What was the top rock song of 2001?

Combining 24 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2001 is "Hash Pipe" by Weezer, which appeared on 20 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · 24 countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2001

24 radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2001: KROQ, 91X, Live 105, Q101, WHFS, K-Rock, WFNX, 107.7 The End, 89X, CD101, CFNY 102.1 The Edge, The Buzz, WCCC The Rock, 102.7 WEQX, 93XRT, 97X, 99X, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), Virgin Radio, WBCN, WBER, WHTG, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2001 is “Hash Pipe” by Weezer, which appeared on 20 of the 24 countdowns. 16 different songs were voted number one somewhere: “It's Been Awhile” by Staind (5 stations), “In the End” by Linkin Park (2 stations), “Outside” by Staind (2 stations), “Schism” by Tool (2 stations) and “Chop Suey” by System of a Down (2 stations) and others. Linkin Park was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 51 times across the countdowns.

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655songs charted

16different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2001

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Ranked by combined points across every 2001 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Hash Pipe Weezer	1,818	20	#2	–
2	Schism Tool	1,793	20	#1	2
3	How You Remind Me Nickelback	1,759	20	#2	–
4	Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm	1,601	19	#4	–
5	It's Been Awhile Staind	1,599	17	#1	5
6	Fat Lip Sum 41	1,556	19	#3	–
7	I Wish You Were Here Incubus	1,542	20	#5	–
8	In the End Linkin Park	1,513	18	#1	2
9	Clint Eastwood Gorillaz	1,502	18	#2	–
10	The Rock Show blink-182	1,474	20	#6	–
11	Chop Suey System of a Down	1,446	17	#1	2
12	Crawling Linkin Park	1,442	17	#1	1
13	Alive P.O.D.	1,390	18	#4	–
14	Control Puddle of Mudd	1,248	16	#9	–
15	Drive Incubus	1,230	13	#1	1
16	Short Skirt/Long Jacket Cake	1,181	18	#2	–
17	My Way Limp Bizkit	1,180	15	#5	–
18	Fade Staind	1,143	16	#13	–
19	Yellow Coldplay	1,134	15	#3	–
20	Island in the Sun Weezer	1,132	19	#4	–
21	Southside Moby	1,130	14	#7	–
22	Stay Together for the Kids blink-182	1,046	17	#16	–
23	Flavor of the Weak American Hi-Fi	1,043	16	#12	–
24	Breakdown Tantric	1,030	15	#5	–
25	Butterfly Crazytown	1,023	15	#10	–
26	One Step Closer Linkin Park	1,005	12	#1	1
27	My Sacrifice Creed	964	16	#16	–
28	Your Disease Saliva	958	15	#5	–
29	Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) Train	940	14	#1	1
30	Down With the Sickness Disturbed	934	12	#3	–
31	Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse	930	12	#1	1
32	The Space Between Dave Matthews Band	899	15	#4	–
33	Last Nite The Strokes	847	15	#1	1
34	Giving In Adema	835	15	#22	–
35	Elevation U2	792	15	#4	–
36	Blurry Puddle of Mudd	791	15	#22	–
37	Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine	781	10	#5	–
38	In Too Deep Sum 41	761	16	#24	–
39	You Wouldn't Believe 311	755	15	#30	–
40	Beautiful Day U2	728	10	#1	1
41	Awake Godsmack	677	9	#15	–
42	Dream On Depeche Mode	653	16	#24	–
43	Bodies Drowning Pool	643	13	#9	–
44	Outside Staind	635	8	#1	2
45	Hit or Miss New Found Glory	627	14	#24	–
46	Movies Alien Ant Farm	617	12	#17	–
47	Walk On U2	604	14	#7	–
48	Warning Green Day	593	13	#18	–
49	Trouble Coldplay	592	12	#27	–
50	Between Angels and Insects Papa Roach	583	11	#16	–
51	Bleed American Jimmy Eat World	569	14	#30	–
52	Days of the Week Stone Temple Pilots	564	16	#41	–
53	The People That We Love Bush	564	15	#43	–
54	Innocent Fuel	556	12	#24	–
55	Voices Disturbed	555	9	#13	–
56	No One Cold	549	11	#19	–
57	Dig In Lenny Kravitz	529	16	#17	–
58	Want You Bad The Offspring	527	9	#4	–
59	The Middle Jimmy Eat World	525	11	#19	–
60	Greed Godsmack	521	8	#6	–
61	Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel	515	6	#4	–
62	Because I Got High Afroman	507	12	#9	–
63	I Did It Dave Matthews Band	503	11	#33	–
64	Parallel Universe Red Hot Chili Peppers	500	7	#5	–
65	The Hollow A Perfect Circle	496	10	#23	–
66	Waiting Green Day	482	9	#26	–
67	Duck and Run 3 Doors Down	477	8	#8	–
68	I'll Be Here Awhile 311	476	10	#15	–
69	Crawling in the Dark Hoobastank	440	12	#39	–
70	Outside Aaron Lewis	440	6	#1	1
71	Photograph Weezer	427	11	#41	–
72	Loser 3 Doors Down	418	6	#13	–
73	19-2000 Gorillaz	414	11	#15	–
74	Rockin The Suburbs Ben Folds	408	6	#12	–
75	Bad Day Fuel	397	10	#31	–
76	I Might Be Wrong Radiohead	395	10	#9	–
77	Where's Your Head At? Basement Jaxx	384	7	#4	–
78	Nice to Know You Incubus	382	9	#35	–
79	Feel So Numb Rob Zombie	380	10	#24	–
80	Wasting My Time Default	375	10	#14	–
81	Youth of the Nation P.O.D.	368	9	#23	–
82	Crystal New Order	368	6	#9	–
83	Weapon of Choice Fatboy Slim	367	9	#21	–
84	For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) Pete Yorn	333	7	#1	1
85	Babylon David Gray	331	6	#3	–
86	Life On A Chain Pete Yorn	327	5	#10	–
87	Digital Bath Deftones	318	9	#20	–
88	Name of the Game The Crystal Method	312	9	#29	–
89	Shiver Coldplay	307	8	#32	–
90	Fuck Authority Pennywise	306	7	#23	–
91	It Don't Matter Rehab	306	9	#42	–
92	Stupify Disturbed	302	4	#19	–
93	Sing Travis	296	8	#8	–
94	Rise The Cult	296	6	#29	–
95	One Armed Scissor At the Drive In	292	7	#37	–
96	Defy You The Offspring	292	10	#41	–
97	Left Behind Slipknot	291	8	#28	–
98	Life Our Lady Peace	290	7	#38	–
99	How I Could Just Kill a Man Rage Against the Machine	288	7	#38	–
100	Imitation of Life R.E.M.	287	9	#10	–

