What was the top rock song of 2001?

Combining 17 year-end radio countdowns, the top rock song of 2001 is "Schism" by Tool, which appeared on 15 of the lists.

Year-end consensus · All Rock Formats · 17 countdowns combined

The best rock songs of 2001

17 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, John Peel (BBC Radio 1), Virgin Radio, Triple J and Radio & Records. Combining every list, the top rock song of 2001 is “Schism” by Tool, which appeared on 15 of the 17 countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Eleven 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), “One Step Closer” by Linkin Park and “For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is)” by Pete Yorn and others. Linkin Park was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 40 times across the countdowns.

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11different #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	Schism Tool	1,328	15	#1	1
2	How You Remind Me Nickelback	1,310	15	#2	–
3	Hash Pipe Weezer	1,281	14	#2	–
4	It's Been Awhile Staind	1,255	13	#1	5
5	Smooth Criminal Alien Ant Farm	1,214	14	#4	–
6	In the End Linkin Park	1,140	13	#1	2
7	I Wish You Were Here Incubus	1,104	14	#5	–
8	Clint Eastwood Gorillaz	1,090	13	#3	–
9	Fat Lip Sum 41	1,075	13	#3	–
10	Crawling Linkin Park	1,067	12	#2	–
11	Chop Suey System of a Down	1,026	12	#1	1
12	Alive P.O.D.	986	12	#4	–
13	My Way Limp Bizkit	980	12	#5	–
14	Control Puddle of Mudd	951	12	#9	–
15	One Step Closer Linkin Park	906	11	#1	1
16	The Rock Show blink-182	896	12	#6	–
17	Fade Staind	870	12	#13	–
18	Drive Incubus	855	9	#1	1
19	Butterfly Crazytown	834	12	#10	–
20	Island in the Sun Weezer	829	13	#7	–
21	Short Skirt/Long Jacket Cake	808	13	#6	–
22	Stay Together for the Kids blink-182	799	12	#16	–
23	Down With the Sickness Disturbed	762	10	#3	–
24	Southside Moby	743	9	#7	–
25	Last Nite The Strokes	727	12	#1	1
26	Breakdown Tantric	719	11	#12	–
27	Renegades of Funk Rage Against the Machine	718	9	#5	–
28	Your Disease Saliva	687	11	#6	–
29	Yellow Coldplay	681	9	#4	–
30	My Sacrifice Creed	671	11	#19	–
31	Giving In Adema	664	12	#22	–
32	Blurry Puddle of Mudd	644	11	#22	–
33	Awake Godsmack	606	8	#15	–
34	Drops of Jupiter Train	579	10	#4	–
35	Hanging By a Moment Lifehouse	575	8	#3	–
36	Outside Staind	559	7	#1	2
37	Movies Alien Ant Farm	558	10	#17	–
38	You Wouldn't Believe 311	549	10	#36	–
39	Bodies Drowning Pool	546	10	#9	–
40	Elevation U2	531	11	#23	–
41	In Too Deep Sum 41	530	12	#24	–
42	Between Angels and Insects Papa Roach	510	10	#16	–
43	Parallel Universe Red Hot Chili Peppers	500	7	#5	–
44	The People That We Love Bush	499	13	#43	–
45	The Hollow A Perfect Circle	496	10	#23	–
46	Beautiful Day U2	489	7	#4	–
47	The Space Between Dave Matthews Band	484	9	#12	–
48	Warning Green Day	481	10	#18	–
49	Flavor of the Weak American Hi-Fi	467	7	#18	–
50	No One Cold	457	9	#19	–
51	Waiting Green Day	452	8	#26	–
52	Bleed American Jimmy Eat World	444	11	#32	–
53	Hemorrhage (In My Hands) Fuel	438	5	#4	–
54	Want You Bad The Offspring	437	8	#4	–
55	Dig In Lenny Kravitz	435	12	#17	–
56	Greed Godsmack	431	6	#6	–
57	Days of the Week Stone Temple Pilots	429	12	#41	–
58	Dream On Depeche Mode	408	11	#24	–
59	Innocent Fuel	406	8	#29	–
60	Because I Got High Afroman	393	8	#17	–
61	Trouble Coldplay	390	8	#27	–
62	I Did It Dave Matthews Band	385	9	#33	–
63	I'll Be Here Awhile 311	383	8	#15	–
64	Hit or Miss New Found Glory	357	8	#27	–
65	The Middle Jimmy Eat World	355	8	#19	–
66	Voices Disturbed	354	6	#28	–
67	Crawling in the Dark Hoobastank	343	10	#39	–
68	Digital Bath Deftones	313	8	#20	–
69	Fuck Authority Pennywise	306	7	#23	–
70	Photograph Weezer	304	8	#41	–
71	For Nancy ('Cos It Already Is) Pete Yorn	303	6	#1	1
72	Duck and Run 3 Doors Down	302	5	#8	–
73	Feel So Numb Rob Zombie	302	8	#24	–
74	Walk On U2	298	8	#51	–
75	I Might Be Wrong Radiohead	290	8	#9	–
76	Nice to Know You Incubus	279	7	#35	–
77	Loser 3 Doors Down	271	4	#23	–
78	Outside Aaron Lewis	266	3	#11	–
79	Crystal New Order	265	4	#9	–
80	Where's Your Head At? Basement Jaxx	264	5	#4	–
81	19-2000 Gorillaz	262	8	#15	–
82	Weapon of Choice Fatboy Slim	253	6	#21	–
83	Life Our Lady Peace	249	6	#38	–
84	Defy You The Offspring	246	8	#41	–
85	Rollin' Limp Bizkit	246	4	#33	–
86	Wasting My Time Default	243	7	#14	–
87	Youth of the Nation P.O.D.	242	6	#23	–
88	How I Could Just Kill a Man Rage Against the Machine	241	6	#38	–
89	Man Overboard blink-182	240	6	#40	–
90	Stellar Incubus	240	4	#12	–
91	Bad Magick Godsmack	237	5	#26	–
92	Deep Nine Inch Nails	235	9	#45	–
93	Threesome Fenix TX	230	6	#11	–
94	Million Miles Away The Offspring	225	5	#28	–
95	Lateralus Tool	218	7	#36	–
96	So Far Away Stabbing Westward	216	7	#57	–
97	Left Behind Slipknot	215	7	#28	–
98	Flavor of the Week American Hi-Fi	214	4	#21	–
99	Shiver Coldplay	214	6	#34	–
100	Stupify Disturbed	213	3	#19	–

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