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The best hard rock songs of 2004

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2004?

Combining 2 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2004 is "Breaking the Habit" by Linkin Park, which appeared on 2 of the lists.

Two radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2004: The Bear and WCCC The Rock. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2004 is “Breaking the Habit” by Linkin Park, which appeared on two of the two countdowns. Two different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Somebody Told Me” by The Killers and “Slither” by Velvet Revolver. Jet was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 6 times across the countdowns.

2countdowns

189songs charted

2different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2004

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Ranked by combined points across every 2004 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Breaking the Habit Linkin Park	182	2	#10	–
2	Feelin' Way Too Damn Good Nickelback	182	2	#2	–
3	The Reason Hoobastank	178	2	#7	–
4	Fall to Pieces Velvet Revolver	176	2	#12	–
5	Open Your Eyes Alter Bridge	170	2	#16	–
6	Slither Velvet Revolver	164	2	#1	1
7	Cold Hard Bitch Jet	163	2	#5	–
8	Vertigo U2	163	2	#14	–
9	Meant to Live Switchfoot	159	2	#3	–
10	Away From The Sun 3 Doors Down	150	2	#14	–
11	Running Blind Godsmack	148	2	#6	–
12	American Idiot Green Day	133	2	#9	–
13	Counting the Days Collective Soul	132	2	#31	–
14	Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day	110	2	#25	–
15	Rollover DJ Jet	102	2	#37	–
16	Just Like You Three Days Grace	102	2	#15	–
17	Somebody Told Me The Killers	100	1	#1	1
18	Where Are We Runnin' Lenny Kravitz	99	2	#12	–
19	Simple Man Shinedown	99	1	#2	–
20	Lying From You Linkin Park	98	1	#3	–
21	Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet	97	1	#4	–
22	So Cold Breaking Benjamin	97	1	#4	–
23	with Amy Lee. Broken Seether	96	1	#5	–
24	Vaccination Scar The Tragically Hip	95	1	#6	–
25	Duality Slipknot	94	1	#7	–
26	Not Ready To Go The Trews	93	1	#8	–
27	Nobody Skindred	93	1	#8	–
28	Hit That The Offspring	93	1	#9	–
29	Spin You Around Puddle of Mudd	92	1	#10	–
30	One Thing Finger Eleven	91	1	#11	–
31	Alert Status Red Matthew Good	89	1	#13	–
32	Touche Godsmack	89	1	#13	–
33	Hard Road Sam Roberts	87	1	#15	–
34	Ain't Coming Home Silvertide	87	2	#22	–
35	Taking My Life Away Default	85	1	#17	–
36	Cold Crossfade	85	1	#17	–
37	Here Without You 3 Doors Down	83	1	#19	–
38	So Far Away Staind	82	1	#20	–
39	Vitamin R Chevelle	82	1	#20	–
40	I Am the Highway Audioslave	81	1	#21	–
41	Echo Trapt	81	1	#21	–
42	Ordinary Train	80	1	#22	–
43	I Miss You blink-182	79	1	#23	–
44	Another Brick in the Wall Korn	79	1	#23	–
45	Getting Away With Murder Papa Roach	79	2	#28	–
46	It's My Life No Doubt	79	1	#24	–
47	Imagine A Perfect Circle	78	1	#24	–
48	I Believe in a Thing Called Love The Darkness	78	1	#25	–
49	Numb Linkin Park	77	1	#26	–
50	Layne Staind	76	1	#26	–
51	Word Up Korn	76	2	#47	–
52	Smoke Baby Hawksley Workman	76	1	#27	–
53	Survival of the Sickest Saliva	75	1	#27	–
54	The Writing's On The Wall The Tea Party	74	1	#29	–
55	Let Me Out Future Leaders of the World	74	1	#29	–
56	(Can't Get My) Head Around You The Offspring	73	2	#44	–
57	My Immortal Evanescence	73	1	#30	–
58	Home Three Days Grace	73	1	#30	–
59	Accidentally In Love Counting Crows	72	1	#31	–
60	Take Me Away Avril Lavigne	71	1	#32	–
61	Wishbone Dropbox	71	1	#32	–
62	On My Mind Powderfinger	70	1	#33	–
63	Step Up Drowning Pool	70	1	#33	–
64	Baby, Please Don't Go Aerosmith	69	1	#34	–
65	Heel Over Head Puddle of Mudd	69	1	#34	–
66	Everybody Stabilo	68	1	#35	–
67	Silhouettes Smile Empty Soul	68	1	#35	–
68	Bad Day R.E.M.	67	1	#36	–
69	Personal Jesus Marilyn Manson	67	1	#36	–
70	All My Real Friend High Holy Days	65	1	#38	–
71	Scars Papa Roach	65	1	#38	–
72	If I Die Tomorrow Motley Crue	64	1	#39	–
73	Take Me Away Fefe Dobson	64	1	#40	–
74	Alive Kenny Wayne Shepherd	63	1	#40	–
75	Figured You Out Nickelback	63	1	#41	–
76	with Dropbox. Touche Godsmack	62	1	#42	–
77	So Far So Good Thornley	61	1	#43	–
78	Black Betty Spiderbait	60	1	#43	–
79	Open Road Bryan Adams	59	1	#45	–
80	House of Doom Black Label Society	58	1	#45	–
81	Leaving New York R.E.M.	58	1	#46	–
82	Wake Up (Make a Move) Lostprophets	58	1	#46	–
83	Throw It All Away Default	57	1	#47	–
84	Weak and Powerless A Perfect Circle	56	1	#48	–
85	Rawkfist Thousand Foot Krutch	56	1	#48	–
86	Someday Nickelback	55	1	#49	–
87	Die Dead Enough Megadeth	55	1	#49	–
88	Bigger Than My Body John Mayer	54	1	#50	–
89	Love and War Drowning Pool	54	1	#50	–
90	Everything Alanis Morissette	53	1	#51	–
91	Wait Earshot	53	1	#51	–
92	In The Air Tonight Nonpoint	52	1	#52	–
93	We Will Still Need A Song Hawksley Workman	51	1	#53	–
94	Broken Down Sevendust	51	1	#53	–
95	Million Miles Fuel	50	1	#54	–
96	The Truth Nonpoint	50	1	#54	–
97	It's About Time Van Halen	50	2	#79	–
98	Vindicated Dashboard Confessional	50	1	#55	–
99	Jackson Mississippi Kid Rock	49	1	#55	–
100	Walk Tall John Mellencamp	49	1	#56	–

Every station’s number one of 2004

Station	Number one song	Countdown
The Bear	Somebody Told Me The Killers	The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2004
WCCC The Rock	Slither Velvet Revolver	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2004

All 2004 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2004 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 2004 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.