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The best rock songs of the 2000s

This ranking of the 2000s combines 150 year-end countdowns from 2000 through 2009 with four “songs of the decade” countdowns aired by 107.7 The End, WFNX and CFNY 102.1 The Edge. The top song of the '00s is “Are You Gonna Be My Girl” by Jet, which charted on 34 countdowns and reached number one one times. The decade’s most-charted artists are Linkin Park, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Incubus and Green Day.

4,561songs charted

150year-end countdowns

4decade countdowns

Top 100 songs of the '00s

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#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Year
1	Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet	2,544	34	#1	1	2003
2	Mr. Brightside The Killers	2,414	32	#1	2	2004
3	American Idiot Green Day	2,351	29	#1	5	2004
4	Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day	2,312	31	#1	3	2004
5	No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age	2,271	30	#1	1	2002
6	Numb Linkin Park	2,213	31	#2	–	2003
7	Seven Nation Army The White Stripes	2,162	23	#1	9	2003
8	Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz	2,146	25	#1	6	2005
9	Somebody Told Me The Killers	2,143	26	#1	1	2004
10	Best of You Foo Fighters	2,107	24	#1	1	2005
11	The Hand That Feeds Nine Inch Nails	2,077	24	#1	3	2005
12	Clocks Coldplay	2,070	29	#1	1	2003
13	All My Life Foo Fighters	2,020	28	#4	–	2002
14	Float On Modest Mouse	2,017	24	#1	5	2004
15	When You Were Young The Killers	1,978	24	#2	–	2006
16	Vertigo U2	1,961	27	#4	–	2004
17	Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand	1,936	23	#1	1	2004
18	Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,895	22	#1	5	2006
19	Like a Stone Audioslave	1,892	23	#1	1	2003
20	By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,884	21	#1	1	2002
21	In the End Linkin Park	1,879	22	#1	3	2001
22	Beverly Hills Weezer	1,856	22	#4	–	2005
23	Only Nine Inch Nails	1,819	27	#5	–	2005
24	Last Nite The Strokes	1,818	25	#1	1	2001
25	Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie	1,793	26	#2	–	2005
26	DOA Foo Fighters	1,788	27	#9	–	2005
27	I Wish You Were Here Incubus	1,775	24	#5	–	2001
28	You Know You're Right Nirvana	1,724	23	#1	2	2002
29	The Middle Jimmy Eat World	1,723	23	#2	–	2002
30	Holiday Green Day	1,719	22	#2	–	2005
31	How You Remind Me Nickelback	1,712	21	#2	–	2001
32	Pain Jimmy Eat World	1,707	24	#4	–	2004
33	Blurry Puddle of Mudd	1,677	22	#1	2	2001
34	Faint Linkin Park	1,668	20	#1	1	2003
35	Chop Suey System of a Down	1,653	20	#1	2	2001
36	Times Like These Foo Fighters	1,652	22	#3	–	2003
37	Starlight Muse	1,639	26	#1	3	2007
38	Beautiful Day U2	1,612	23	#2	–	2000
39	Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day	1,597	20	#2	–	2005
40	Hash Pipe Weezer	1,595	20	#2	–	2001
41	One Step Closer Linkin Park	1,588	24	#1	1	2001
42	Schism Tool	1,577	18	#1	1	2001
43	Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle	1,558	24	#10	–	2003
44	Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance	1,551	22	#1	2	2006
45	Hey Ya! Outkast	1,549	22	#2	–	2003
46	I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace	1,545	22	#3	–	2003
47	Meant to Live Switchfoot	1,519	27	#3	–	2004
48	Megalomaniac Incubus	1,518	22	#1	2	2004
49	Drive Incubus	1,517	21	#1	1	2001
50	Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,512	21	#4	–	2003
51	Bring Me to Life Evanescence	1,510	18	#1	1	2003
52	The Pretender Foo Fighters	1,500	18	#1	2	2007
53	Aerials System of a Down	1,500	19	#1	2	2002
54	Icky Thump The White Stripes	1,487	18	#2	–	2007
55	Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,483	20	#8	–	2006
56	Feeling This blink-182	1,478	26	#5	–	2003
57	Talk Coldplay	1,477	24	#7	–	2006
58	Fell in Love With a Girl The White Stripes	1,475	19	#1	2	2002
59	Speed of Sound Coldplay	1,470	18	#2	–	2005
60	Be Yourself Audioslave	1,465	19	#4	–	2005
61	Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs	1,464	18	#2	–	2006
62	Breaking the Habit Linkin Park	1,457	17	#4	–	2004
63	Yellow Coldplay	1,448	21	#4	–	2001
64	Cold Hard Bitch Jet	1,444	21	#3	–	2004
65	Miss Murder AFI	1,431	18	#1	1	2006
66	Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park	1,418	17	#1	1	2003
67	Last Resort Papa Roach	1,415	16	#1	5	2000
68	Little Sister Queens of the Stone Age	1,411	21	#2	–	2005
69	The Reason Hoobastank	1,404	16	#5	–	2004
70	Alive P.O.D.	1,400	17	#4	–	2001
71	Knights of Cydonia Muse	1,398	19	#1	1	2006
72	Crazy Gnarls Barkley	1,383	16	#1	1	2006
73	Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups	1,381	21	#1	3	2007
74	The Red Chevelle	1,380	21	#8	–	2002
75	I Miss You blink-182	1,359	21	#10	–	2004
76	Clint Eastwood Gorillaz	1,358	18	#3	–	2001
77	So Far Away Staind	1,354	19	#6	–	2003
78	The Pot Tool	1,350	23	#10	–	2006
79	Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine	1,337	22	#5	–	2000
80	Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,325	21	#6	–	2007
81	Slither Velvet Revolver	1,322	16	#1	1	2004
82	E-Pro Beck	1,319	18	#4	–	2005
83	Precious Depeche Mode	1,317	20	#3	–	2005
84	Fall to Pieces Velvet Revolver	1,316	19	#9	–	2004
85	Californication Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,305	16	#2	–	2000
86	The Hardest Button to Button The White Stripes	1,295	21	#10	–	2003
87	Headstrong Trapt	1,287	16	#1	2	2003
88	Love Song 311	1,284	17	#5	–	2004
89	Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs	1,283	19	#4	–	2004
90	Sugar, We're Goin' Down Fall Out Boy	1,282	20	#5	–	2005
91	Vicarious Tool	1,279	18	#1	1	2006
92	Otherside Red Hot Chili Peppers	1,266	14	#1	2	2000
93	Sweetness Jimmy Eat World	1,266	18	#2	–	2002
94	Youth of the Nation P.O.D.	1,264	18	#1	1	2002
95	Anna Molly Incubus	1,263	23	#2	–	2006
96	Perfect Situation Weezer	1,259	21	#7	–	2006
97	Cochise Audioslave	1,258	24	#19	–	2002
98	Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm	1,258	15	#4	–	2001
99	It's Been Awhile Staind	1,255	13	#1	5	2001
100	Southside Moby	1,250	20	#7	–	2001

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.