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The best indie rock songs of 2001

One radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2001: 93XRT. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2001 is “Beautiful Day” by U2, which appeared on one of the one countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. U2 was the year’s most-charted artist, with five different songs placing 5 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2001

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

# Song Strength Lists Best #1s
1 Beautiful Day U2
100		 1 #1 1
2 Short Skirt/Long Jacket Cake
97		 1 #2 –
3 Babylon David Gray
93		 1 #3 –
4 Elevation U2
90		 1 #4 –
5 When You're Falling Afro Celt Sound System
87		 1 #5 –
6 New York, New York Ryan Adams
83		 1 #6 –
7 Walk On U2
80		 1 #7 –
8 Peaceful World John Mellencamp
77		 1 #8 –
9 Yellow Coldplay
73		 1 #9 –
10 Stuck in a Moment That You Can't Get Out of U2
70		 1 #10 –
11 Life On A Chain Pete Yorn
67		 1 #11 –
12 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) Train
63		 1 #12 –
13 In These Shoes Kirsty MacColl
60		 1 #13 –
14 Last Good Day Cousteau
60		 1 #13 –
15 Soul Singing Black Crowes
57		 1 #14 –
16 The Space Between Dave Matthews Band
53		 1 #15 –
17 Everyday Dave Matthews Band
50		 1 #16 –
18 In a Little While U2
47		 1 #17 –
19 Southside Moby
43		 1 #18 –
20 Androgyny Garbage
40		 1 #19 –
21 My Old Friend John Hiatt
37		 1 #20 –
22 Please Forgive Me David Gray
33		 1 #21 –
23 Everybody Went Low John Hiatt
30		 1 #22 –
24 Essence Lucinda Williams
27		 1 #23 –
25 Superman (It's Not Easy) Five for Fighting
23		 1 #24 –
26 Island in the Sun Weezer
20		 1 #25 –
27 Let's Roll Neil Young
17		 1 #26 –
28 Last Nite The Strokes
13		 1 #27 –
29 God Gave Me Everything Mick Jagger
13		 1 #27 –
30 Imagine Neil Young
13		 1 #27 –

Every station’s number one of 2001

StationNumber one songCountdown
93XRT Beautiful Day U2 WXRT Listener Poll: Top 30 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 one qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the indie & aaa results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.