What was the top rock song of 2000?

Combining 21 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2000 is "Judith" by A Perfect Circle, which appeared on 18 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · 21 countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2000

21 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, WCCC The Rock, 102.7 WEQX, 103.3 The Edge, 93XRT, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), The Edge, Virgin Radio, WBCN, WBER, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2000 is “Judith” by A Perfect Circle, which appeared on 18 of the 21 countdowns. 14 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 76 times across the countdowns.

21countdowns

521songs charted

14different #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	Judith A Perfect Circle	1,567	18	#4	–
2	Last Resort Papa Roach	1,526	16	#1	5
3	Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,523	18	#2	–
4	Pardon Me Incubus	1,513	16	#1	1
5	Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,449	16	#1	2
6	Kryptonite 3 Doors Down	1,368	14	#1	3
7	Change (In the House of Flies) Deftones	1,365	17	#5	–
8	Adam's Song blink-182	1,334	16	#1	1
9	Sour Girl Stone Temple Pilots	1,296	17	#6	–
10	Minority Green Day	1,265	18	#6	–
11	Beautiful Day U2	1,255	18	#1	1
12	Take a Look Around Limp Bizkit	1,192	15	#2	–
13	Stellar Incubus	1,177	15	#4	–
14	Break Stuff Limp Bizkit	1,165	15	#1	1
15	Voodoo Godsmack	1,149	15	#10	–
16	With Arms Wide Open Creed	1,126	14	#5	–
17	Sleep Now in the Fire Rage Against the Machine	1,098	15	#3	–
18	Make Me Bad Korn	1,067	16	#4	–
19	Rock Superstar Cypress Hill	1,043	13	#4	–
20	Stupify Disturbed	1,030	13	#1	1
21	Rollin' Limp Bizkit	1,014	13	#2	–
22	Optimistic Radiohead	1,000	16	#2	–
23	Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel	961	14	#7	–
24	Loser 3 Doors Down	955	14	#14	–
25	I Disappear Metallica	942	14	#3	–
26	Porcelain Moby	938	15	#7	–
27	Original Prankster The Offspring	933	16	#9	–
28	3 Libras A Perfect Circle	930	16	#3	–
29	Testify Rage Against the Machine	913	15	#11	–
30	Stand Inside Your Love The Smashing Pumpkins	852	17	#11	–
31	Man Overboard blink-182	845	17	#14	–
32	All the Small Things blink-182	818	11	#4	–
33	Outside Aaron Lewis	803	13	#1	1
34	Miserable Lit	792	15	#7	–
35	Falling Away From Me Korn	745	11	#8	–
36	Breakout Foo Fighters	733	14	#13	–
37	My Generation Limp Bizkit	726	14	#21	–
38	Fiction (Dreams in Digital) Orgy	722	15	#30	–
39	Broken Home Papa Roach	708	14	#23	–
40	Right Now SR-71	707	13	#5	–
41	Higher Creed	705	10	#6	–
42	The Real Slim Shady Eminem	705	12	#1	1
43	One Step Closer Linkin Park	688	13	#14	–
44	Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus	669	14	#20	–
45	Ex-Girlfriend No Doubt	666	12	#12	–
46	Boyz-N-The Hood Dynamite Hack	650	11	#16	–
47	Southside Moby	638	12	#13	–
48	The Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang	621	11	#24	–
49	Stan Eminem	617	9	#9	–
50	Wonderful Everclear	601	14	#27	–
51	Wait and Bleed Slipknot	597	11	#1	1
52	No Leaf Clover Metallica	580	9	#10	–
53	Home Staind	580	11	#16	–
54	Yellow Coldplay	579	10	#5	–
55	What If Creed	562	10	#4	–
56	Promise Eve 6	547	12	#29	–
57	Take a Picture Filter	540	9	#7	–
58	Awake Godsmack	524	11	#14	–
59	Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine	519	13	#24	–
60	Natural Blues Moby	475	14	#10	–
61	Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit	474	7	#8	–
62	The Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins	472	13	#28	–
63	Black Jesus Everlast	458	13	#39	–
64	Everything You Want Vertical Horizon	447	8	#10	–
65	Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine	434	6	#12	–
66	Never Let You Go Third Eye Blind	414	9	#24	–
67	Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse	406	11	#13	–
68	Nothing As It Seems Pearl Jam	404	12	#23	–
69	Little Black Backpack Stroke 9	400	7	#16	–
70	Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols	392	8	#6	–
71	Simple Kind of Life No Doubt	376	9	#29	–
72	Learn to Fly Foo Fighters	376	5	#13	–
73	Drive Incubus	363	10	#23	–
74	Never Gonna Come Back Down BT	362	11	#23	–
75	Only God Knows Why Kid Rock	343	6	#3	–
76	Into the Void Nine Inch Nails	341	8	#22	–
77	Bartender Hed P.E.	332	8	#15	–
78	Butterfly Crazytown	317	9	#33	–
79	Keep Away Godsmack	312	6	#8	–
80	Letting the Cables Sleep Bush	312	10	#33	–
81	Wasting Time Kid Rock	307	5	#26	–
82	Responsibility MxPx	307	9	#31	–
83	Tangerine Speedo Caviar	304	7	#5	–
84	The Chemicals Between Us Bush	295	4	#16	–
85	Southtown P.O.D.	293	11	#36	–
86	Totalimmortal The Offspring	285	7	#45	–
87	Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Nine Days	281	6	#42	–
88	Back to School Deftones	281	8	#48	–
89	Somebody Someone Korn	268	9	#19	–
90	Light Years Pearl Jam	265	8	#7	–
91	Is Anybody Home? Our Lady Peace	258	5	#7	–
92	Mudshovel Staind	252	4	#20	–
93	Disposable Teens Marilyn Manson	251	12	#67	–
94	Heaven is a Halfpipe OPM	247	10	#10	–
95	Warning Green Day	246	8	#43	–
96	Leader of Men Nickelback	245	6	#27	–
97	Guerrilla Radio Rage Against the Machine	243	4	#29	–
98	Brackish Kittie	242	4	#9	–
99	Flowing 311	242	8	#22	–
100	Free VAST	241	11	#63	–

Every station’s number one of 2000

Station	Number one song	Countdown
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
WCCC The Rock	Break Stuff Limp Bizkit	WCCC Top 106 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
93XRT	Beautiful Day U2	WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs 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 21 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.