Every song that charted in 2009

Combined ranking of all 333 songs from the alternative rock year-end countdowns of 2009. ← Top 100 of 2009

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Uprising Muse	555	6	#3	–
2	Use Somebody Kings of Leon	456	5	#1	2
3	Panic Switch Silversun Pickups	396	5	#1	1
4	The Fixer Pearl Jam	376	5	#5	–
5	Help, Im Alive Metric	372	5	#8	–
6	New Divide Linkin Park	356	4	#7	–
7	Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant	355	4	#3	–
8	21 Guns Green Day	352	5	#8	–
9	1901 Phoenix	341	4	#4	–
10	Notion Kings of Leon	319	5	#14	–
11	Wrong Depeche Mode	317	5	#5	–
12	Check My Brain Alice In Chains	317	4	#10	–
13	Meet Me On The Equinox Death Cab for Cutie	313	5	#14	–
14	Kids MGMT	297	3	#2	–
15	Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event	296	5	#22	–
16	No You Girls Franz Ferdinand	291	4	#6	–
17	Know Your Enemy Green Day	290	4	#20	–
18	You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring	290	4	#9	–
19	Savior Rise Against	281	3	#1	1
20	Sex On Fire Kings of Leon	270	4	#13	–
21	Audience Of One Rise Against	251	3	#7	–
22	Spaceman The Killers	241	4	#9	–
23	(If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To Weezer	238	3	#10	–
24	Medicate AFI	238	4	#12	–
25	Zero Yeah Yeah Yeahs	231	3	#16	–
26	Kings & Queens 30 Seconds to Mars	215	4	#27	–
27	Wheels Foo Fighters	209	5	#25	–
28	Brother Pearl Jam	193	4	#36	–
29	Substitution Silversun Pickups	192	4	#34	–
30	Heads Will Roll Yeah Yeah Yeahs	188	3	#11	–
31	East Jesus Nowhere Green Day	187	4	#43	–
32	She's a Genius Jet	182	4	#40	–
33	Heavy cross The Gossip	182	2	#2	–
34	Second Chance Shinedown	179	2	#10	–
35	The '59 Sound The Gaslight Anthem	176	3	#28	–
36	Sleepyhead Passion Pit	170	2	#12	–
37	Love Hurts Incubus	164	2	#14	–
38	Get on Your Boots U2	162	3	#18	–
39	Break Three Days Grace	156	3	#22	–
40	Ignorance Paramore	154	3	#23	–
41	Last One to Die Rancid	153	3	#44	–
42	Ulysses Franz Ferdinand	153	3	#6	–
43	Say Hey (I Love You) Michael Franti & Spearhead	150	2	#25	–
44	Back Against the Wall Cage The Elephant	149	4	#26	–
45	I've Got Friends Manchester Orchestra	145	3	#32	–
46	FireFlies Owl City	144	2	#13	–
47	Black Heart Inertia Incubus	142	2	#14	–
48	Troublemaker Weezer	140	3	#31	–
49	Decode Paramore	140	2	#23	–
50	Just Breathe Pearl Jam	134	4	#29	–
51	Sink Into Me Taking Back Sunday	134	3	#41	–
52	Feel Good Drag Anberlin	133	2	#8	–
53	New Fang Them Crooked Vultures	132	4	#30	–
54	Hey You 311	132	3	#47	–
55	Magnificent U2	128	2	#29	–
56	Breaking Anberlin	127	2	#34	–
57	For What It's Worth Placebo	122	2	#11	–
58	One Day Matisyahu	120	3	#41	–
59	Undead Hollywood Undead	118	2	#21	–
60	Pork And Beans Weezer	113	4	#45	–
61	Kristy, Are You Doing Ok? The Offspring	111	3	#53	–
62	Crawl Back In Dead By Sunrise	107	3	#49	–
63	LifeLine Papa Roach	106	2	#44	–
64	Electric Feel MGMT	106	2	#33	–
