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Year-end countdown · WBER · 1999

WBER Listener Countdown 1999

The year-end countdown (1999) from WBER in Rochester, NY ranks 101 songs, with “Cha Cha Cha” by Jimmy Luxury & the Tommy Rome Orchestra at number one. The list features 79 different artists; Limp Bizkit has the most entries with three songs.

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From WBER's countdown archive page: listeners vote for their five favourite songs of the year and the station counts down the results on New Year's Day. Names printed surname-first or as 'National, The' are turned around, and obvious misspellings are corrected where spotted.

# Song ListsBest
1 Cha Cha Cha Jimmy Luxury & the Tommy Rome Orchestra 1 #1
2 Nookie Limp Bizkit 42 #1
3 Everybody's Free (to Wear Sunscreen) Baz Luhrmann 8 #3
4 Cigarettes Will Kill You Ben Lee 4 #2
5 Ironspy Splashdown 3 #5
6 I'm With Stupid Static-X 3 #6
7 Blue Monday Orgy 47 #6
8 Battle Flag Lo Fidelity All-Stars 52 #3
9 My Name Is Eminem 13 #9
10 Freak on a Leash Korn 80 #2
11 Honey Moby 3 #11
12 Beautiful Joydrop 10 #12
13 Rodeo Clowns G. Love & Special Sauce 15 #4
14 What's My Age Again? blink-182 73 #1
15 When Worlds Collide Powerman 5000 24 #15
16 Here With Me Dido 9 #16
17 We're In This Together Nine Inch Nails 18 #17
18 Rabbit In Your Headlights Unkle 1 #18
19 Rescue Me Bell Book & Candle 2 #19
20 Would You? Touch And Go 22 #20
21 She's Anti Home Grown 1 #21
22 Guerrilla Radio Rage Against the Machine 36 #5
23 Whatever Godsmack 35 #12
24 Army Ben Folds Five 18 #24
25 Praise You Fatboy Slim 74 #1
26 Angry Any More Ani DiFranco 9 #26
27 Steal My Sunshine Len 37 #9
28 Falling Away From Me Korn 50 #8
29 Bad Girl DJ Rap 1 #29
30 Another Love Song Insane Clown Posse 1 #30
31 Bawitdaba Kid Rock 44 #1
32 F The World Insane Clown Posse 1 #32
33 All I Need Air 3 #33
34 The Rockafeller Skank Fatboy Slim 57 #10
35 Someday, Somehow Discern 1 #35
36 Bled For Days Static-X 3 #32
37 Take a Picture Filter 51 #3
38 Stitches Orgy 16 #32
39 Stolen Car Beth Orton 10 #39
40 Alive Beastie Boys 20 #24
41 Descent Fear Factory 1 #41
42 Sexx Laws Beck 28 #9
43 Sho"Nuff Fatboy Slim 1 #43
44 Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers 104 #2
45 Tender Blur 19 #40
46 All My Best Friends Are Less Than Jake 1 #46
47 Break Stuff Limp Bizkit 40 #1
48 Am I Sexy? Lords Of Acid 1 #48
49 Living Dead Girl Rob Zombie 27 #10
50 Come Original Three Eleven 1 #50
51 All the Small Things blink-182 79 #2
52 Bliss Tori Amos 9 #52
53 Central Reservation Beth Orton 5 #53
54 Weight Sarah Slean 1 #54
55 Don't Change Your Plans Ben Folds Five 2 #55
56 The Day the World Went Nine Inch Nails 1 #56
57 Wait and Bleed Slipknot 40 #1
58 Bodyrock Moby 23 #23
59 Wish I May Ani DiFranco 9 #59
60 Denial Sevendust 11 #28
61 Television Baxter 1 #61
62 Playing Cards With Judas Sarah Slean 2 #62
63 Sheep Go To Heaven Cake 28 #47
64 Get Myself Arrested Gomez 5 #64
65 Pardon Me Incubus 59 #1
66 Push Upstairs Underworld 5 #21
67 Sci-Fi Wasabi Cibo Matto 5 #67
68 Body Movin' Beastie Boys 31 #12
69 Here We Go Freestylers 3 #69
70 Sugar System of a Down 14 #6
71 Last Kiss Pearl Jam 60 #3
72 Splatter Splatter Moxy Fruvous 1 #72
73 Jump Around Limp Bizkit 1 #73
74 Every You Every Me Placebo 4 #5
75 Dead Bodies Everywhere Korn 1 #75
76 Alien Pennywise 11 #16
77 Learn to Fly Foo Fighters 108 #6
78 God Is a DJ Faithless 9 #39
79 Let Forever Be The Chemical Brothers 17 #35
80 Cars Fear Factory and Gary Numan 1 #80
81 Mudshovel Staind 30 #20
82 Stop the Rock Apollo 440 8 #35
83 Half As Much Moxy Fruvous 1 #83
84 Fast As You Can Fiona Apple 23 #13
85 6 Underground Sneaker Pimps 54 #2
86 I Don't Know You People Orbital 1 #86
87 I Am The Bullgod Kid Rock 5 #12
88 Ladyfingers Luscious Jackson 5 #88
89 Get Naked Methods of Mayhem 2 #88
90 Cassius 1999 Remix Cassius 1 #90
91 Let It Ride EDL 2 #91
92 Magic Carpet Ride Phillip Stear 1 #92
93 Jukebox Ani DiFranco 1 #93
94 Stripped Rammstein 2 #90
95 Rolling Soul Coughing 2 #95
96 Debonaire Dope 1 #96
97 Keep Away Godsmack 26 #8
98 The Dolphin's Cry Live 30 #12
99 Kiss Me Sixpence None the Richer 8 #62
100 Spleen Staind 1 #100
101 Celebrity Skin Hole 54 #4

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About this countdown

WBER Listener Countdown 1999 was voted by WBER’s listeners (Rochester, NY) in 1999. 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: WBER 90.5, "Countdowns".

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