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The best rock songs of the 2000s

This ranking of the 2000s combines 243 year-end countdowns from 2000 through 2009 with nine “songs of the decade” countdowns aired by 96.5 The Buzz, 107.7 The End, WFNX, WYEP, CFNY 102.1 The Edge, WJRR, 94.1 The Zone and 90.9 The Bridge. The top song of the '00s is “Use Somebody” by Kings of Leon, which charted on 42 countdowns and reached number one 14 times. The decade’s most-charted artists are Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Coldplay, Incubus and Green Day.

7,290songs charted
243year-end countdowns
9decade countdowns

Top 100 songs of the '00s

Top 1000 →
# Song Strength Lists Best #1s Year
1 Use Somebody Kings of Leon
3,432		 42 #1 14 2009
2 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon
3,372		 48 #1 2 2008
3 Mr. Brightside The Killers
3,303		 43 #1 2 2004
4 American Idiot Green Day
3,254		 40 #1 5 2004
5 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day
3,206		 43 #1 4 2004
6 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet
3,064		 42 #1 1 2003
7 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes
3,027		 32 #1 11 2003
8 No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age
2,972		 39 #1 1 2002
9 All My Life Foo Fighters
2,945		 39 #2 – 2002
10 Float On Modest Mouse
2,921		 34 #1 8 2004
11 Somebody Told Me The Killers
2,905		 35 #1 1 2004
12 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz
2,904		 34 #1 7 2005
13 Uprising Muse
2,847		 38 #1 1 2009
14 Clocks Coldplay
2,815		 39 #1 1 2003
15 Numb Linkin Park
2,773		 40 #2 – 2003
16 Panic Switch Silversun Pickups
2,768		 38 #1 3 2009
17 Like a Stone Audioslave
2,757		 33 #1 3 2003
18 Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand
2,697		 32 #1 2 2004
19 Best of You Foo Fighters
2,667		 33 #1 1 2005
20 In the End Linkin Park
2,609		 31 #1 3 2001
21 Vertigo U2
2,590		 37 #4 – 2004
22 Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant
2,588		 36 #1 1 2009
23 Kids MGMT
2,568		 34 #1 1 2009
24 The Middle Jimmy Eat World
2,555		 34 #1 1 2002
25 The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails
2,532		 32 #1 4 2005
26 Beautiful Day U2
2,506		 34 #1 2 2000
27 The Pretender Foo Fighters
2,464		 33 #1 3 2007
28 I Wish You Were Here Incubus
2,439		 34 #5 – 2001
29 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event
2,420		 38 #1 1 2009
30 By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers
2,399		 28 #1 1 2002
31 Chop Suey System of a Down
2,390		 29 #1 3 2001
32 Viva La Vida Coldplay
2,381		 32 #1 4 2008
33 Hash Pipe Weezer
2,377		 29 #2 – 2001
34 When You Were Young The Killers
2,373		 29 #2 – 2006
35 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers
2,369		 30 #1 5 2006
36 The Fixer Pearl Jam
2,367		 38 #4 – 2009
37 How You Remind Me Nickelback
2,329		 29 #2 – 2001
38 Yellow Coldplay
2,308		 33 #3 – 2001
39 (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To Weezer
2,295		 32 #4 – 2009
40 Beverly Hills Weezer
2,269		 29 #4 – 2005
41 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie
2,266		 32 #2 – 2005
42 Last Nite The Strokes
2,261		 32 #1 1 2001
43 1901 Phoenix
2,252		 34 #2 – 2009
44 Holiday Green Day
2,246		 30 #2 – 2005
45 Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers
2,229		 31 #2 – 2003
46 Blurry Puddle of Mudd
2,217		 31 #1 2 2001
47 Icky Thump The White Stripes
