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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003

The year-end countdown for 2003 from The Buzz in Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC ranks 99 songs, with “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes at number one. The list features 77 different artists; Audioslave has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes 112 #1
2 Like a Stone Audioslave 75 #1
3 Bring Me to Life Evanescence 57 #1
4 Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers 67 #2
5 Send the Pain Below Chevelle 34 #3
6 Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park 42 #1
7 Radiohead There There 1 #7
8 Times Like These Foo Fighters 65 #3
9 Go With the Flow Queens of the Stone Age 40 #9
10 Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle 37 #10
11 Girls Not Grey AFI 29 #7
12 Someday Nickelback 22 #3
13 Just Beacuse Jane's Addiction 1 #13
14 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet 84 #1
15 Headstrong Trapt 34 #1
16 Going Under Evanescence 23 #16
17 Clocks Coldplay 101 #1
18 Show Me How to Live Audioslave 40 #9
19 Bandages Hot Hot Heat 40 #3
20 When I'm Gone 3 Doors Down 42 #2
21 Swing Swing The All-American Rejects 19 #16
22 Always Saliva 24 #14
23 The Boys of Summer The Ataris 32 #9
24 Numb Linkin Park 85 #2
25 Stupid Girl Cold 19 #11
26 Serenity Godsmack 12 #7
27 Think Twice Eve 6 11 #11
28 Hands Down Dashboard Confessional 28 #6
29 Meant to Live Switchfoot 50 #3
30 Minerva Deftones 16 #20
31 The Hardest Button to Button The White Stripes 49 #10
32 Creatures (For a While) 311 16 #16
33 Amsterdam Guster 28 #3
34 12:51 The Strokes 34 #8
35 Bottom of a Bottle Smile Empty Soul 16 #10
36 Honestly Zwan 36 #18
37 Fine Again Seether 34 #16
38 Feeling This blink-182 34 #5
39 Rest of My Life Unwritten Law 5 #39
40 Faint Linkin Park 45 #1
41 In This Diary The Ataris 13 #19
42 I Am the Highway Audioslave 52 #4
43 The Leaving Song Pt. II AFI 16 #8
44 Everyone Socialburn 2 #44
45 Straight Out of Line Godsmack 13 #3
46 Hit That The Offspring 33 #7
47 The Horizon Has Been Defeated Jack Johnson 23 #22
48 The Anthem Good Charlotte 17 #5
49 Falls On Me Fuel 16 #22
50 Try Honesty Billy Talent 13 #13
51 What It Is to Burn Finch 13 #46
52 Away From Me Puddle of Mudd 24 #27
53 Blue and Yellow The Used 14 #3
54 Will You P.O.D. 16 #29
55 Take It Off The Donnas 22 #37
56 The Hell Song Sum 41 14 #33
57 Dosed Red Hot Chili Peppers 15 #15
58 United States of Whatever Liam Lynch 25 #5
59 Suffocate Cold 6 #39
60 Price to Play Staind 16 #27
61 Chapstick, Chapped Lips, and Things Like Chemistry Relient K 1 #61
62 Out of Control Hoobastank 16 #43
63 Did My Time Korn 12 #28
64 Shatterday Vendetta Red 13 #31
65 Signals Over the Air Thursday 8 #30
66 With My Own Two Hands Ben Harper 17 #29
67 Way Away Yellowcard 11 #26
68 Remember Disturbed 9 #29
69 Let's Push Things Forward The Streets 19 #6
70 Until the Day I Die Story of the Year 28 #13
71 The Scientist Coldplay 65 #1
72 The Quiet Things That No One Ever Knows Brand New 11 #27
73 Mobscene Marilyn Manson 3 #45
74 Crazy Beat Blur 8 #51
75 Buried Myself Alive The Used 19 #12
76 Sleeping Awake P.O.D. 13 #14
77 Talk to Me, Dance With Me Hot Hot Heat 8 #26
78 Rest In Pieces Saliva 8 #38
79 Fall Back Down Rancid 27 #20
80 Gravedigger Dave Matthews 18 #3
81 Won't Back Down Fuel 2 #50
82 We Used To Be Friends The Dandy Warhols 23 #13
83 Harder to Breathe Maroon 5 7 #8
84 Driven Under Seether 9 #15
85 Volvo Driving Soccer Mom Everclear 2 #58
86 Low Foo Fighters 21 #48
87 Space Something Corporate 9 #54
88 Come Back Around Feeder 3 #88
89 We've Had Enough Alkaline Trio 8 #35
90 Go to Sleep Radiohead 12 #36
91 The Last Song The All-American Rejects 3 #70
92 Closure Chevelle 11 #34
93 The Young and the Hopeless Good Charlotte 3 #59
94 Re-Offender Travis 10 #20
95 Get Up Bleu 3 #71
96 Glow Alien Ant Farm 5 #23
97 My Goddess The Exies 4 #78
98 The Best of Me The Starting Line 2 #48
99 I Believe in a Thing Called Love The Darkness 49 #9

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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2003 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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