65	Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against	105	2	#21	–
66	Slow Poison The Bravery	104	3	#46	–
67	Little Secrets Passion Pit	103	2	#38	–
68	Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons	100	1	#1	1
69	Rex Customs	100	1	#1	1
70	Jars Chevelle	99	2	#6	–
71	The Feel Good Drag Anberlin	99	1	#2	–
72	Parlez Vous Francais? Art vs. Science	99	1	#2	–
73	Dirt Room Blue October	98	1	#3	–
74	Chase That Feeling Hilltop Hoods	98	1	#3	–
75	Gimme Sympathy Metric	97	1	#4	–
76	You're Going Down Sick Puppies	97	1	#4	–
77	Lisztomania Phoenix	97	1	#4	–
78	Broken Leg Bluejuice	96	1	#5	–
79	Bulletproof La Roux	95	1	#6	–
80	Pony Far	95	1	#6	–
81	Rusted from the Rain Billy Talent	94	1	#7	–
82	Coin Laundry Lisa Mitchell	94	1	#7	–
83	Lost! Coldplay	94	2	#18	–
84	I'll Go Crazy If I Don't Go Crazy Tonight U2	94	2	#39	–
85	Crying lightning Arctic Monkeys	94	2	#17	–
86	Not Fair Lily Allen	93	1	#8	–
87	Viva La Vida Coldplay	93	3	#50	–
88	The Night Disturbed	92	1	#9	–
89	Daylight Matt And Kim	91	2	#41	–
90	Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine	91	1	#10	–
91	Wishing Well The Airborne Toxic Event	91	2	#46	–
92	Love Is a First The Tragically Hip	90	1	#11	–
93	Future words The Hickey Underworld	90	1	#4	–
94	Bonkers Dizzee Rascal & Armand van Helden	89	1	#12	–
95	I Want You To Weezer	88	1	#13	–
96	Blood On My Hands The Used	88	1	#13	–
97	Sticks 'n' Stones Jamie T	87	1	#14	–
98	I Will Not Bow Breaking Benjamin	86	1	#15	–
99	Home Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros	86	1	#15	–
100	Wannabe in LA Eagles of Death Metal	86	2	#18	–
101	Indestructable Disturbed	85	1	#16	–
102	Half Truism The Offspring	84	1	#17	–
103	Fire Kasabian	84	1	#17	–
104	Waiting like a dog Jasper Erkens	83	1	#6	–
105	Cath Death Cab for Cutie	83	2	#21	–
106	Shooting Stars Bag Raiders	83	1	#18	–
107	That's Not My Name The Ting Tings	82	1	#19	–
108	Undisclosed Desires Muse	82	1	#19	–
109	I Want To Weezer	81	1	#18	–
110	Cousins Vampire Weekend	81	2	#22	–
111	I Love College Asher Roth	80	1	#19	–
112	I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie	80	2	#34	–
113	Fader The Temper Trap	80	1	#21	–
114	One more chance Bloc Party	79	2	#19	–
115	Laces Out USS	78	1	#23	–
116	Warp 1.9 The Bloody Beetroots	78	1	#23	–
117	Human The Killers	78	3	#64	–
118	Sound of Madness Shinedown	77	1	#24	–
119	Carol Brown Flight of the Conchords	77	1	#24	–
120	Envoi Absynthe Minded	77	1	#8	–
121	Eyesore Janus	76	1	#25	–
122	Two Weeks Grizzly Bear	76	2	#61	–
123	Oh, The Boss Is Coming Arkells	75	1	#26	–
124	Supermassive Black Hole Muse	75	1	#24	–
125	In For The Kill La Roux	74	1	#27	–
126	100 Little Curses Street Sweeper Social Club	73	2	#54	–
127	That look you give that guy The Eels	73	1	#9	–
128	Careless Whisper Seether	73	1	#28	–
129	Life in Technicolor Coldplay	73	1	#28	–
130	We Won't Run Sarah Blasko	73	1	#28	–
131	If You Only Knew Shinedown	73	2	#43	–
132	Champagne Cavo	72	1	#29	–
