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Year-end consensus · Alternative & Modern Rock · 14 countdowns combined

The best alternative rock songs of 2000

14 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, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), Virgin Radio, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top alternative rock song of 2000 is “Last Resort” by Papa Roach, which appeared on twelve of the 14 countdowns and was voted number one by five of them. Nine different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Last Resort” by Papa Roach (5 stations), “Otherside” by Red Hot Chili Peppers (2 stations), “Adam's Song” by blink-182, “Pardon Me” by Incubus and “The Real Slim Shady” by Eminem and others. Limp Bizkit was the year’s most-charted artist, with nine different songs placing 54 times across the countdowns.

14countdowns
392songs charted
9different #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 Last Resort Papa Roach
1,144		 12 #1 5
2 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,096		 13 #2 –
3 Pardon Me Incubus
1,039		 11 #1 1
4 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,036		 11 #1 2
5 Judith A Perfect Circle
1,025		 12 #7 –
6 Adam's Song blink-182
1,003		 11 #1 1
7 Kryptonite 3 Doors Down
977		 10 #1 1
8 Sour Girl Stone Temple Pilots
908		 12 #12 –
9 Minority Green Day
899		 12 #6 –
10 Take a Look Around Limp Bizkit
892		 11 #2 –
11 Beautiful Day U2
882		 13 #2 –
12 Stellar Incubus
856		 11 #4 –
13 Voodoo Godsmack
844		 11 #14 –
14 Sleep Now in the Fire Rage Against the Machine
830		 11 #3 –
15 Change (In the House of Flies) Deftones
807		 10 #5 –
16 Rock Superstar Cypress Hill
801		 10 #4 –
17 Make Me Bad Korn
787		 12 #4 –
18 With Arms Wide Open Creed
786		 10 #5 –
19 Original Prankster The Offspring
729		 12 #9 –
20 Break Stuff Limp Bizkit
729		 10 #4 –
21 Optimistic Radiohead
717		 11 #12 –
22 Porcelain Moby
705		 11 #10 –
23 Rollin' Limp Bizkit
701		 9 #4 –
24 Miserable Lit
691		 11 #7 –
25 Loser 3 Doors Down
671		 10 #14 –
26 Man Overboard blink-182
669		 12 #14 –
27 Stand Inside Your Love The Smashing Pumpkins
657		 12 #11 –
28 I Disappear Metallica
645		 10 #10 –
29 Stupify Disturbed
633		 8 #11 –
30 Testify Rage Against the Machine
620		 11 #16 –
31 Boyz-N-The Hood Dynamite Hack
602		 9 #16 –
32 Ex-Girlfriend No Doubt
594		 11 #12 –
33 Falling Away From Me Korn
556		 8 #8 –
34 Right Now SR-71
552		 9 #5 –
35 3 Libras A Perfect Circle
549		 11 #3 –
36 The Real Slim Shady Eminem
546		 9 #1 1
37 Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus
545		 10 #20 –
38 Broken Home Papa Roach
524		 10 #23 –
39 Breakout Foo Fighters
518		 9 #13 –
40 Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel
493		 8 #18 –
41 My Generation Limp Bizkit
487		 10 #21 –
42 All the Small Things blink-182
475		 6 #6 –
43 Higher Creed
473		 7 #6 –
44 Wonderful Everclear
465		 10 #29 –
45 Yellow Coldplay
455		 8 #5 –
46 Fiction (Dreams in Digital) Orgy
446		 10 #30 –
47 Stan Eminem
441		 7 #9 –
48 The Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang
439		 7 #24 –
49 One Step Closer Linkin Park
433		 9 #27 –
50 Southside Moby
414		 8 #32 –
51 What If Creed
406		 7 #4 –
52 No Leaf Clover Metallica
401		 6 #10 –
53 Home Staind
399		 7 #16 –
54 Outside Aaron Lewis
392		 7 #21 –
55 Wait and Bleed Slipknot
377		 8 #28 –
56 Everything You Want Vertical Horizon
368		 7 #10 –
57 Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit
355		 4 #8 –
58 Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine
354		 9 #40 –
59 Promise Eve 6
352		 8 #29 –
60 Natural Blues Moby
348		 11 #10 –
61 Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine
346		 5 #12 –
62 Take a Picture Filter
343		 5 #12 –
63 Never Let You Go Third Eye Blind
339		 8 #24 –
64 Simple Kind of Life No Doubt
331		 8 #29 –
65 Drive Incubus
326		 8 #23 –
66 Little Black Backpack Stroke 9
314		 6 #22 –
67 Black Jesus Everlast
314		 9 #39 –
68 Awake Godsmack
307		 8 #34 –
69 Only God Knows Why Kid Rock
305		 5 #3 –
70 Nothing As It Seems Pearl Jam
295		 8 #23 –
71 Butterfly Crazytown
288		 7 #33 –
72 Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols
271		 5 #10 –
73 Totalimmortal The Offspring
263		 6 #45 –
74 Responsibility MxPx
247		 7 #31 –
75 Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse
231		 8 #13 –
76 Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Nine Days
222		 5 #42 –
77 Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Travis
217		 8 #31 –
78 The Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins
216		 6 #47 –
79 Tangerine Speedo Caviar
213		 5 #5 –
80 Light Years Pearl Jam
206		 5 #7 –
81 Keep Away Godsmack
203		 4 #8 –
82 Warning Green Day
202		 6 #43 –
83 Into the Void Nine Inch Nails
202		 4 #22 –
84 Wasting Time Kid Rock
194		 3 #26 –
85 Bathwater No Doubt
192		 3 #5 –
86 Flowing 311
187		 6 #22 –
87 Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins
187		 4 #28 –
88 Never Gonna Come Back Down BT
185		 7 #35 –
89 The Dolphin's Cry Live
177		 3 #37 –
90 Letting the Cables Sleep Bush
175		 6 #38 –
91 Disposable Teens Marilyn Manson
175		 9 #67 –
92 Bent Matchbox 20
170		 5 #31 –
93 Maybe Someday The Cure
168		 7 #71 –
94 N 2 Gether Now Limp Bizkit
163		 3 #36 –
95 Bottles to the Ground NOFX
162		 5 #36 –
96 Bartender Hed P.E.
161		 5 #58 –
97 The Chemicals Between Us Bush
158		 2 #16 –
98 Heaven is a Halfpipe OPM
155		 8 #63 –
99 Thief Our Lady Peace
154		 2 #11 –
100 Little Things Good Charlotte
153		 5 #12 –

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
John Peel (BBC Radio 1) Twist The Knife Neko Case & Her Boyfriends John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2000
Virgin Radio Trouble Coldplay Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 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 14 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.