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The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2009

The year-end countdown (2009) from The Buzz in Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC ranks 99 songs, with “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon at number one. The list features 68 different artists; Shinedown has the most entries with four songs.

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Fan transcription posted on the We Want Airwaves blog (October 2010). The blog post misspells the call letters as WBZT. Obvious typos corrected (I Dont's Care, Indestructable, Matishyahu). #94 is printed "Armageddeon" (the radio title of Marilyn Manson's "Arma-Goddamn-Motherfuckin-Geddon"), kept as printed.

# Song ListsBest
1 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 64 #1
2 Feel Good Drag Anberlin 34 #1
3 Second Chance Shinedown 33 #2
4 Panic Switch Silversun Pickups 59 #1
5 LifeLine Papa Roach 16 #4
6 Audience Of One Rise Against 29 #3
7 New Divide Linkin Park 31 #4
8 I Don't Care Apocalyptica 26 #1
9 Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant 65 #1
10 Indestructable Disturbed 12 #10
11 Dirt Room Blue October 18 #3
12 Know Your Enemy Green Day 31 #3
13 Sound of Madness Shinedown 20 #5
14 You're Going Down Sick Puppies 26 #1
15 Uprising Muse 81 #1
16 I Will Not Bow Breaking Benjamin 28 #1
17 Jars Chevelle 22 #2
18 Hey You 311 21 #18
19 Notion Kings of Leon 28 #7
20 Decode Paramore 25 #3
21 The Night Disturbed 11 #6
22 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
23 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
24 Breakdown Seether 11 #21
25 Break Three Days Grace 31 #3
26 Kids MGMT 66 #1
27 Love Hurts Incubus 25 #1
28 Savior Rise Against 41 #1
29 Drowning (Face Down) Shinedown 1 #29
30 Something in your Mouth Nickelback 5 #30
31 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
32 The Fixer Pearl Jam 47 #2
33 Champagne Cavo 11 #16
34 All I Want Staind 7 #34
35 This Is It Staind 4 #31
36 Lollipop Framing Hanley 10 #27
37 Kristy, Are You Doing Ok? The Offspring 17 #16
38 Check My Brain Alice In Chains 29 #10
39 If Only You Knew Shinedown 1 #39
40 Last One to Die Rancid 10 #40
41 (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To Weezer 49 #4
42 Wheels Foo Fighters 38 #6
43 2AM Slightly Stoopid 9 #1
44 Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against 27 #4
45 Kings & Queens 30 Seconds to Mars 41 #9
46 No You Girls Franz Ferdinand 26 #4
47 Whiskey Hangover Godsmack 12 #26
48 21 Guns Green Day 34 #3
49 Again Flyleaf 23 #3
50 Leave Out All The Rest Linkin Park 11 #4
51 Half Truism The Offspring 11 #15
52 Careless Whisper Seether 17 #5
53 Black Heart Inertia Incubus 19 #14
54 18 Days Saving Abel 6 #20
55 Medicate AFI 23 #10
56 Substitution Silversun Pickups 26 #18
57 Back Against the Wall Cage The Elephant 45 #2
58 Seasons Veer Union 7 #6
59 Ignorance Paramore 26 #10
60 Spaceman The Killers 25 #9
61 Bad Girlfriend Theory of a Deadman 16 #11
62 Believe Staind 16 #3
63 She's a Genius Jet 17 #21
64 Magnificent U2 19 #2
65 East Jesus Nowhere Green Day 17 #27
66 I Get Off Halestorm 5 #19
67 Cyanide Metallica 8 #42
68 Funny the Way It Is Dave Matthews Band 19 #4
69 Meet Me On The Equinox Death Cab for Cutie 35 #13
70 Brother Pearl Jam 19 #36
71 Dead Memories Slipknot 10 #1
72 The Rat Dead Confederate 4 #14
73 Wrong Depeche Mode 28 #5
74 I've Got Friends Manchester Orchestra 20 #9
75 New Fang Them Crooked Vultures 26 #19
76 Ride To California Paper Tongues 13 #10
77 Do What You Do Mudvayne 10 #38
78 Crash Cavo 5 #42
79 It's Alright 311 10 #40
80 Get on Your Boots U2 18 #18
81 Crawl Back In Dead By Sunrise 11 #45
82 Over And Out Alkaline Trio 3 #31
83 Just Breathe Pearl Jam 62 #2
84 Slow Poison The Bravery 15 #44
85 Breaking Anberlin 14 #2
86 Snuff Slipknot 14 #6
87 One Day Matisyahu 24 #8
88 Troublemaker Weezer 19 #7
89 A Looking in View Alice In Chains 6 #28
90 Say It Blue October 11 #25
91 Desolation Row My Chemical Romance 8 #6
92 Sinner Big B 4 #11
93 Sink Into Me Taking Back Sunday 17 #8
94 Armageddon Marilyn Manson 4 #49
95 Spaceship Puddle of Mudd 5 #29
96 1901 Phoenix 86 #1
97 Young Hollywood Undead 8 #26
98 I Hate You Sick Puppies 1 #98
99 100 Little Curses Street Sweeper Social Club 9 #46

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About this countdown

The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2009 was broadcast by The Buzz (Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC) in 2009. 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: We Want Airwaves (fan blog), "WBZT Top 99 of 2009".

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