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Year-end consensus · Alternative & Modern Rock · 19 countdowns combined

The best alternative rock songs of 2000

19 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2000: KROQ, 91X, Live 105, Q101, WHFS, K-Rock, WFNX, 107.7 The End, 89X, The Buzz, 102.7 WEQX, 103.3 The Edge, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), The Edge, Virgin Radio, WBCN, WBER, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top alternative rock song of 2000 is “Pardon Me” by Incubus, which appeared on 16 of the 19 countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Twelve different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Last Resort” by Papa Roach (5 stations), “Kryptonite” by 3 Doors Down (3 stations), “Otherside” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2 stations), “Adam's Song” by blink-182 and “Pardon Me” by Incubus and others. Limp Bizkit was the year’s most-charted artist, with nine different songs placing 72 times across the countdowns.

19countdowns
464songs charted
12different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2000

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Ranked by combined points across every 2000 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

# Song Strength Lists Best #1s
1 Pardon Me Incubus
1,513		 16 #1 1
2 Judith A Perfect Circle
1,474		 17 #4 –
3 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,432		 17 #2 –
4 Last Resort Papa Roach
1,430		 15 #1 5
5 Kryptonite 3 Doors Down
1,368		 14 #1 3
6 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,365		 15 #1 2
7 Adam's Song blink-182
1,328		 15 #1 1
8 Change (In the House of Flies) Deftones
1,275		 16 #5 –
9 Sour Girl Stone Temple Pilots
1,235		 16 #6 –
10 Minority Green Day
1,194		 17 #6 –
11 Beautiful Day U2
1,155		 17 #2 –
12 Voodoo Godsmack
1,149		 15 #10 –
13 With Arms Wide Open Creed
1,126		 14 #5 –
14 Take a Look Around Limp Bizkit
1,101		 14 #2 –
15 Sleep Now in the Fire Rage Against the Machine
1,098		 15 #3 –
16 Stellar Incubus
1,097		 14 #4 –
17 Break Stuff Limp Bizkit
1,065		 14 #4 –
18 Rock Superstar Cypress Hill
1,043		 13 #4 –
19 Make Me Bad Korn
990		 15 #4 –
20 Loser 3 Doors Down
955		 14 #14 –
21 Stupify Disturbed
933		 12 #1 1
22 Rollin' Limp Bizkit
928		 12 #2 –
23 Testify Rage Against the Machine
913		 15 #11 –
24 Optimistic Radiohead
903		 15 #12 –
25 Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel
867		 13 #10 –
26 Original Prankster The Offspring
863		 15 #9 –
27 Porcelain Moby
858		 14 #7 –
28 3 Libras A Perfect Circle
856		 15 #3 –
29 Man Overboard blink-182
845		 17 #14 –
30 I Disappear Metallica
844		 13 #10 –
31 All the Small Things blink-182
818		 11 #4 –
32 Miserable Lit
779		 14 #7 –
33 Stand Inside Your Love The Smashing Pumpkins
765		 15 #11 –
34 Falling Away From Me Korn
745		 11 #8 –
35 Outside Aaron Lewis
707		 12 #1 1
36 Right Now SR-71
707		 13 #5 –
37 Higher Creed
705		 10 #6 –
38 The Real Slim Shady Eminem
705		 12 #1 1
39 My Generation Limp Bizkit
670		 13 #21 –
40 Fiction (Dreams in Digital) Orgy
670		 14 #30 –
41 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus
669		 14 #20 –
42 Breakout Foo Fighters
666		 13 #13 –
43 Ex-Girlfriend No Doubt
666		 12 #12 –
44 Boyz-N-The Hood Dynamite Hack
650		 11 #16 –
45 Broken Home Papa Roach
635		 13 #23 –
46 The Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang
621		 11 #24 –
47 Stan Eminem
617		 9 #9 –
48 One Step Closer Linkin Park
606		 12 #14 –
49 Wait and Bleed Slipknot
597		 11 #1 1
50 Wonderful Everclear
588		 13 #27 –
51 No Leaf Clover Metallica
580		 9 #10 –
52 Yellow Coldplay
579		 10 #5 –
53 Southside Moby
578		 11 #30 –
54 What If Creed
562		 10 #4 –
55 Take a Picture Filter
540		 9 #7 –
56 Home Staind
503		 10 #16 –
57 Promise Eve 6
503		 11 #29 –
58 Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit
474		 7 #8 –
59 The Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins
472		 13 #28 –
60 Everything You Want Vertical Horizon
447		 8 #10 –
61 Natural Blues Moby
442		 13 #10 –
62 Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine
440		 12 #40 –
63 Awake Godsmack
436		 10 #21 –
64 Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine
434		 6 #12 –
65 Never Let You Go Third Eye Blind
414		 9 #24 –
66 Black Jesus Everlast
408		 12 #39 –
67 Little Black Backpack Stroke 9
400		 7 #16 –
68 Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse
389		 10 #13 –
69 Simple Kind of Life No Doubt
376		 9 #29 –
70 Drive Incubus
363		 10 #23 –
71 Never Gonna Come Back Down BT
362		 11 #23 –
72 Nothing As It Seems Pearl Jam
357		 11 #23 –
73 Only God Knows Why Kid Rock
343		 6 #3 –
74 Into the Void Nine Inch Nails
341		 8 #22 –
75 Learn to Fly Foo Fighters
320		 4 #13 –
76 Butterfly Crazytown
314		 8 #33 –
77 Keep Away Godsmack
312		 6 #8 –
78 Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols
309		 7 #10 –
79 Responsibility MxPx
307		 9 #31 –
80 Tangerine Speedo Caviar
304		 7 #5 –
81 The Chemicals Between Us Bush
295		 4 #16 –
82 Southtown P.O.D.
293		 11 #36 –
83 Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Nine Days
281		 6 #42 –
84 Letting the Cables Sleep Bush
270		 9 #33 –
85 Totalimmortal The Offspring
263		 6 #45 –
86 Mudshovel Staind
252		 4 #20 –
87 Wasting Time Kid Rock
252		 4 #26 –
88 Heaven is a Halfpipe OPM
247		 10 #10 –
89 Bartender Hed P.E.
245		 7 #20 –
90 Guerrilla Radio Rage Against the Machine
243		 4 #29 –
91 Warning Green Day
242		 7 #43 –
92 Flowing 311
242		 8 #22 –
93 Light Years Pearl Jam
238		 7 #7 –
94 My Own Worst Enemy Lit
236		 4 #17 –
95 Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Travis
235		 9 #31 –
96 N 2 Gether Now Limp Bizkit
234		 4 #31 –
97 Disposable Teens Marilyn Manson
231		 11 #67 –
98 Back to School Deftones
226		 7 #48 –
99 All My Fault Fenix TX
226		 9 #46 –
100 Is Anybody Home? Our Lady Peace
226		 4 #7 –

