Billboard Modern Rock Number One Hits: 2001

can you explain nu-metal to me, crut, I'm lol-old.

when i worked at a modern rock station, someone called up and requested Korn, but me & my friend who was answering the phone for me hadn't heard of them, so he was all, "Korn? The vegetable? Uh, I don't think it's in season right now."

you know what, i don't have a problem with this stuff being discussed here.

In the End... there's only one thing to vote for.

I completely forgot "Drive" existed tbh, despite the fact that I heard it played nearly every hour during 2001-2002

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Fat Lip > Smooth Criminal > Hemorrhage > In The End > Butterfly > Drive > How You Remind Me > Hanging By A Moment > It's Been A While

9/10 = http://www.djrayz.com/images/blends/butterfly.jpg

dude this is like the only time I would ever vote Crazy Town

"How It Reminds Me" p much is ground zero for when rock radio stations became absolutely fucking intolerable

How have I not heard any of these?

how many of these were big hits (top ten) on pop radio? (crazy town i know was) how many were hits overseas?

the only other one of these i liked at the time was sum41, i came around to the linkin park eventually. i have thankfully forgotten most of the rest.

I know I'm gonna catch shit on this, but I can't really stand Linkin Park, at least their first album...

ha i don't think linkin park are a sacred cow around here, i think they've benefited here from ilxors generally leaning in favor of vague depeche mode descendants over aggro fratboys and white beatboxers w/ dreads.

ehhh...that's a bit of a stretch...

anyways, most of these were huge...I know in the summer of '01 I couldn't get away from the Staind song...

I was 19 at the time and I kinda liked nu-metal until about this time...another song that I hated: Papa Roach's "Last Resort". only bands from this period that I'll still fuck with are Deftones and System (how is Chop Suey not an option in this poll?)

how many of these were big hits (top ten) on pop radio? (crazy town i know was) how many were hits overseas?

― balls, Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:42 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

most of them were big pop hits (only ones that missed the top 10: Fuel, Sum 41 and Alien Ant Farm) and pretty much all of them seemed to be hits in at least a few other countries

how many of these were big hits (top ten) on pop radio? (crazy town i know was) how many were hits overseas?

Crazy Town - Butterfly
Sum 41 - Fat Lip
Alien Ant Farm - Smooth Criminal
Nickelback - How You Remind Me
Linkin Park - In The End

were all big hits here

pretty sure top 10 too

God what an awful collection of songs. I vote Incubus - Drive, as it's one of the only ones that's listenable.

I know I'm gonna catch shit on this, but I can't really stand Linkin Park, at least their first album...

― I may be wrong but I think his name is Husher (Drugs A. Money), Sunday, March 20, 2011 8:46 PM (18 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

dude I'll go ya one further and say fuck Linkin Park

Worst Modern Rock list of my lifetime, I gotta say.

only 9 #1s in 52 weeks?

are US charts based on airplay rather than sales based?

oddly I remember it well because it was the last year I didn't have a cd player in my car, and I had a 45 day drive to school each day, so I kinda flipped through the crappy local stations just to find tolerable songs, and I heard every one of these a million times over.

xp singles are kind of a weird concept around here...

i like all of these songs after the feul one

1. fat lip (best song ever)
2. hanging by a moment
3. smooth criminal
4. how you remind me
5. in the end
6. butterfly
7. drive
8. it's been a while
9. fuel

actually i don't really like the staind one

when did modern rock radio really start to die off? it's still going strong here but death was in the air no doubt. looking at that lineup i can't say i miss it.

hot 100 is based on a combination of airplay and sales w/ that ratio being adjusted every few years depending on how comfortable billboard is w/ how black the top ten is, i think the subcharts are more heavily (maybe totally?) weighed toward airplay. i go back and forth over whether i prefer brit style charts (more fun, fluid) vs american style charts (much much more accurate barometer of a song's popularity in the larger culture)(considering how small a portion of the population buys music airplay should be more heavily weighed if anything, and truth be told factors beyond airplay and sales should be entered into it)(eg it seems crazy that some station in idaho playing adele twenty times last week will be accounted for in the chart but however many million ppl watching rebecca black on youtube won't have any bearing).

airplay to me seems a bit more like big labels can buy chart placings. But I suppose if noone buys singles in the US it doesn't matter BUT, dont people buy from itunes or buy ringtones? That gets counted in sales here.

i'm pretty sure the genre charts like modern rock, hip hop/R&B are purely airplay

xxxp to balls: modern rock is still going on. check out:

nickelback "shakin hands" & "something in your mouth"
theory of a dead man, "i hate my life"
my darkest days, "porn star dancing"

just talk to underrated aerosmith albums i have loved; he's really into all that stuff...

