Press Coverage Panic! at the Disco 8 #4
44 Call Me When You're Sober Evanescence 14 #9
45 Lonely Day System of a Down 13 #14
46 Wasteland 10 Years 14 #7
47 Here It Goes Again OK Go 29 #2
48 No Way Back Foo Fighters 26 #5
49 Dare Gorillaz 40 #1
50 Beverly Hills Weezer 56 #4
51 Breathe Me Sia 20 #3
52 Crooked Teeth Death Cab for Cutie 30 #11
53 The Queen and I Gym Class Heroes 1 #53
54 Original Fire Audioslave 20 #14
55 Perfect Situation Weezer 36 #7
56 Satellite Guster 28 #23
57 Coming Undone Korn 8 #12
58 King Without a Crown Matisyahu 43 #1
59 Rooftops (A Liberation Broadcast) Lostprophets 6 #20
60 Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Jet 22 #14
61 Paralyzed Rock Kills Kid 19 #27
62 Jukebox The Strokes 2 #50
63 Love and Memories O.A.R. 11 #34
64 Hypnotize System of a Down 28 #10
65 Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave 31 #4
66 Youth Matisyahu 8 #37
67 Saying Sorry Hawthorne Heights 8 #19
68 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
69 Hole in the Earth Deftones 12 #36
70 American Witch Rob Zombie 2 #63
71 Anna Molly Incubus 37 #2
72 Life Wasted Pearl Jam 11 #17
73 Is It Any Wonder? Keane 25 #16
74 Twisted Transistor Korn 17 #14
75 Face Down The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus 32 #8
76 Level The Raconteurs 27 #20
77 Slow Down The Academy Is... 2 #77
78 Into the Ocean Blue October 8 #12
79 Nausea Beck 26 #8
80 Over My Head (Cable Car) The Fray 8 #72
81 These Things She Wants Revenge 17 #9
82 Don't Wait Dashboard Confessional 10 #18
83 B.Y.O.B. System of a Down 33 #1
84 Cash Machine Hard-Fi 21 #41
85 From Yesterday 30 Seconds to Mars 21 #19
86 Gone Daddy Gone Gnarls Barkley 11 #13
87 Hollow Godsmack 1 #87
88 Lips of an Angel Hinder 8 #4
89 Right Here Staind 19 #1
90 The W.A.N.D. The Flaming Lips 14 #3
91 The Saints Are Coming U2/Green Day 9 #39
92 Crazy Bitch Buckcherry 19 #5
93 Do You Want To Franz Ferdinand 34 #10
94 Lights and Sounds Yellowcard 17 #24
95 Falling Staind 6 #29
96 Move Along The All-American Rejects 10 #7
97 Trees Marty Casey and the Lovehammers 1 #97
98 Bat Country Avenged Sevenfold 24 #13
99 Love Like Winter AFI 20 #17
100 Starlight Muse 57 #1
101 Le Disko Shiny Toy Guns 19 #20

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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2006 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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