2,200		 28 #1 2 2007
48 Schism Tool
2,199		 25 #1 2 2001
49 Drive Incubus
2,188		 31 #1 1 2001
50 Faint Linkin Park
2,182		 28 #1 1 2003
51 Times Like These Foo Fighters
2,156		 29 #3 – 2003
52 Pain Jimmy Eat World
2,153		 31 #4 – 2004
53 Only Nine Inch Nails
2,128		 31 #5 – 2005
54 Bring Me to Life Evanescence
2,098		 27 #1 1 2003
55 You Know You're Right Nirvana
2,085		 28 #1 2 2002
56 Starlight Muse
2,070		 34 #1 3 2006
57 Clint Eastwood Gorillaz
2,067		 27 #2 – 2001
58 One Step Closer Linkin Park
2,065		 31 #1 2 2000
59 21 Guns Green Day
2,062		 32 #3 – 2009
60 Aerials System of a Down
2,044		 27 #1 2 2002
61 Megalomaniac Incubus
2,035		 30 #1 2 2004
62 Hey Ya! Outkast
2,022		 27 #1 1 2003
63 Southside Moby
2,010		 31 #7 – 2001
64 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie
1,992		 28 #1 2 2008
65 Feel Good Drag Anberlin
1,985		 28 #1 2 2009
66 Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle
1,983		 30 #10 – 2003
67 DOA Foo Fighters
1,978		 31 #9 – 2005
68 I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace
1,966		 28 #3 – 2003
69 The Hardest Button to Button The White Stripes
1,955		 32 #10 – 2003
70 Meant to Live Switchfoot
1,953		 34 #3 – 2004
71 Fell in Love With a Girl The White Stripes
1,947		 26 #1 2 2002
72 I Miss You blink-182
1,941		 29 #8 – 2004
73 Speed of Sound Coldplay
1,938		 27 #2 – 2005
74 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring
1,936		 27 #1 1 2008
75 Alive P.O.D.
1,925		 25 #4 – 2001
76 Feeling This blink-182
1,916		 33 #5 – 2003
77 Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs
1,915		 24 #2 – 2006
78 Breaking the Habit Linkin Park
1,900		 22 #4 – 2004
79 Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs
1,880		 28 #1 1 2004
80 Last Resort Papa Roach
1,879		 21 #1 5 2000
81 The Red Chevelle
1,873		 28 #8 – 2002
82 New Divide Linkin Park
1,864		 23 #4 – 2009
83 Fat Lip Sum 41
1,846		 24 #3 – 2001
84 Pork And Beans Weezer
1,844		 28 #1 2 2008
85 Crazy Gnarls Barkley
1,841		 21 #1 3 2006
86 Savior Rise Against
1,821		 23 #1 2 2009
87 Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups
1,809		 27 #1 3 2007
88 Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,803		 22 #2 – 2000
89 So Far Away Staind
1,803		 25 #6 – 2003
90 Sweetness Jimmy Eat World
1,798		 25 #2 – 2002
91 Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,794		 31 #6 – 2006
92 Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance
1,792		 26 #1 2 2006
93 The Reason Hoobastank
1,786		 21 #5 – 2004
94 Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park
1,781		 22 #1 1 2003
95 Knights of Cydonia Muse
1,778		 23 #1 1 2006
96 Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers
1,777		 20 #1 3 2000
97 E-Pro Beck
1,769		 24 #2 – 2005
98 Toxicity System of a Down
1,755		 25 #1 1 2002
99 Notion Kings of Leon
1,750		 28 #7 – 2009
100 Judith A Perfect Circle
1,745		 22 #4 – 2000

Station countdowns of the '00s

Listener-voted “best of the decade” countdowns as broadcast.

About this ranking

The 2000s ranking adds together two kinds of evidence: the year-end countdowns from each year of the decade, and the retrospective “songs of the decade” countdowns that stations aired afterwards. Year-end lists capture what listeners loved at the time; decade countdowns capture what lasted. Every appearance earns percentile-based points, and the totals are ranked. See the methodology for details.