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The best rock songs of 1999

Q: What was the top rock song of 1999?

Combining 13 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 1999 is "What's My Age Again?" by blink-182, which appeared on 11 of the lists.

13 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 1999: KROQ, 91X, Live 105, Q101, WHFS, K-Rock, WFNX, 107.7 The End, 89X, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), Virgin Radio, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top rock song of 1999 is “What's My Age Again?” by blink-182, which appeared on eleven of the 13 countdowns and was voted number one by two of them. Nine different songs were voted number one somewhere: “My Own Worst Enemy” by Lit (3 stations), “What's My Age Again?” by blink-182 (2 stations), “Nookie” by Limp Bizkit (2 stations), “Got the Life” by Korn and “Praise You” by Fatboy Slim and others. The Offspring was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 36 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 1999

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Ranked by combined points across every 1999 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	What's My Age Again? blink-182	1,055	11	#1	2
2	Scar Tissue Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,050	11	#2	–
3	Freak on a Leash Korn	1,013	11	#2	–
4	Praise You Fatboy Slim	998	11	#1	1
5	Nookie Limp Bizkit	984	11	#1	2
6	My Own Worst Enemy Lit	966	10	#1	3
7	Last Kiss Pearl Jam	914	11	#9	–
8	The Kids Aren't Alright The Offspring	895	11	#3	–
9	Bawitdaba Kid Rock	818	9	#1	1
10	Why Don't You Get a Job? The Offspring	816	10	#8	–
11	Blue Monday Orgy	809	11	#6	–
12	All the Small Things blink-182	779	11	#3	–
13	All-Star Smash Mouth	756	10	#9	–
14	Learn to Fly Foo Fighters	755	11	#6	–
15	Around the World Red Hot Chili Peppers	739	11	#10	–
16	The Chemicals Between Us Bush	726	10	#11	–
17	Cowboy Kid Rock	696	10	#17	–
18	Every Morning Sugar Ray	690	10	#2	–
19	Battle Flag Lo Fidelity All-Stars	657	9	#3	–
20	Fly Away Lenny Kravitz	653	9	#6	–
21	Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit	652	10	#8	–
22	What It's Like Everlast	638	8	#2	–
23	Higher Creed	619	9	#9	–
24	The Dolphin's Cry Live	610	9	#12	–
25	Steal My Sunshine Len	605	8	#9	–
26	Someday Sugar Ray	577	9	#20	–
27	One Creed	561	7	#2	–
28	Whatever Godsmack	551	8	#12	–
29	Come Original 311	545	10	#11	–
30	Ends Everlast	533	10	#19	–
31	Got the Life Korn	527	7	#1	1
32	Malibu Hole	525	8	#16	–
33	Take a Picture Filter	525	10	#26	–
34	Falling Away From Me Korn	524	11	#17	–
35	We're In This Together Nine Inch Nails	505	10	#17	–
36	Can't Change Me Chris Cornell	498	10	#22	–
37	Special Garbage	486	8	#11	–
38	When Worlds Collide Powerman 5000	483	9	#23	–
39	Better Days Citizen King	477	9	#11	–
40	Never There Cake	475	7	#12	–
41	American Woman Lenny Kravitz	467	9	#19	–
42	Crush Dave Matthews Band	444	7	#19	–
43	Alive Beastie Boys	441	10	#24	–
44	New No Doubt	432	8	#25	–
45	Awful Hole	426	10	#33	–
46	Guerrilla Radio Rage Against the Machine	397	5	#5	–
47	Sexx Laws Beck	397	9	#26	–
48	Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine	385	6	#7	–
49	Heavy Collective Soul	383	6	#7	–
50	Falls Apart Sugar Ray	373	8	#20	–
51	Mudshovel Staind	370	8	#36	–
52	Dragula Rob Zombie	368	7	#15	–
53	Faith Limp Bizkit	366	8	#27	–
54	Prisoner of Society The Living End	361	9	#35	–
55	When I Grow Up Garbage	354	7	#12	–
56	Celebrity Skin Hole	351	6	#13	–
57	Living Dead Girl Rob Zombie	349	5	#10	–
58	Little Black Backpack Stroke 9	349	8	#18	–
59	She's Got Issues The Offspring	337	9	#21	–
60	Down Stone Temple Pilots	335	10	#42	–
61	Pretty Fly (for a White Guy) The Offspring	327	5	#27	–
62	Slide Goo Goo Dolls	326	6	#23	–
63	Black Balloon Goo Goo Dolls	299	7	#39	–
64	Into the Void Nine Inch Nails	295	6	#24	–
65	Anthem For The Year 2000 Silverchair	293	7	#29	–
66	Stitches Orgy	290	9	#32	–
67	Zip-Lock Lit	284	7	#38	–
68	Beautiful Joydrop	284	6	#18	–
69	Got You (Where I Want You) The Flys	278	5	#20	–
70	Bodyrock Moby	274	7	#33	–
71	My Name Is Eminem	260	6	#19	–
72	Welcome to the Fold Filter	250	7	#37	–
73	Put Your Lights On Santana	245	6	#15	–
74	Alien Pennywise	242	4	#16	–
75	Ana's Song (Open Fire) Silverchair	234	5	#15	–
76	Cailin Unwritten Law	224	4	#8	–
77	For the Movies Buckcherry	217	8	#54	–
78	Remote Control Beastie Boys	207	5	#19	–
79	My Favourite Game The Cardigans	206	5	#53	–
80	Touched VAST	198	5	#23	–
81	Why I'm Here Oleander	197	6	#26	–
82	Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers	195	6	#58	–
83	Gangster Tripping Fatboy Slim	194	3	#10	–
84	Smooth Santana	193	3	#24	–
85	Let Forever Be The Chemical Brothers	192	7	#55	–
86	The Sweetest Thing (remix) U2	192	5	#41	–
87	Fast As You Can Fiona Apple	185	5	#34	–
88	Tender Blur	184	5	#40	–
89	Body Movin' Beastie Boys	183	4	#12	–
90	Do Right Jimmie's Chicken Shack	182	5	#37	–
91	Freak of the Week Marvelous 3	177	7	#32	–
92	Get Born Again Alice In Chains	174	7	#44	–
93	Sheep Go To Heaven Cake	167	5	#47	–
94	Let Me Go Cake	164	3	#16	–
95	No Leaf Clover Metallica	164	5	#41	–
96	Pardon Me Incubus	163	6	#45	–
97	You Get What You Give The New Radicals	162	3	#3	–
98	Negotiation Limerick File Beastie Boys	155	2	#12	–
99	Inside Out Eve 6	151	3	#36	–
100	Hanginaround Counting Crows	149	4	#43	–

