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The best hard rock songs of 2006

Q: What was the top hard rock song of 2006?

Combining 2 year-end radio countdowns, the top hard rock song of 2006 is "Through Glass" by Stone Sour, which appeared on 2 of the lists.

Two radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2006: The Bear and WCCC The Rock. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2006 is “Through Glass” by Stone Sour, which appeared on two of the two countdowns. Two different songs were voted number one somewhere: “Animal I have Become” by Three Days Grace and “Vicarious” by Tool. Nickelback was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 6 times across the countdowns.

2countdowns

182songs charted

2different #1s

Top 100 songs of 2006

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Ranked by combined points across every 2006 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Through Glass Stone Sour	198	2	#2	–
2	Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers	188	2	#4	–
3	Lips of an Angel Hinder	181	2	#4	–
4	No Way Back Foo Fighters	180	2	#5	–
5	Call Me When You're Sober Evanescence	178	2	#9	–
6	Animal I Have Become Three Days Grace	169	2	#1	1
7	Land of Confusion Disturbed	164	2	#3	–
8	When You Were Young The Killers	161	2	#7	–
9	Tell Me Baby Red Hot Chili Peppers	161	2	#17	–
10	Woman Wolfmother	158	2	#20	–
11	Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs	156	2	#3	–
12	World Wide Suicide Pearl Jam	155	2	#11	–
13	Savin' Me Nickelback	152	2	#21	–
14	Rockstar Nickelback	151	2	#22	–
15	I Dare You Shinedown	147	2	#8	–
16	Crazy Bitch Buckcherry	145	2	#5	–
17	Miss Murder AFI	143	2	#23	–
18	Hate Me Blue October	133	2	#8	–
19	Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is Jet	132	2	#29	–
20	Devil's Got A New Disguise Aerosmith	128	2	#25	–
21	The Gift Seether	126	2	#33	–
22	Vicarious Tool	123	2	#1	1
23	Pain Three Days Grace	119	2	#42	–
24	The Pot Tool	103	2	#14	–
25	Poor Ol' Broken Hearted Me The Trews	95	1	#6	–
26	Speak Godsmack	95	1	#6	–
27	The Diary of Jane Breaking Benjamin	94	1	#7	–
28	Save Me Shinedown	93	1	#9	–
29	In View The Tragically Hip	92	1	#10	–
30	Shine Down Godsmack	92	1	#10	–
31	The Gate Sam Roberts	90	1	#12	–
32	Coming Undone Korn	90	1	#12	–
33	Perfect Situation Weezer	89	1	#13	–
34	Heroes Shinedown	89	1	#13	–
35	Original Fire Audioslave	88	1	#14	–
36	To Be Loved Papa Roach	88	2	#21	–
37	The Grace Neverending White Lights	87	1	#15	–
38	Everything Changes Staind	87	1	#15	–
39	Fully Alive Flyleaf	86	1	#16	–
40	Rapture Hurt	85	1	#17	–
41	First Date Danko Jones	84	2	#44	–
42	Flawed Design Stabilo	83	1	#19	–
43	Seize the Day Avenged Sevenfold	83	1	#19	–
44	Landing In London 3 Doors Down	82	1	#20	–
45	The Adventure Angels & Airwaves	80	1	#22	–
46	Santa Monica Theory of a Deadman	80	2	#57	–
47	Angels Losing Sleep Our Lady Peace	79	1	#23	–
48	Dance, Dance Fall Out Boy	79	1	#24	–
49	Falls Apart Hurt	78	1	#24	–
50	Resolve Foo Fighters	78	1	#25	–
51	Bridge To Nowhere Sam Roberts	77	1	#26	–
52	The Original Fire Audioslave	76	1	#26	–
53	Every Day is Exactly the Same Nine Inch Nails	75	2	#61	–
54	The River Live	75	1	#28	–
55	King of All Excuses Staind	75	1	#28	–
56	Is It Any Wonder? Keane	74	1	#29	–
57	Save Your Scissors City And Colour	73	1	#30	–
58	The Enemy Godsmack	73	1	#30	–
59	Saving Grace Tom Petty	72	1	#31	–
60	Anna Molly Incubus	72	1	#31	–
61	Revelations Audioslave	71	2	#44	–
62	Doesn't Remind Me Audioslave	70	1	#33	–
63	Lonely Day System of a Down	70	2	#51	–
64	I Can't Win Default	69	1	#34	–
65	Devil's Party INXS	68	1	#35	–
66	Goodbye Army of Anyone	68	1	#35	–
67	Talk Coldplay	67	1	#36	–
68	Sugar, We're Goin' Down Fall Out Boy	66	1	#37	–
69	Red Hot Chili Peppers Snow (Hey Oh)	66	1	#37	–
70	Beer Psychostick	65	1	#38	–
71	Yearning The Trews	64	1	#39	–
72	The Kill (Bury Me) 30 Seconds to Mars	63	1	#40	–
73	Animals Nickelback	63	1	#41	–
74	Next 2 You Buckcherry	62	1	#41	–
75	Hands Open Snow Patrol	62	1	#42	–
76	Will the Future Blame Us? Our Lady Peace	61	1	#43	–
77	10,000 Fists Disturbed	60	1	#43	–
78	Blood is Thicker Than Water Black Label Society	58	1	#45	–
79	Get Stoned Hinder	57	1	#47	–
80	Politicds Korn	57	1	#47	–
81	Sillworld Stone Sour	56	1	#48	–
82	Pretty Vegas INXS	55	1	#49	–
83	Hole in the Earth Deftones	55	1	#49	–
84	Out of My Head Mobile	54	1	#50	–
85	Through the Iris 10 Years	54	1	#50	–
86	Miracle Foo Fighters	52	1	#52	–
87	Foxy Foxy Rob Zombie	52	1	#52	–
88	Dirty Rocketface	51	1	#53	–
89	Lonely Train Black Stone Cherry	51	1	#53	–
90	Concrete Jungle Black Label Society	50	1	#54	–
91	Joker and the Thief Wolfmother	50	2	#76	–
92	Time of Your Life Matt Mays & El Torpedo	50	1	#55	–
93	The Reincarnation of Benjaming Breeg Iron Maiden	49	1	#55	–
94	My Curse Killswitch Engage	48	1	#56	–
95	I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys	48	1	#57	–
96	Soft One Matthew Barber	47	1	#58	–
97	Ex's and Oh's Atreyu	46	1	#58	–
98	On An Island David Gilmour	46	1	#59	–
99	Level The Raconteurs	45	1	#59	–
100	Montreal Calling Mobile	45	1	#60	–

Every station’s number one of 2006

Station	Number one song	Countdown
The Bear	Animal I have Become Three Days Grace	The Bear Top 107 Songs of 2006
WCCC The Rock	Vicarious Tool	WCCC Top 106 Songs of 2006

All 2006 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2006 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 2006 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.