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The best hard rock songs of 2009

One radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2009: 94.3 KILO. Combining every list, the top hard rock song of 2009 is “I Will Not Bow” by Breaking Benjamin, which appeared on one of the one countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Mudvayne was the year’s most-charted artist, with three different songs placing 3 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2009

Ranked by combined points across every 2009 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

# Song Strength Lists Best #1s
1 I Will Not Bow Breaking Benjamin
100		 1 #1 1
2 Hard to See Five Finger Death Punch
98		 1 #2 –
3 Break Three Days Grace
96		 1 #3 –
4 You're Going Down Sick Puppies
94		 1 #4 –
5 Sound of Madness Shinedown
92		 1 #5 –
6 The Night Disturbed
90		 1 #6 –
7 Two Weeks All That Remains
88		 1 #7 –
8 Savior Rise Against
86		 1 #8 –
9 Scarlet Letters Mudvayne
84		 1 #9 –
10 Again Flyleaf
82		 1 #10 –
11 Monster Skillet
80		 1 #11 –
12 Hunt You Down Saliva
78		 1 #12 –
13 Scream With Me Mudvayne
76		 1 #13 –
14 What Rob Zombie
74		 1 #14 –
15 Burn It to the Ground Nickelback
72		 1 #15 –
16 Invincible Adelitas Way
70		 1 #16 –
17 No One Gets Left Behind Five Finger Death Punch
68		 1 #17 –
18 So Long, Goodbye 10 Years
66		 1 #18 –
19 37 Stitches Drowning Pool
64		 1 #19 –
20 Jars Chevelle
62		 1 #20 –
21 Beautiful and Strange Mudvayne
60		 1 #21 –
22 Fire It Up Thousand Foot Krutch
58		 1 #22 –
23 One Night Stand Divide The Day
56		 1 #23 –
24 All Nightmare Long Metallica
54		 1 #24 –
25 Forever In Your Hands All That Remains
52		 1 #25 –
26 Whiskey Hangover Godsmack
50		 1 #26 –
27 Your Decision Alice In Chains
48		 1 #27 –
28 A Looking in View Alice In Chains
46		 1 #28 –
29 Contagious Trapt
44		 1 #29 –
30 Champagne Cavo
42		 1 #30 –
31 Check My Brain Alice In Chains
40		 1 #31 –
32 Z28 Static-X
38		 1 #32 –
33 New Divide Linkin Park
36		 1 #33 –
34 Shame Drowning Pool
34		 1 #34 –
35 Coming Undone Tantric
32		 1 #35 –
36 Mess of Me Switchfoot
30		 1 #36 –
37 Dragonfly Shaman's Harvest
28		 1 #37 –
38 Seasons Veer Union
26		 1 #38 –
39 Actions and Motives 10 Years
24		 1 #39 –
40 Letter From a Thief Chevelle
22		 1 #40 –
41 Renegade Hed P.E.
20		 1 #41 –
42 Inside Sevendust
18		 1 #42 –
43 Four Rusted Horses Marilyn Manson
16		 1 #43 –
44 Overcome Creed
14		 1 #44 –
45 Smash the Control Machine OTEP
12		 1 #45 –
46 Oblivion Mastodon
10		 1 #46 –
47 Step Up (I'm on It) Maylene and The Sons of Disaster
8		 1 #47 –
48 Stingray Static-X
6		 1 #48 –
49 Armageddon Marilyn Manson
4		 1 #49 –
50 Everywhere I Go Hollywood Undead
2		 1 #50 –

Every station’s number one of 2009

StationNumber one songCountdown
94.3 KILO Everywhere I Go Hollywood Undead KILO Top 50 of 2009

All 2009 countdowns in this ranking

About the 2009 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 2009 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 hard rock results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.