133	All I Want Sarah Blasko	72	1	#29	–
134	Resistance Muse	71	2	#35	–
135	The Reeling Passion Pit	71	1	#30	–
136	Hurt Feelings Flight of the Conchords	71	1	#30	–
137	Young Cardinals Alexisonfire	71	1	#31	–
138	Dead Memories Slipknot	70	1	#31	–
139	Grapevine Fires Death Cab for Cutie	70	2	#40	–
140	A Dustland Fairytale The Killers	70	2	#49	–
141	Papillon Editors	70	1	#10	–
142	The Waitress Song Seth Sentry	70	1	#31	–
143	Ramona Was a Waitress Paul Dempsey	69	1	#32	–
144	Inside The Fire Disturbed	69	2	#38	–
145	Pursuit of Happiness Kid Cudi	68	1	#33	–
146	Street Fighter (War) Sick Puppies	67	1	#34	–
147	Brother Little Birdy	67	1	#34	–
148	Young Hollywood Undead	64	1	#37	–
149	Still Standing Hilltop Hoods	64	1	#37	–
150	I'd Like You So Much Better If You Were Naked Ida Maria	63	1	#38	–
151	You have my heart okay Team William	63	1	#12	–
152	Alive Again Champion	63	1	#39	–
153	I Almost Told You That I Loved You Papa Roach	62	1	#39	–
154	One Way Road John Butler Trio	62	1	#39	–
155	New Moon Rising Wolfmother	61	3	#74	–
156	And the Boys Angus and Julia Stone	61	1	#40	–
157	Stay alive Jasper Erkens	60	1	#13	–
158	Audacity of Huge Simian Mobile Disco	60	1	#41	–
159	Sick Muse Metric	60	1	#42	–
160	Mess of Me Switchfoot	59	1	#38	–
161	Vanilla British India	59	1	#42	–
162	Eet Regina Spektor	58	1	#43	–
163	Awesome The Bloody Beetroots	58	1	#43	–
164	Leopard-Print Pill-Box Hat Beck	58	1	#44	–
165	Rabbit Heart (Raise It Up) Florence And The Machine	57	1	#44	–
166	Not So Pretty Now Nine Inch Nails	57	1	#45	–
167	Drumming Song Florence And The Machine	56	1	#45	–
168	Snuff Slipknot	55	1	#46	–
169	Blood Bank Bon Iver	55	1	#46	–
170	Ballad of Hugo Chavez Arkells	55	1	#47	–
171	Treat Me Like Your Mother The Dead Weather	54	2	#60	–
172	Set Fire to the Hive Karnivool	54	1	#47	–
173	Ride To California Paper Tongues	54	1	#43	–
174	White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes	53	1	#48	–
175	Bonkers Dizzee Rascal	53	1	#15	–
176	Science of Fear The Temper Trap	53	1	#48	–
177	All of the Dreamers Powderfinger	52	1	#49	–
178	I Would Do For You Slightly Stoopid	52	1	#45	–
179	Cyanide Metallica	51	1	#50	–
180	Buttons (CSS Remix) Sia	51	1	#50	–
181	Ghetto Love Spinnerette	51	1	#51	–
182	Exes Daan	50	1	#16	–
183	Where Did All the Love Go? Kasabian	50	1	#51	–
184	Bad Medicine Die Mannequin	50	1	#52	–
185	Horchata Vampire Weekend	49	1	#52	–
186	Animal Miike Snow	48	1	#53	–
187	California on My Mind Wild Light	48	1	#54	–
188	Re-Education Rise Against	47	1	#49	–
189	Fixed to Ruin Sam Roberts	47	1	#55	–
190	To Lose My Life White Lies	47	2	#53	–
191	Anything 'cept the Truth Eagles of Death Metal	46	1	#56	–
192	All Nightmare Long Metallica	46	1	#56	–
193	Satellite Skin Modest Mouse	46	1	#56	–
194	Hard Sun Eddie Vedder	45	1	#57	–
195	I Don't Care/ ft Adam Gontier Apocalyptica	45	1	#51	–
196	Islands The xx	45	1	#56	–
