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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001

The year-end countdown for 2001 from The Buzz in Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC ranks 99 songs, with “Chop Suey” by System of a Down at number one. The list features 75 different artists; Linkin Park has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Chop Suey System of a Down 86 #1
2 It's Been Awhile Staind 47 #1
3 One Step Closer Linkin Park 63 #1
4 How You Remind Me Nickelback 53 #2
5 Schism Tool 92 #1
6 Fat Lip Sum 41 50 #3
7 Clint Eastwood Gorillaz 74 #2
8 Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm 46 #4
9 Hash Pipe Weezer 66 #2
10 Drive Incubus 66 #1
11 Outside Aaron Lewis 22 #1
12 My Way Limp Bizkit 17 #5
13 Alive P.O.D. 39 #4
14 In the End Linkin Park 92 #1
15 I Wish You Were Here Incubus 59 #5
16 The Rock Show blink-182 41 #2
17 Control Puddle of Mudd 33 #3
18 Flavor of the Weak American Hi-Fi 18 #12
19 Short Skirt/Long Jacket Cake 60 #2
20 Stay Together for the Kids blink-182 27 #16
21 Island in the Sun Weezer 60 #4
22 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 76 #1
23 Fuck Authority Pennywise 10 #23
24 Last Nite The Strokes 77 #1
25 Elevation U2 36 #4
26 My Sacrifice Creed 27 #5
27 Hit or Miss New Found Glory 14 #24
28 Left Behind Slipknot 8 #28
29 Feel So Numb Rob Zombie 10 #24
30 In Too Deep Sum 41 25 #24
31 I'll Be Here Awhile 311 19 #15
32 Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse 27 #1
33 Wild World Me First and the Gimme Gimmes 4 #33
34 Movies Alien Ant Farm 16 #17
35 Weapon of Choice Fatboy Slim 20 #21
36 Lateralus Tool 17 #10
37 Blurry Puddle of Mudd 57 #1
38 Crawling Linkin Park 55 #1
39 Life Our Lady Peace 8 #38
40 C'Mon Rustic Overtones 2 #17
41 Hello Time Bomb The Matthew Good Band 6 #35
42 Photograph Weezer 20 #41
43 Trouble Coldplay 36 #1
44 The Hollow A Perfect Circle 12 #23
45 How I Could Just Kill a Man Rage Against the Machine 7 #38
46 Fade Staind 24 #13
47 Androgyny Garbage 4 #19
48 Tainted Love Marilyn Manson 2 #48
49 Name of the Game The Crystal Method 9 #29
50 I Might Be Wrong Radiohead 26 #9
51 The People That We Love Bush 15 #43
52 Hey Pretty Poe 15 #49
53 Want You Bad The Offspring 13 #4
54 Because I Got High Afroman 19 #9
55 Where's Your Head At? Basement Jaxx 22 #4
56 Stuck in a Moment You Can't Get Out of U2 14 #9
57 Crawling in the Dark Hoobastank 37 #2
58 The Space Between Dave Matthews Band 28 #4
59 Everyday Dave Matthews Band 7 #16
60 Wonder Boy Tenacious D 16 #8
61 Giving In Adema 15 #22
62 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) Train 30 #1
63 19-2000 Gorillaz 18 #15
64 Bad Magick Godsmack 6 #26
65 Crystal New Order 20 #9
66 Your Disease Saliva 19 #5
67 Defy You The Offspring 20 #20
68 Sonne Rammstein 25 #9
69 In Repair Our Lady Peace 4 #27
70 She's Got the Look Guttermouth 3 #45
71 Knives Out Radiohead 11 #49
72 Shiver Coldplay 23 #32
73 Lipstick and Bruises Lit 12 #63
74 Roll On The Living End 5 #69
75 Breakdown Tantric 18 #5
76 Walk On U2 33 #7
77 Deep Nine Inch Nails 10 #45
78 Too Bad Nickelback 17 #10
79 Good Fortune PJ Harvey 17 #2
80 What's Going On? (Reality Remix) Various Artists 1 #80
81 Forever Kid Rock 5 #52
82 Evolution Revolution Love Tricky 10 #65
83 Days of the Week Stone Temple Pilots 16 #41
84 Sunny Hours Long Beach Dub All-Stars 9 #49
85 Warning Green Day 24 #18
86 I Did It Dave Matthews Band 18 #33
87 Dig In Lenny Kravitz 21 #17
88 Strange Little Girl Tori Amos 5 #25
89 Good Souls Starsailor 8 #34
90 It Don't Matter Rehab 10 #42
91 Idioteque Radiohead 23 #37
92 Dream On Depeche Mode 17 #24
93 Bliss Rubberman 1 #93
94 Glad Girls Guided By Voices 20 #54
95 Catch the Sun Doves 17 #63
96 Bleed American Jimmy Eat World 17 #21
97 Between Angels and Insects Papa Roach 11 #16
98 Love You Madly Cake 18 #24
99 Radio Whore Orbit 1 #99

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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001 was broadcast by The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC). 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.

Contributed by Michel Gelinas. Thank you!

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