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The best hard rock songs of 2001

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2001?

Combining 1 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2001 is "It's Been Awhile" by Staind, which appeared on 1 of the lists.

One radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2001: WCCC The Rock. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2001 is “It's Been Awhile” by Staind, which appeared on one of the one countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Staind was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 3 times across the countdowns.

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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	It's Been Awhile Staind	100	1	#1	1
2	Chop Suey System of a Down	99	1	#2	–
3	Down With the Sickness Disturbed	98	1	#3	–
4	Crawling Linkin Park	97	1	#4	–
5	How You Remind Me Nickelback	96	1	#5	–
6	Your Disease Saliva	95	1	#6	–
7	Schism Tool	94	1	#7	–
8	Greed Godsmack	93	1	#8	–
9	Control Puddle of Mudd	92	1	#9	–
10	Bodies Drowning Pool	92	1	#10	–
11	In the End Linkin Park	91	1	#11	–
12	Gets Me Through Ozzy Osbourne	90	1	#12	–
13	Alive P.O.D.	89	1	#13	–
14	Click Click Boom Saliva	88	1	#14	–
15	Fade Staind	87	1	#15	–
16	My Way Limp Bizkit	86	1	#16	–
17	Breakdown Tantric	85	1	#17	–
18	What a Day Nonpoint	84	1	#18	–
19	No One Cold	83	1	#19	–
20	I Wish You Were Here Incubus	82	1	#20	–
21	My Sacrifice Creed	81	1	#21	–
22	Giving In Adema	80	1	#22	–
23	The Hollow A Perfect Circle	79	1	#23	–
24	Feel So Numb Rob Zombie	78	1	#24	–
25	Halo Soil	77	1	#25	–
26	Bad Magick Godsmack	76	1	#26	–
27	Pain Stereomud	75	1	#27	–
28	Jaded Aerosmith	75	1	#28	–
29	Innocent Fuel	74	1	#29	–
30	Astounded Tantric	73	1	#30	–
31	Digital Bath Deftones	72	1	#31	–
32	Dig Mudvayne	71	1	#32	–
33	Rise The Cult	70	1	#33	–
34	Praise Sevendust	69	1	#34	–
35	Just Push Play Aerosmith	68	1	#35	–
36	Revolution Man Union Underground	67	1	#36	–
37	Maybe Tomorrow Mesh	66	1	#37	–
38	End of the World Cold	65	1	#38	–
39	Left Behind Slipknot	64	1	#39	–
40	The Game Disturbed	63	1	#40	–
41	Mourning Tantric	62	1	#41	–
42	Sinner Drowning Pool	61	1	#42	–
43	Bad Day Fuel	60	1	#43	–
44	Thirteen Cold	59	1	#44	–
45	Between Angels and Insects Papa Roach	58	1	#45	–
46	How I Could Just Kill a Man Rage Against the Machine	58	1	#46	–
47	Careful With That Mic Clutch	57	1	#47	–
48	Boiler Limp Bizkit	56	1	#48	–
49	Beginning of the End Systematic	55	1	#49	–
50	Tool Lateralus	54	1	#50	–
51	Blurry Puddle of Mudd	53	1	#51	–
52	Forever Kid Rock	52	1	#52	–
53	You Wouldn't Believe 311	51	1	#53	–
54	Rexall Dave Navarro	50	1	#54	–
55	Dig In Lenny Kravitz	49	1	#55	–
56	New Disease Spineshank	48	1	#56	–
57	Tained Love Marilyn Manson	47	1	#57	–
58	Last Time Fuel	46	1	#58	–
59	For You Staind	45	1	#59	–
60	Dreamer Ozzy Osbourne	44	1	#60	–
61	Days of the Week Stone Temple Pilots	43	1	#61	–
62	So Far Away Stabbing Westward	42	1	#62	–
63	Wasting My Time Default	42	1	#63	–
64	Hang on to This Days of the New	41	1	#64	–
65	Hungery Dave Navarro	40	1	#65	–
66	Sweet Daze Pete	39	1	#66	–
67	Linchpin Fear Factory	38	1	#67	–
68	Crawling in the Dark Hoobastank	37	1	#68	–
69	Too Bad Nickelback	36	1	#69	–
70	Defy You The Offspring	35	1	#70	–
71	Nice to Know You Incubus	34	1	#71	–
72	Youth of the Nation P.O.D.	33	1	#72	–
73	Hey Mister Custom	32	1	#73	–
74	Deep Colors Bleed Systematic	31	1	#74	–
75	Now or Never Dope	30	1	#75	–
76	Simple Creed Live	29	1	#76	–
77	What I Always Wanted Kittie	28	1	#77	–
78	I Taproot	27	1	#78	–
79	Want You Bad The Offspring	26	1	#79	–
80	Death Blooms Mudvayne	25	1	#80	–
81	What You Got Reveille	25	1	#81	–
82	Hollywood Bitch Stone Temple Pilots	24	1	#82	–
83	The People That We Love Bush	23	1	#83	–
84	Sunshine Aerosmith	22	1	#84	–
85	This is Not Static-X	21	1	#85	–
86	Killing Time Hed P.E.	20	1	#86	–
87	South Texas Deathride Union Underground	19	1	#87	–
88	Steppin Away Stereomud	18	1	#88	–
89	Black and White Static-X	17	1	#89	–
90	The Way You Like It Adema	16	1	#90	–
91	Moto Psycho Megadeth	15	1	#91	–
92	Solitaire Unraveling Mushroomhead	14	1	#92	–
93	Payback Flaw	13	1	#93	–
94	Million Miles Away The Offspring	12	1	#94	–
95	Soul Singing Black Crowes	11	1	#95	–
96	Safe in New York City AC/DC	10	1	#96	–
97	Handful of Ghosts Bush	9	1	#97	–
98	Dread and the Fugitive Mind Megadeth	8	1	#98	–
99	This Life Primer 55	8	1	#99	–
100	Falling Down 40 Below Summer	7	1	#100	–

Every station’s number one of 2001

Station	Number one song	Countdown
WCCC The Rock	It's Been Awhile Staind	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001

All 2001 countdowns in this ranking

WCCC The Rock WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2001 106 songs

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 one qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the hard rock results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.