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The best hard rock songs of the 2000s

This ranking of the 2000s combines 12 year-end countdowns from 2000 through 2009. The top song of the '00s is “So Far Away” by Staind, which charted on 3 countdowns. The decade’s most-charted artists are Nickelback, Godsmack, Korn, Staind and Audioslave.

1,117songs charted

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Top 100 songs of the '00s

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#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s	Year
1	So Far Away Staind	262	3	#6	–	2003
2	Someday Nickelback	221	3	#17	–	2003
3	Here Without You 3 Doors Down	218	3	#19	–	2003
4	Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle	205	3	#14	–	2003
5	Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet	204	3	#4	–	2003
6	Through Glass Stone Sour	198	2	#2	–	2006
7	Like a Stone Audioslave	193	2	#4	–	2003
8	Meant to Live Switchfoot	193	3	#3	–	2004
9	Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers	188	2	#4	–	2006
10	Save Me Shinedown	186	2	#8	–	2005
11	Bother Stone Sour	185	2	#6	–	2002
12	Here to Stay Korn	185	2	#9	–	2002
13	I Stand Alone Godsmack	184	2	#1	1	2002
14	Breaking the Habit Linkin Park	182	2	#10	–	2004
15	Feelin' Way Too Damn Good Nickelback	182	2	#2	–	2004
16	Lips of an Angel Hinder	181	2	#4	–	2006
17	No Way Back Foo Fighters	180	2	#5	–	2006
18	Call Me When You're Sober Evanescence	178	2	#9	–	2006
19	The Reason Hoobastank	178	2	#7	–	2004
20	Liberate Disturbed	178	2	#4	–	2003
21	Fall to Pieces Velvet Revolver	176	2	#12	–	2004
22	Prayer Disturbed	172	2	#3	–	2002
23	Seven Nation Army The White Stripes	172	2	#6	–	2003
24	Open Your Eyes Alter Bridge	170	2	#16	–	2004
25	Animal I Have Become Three Days Grace	169	2	#1	1	2006
26	Toxicity System of a Down	168	2	#4	–	2002
27	Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave	167	2	#4	–	2005
28	Times Like These Foo Fighters	167	2	#3	–	2003
29	Slither Velvet Revolver	164	2	#1	1	2004
30	Land of Confusion Disturbed	164	2	#3	–	2006
31	Cold Hard Bitch Jet	163	2	#5	–	2004
32	Vertigo U2	163	2	#14	–	2004
33	When You Were Young The Killers	161	2	#7	–	2006
34	Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers	161	2	#17	–	2006
35	Bring Me to Life Evanescence	160	2	#8	–	2003
36	Poem Taproot	160	2	#19	–	2002
37	I Am the Highway Audioslave	160	2	#21	–	2003
38	Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park	158	2	#8	–	2003
39	Woman Wolfmother	158	2	#20	–	2006
40	Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs	156	2	#3	–	2006
41	Hit That The Offspring	156	3	#9	–	2003
42	Aerials System of a Down	155	2	#5	–	2002
43	Numb Linkin Park	155	3	#25	–	2003
44	World Wide Suicide Pearl Jam	155	2	#11	–	2006
45	Never Again Nickelback	152	2	#13	–	2002
46	I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace	152	2	#12	–	2003
47	Savin' Me Nickelback	152	2	#21	–	2006
48	Rockstar Nickelback	151	2	#22	–	2006
49	Anger Rising Jerry Cantrell	151	2	#20	–	2002
50	Away From The Sun 3 Doors Down	150	2	#14	–	2004
51	Gasoline Seether	150	2	#22	–	2003
52	Cochise Audioslave	149	2	#20	–	2002
53	Running Blind Godsmack	148	2	#6	–	2004
54	She Hates Me Puddle of Mudd	148	2	#11	–	2002
55	I Dare You Shinedown	147	2	#8	–	2006
56	Crazy Bitch Buckcherry	145	2	#5	–	2006
57	Miss Murder AFI	143	2	#23	–	2006
58	Taking My Life Away Default	141	3	#17	–	2004
59	One Thing Finger Eleven	141	2	#11	–	2004
60	Getting Away With Murder Papa Roach	141	3	#28	–	2004
61	No Light 3rd Strike	140	2	#17	–	2002
62	One Little Victory Rush	138	2	#27	–	2002
63	Make Up Your Mind Theory of a Deadman	137	2	#9	–	2003
64	Boom P.O.D.	136	2	#12	–	2002
65	Get Stoned Hinder	134	2	#25	–	2005
66	Falls On Me Fuel	134	3	#30	–	2003
67	I Am Mine Pearl Jam	133	2	#14	–	2002
68	Hate Me Blue October	133	2	#8	–	2006
69	American Idiot Green Day	133	2	#9	–	2004
70	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Jet	132	2	#29	–	2006
71	Counting the Days Collective Soul	132	2	#31	–	2004
72	The Road I'm On 3 Doors Down	131	2	#20	–	2003
73	Animals Nickelback	131	2	#35	–	2006
74	DOA Foo Fighters	129	2	#11	–	2005
75	Bad Day R.E.M.	128	2	#36	–	2003
76	Devil's Got A New Disguise Aerosmith	128	2	#25	–	2006
77	The Gift Seether	126	2	#33	–	2006
78	I Believe in a Thing Called Love The Darkness	125	2	#25	–	2004
79	No Surprise Theory of a Deadman	124	2	#15	–	2005
80	Bigger Than My Body John Mayer	123	2	#34	–	2003
81	Vicarious Tool	123	2	#1	1	2006
82	Click Click Boom Saliva	123	2	#14	–	2001
83	How About You Staind	122	2	#22	–	2004
84	Hard Road Sam Roberts	122	2	#15	–	2004
85	Just Because Jane's Addiction	121	2	#31	–	2003
86	Pain Three Days Grace	119	2	#42	–	2007
87	Figured You Out Nickelback	119	2	#41	–	2004
88	It's My Life No Doubt	116	2	#24	–	2004
89	Bleed for Me Black Label Society	114	2	#46	–	2002
90	No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age	111	2	#45	–	2002
91	Zephyr Song Red Hot Chili Peppers	111	2	#26	–	2002
92	Headstrong Trapt	110	2	#23	–	2003
93	Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day	110	2	#25	–	2004
94	Heaven Live	110	2	#16	–	2003
95	Beautifully Depressed Down	109	2	#7	–	2002
96	Not Ready To Go The Trews	105	2	#8	–	2004
97	The Pot Tool	103	2	#14	–	2006
98	Rollover DJ Jet	102	2	#37	–	2004
99	Just Like You Three Days Grace	102	2	#15	–	2004
100	Not Falling Mudvayne	101	2	#50	–	2002

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.