theory of a dead man, "i hate my life"
my darkest days, "porn star dancing"

Never heard of,
and havent heard a nickelback song in many years.

buy a lottery ticket dude cause youre luckier than you know

i just live in another continent

we have our own shite

we just dont tend to have any sort of rock stations though i think kerrang radio/tv on digital plays the stuff mentioned in this thread.

but i dunno how many people have DAB radios

...a 45 day drive to school each day...

wow I'd get annoyed by the radio too!

sales gets accounted for, and the last time billboard tweaked the hot 100 ratio it was in favor of sales, justifiably since ppl were starting to buy singles alot more than they had in decades. the #1 spot saw ALOT more turnover as a result, now it takes a real EVENT single for something to do a four-five-six week run at #1 whereas in the 90s a multi-month turn at the top was the norm (understandably since from what i gather the airplay breakdown of #1 vs #2, #3, etc is comparable to benford's law)(now w/ pop stations having twenty song playlists and leaning heavily on the top five i wonder what the breakdown is, if it's still weighed so heavily to #1, even w/ #s 2,3,4 & 5 getting played every two hours also). big labels can buy chart placings regardless (small labels do it on the albums chart all the time), if you're looking for a chart that's for artists and fans and popgeeks the britchart is a better model but if you're looking for a chart that's trying to gauge a song's impact/presence in the larger culture during a certain week the billboard model is much much more accurate, if still highly flawed.

now it takes a real EVENT single for something to do a four-five-six week run at #1 whereas in the 90s a multi-month turn at the top was the norm

ain't this the truth; I still remember back in the day when Whitney Houston and Boyz II Men would sit on the top spot of the charts for a few months at a time...

whitney and bryan adams and wet wet wet had like 16 week runs each in the 90s here.

fucking film soundtracks

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okay holy shit how did i not know crüt was curt1s until now, wtf, is that rly the case?? O_O

you're not serious

Hey ilxor did you know that when Michael Jackson sang Man in the Mirror the man in the mirror was him?

haha i hate to admit it but i kinda-to-really like all these songs, even though in most cases i don't like any other songs i have heard by that artist

1) hanging by a moment
2) it's been awhile
3) drive
4) in the end
5) smooth criminal
6) how you remind me
7) fat lip
8) butterfly
9) hemorrhage

admitting i like a staind song that much is probably the most embarrassing part of this post but oh well

and yes the genre billboard charts are purely airplay

so. bad. cannot vote.

Love 3 of these. Hate the other 6.

Stop making 2001 sound like a bad year with this crap.

if you don't like at least 2 songs on this list, you're probably fronting

lol ilxor

I'll accept "Butterfly" because I like the bass sample.. I don't especially hate any of these but I have no immediate desire to hear any of them ever again.

In The End > Butterfly > Smooth Criminal > Drive > It's Been Awhile > Fat Lip > How You Remind Me > Hanging By A Moment/Hemorrhage (In My Hands) (can't figure out which one is more mediocre)

Stop making 2001 sound like a bad year with this crap.

srsly

Ur right J0rdan; fat lip, drive and the jacko cover do not make me wanna claw my own face off.

And I'm a dude who could POX: Korn today if you'd like

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Fuel - Hemorrhage (In My Hands) 1

gtfo

love how rap-rock decisively dominated the poll results

Was 2001 really this horrible???

Hmmm...... No... It wasn't.....

Has anybody pointed out that two of these actually placed on the Pazz & Jop singles list that year?

33. OutKast: "The Whole World" (Arista) 18
R.E.M.: "Imitation of Life" (Warner Bros.) 18
Sum 41: "Fat Lip" (Island) 18
The White Stripes: "Hotel Yorba" (Sympathy for the Record Industry) 18
37. The Soggy Bottom Boys: "I Am a Man of Constant Sorrow" (Mercury) 17
38. N.E.R.D.: "Lapdance" (Virgin) 16
39. Sunshine Anderson: "Heard It All Before" (Atlantic) 15
Nickelback: "How You Remind Me" (Roadrunner) 15

I remember hearing about when Sum 41 played some New Year's 2002 bash for I think MTV...at midnight they announced they were going to play the Canadian National Anthem, and broke into a cover of "How You Remind Me"

loooooool

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wonder how long its been since "modern rock" radio played Nickelback

according to wiki their last charting single at the format was from 2011 and the last one that went top 10 at the format was from 2008