Year-end consensus · Hard Rock & Metal · two countdowns combined

The best hard rock songs of 2003

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2003?

Combining 2 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2003 is "Like a Stone" by Audioslave, which appeared on 2 of the lists.

Two radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2003: The Bear and WCCC The Rock. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2003 is “Like a Stone” by Audioslave, which appeared on two of the two countdowns. Two different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Clocks” by Coldplay and “Stillborn (Planet of Sound version)” by Zakk Wylde. 3 Doors Down was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 5 times across the countdowns.

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191songs charted

2different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2003

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Ranked by combined points across every 2003 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Like a Stone Audioslave	193	2	#4	–
2	So Far Away Staind	179	2	#6	–
3	Seven Nation Army The White Stripes	172	2	#6	–
4	Times Like These Foo Fighters	167	2	#3	–
5	Someday Nickelback	166	2	#17	–
6	Bring Me to Life Evanescence	160	2	#8	–
7	Somewhere I Belong Linkin Park	158	2	#8	–
8	I Hate Everything About You Three Days Grace	152	2	#12	–
9	Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle	149	2	#14	–
10	Make Up Your Mind Theory of a Deadman	137	2	#9	–
11	Here Without You 3 Doors Down	135	2	#35	–
12	The Road I'm On 3 Doors Down	131	2	#20	–
13	Just Because Jane's Addiction	121	2	#31	–
14	Heaven Live	110	2	#16	–
15	Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet	107	2	#29	–
16	Clocks Coldplay	100	1	#1	1
17	Stillborn (Planet of Sound version) Zakk Wylde	100	1	#1	1
18	When I'm Gone 3 Doors Down	99	1	#2	–
19	Fly From the Inside (Planet of Sound version) Shinedown	99	1	#2	–
20	Straight Out of Line Godsmack	98	1	#3	–
21	Liberate Disturbed	97	1	#4	–
22	Innocent Our Lady Peace	96	1	#5	–
23	Where Have All The Good People Gone? Sam Roberts	94	1	#7	–
24	Serenity Godsmack	94	1	#7	–
25	World So Cold Mudvayne	92	1	#9	–
26	Can't Stop Red Hot Chili Peppers	92	1	#10	–
27	Bottom of a Bottle Smile Empty Soul	92	1	#10	–
28	Why Don't You And I Santana & Chad Kroeger	91	1	#11	–
29	Stupid Girl Cold	91	1	#11	–
30	Bother Stone Sour	90	1	#12	–
31	Falls On Me Fuel	89	2	#30	–
32	Brother Down Sam Roberts	89	1	#13	–
33	Faint Linkin Park	89	1	#13	–
34	I Am Mine Pearl Jam	88	1	#14	–
35	In A World Called Catastrophe Matthew Good	87	1	#15	–
36	Show Me How to Live Audioslave	87	1	#15	–
37	Caught In The Rain Revis	86	1	#16	–
38	Imprint Double Drive	85	1	#17	–
39	Send the Pain Below Chevelle	84	1	#18	–
40	Calling All Angels Train	83	1	#19	–
41	Enemy Sevendust	83	1	#19	–
42	The Rest of My Life Sloan	82	1	#20	–
43	In My Place Coldplay	81	1	#21	–
44	Lifestyles of the Rich and Famous Good Charlotte	80	1	#22	–
45	How About You Staind	80	1	#22	–
46	Made of Steel Our Lady Peace	79	1	#23	–
47	Headstrong Trapt	79	1	#23	–
48	Electrical Storm U2	79	1	#24	–
49	I Am the Highway Audioslave	78	1	#24	–
50	Numb Linkin Park	78	2	#25	–
51	Don't Walk Away Eileen Sam Roberts	78	1	#25	–
52	Zephyr Song Red Hot Chili Peppers	77	1	#26	–
53	Disease Matchbox Twenty	76	1	#27	–
54	Away From Me Puddle of Mudd	75	1	#27	–
55	Don't Stop The Rolling Stones	75	1	#28	–
56	St. Anger Metallica	75	1	#28	–
57	Sister Surround Soundtrack of Our Lives	74	1	#29	–
58	Don't Believe It All Treble Charger	73	1	#30	–
59	The Boys of Summer The Ataris	72	1	#31	–
60	There There Radiohead	71	1	#32	–
61	Price to Play Staind	71	1	#32	–
62	Weapon Matthew Good	70	1	#33	–
63	Gasoline Seether	70	1	#33	–
64	Bigger Than My Body John Mayer	69	1	#34	–
65	Save Me Forty Foot Echo	68	1	#35	–
66	Lonesome Day Bruce Springsteen	66	1	#37	–
67	45 Shinedown	66	1	#37	–
68	All In The Suit That You Wear Stone Temple Pilots	66	2	#41	–
69	Give Up The Grudge Gob	65	1	#38	–
70	Will You P.O.D.	65	1	#38	–
71	Suffocate Cold	64	1	#39	–
72	Fortune Faded Red Hot Chili Peppers	64	2	#56	–
73	Time of Our Lives David Usher	64	1	#40	–
74	Go With the Flow Queens of the Stone Age	63	1	#40	–
75	Hit That The Offspring	63	2	#48	–
76	Rest In Pieces Saliva	61	1	#42	–
77	Bad Day R.E.M.	61	1	#43	–
78	Out of Control Hoobastank	60	1	#43	–
79	Silver Jet The Tragically Hip	60	1	#44	–
80	Tonz of Fun Presence	59	1	#44	–
81	No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age	59	1	#45	–
82	Mobscene Marilyn Manson	58	1	#45	–
83	I'm Losing You Colin James	58	1	#46	–
84	Behind Blue Eyes Limp Bizkit	58	1	#46	–
85	She Hates Me Puddle of Mudd	57	1	#47	–
86	Figured You Out Nickelback	57	1	#47	–
87	Taking My Life Away Default	56	2	#66	–
88	Still Desire You Melanie Doane	56	1	#48	–
89	Weathered Creed	55	1	#49	–
90	Did My Time Korn	55	1	#49	–
91	Dosed Red Hot Chili Peppers	54	1	#50	–
92	Won't Back Down Fuel	54	1	#50	–
93	Walk Like You Don't Mind Blue Rodeo	53	1	#51	–
94	Closure Chevelle	53	1	#51	–
95	Teardrops Will Fall John Mellencamp	52	1	#52	–
96	Realign Godsmack	52	1	#52	–
97	Going Under Evanescence	51	1	#53	–
98	Immigrant Song (How the West Was Won) Led Zeppelin	51	1	#53	–
99	One Thing Finger Eleven	50	1	#54	–
100	Right Now Korn	50	1	#54	–

Every station’s number one of 2003

Station	Number one song	Countdown
The Bear	Clocks Coldplay	The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2003
WCCC The Rock	Stillborn (Planet of Sound version) Zakk Wylde	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2003

All 2003 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2003 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 2003 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 two 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.