Every station’s number one of 2000

StationNumber one songCountdown
KROQ Last Resort Papa Roach KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2000
91X Adam's Song blink-182 91X Top 91 Songs of 2000
Live 105 Last Resort Papa Roach Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000
Q101 Last Resort Papa Roach Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2000
WHFS Last Resort Papa Roach WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2000
K-Rock Pardon Me Incubus K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2000
WFNX The Real Slim Shady Eminem WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2000
107.7 The End Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers The End Top 107 Songs of 2000
89X Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers 89X Top 89 Songs of 2000
The Buzz Last Resort Papa Roach The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2000
102.7 WEQX Kryptonite 3 Doors Down WEQX Top 102.7 of 2000
103.3 The Edge Stupify Disturbed 103.3 The Edge Top 103 of 2000
John Peel (BBC Radio 1) Twist The Knife Neko Case & Her Boyfriends John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2000
The Edge Kryptonite 3 Doors Down KEDJ Millennium Meltdown Countdown 2001
Virgin Radio Trouble Coldplay Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 2000
WBCN Outside Aaron Lewis feat. Fred Durst WBCN Top 104 Songs of Y2K
WBER Wait And Bleed Slipknot WBER Listener Countdown 2000
Triple J My Happiness Powderfinger Triple J Hottest 100 of 2000
Radio & Records Kryptonite 3 Doors Down Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2000

All 2000 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2000 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 2000 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 19 qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the alternative results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.