RockLists.com

Year-end countdown · Q101 · January 1, 2010

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009

The year-end countdown (January 1, 2010) from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “Savior” by Rise Against at number one. The list features 62 different artists; The Offspring has the most entries with four songs.

101songs
Q101station
Chicago, ILmarket
Make your own version All 18 editions
# Song ListsBest
1 Savior Rise Against 4 #1
2 The Feel Good Drag Anberlin 2 #2
3 Dirt Room Blue October 1 #3
4 You're Going Down Sick Puppies 2 #4
5 Panic Switch Silversun Pickups 13 #1
6 Jars Chevelle 3 #6
7 Audience Of One Rise Against 7 #7
8 Uprising Muse 24 #3
9 The Night Disturbed 1 #9
10 Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant 10 #3
11 New Divide Linkin Park 5 #7
12 Second Chance Shinedown 6 #10
13 Blood On My Hands The Used 1 #13
14 Love Hurts Incubus 6 #13
15 I Will Not Bow Breaking Benjamin 2 #15
16 Indestructable Disturbed 1 #16
17 Half Truism The Offspring 1 #17
18 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 32 #1
19 (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To Weezer 7 #10
20 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 11 #1
21 Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against 8 #8
22 Break Three Days Grace 6 #20
23 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 17 #1
24 Sound of Madness Shinedown 1 #24
25 Eyesore Janus 2 #23
26 Back Against the Wall Cage The Elephant 13 #11
27 Check My Brain Alice In Chains 6 #10
28 Careless Whisper Seether 1 #28
29 Champagne Cavo 1 #29
30 Notion Kings of Leon 5 #14
31 Dead Memories Slipknot 1 #31
32 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 18 #22
33 The Fixer Pearl Jam 10 #5
34 Street Fighter (War) Sick Puppies 1 #34
35 Kings & Queens 30 Seconds to Mars 8 #9
36 I've Got Friends Manchester Orchestra 3 #32
37 Young Hollywood Undead 1 #37
38 Breaking Anberlin 3 #34
39 I Almost Told You That I Loved You Papa Roach 1 #39
40 She's a Genius Jet 4 #40
41 Sink Into Me Taking Back Sunday 3 #41
42 Know Your Enemy Green Day 5 #20
43 If You Only Knew Shinedown 2 #43
44 LifeLine Papa Roach 2 #44
45 Black Heart Inertia Incubus 2 #14
46 Snuff Slipknot 2 #36
47 Hey You 311 3 #47
48 Medicate AFI 5 #12
49 Help, Im Alive Metric 10 #8
50 Cyanide Metallica 2 #50
51 Brother Pearl Jam 4 #36
52 Troublemaker Weezer 7 #21
53 East Jesus Nowhere Green Day 6 #27
54 Meet Me On The Equinox Death Cab for Cutie 7 #14
55 21 Guns Green Day 6 #8
56 All Nightmare Long Metallica 1 #56
57 Whiskey Hangover Godsmack 1 #57
58 Crawl Back In Dead By Sunrise 3 #49
59 Wheels Foo Fighters 7 #25
60 New Fang Them Crooked Vultures 10 #23
61 Lollipop Framing Hanley 1 #61
62 Undead Hollywood Undead 5 #21
63 Wrong Depeche Mode 5 #5
64 All I Want Staind 2 #64
65 Bad Girlfriend Theory of a Deadman 1 #65
66 The '59 Sound The Gaslight Anthem 8 #28
67 Broken, Beat & Scarred Metallica 1 #67
68 Substitution Silversun Pickups 9 #18
69 Odd One Sick Puppies 2 #1
70 100 Little Curses Street Sweeper Social Club 2 #54
71 Hate My Life Theory of a Deadman 1 #71
72 Do What You Do Mudvayne 1 #72
73 It's Alright 311 1 #73
74 Again Flyleaf 3 #17
75 Say It Blue October 1 #75
76 Crash Cavo 2 #76
77 Slow Poison The Bravery 4 #46
78 Wars Hurt 1 #78
79 Scream With Me Mudvayne 2 #69
80 Drowning (Face Down) Saving Abel 1 #80
81 Letter From a Thief Chevelle 2 #6
82 Shake It Out Manchester Orchestra 1 #82
83 Kristy, Are You Doing Ok? The Offspring 5 #53
84 One Day Matisyahu 6 #41
85 Everywhere I Go Hollywood Undead 1 #85
86 G.L.O.W. The Smashing Pumpkins 1 #86
87 Lightning Storm Flogging Molly 1 #87
88 Desolation Row My Chemical Romance 1 #88
89 Ignorance Paramore 3 #23
90 Your Decision Alice In Chains 5 #12
91 Forever In Your Hands All That Remains 1 #91
92 Death of Me Red 1 #92
93 Just Breathe Pearl Jam 16 #25
94 Pork And Beans Weezer 16 #1
95 New Moon Rising Wolfmother 3 #74
96 Spaceman The Killers 6 #9
97 Inside The Fire Disturbed 6 #10
98 Changing Saosin 1 #98
99 Crawl Kings of Leon 2 #70
100 The Day That Never Comes Metallica 8 #9
101 Hammerhead The Offspring 10 #2

More 2009 countdowns

Best songs of 2009 →

About this countdown

Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2009 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL) in January 1, 2010. 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.

Source: Wayback Machine capture of Q101.com (WKQX), "Q101 Chicago's Top 101 Songs of 2009" (originally posted Oct 23, 2013 on the Q101 blog archive).

Spot an error? Suggest a correction.