Every station’s number one of 1999

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KROQ	What's My Age Again? blink-182	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1999
91X	What's My Age Again? blink-182	91X Top 91 Songs of 1999
Live 105	My Own Worst Enemy Lit	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999
Q101	My Own Worst Enemy Lit	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1999
WHFS	Nookie Limp Bizkit	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1999
K-Rock	Got the Life Korn	K-Rock Top 92 Songs of 1999
WFNX	Praise You Fatboy Slim	WFNX Top 99 Songs of 1999
107.7 The End	Nookie Limp Bizkit	The End Top 107 Songs of 1999
89X	Bawitdaba Kid Rock	89X Top 89 Songs of 1999
John Peel (BBC Radio 1)	Cognoscenti vs Intelligentsia Cuban Boys	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1999
Virgin Radio	Why Does it Always Rain on Me Travis	Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 1999
Triple J	These Days Powderfinger	Triple J Hottest 100 of 1999
Radio & Records	My Own Worst Enemy Lit	Radio & Records Top 104 Songs of 1999

All 1999 countdowns in this ranking

About the 1999 ranking

Radio stations count down their listeners’ favorite songs at the end of every year. Each station’s list reflects its own audience, so a song that ruled Los Angeles could miss the top ten in Chicago. To find the songs that defined 1999 everywhere, RockLists gives every appearance percentile-based points (a number one earns 100, the last position earns close to zero) and adds them up across all 13 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.