197	Time To Pretend MGMT	45	2	#70	–
198	Whiskey Hangover Godsmack	45	1	#57	–
199	The Good News Philadelphia Grand Jury	44	1	#57	–
200	Take Me Home After Midnight Project	44	1	#52	–
201	Body of Years Mother Mother	43	1	#59	–
202	Love Lost The Temper Trap	43	1	#58	–
203	I'm Not Alone Calvin Harris	42	1	#59	–
204	I'm with You The Stills	41	1	#61	–
205	22 Lily Allen	41	1	#60	–
206	Lollipop Framing Hanley	41	1	#61	–
207	Make Believe Thornley	39	1	#63	–
208	Hell Tegan and Sara	38	2	#66	–
209	A Looking in View Alice In Chains	38	1	#64	–
210	All I Know Karnivool	38	1	#63	–
211	All I Want Staind	38	1	#64	–
212	Hammerhead The Offspring	37	3	#75	–
213	These Are My Twisted Words Radiohead	37	1	#65	–
214	Blood The Middle East	37	1	#64	–
215	United States of Eurasia Muse	37	2	#74	–
216	High on a wire The Black Box Revelation	37	1	#20	–
217	Bad Girlfriend Theory of a Deadman	37	1	#65	–
218	Funny the Way It Is Dave Matthews Band	37	1	#65	–
219	Heartless The Fray	36	1	#59	–
220	Foreign Land Eskimo Joe	36	1	#65	–
221	Pictures Illy	35	1	#66	–
222	Let It Die Foo Fighters	35	1	#67	–
223	Broken, Beat & Scarred Metallica	35	1	#67	–
224	Take It for Granted illScarlett	34	1	#68	–
225	Cement Washington	34	1	#67	–
226	Turn Me Off Audrye Sessions	34	1	#68	–
227	Hero of War Rise Against	33	1	#69	–
228	Omen The Prodigy	33	1	#68	–
229	Odd One Sick Puppies	33	1	#69	–
230	All You Did Was Save My Life Our Lady Peace	32	1	#70	–
231	My Girls Animal Collective	31	1	#70	–
232	Hate My Life Theory of a Deadman	31	1	#71	–
233	Supernatural Superserious R.E.M.	30	1	#72	–
234	Justine Customs	30	1	#22	–
235	Byrds of Prey Bertie Blackman	30	1	#71	–
236	Do What You Do Mudvayne	30	1	#72	–
237	Can You Tell Ra Ra Riot	30	1	#72	–
238	New Dark Ages Bad Religion	30	1	#65	–
239	Anti-Venom Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker	29	1	#73	–
240	You've Changed Sia	29	1	#72	–
241	Again Flyleaf	29	2	#74	–
242	It's Alright 311	29	1	#73	–
243	In This City Iglu & Hartly	29	1	#66	–
244	Heartbreaker MSTRKRFT	28	1	#73	–
245	2:00 AM Slightly Stoopid	27	1	#67	–
246	Devil on My Shoulder Billy Talent	27	1	#75	–
247	Friend in the Field Art vs. Science	27	1	#74	–
248	Say It Blue October	27	1	#75	–
249	Word Forward Foo Fighters	27	1	#75	–
250	Paper Planes M.I.A.	26	1	#76	–
251	Crash Cavo	26	1	#76	–
252	Believe in Me Sloan	25	1	#77	–
253	11th Dimension Julian Casablancas	25	1	#76	–
254	At the Bottom Brand New	25	1	#77	–
255	Sinner f/Scott Russo Big B	24	1	#70	–
256	Lovers in Japan Coldplay	24	1	#78	–
257	Wars Hurt	24	1	#78	–
258	Bleed It Out Linkin Park	24	1	#79	–
259	Anything goes AC/DC	23	1	#24	–
260	Die For You Pennywise	23	1	#71	–
261	Remember Me Tame Impala	23	1	#78	–
262	Scream With Me Mudvayne	23	1	#79	–
263	The Fear Lily Allen	23	1	#79	–
264	The Shock Of The Lightning Oasis	23	1	#80	–
265	Getting Wise Yves Klein Blue	22	1	#79	–
266	Wake Up The Arcade Fire	22	1	#72	–
