Decade countdown · WFNX · December 22, 2009

WFNX Top 101 Songs of the Decade (December 2009)

The countdown of the '00s (December 22, 2009) from WFNX in Boston, MA ranks 101 songs, with “Seven Nation Army” by The White Stripes at number one. The list features 57 different artists; Red Hot Chili Peppers has the most entries with six songs.

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Covers the 2000s decade, published alongside WFNX's Top 101 Songs in 2009 countdown.

# Song ListsBest
1 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes 112 #1
2 Clocks Coldplay 101 #1
3 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
4 Float On Modest Mouse 91 #1
5 Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand 82 #1
6 Hash Pipe Weezer 66 #2
7 Last Nite The Strokes 77 #1
8 Times Like These Foo Fighters 65 #3
9 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
10 Kids MGMT 66 #1
11 Starlight Muse 57 #1
12 Icky Thump The White Stripes 54 #1
13 Beautiful Day U2 124 #1
14 Use Somebody Kings of Leon 64 #1
15 Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups 54 #1
16 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
17 The Middle Jimmy Eat World 76 #1
18 Wake Up The Arcade Fire 31 #6
19 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet 84 #1
20 The Pretender Foo Fighters 78 #1
21 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
22 Such Great Heights The Postal Service 58 #2
23 Drive Incubus 66 #1
24 Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs 64 #1
25 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
26 Somebody Told Me The Killers 75 #1
27 Yellow Coldplay 98 #3
28 No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age 110 #1
29 Sweetness Jimmy Eat World 48 #2
30 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
31 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
32 Hey Ya! Outkast 68 #1
33 Chop Suey System of a Down 86 #1
34 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
35 Fell in Love With a Girl The White Stripes 64 #1
36 Dashboard Modest Mouse 46 #2
37 Love Song 311 44 #2
38 There There Radiohead 48 #4
39 By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
40 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
41 Like a Stone Audioslave 75 #1
42 Clint Eastwood Gorillaz 74 #2
43 Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers 67 #2
44 Believe The Bravery 32 #2
45 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails 54 #1
46 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
47 Evil Interpol 31 #5
48 Crazy Gnarls Barkley 45 #1
49 I Wish You Were Here Incubus 59 #5
50 Lost Cause Beck 39 #7
51 When You Were Young The Killers 61 #2
52 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers 91 #1
53 In the End Linkin Park 92 #1
54 You Know You're Right Nirvana 47 #1
55 Only Nine Inch Nails 44 #5
56 Everything In It's Right Place Radiohead 20 #2
57 Aerials System of a Down 47 #1
58 The Hardest Button to Button The White Stripes 49 #10
59 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers 102 #2
60 Holiday Green Day 74 #2
61 Somewhere Only We Know Keane 58 #12
62 The Underdog Spoon 38 #3
63 Island in the Sun Weezer 60 #4
64 12:51 The Strokes 34 #8
65 All These Things That I've Done The Killers 50 #2
66 Supermassive Black Hole Muse 35 #3
67 Paper Planes M.I.A. 43 #2
68 Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs 48 #2
69 E-Pro Beck 41 #2
70 Hands Down Dashboard Confessional 28 #6
71 Vertigo U2 75 #4
72 Hate To Say I Told You So The Hives 49 #1
73 All My Life Foo Fighters 80 #2
74 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
75 Knights of Cydonia Muse 60 #1
76 I'm Shipping Up to Boston Dropkick Murphys 6 #7
77 1901 Phoenix 86 #1
78 Pain Jimmy Eat World 47 #4
79 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys 48 #2
80 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
81 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
82 New Slang The Shins 54 #3
83 Human The Killers 36 #6
84 Banquet Bloc Party 34 #14
85 I Miss You blink-182 50 #8
86 Rehab Amy Winehouse 40 #3
87 Uprising Muse 81 #1
88 Slow Hands Interpol 39 #10
89 King Without a Crown Matisyahu 43 #1
90 Time Is Running Out Muse 43 #6
91 The Fixer Pearl Jam 47 #2
92 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 40 #1
93 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
94 Southside Moby 61 #7
95 One Step Closer Linkin Park 63 #1
96 An Honest Mistake The Bravery 34 #3
97 Panic Switch Silversun Pickups 59 #1
98 The Scientist Coldplay 65 #1
99 Bandages Hot Hot Heat 40 #3
100 Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers 57 #6
101 The Real Slim Shady Eminem 18 #1

About this countdown

WFNX Top 101 Songs of the Decade (December 2009) was broadcast by WFNX (Boston, MA) in December 22, 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: Boston Phoenix, "WFNX's top 101 songs of the decade" (thephoenix.com, Dec 22, 2009, by WFNX and Phoenix staff; 10-page article, all pages fetched).

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