# List of Billboard Modern Rock Tracks number ones of the 2000s

Alternative Airplay is a record chart published by the music industry magazine Billboard that ranks the most-played songs on American modern rock radio stations. It was introduced by Billboard in September 1988. During the 2000s, the chart was based on electronically monitored airplay data compiled by Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems from a panel of national rock radio stations, with songs being ranked by their total number of spins per week. The chart was known as Modern Rock Tracks until June 2009, when it was renamed Alternative Songs in order to "better [reflect] the descriptor used among those in the [modern rock radio] format."
106 songs topped the chart in the 2000s; the first was "All the Small Things" by Blink-182, while the last was "Uprising" by Muse. "The Pretender" by Foo Fighters spent eighteen weeks atop the chart in 2007—the most for any song during the decade—and broke the previous all-time record for most weeks at number one set by "Scar Tissue" by Red Hot Chili Peppers in 1999 and later tied by "It's Been Awhile" by Staind in 2001 and "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" by Green Day in 2005.
The top song of the 2000s on Billboard's Alternative Songs decade-end list was "Headstrong" by Trapt, which topped the chart for three weeks and was also its year-end number-one song for 2003. The decade-end top Alternative Songs artist was Linkin Park, who scored eight number-one songs—"In the End", "Somewhere I Belong", "Faint", "Numb", "Lying from You", "Breaking the Habit", "What I've Done" and "New Divide"—and spent a record sixty-two weeks atop the chart during the 2000s.