267	A-Punk Vampire Weekend	22	1	#80	–
268	Drowning (Face Down) Saving Abel	22	1	#80	–
269	Last Parade Matt Good	22	1	#81	–
270	Holiday Dizzee Rascal	21	1	#80	–
271	If Rap Gets Jealous K'naan	21	1	#73	–
272	Letter From a Thief Chevelle	21	1	#81	–
273	Your Decision Alice In Chains	21	2	#90	–
274	Tell me it's not over Starsailor	20	1	#25	–
275	The Cave Mumford & Sons	20	1	#81	–
276	Shake It Out Manchester Orchestra	20	1	#82	–
277	Too Fake Hockey	20	1	#82	–
278	Volet Hill Coldplay	20	1	#83	–
279	Sometimes Miami Horror	19	1	#82	–
280	Bonfire Third Eye Blind	19	1	#83	–
281	Burning Bridges K-OS	19	1	#84	–
282	Raindrops Basement Jaxx	18	1	#83	–
283	Geraldine Glasvegas	18	1	#84	–
284	Everywhere I Go Hollywood Undead	17	1	#85	–
285	Fairwell to the fairground White Lies	17	1	#26	–
286	Shadow of the Day Linkin Park	16	1	#77	–
287	Underdog Kasabian	16	1	#85	–
288	G.L.O.W. The Smashing Pumpkins	16	1	#86	–
289	Satellite Heart Anya Marina	16	1	#86	–
290	Your English is Good Tokyo Police Club	16	1	#87	–
291	Too Many Dicks (On the Dance Floor) Flight of the Conchords	15	1	#86	–
292	Lightning Storm Flogging Molly	15	1	#87	–
293	A Moment of Surrender U2	15	1	#87	–
294	The Darkest Side The Middle East	14	1	#87	–
295	Desolation Row My Chemical Romance	14	1	#88	–
296	Percussion Gun White Rabbits	14	1	#88	–
297	All Empires Fall The Waking Eyes	14	1	#89	–
298	Mad love sweet love A Brand	13	1	#27	–
299	Creeping Out Sara NOFX	13	1	#88	–
300	Skinny Love Bon Iver	13	1	#89	–
301	I Like You So Much… Ida Maria	12	1	#81	–
302	D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune) Jay-Z	12	1	#89	–
303	Born and Raised Alexisonfire	12	1	#91	–
304	Kiss with a Fist Florence And The Machine	11	1	#90	–
305	Forever In Your Hands All That Remains	11	1	#91	–
306	Relator Pete Yorn	11	1	#91	–
307	Is it Triggerfinger	10	1	#28	–
308	Death of Me Red	10	1	#92	–
309	Graffiti Eyes Stellastarr*	10	1	#92	–
310	Pullin' Punches Arkells	10	1	#93	–
311	Skeleton Boy Friendly Fires	9	1	#92	–
312	Missing Cleveland Scott Weiland	9	1	#93	–
313	Thump Bertie Blackman	8	1	#93	–
314	Crack the Shutters Snow Patrol	8	1	#94	–
315	Put the Phone Down Pilot Speed	8	1	#95	–
316	The Western World Pennywise	8	1	#85	–
317	Blue Lips Regina Spektor	7	1	#94	–
318	Out of the Blue Julian Casablancas	7	1	#95	–
319	I Don't Care Apocalytica	7	1	#96	–
320	Wire to wire Razorlight	7	1	#29	–
321	True Faith Anberlin	7	1	#86	–
322	The Girl City And Colour	6	1	#97	–
323	Ghosts 'n' Stuff Deadmau5	5	1	#96	–
324	Greatest Man Who Ever Lived Weezer	5	1	#97	–
325	Laughing With Regina Spektor	4	1	#97	–
326	Changing Saosin	4	1	#98	–
327	My Love Was There The Junction	4	1	#99	–
328	Beautiful Theives AFI	3	1	#89	–
329	Crawl Kings of Leon	3	1	#99	–
330	Oscar Wilde Company of Thieves	3	1	#99	–
331	The Day That Never Comes Metallica	2	1	#100	–
332	Sick Bif Naked	2	1	#101	–
333	Fuck You Lily Allen	1	1	#101	–