What was the top rock song of 2000?

Combining 15 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2000 is "Last Resort" by Papa Roach, which appeared on 13 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · 15 countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2000

15 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, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), Virgin Radio, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2000 is “Last Resort” by Papa Roach, which appeared on 13 of the 15 countdowns and was voted number one by five of them. Ten 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 58 times across the countdowns.

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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	1,240	13	#1	5
2	Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,188	14	#2	–
3	Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,120	12	#1	2
4	Judith A Perfect Circle	1,117	13	#7	–
5	Pardon Me Incubus	1,039	11	#1	1
6	Adam's Song blink-182	1,009	12	#1	1
7	Take a Look Around Limp Bizkit	983	12	#2	–
8	Kryptonite 3 Doors Down	977	10	#1	1
9	Minority Green Day	970	13	#6	–
10	Sour Girl Stone Temple Pilots	970	13	#12	–
11	Stellar Incubus	935	12	#4	–
12	Beautiful Day U2	882	13	#2	–
13	Make Me Bad Korn	864	13	#4	–
14	Voodoo Godsmack	844	11	#14	–
15	Sleep Now in the Fire Rage Against the Machine	830	11	#3	–
16	Break Stuff Limp Bizkit	829	11	#1	1
17	Change (In the House of Flies) Deftones	807	10	#5	–
18	Rock Superstar Cypress Hill	801	10	#4	–
19	Original Prankster The Offspring	799	13	#9	–
20	Rollin' Limp Bizkit	787	10	#4	–
21	With Arms Wide Open Creed	786	10	#5	–
22	I Disappear Metallica	743	11	#3	–
23	Stupify Disturbed	730	9	#4	–
24	Optimistic Radiohead	717	11	#12	–
25	Porcelain Moby	705	11	#10	–
26	Miserable Lit	704	12	#7	–
27	Stand Inside Your Love The Smashing Pumpkins	700	13	#11	–
28	Loser 3 Doors Down	671	10	#14	–
29	Man Overboard blink-182	669	12	#14	–
30	3 Libras A Perfect Circle	623	12	#3	–
31	Testify Rage Against the Machine	620	11	#16	–
32	Boyz-N-The Hood Dynamite Hack	602	9	#16	–
33	Broken Home Papa Roach	597	11	#23	–
34	Ex-Girlfriend No Doubt	594	11	#12	–
35	Breakout Foo Fighters	585	10	#13	–
36	Falling Away From Me Korn	556	8	#8	–
37	Right Now SR-71	552	9	#5	–
38	The Real Slim Shady Eminem	546	9	#1	1
39	Teenage Dirtbag Wheatus	545	10	#20	–
40	My Generation Limp Bizkit	543	11	#21	–
41	One Step Closer Linkin Park	515	10	#20	–
42	Fiction (Dreams in Digital) Orgy	497	11	#30	–
43	Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel	493	8	#18	–
44	Outside Aaron Lewis	487	8	#6	–
45	Home Staind	476	8	#16	–
46	All the Small Things blink-182	475	6	#6	–
47	Higher Creed	473	7	#6	–
48	Wonderful Everclear	465	10	#29	–
49	Yellow Coldplay	455	8	#5	–
50	Stan Eminem	441	7	#9	–
51	The Bad Touch Bloodhound Gang	439	7	#24	–
52	Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine	432	10	#24	–
53	Southside Moby	414	8	#32	–
54	What If Creed	406	7	#4	–
55	No Leaf Clover Metallica	401	6	#10	–
56	Promise Eve 6	396	9	#29	–
57	Awake Godsmack	395	9	#14	–
58	Wait and Bleed Slipknot	377	8	#28	–
59	Everything You Want Vertical Horizon	368	7	#10	–
60	Black Jesus Everlast	364	10	#39	–
61	Re-Arranged Limp Bizkit	355	4	#8	–
62	Natural Blues Moby	348	11	#10	–
63	Guerilla Radio Rage Against the Machine	346	5	#12	–
64	Take a Picture Filter	343	5	#12	–
65	Nothing As It Seems Pearl Jam	342	9	#23	–
66	Never Let You Go Third Eye Blind	339	8	#24	–
67	Simple Kind of Life No Doubt	331	8	#29	–
68	Drive Incubus	326	8	#23	–
69	Little Black Backpack Stroke 9	314	6	#22	–
70	Only God Knows Why Kid Rock	305	5	#3	–
71	Butterfly Crazytown	290	8	#33	–
72	Totalimmortal The Offspring	285	7	#45	–
73	Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols	271	5	#10	–
74	Wasting Time Kid Rock	250	4	#26	–
75	Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse	248	9	#13	–
76	Bartender Hed P.E.	248	6	#15	–
77	Responsibility MxPx	247	7	#31	–
78	Hemorrhage Fuel	245	3	#7	–
79	Light Years Pearl Jam	233	6	#7	–
80	Absolutely (Story of a Girl) Nine Days	222	5	#42	–
81	Letting the Cables Sleep Bush	217	7	#38	–
82	Why Does It Always Rain on Me? Travis	217	8	#31	–
83	The Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins	216	6	#47	–
84	Tangerine Speedo Caviar	213	5	#5	–
85	Warning Green Day	206	7	#43	–
86	Back to School Deftones	204	6	#48	–
87	Keep Away Godsmack	203	4	#8	–
88	Into the Void Nine Inch Nails	202	4	#22	–
89	Disposable Teens Marilyn Manson	195	10	#67	–
90	Bathwater No Doubt	192	3	#5	–
91	Flowing 311	187	6	#22	–
92	Everlasting Gaze The Smashing Pumpkins	187	4	#28	–
93	Free VAST	185	9	#64	–
94	Never Gonna Come Back Down BT	185	7	#35	–
95	Bad Religion Godsmack	183	4	#2	–
96	The Dolphin's Cry Live	177	3	#37	–
97	Bent Matchbox 20	170	5	#31	–
98	Leader of Men Nickelback	170	4	#27	–
99	Stacked Actors Foo Fighters	170	4	#18	–
100	Maybe Someday The Cure	168	7	#71	–

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
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 15 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.