## Number-one songs
### Key

    † – Billboard year-end number-one song
    ‡ – Billboard decade-end number-one song
    ↑ – Return of a song to number one
| Song | Artist | Reached number one | Weeks at number one |
| "All the Small Things" | Blink-182 | December 25, 1999 | 8 |
| "Otherside" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | February 19, 2000 | 13 |
| "Kryptonite" † | 3 Doors Down | May 20, 2000 | 11 |
| "Last Resort" | Papa Roach | August 5, 2000 | 1 |
| "Californication" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | August 12, 2000 | 1 |
| "Last Resort" ↑ | Papa Roach | August 19, 2000 | 6 |
| "Minority" | Green Day | September 30, 2000 | 5 |
| "Hemorrhage (In My Hands)" | Fuel | November 4, 2000 | 12 |
| "Hanging by a Moment" | Lifehouse | January 27, 2001 | 3 |
| "Butterfly" | Crazy Town | February 17, 2001 | 2 |
| "Drive" † | Incubus | March 3, 2001 | 8 |
| "It's Been Awhile" | Staind | April 28, 2001 | 16 |
| "Fat Lip" | Sum 41 | August 18, 2001 | 1 |
| "Smooth Criminal" | Alien Ant Farm | August 25, 2001 | 4 |
| "How You Remind Me" | Nickelback | September 22, 2001 | 13 |
| "In the End" | Linkin Park | December 22, 2001 | 5 |
| "Blurry" † | Puddle of Mudd | January 26, 2002 | 9 |
| "Youth of the Nation" | P.O.D. | March 30, 2002 | 2 |
| "The Middle" | Jimmy Eat World | April 13, 2002 | 4 |
| "Seein' Red" | Unwritten Law | May 11, 2002 | 4 |
| "Hero" | Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott | June 8, 2002 | 3 |
| "By the Way" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | June 29, 2002 | 14 |
| "Aerials" | System of a Down | October 5, 2002 | 3 |
| "You Know You're Right" | Nirvana | October 26, 2002 | 4 |
| "All My Life" | Foo Fighters | November 23, 2002 | 10 |
| "Always" | Saliva | February 1, 2003 | 1 |
| "No One Knows" | Queens of the Stone Age | February 8, 2003 | 4 |
| "Can't Stop" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | March 8, 2003 | 3 |
| "Bring Me to Life" | Evanescence | March 29, 2003 | 2 |
| "Somewhere I Belong" | Linkin Park | April 12, 2003 | 5 |
| "Like a Stone" | Audioslave | May 17, 2003 | 2 |
| "Headstrong" † ‡ | Trapt | May 31, 2003 | 5 |
| "Send the Pain Below" | Chevelle | July 5, 2003 | 1 |
| "Seven Nation Army" | The White Stripes | July 12, 2003 | 3 |
| "Just Because" | Jane's Addiction | August 2, 2003 | 1 |
| "Faint" | Linkin Park | August 9, 2003 | 6 |
| "So Far Away" | Staind | September 20, 2003 | 6 |
| "Weak and Powerless" | A Perfect Circle | November 1, 2003 | 2 |
| "So Far Away" ↑ | Staind | November 15, 2003 | 1 |
| "Numb" | Linkin Park | November 22, 2003 | 12 |
| "Hit That" | The Offspring | February 14, 2004 | 1 |
| "Megalomaniac" † | Incubus | February 21, 2004 | 6 |
| "I Miss You" | Blink-182 | April 3, 2004 | 2 |
| "The Reason" | Hoobastank | April 17, 2004 | 1 |
| "Last Train Home" | Lostprophets | April 24, 2004 | 1 |
| "Love Song" | 311 | May 1, 2004 | 1 |
| "Cold Hard Bitch" | Jet | May 8, 2004 | 3 |
| "Lying from You" | Linkin Park | May 29, 2004 | 3 |
| "Ch-Check It Out" | Beastie Boys | June 19, 2004 | 2 |
| "Slither" | Velvet Revolver | July 3, 2004 | 4 |
| "Float On" | Modest Mouse | July 31, 2004 | 1 |
| "Just Like You" | Three Days Grace | August 7, 2004 | 3 |
| "Breaking the Habit" | Linkin Park | August 28, 2004 | 4 |
| "American Idiot" | Green Day | September 25, 2004 | 6 |
| "Vertigo" | U2 | November 6, 2004 | 4 |
| "Pain" | Jimmy Eat World | December 4, 2004 | 1 |
| "Boulevard of Broken Dreams" | Green Day | December 11, 2004 | 16 |
| "E-Pro" | Beck | April 2, 2005 | 1 |
| "Be Yourself" | Audioslave | April 9, 2005 | 4 |
| "Holiday" | Green Day | May 7, 2005 | 3 |
| "The Hand That Feeds" | Nine Inch Nails | May 28, 2005 | 5 |
| "Beverly Hills" | Weezer | July 2, 2005 | 1 |
| "Best of You" † | Foo Fighters | July 9, 2005 | 7 |
| "Feel Good Inc." | Gorillaz | August 27, 2005 | 8 |
| "Only" | Nine Inch Nails | October 22, 2005 | 5 |
| "DOA" | Foo Fighters | November 26, 2005 | 2 |
| "Only" ↑ | Nine Inch Nails | December 10, 2005 | 2 |
| "DOA" ↑ | Foo Fighters | December 24, 2005 | 4 |
| "Hypnotize" | System of a Down | January 21, 2006 | 1 |
| "Perfect Situation" | Weezer | January 28, 2006 | 4 |
| "Wasteland" | 10 Years | February 25, 2006 | 1 |
| "Every Day Is Exactly the Same" | Nine Inch Nails | March 4, 2006 | 4 |
| "World Wide Suicide" | Pearl Jam | April 1, 2006 | 3 |
| "Dani California" † | Red Hot Chili Peppers | April 22, 2006 | 14 |
| "Steady, As She Goes" | The Raconteurs | July 29, 2006 | 1 |
| "Miss Murder" | AFI | August 5, 2006 | 5 |
| "Animal I Have Become" | Three Days Grace | September 9, 2006 | 2 |
| "Tell Me Baby" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | September 23, 2006 | 4 |
| "When You Were Young" | The Killers | October 21, 2006 | 2 |
| "Welcome to the Black Parade" | My Chemical Romance | November 4, 2006 | 7 |
| "Anna Molly" | Incubus | December 23, 2006 | 5 |
| "Snow (Hey Oh)" | Red Hot Chili Peppers | January 27, 2007 | 5 |
| "Pain" | Three Days Grace | March 3, 2007 | 4 |
| "From Yesterday" | Thirty Seconds to Mars | March 31, 2007 | 2 |
| "Survivalism" | Nine Inch Nails | April 14, 2007 | 1 |
| "What I've Done" † | Linkin Park | April 21, 2007 | 15 |
| "Icky Thump" | The White Stripes | August 4, 2007 | 3 |
| "Paralyzer" | Finger Eleven | August 25, 2007 | 1 |
| "The Pretender" | Foo Fighters | September 1, 2007 | 18 |
| "Fake It" | Seether | January 5, 2008 | 8 |
| "Long Road to Ruin" | Foo Fighters | March 1, 2008 | 7 |
| "Psycho" | Puddle of Mudd | April 19, 2008 | 2 |
| "Rise Above This" | Seether | May 3, 2008 | 2 |
| "Pork and Beans" | Weezer | May 17, 2008 | 11 |
| "Let It Die" † | Foo Fighters | August 2, 2008 | 4 |
| "Viva la Vida" | Coldplay | August 30, 2008 | 2 |
| "Believe" | Staind | September 13, 2008 | 3 |
| "You're Gonna Go Far, Kid" | The Offspring | October 4, 2008 | 11 |
| "Sex on Fire" | Kings of Leon | December 20, 2008 | 8 |
| "Second Chance" | Shinedown | February 14, 2009 | 1 |
| "Love Hurts" | Incubus | February 21, 2009 | 1 |
| "Second Chance" ↑ | Shinedown | February 28, 2009 | 2 |
| "Love Hurts" ↑ | Incubus | March 14, 2009 | 2 |
| "Brother" | Pearl Jam | March 28, 2009 | 2 |
| "Use Somebody" † | Kings of Leon | April 11, 2009 | 3 |
| "Feel Good Drag" | Anberlin | May 2, 2009 | 1 |
| "Know Your Enemy" | Green Day | May 9, 2009 | 6 |
| "New Divide" | Linkin Park | June 20, 2009 | 1 |
| "Panic Switch" | Silversun Pickups | June 27, 2009 | 1 |
| "New Divide" ↑ | Linkin Park | July 4, 2009 | 11 |
| "Notion" | Kings of Leon | September 19, 2009 | 1 |
| "Uprising" | Muse | September 26, 2009 | 2 |
| "Check My Brain" | Alice in Chains | October 10, 2009 | 1 |
| "Uprising" ↑ | Muse | October 17, 2009 | 15 |