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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.

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

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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).

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