Every station’s number one of 2001

Station	Number one song	Countdown
KROQ	In the End Linkin Park	KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 2001
91X	In the End Linkin Park	91X Top 91 Songs of 2001
Live 105	It's Been Awhile Staind	Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001
Q101	It's Been Awhile Staind	Q101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
WHFS	It's Been Awhile Staind	WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 2001
K-Rock	Outside Staind	K-Rock Top 92.3 Songs of 2001
WFNX	One Step Closer Linkin Park	WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2001
107.7 The End	It's Been Awhile Staind	The End Top 107 Songs of 2001
89X	Outside Staind	89X Top 89 Songs of 2001
CD101	For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) Pete Yorn	CD101 Top 101 Songs of 2001
CFNY 102.1 The Edge	Schism Tool	CFNY Top 30 Songs of 2001
The Buzz	Chop Suey System of a Down	The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 2001
WCCC The Rock	It's Been Awhile Staind	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001
102.7 WEQX	Drops of Jupiter Train	WEQX Top 102.7 of 2001
93XRT	Beautiful Day U2	WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 Songs of 2001
97X	Crawling Linkin Park	97X Top 97 Songs of 2001
99X	Evolution Revolution Love Tricky	99X Top 99 Songs of 2001
John Peel (BBC Radio 1)	Chinese Whispers Melys	John Peel's Festive Fifty of 2001
Virgin Radio	Last Nite The Strokes	Virgin Radio Top 10 Songs of 2001
WBCN	Schism Tool	WBCN Top 41 Songs of 2001
WBER	Chop Suey! System Of A Down	WBER Listener Countdown 2001
WHTG	Beautiful Flickerstick	G106.3 Top 106 Songs of 2001
Triple J	Amazing Alex Lloyd	Triple J Hottest 100 of 2001
Radio & Records	Drive Incubus	Radio & Records Top 100 Songs of 2001

All 2001 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2001 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 2001 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 24 qualifying countdowns. This ranking combines every rock format on the site. Read the full methodology.