Ranking: Every Alternative Rock No. 1 Hit From Worst to Best

  1. Beastie Boys – “Ch-Check It Out”
  2. Love and Rockets – “So Alive”
  3. Matchbox Twenty – “Push”
  4. U2 – “The Fly”
  5. Live – “Selling the Drama”
  6. Sting – “All This Time”
  7. Counting Crows – “Einstein on the Beach (For an Eggman)”
  8. R.E.M. – “Bang and Blame”
  9. Gin Blossoms – “Found Out About You”
  10. Imagine Dragons – “Radioactive”
  11. The Verve Pipe – “The Freshmen”
  12. Live – “Lakini’s Juice”
  13. Incubus – “Anna Molly”
  14. XTC – “The Mayor of Simpleton”
  15. Morrissey – “Tomorrow”
  16. Dishwalla – “Counting Blue Cars”
  17. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “Kings and Queens”
  18. Better Than Ezra – “Good”
  19. Audioslave – “Like a Stone”
  20. Death Cab for Cutie – “You Are a Tourist”
  21. U2 – “Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me”
  22. Alice in Chains – “Check My Brain”
  23. Pearl Jam – “World Wide Suicide”
  24. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Snow (Hey Oh)”
  25. The Mighty Mighty Bosstones – “The Impression That I Get”
  26. Fun featuring Janelle Monáe – “We Are Young”
  27. System of a Down – “Hypnotize”
  28. Soul Asylum – “Somebody to Shove”
  29. Cage the Elephant – “In One Ear”
  30. Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand”
  31. U2 – “Vertigo”
  32. Weezer – “Pork and Beans”
  33. Jane’s Addiction – “Just Because”
  34. Hoodoo Gurus – “Come Anytime”
  35. Crash Test Dummies – “Mmm, Mmm, Mmm, Mmm”
  36. Coldplay – “Adventure of a Lifetime”
  37. Vance Joy – “Riptide”
  38. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “This Is War”
  39. Semisonic – “Closing Time”
  40. 10,000 Maniacs – “These Are Days”
  41. The Replacements – “Merry Go Round”
  42. Milky Chance – “Stolen Dance”
  43. Bush – “Swallowed”
  44. Tears for Fears – “Sowing the Seeds of Love”
  45. Smash Mouth – “Walkin’ on the Sun”
  46. Kings of Leon – “Radioactive”
  47. Foo Fighters – “Something from Nothing”
  48. Suzanne Vega – “Blood Makes Noise”
  49. Lenny Kravitz – “Fly Away”
  50. Jesus Jones – “Right Here, Right Now”
  51. Foals – “Mountain at My Gates”
  52. Weezer – “Beverly Hills”
  53. Linkin Park – “New Divide”
  54. Midnight Oil – “Forgotten Years”
  55. Foo Fighters – “Long Road to Ruin”
  56. Green Day – “Know Your Enemy”
  57. Walk the Moon – “Shut Up and Dance”
  58. Neon Trees – “Animal”
  59. Everclear – “Everything to Everyone”
  60. Fastball – “The Way”
  61. The Church – “Metropolis”
  62. Soul Asylum – “Misery”
  63. Evanescence featuring Paul McCoy – “Bring Me to Life”
  64. Everlast – “What It’s Like”
  65. Peter Murphy – “Cuts You Up”
  66. Toad the Wet Sprocket – “Fall Down”
  67. Big Audio Dynamite – “Just Play Music!”
  68. AFI – “Miss Murder”
  69. U2 – “Discothèque”
  70. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Tell Me Baby”
  71. Electronic – “Get the Message”
  72. Midnight Oil – “Blue Sky Mine”
  73. Simple Minds – “See the Lights”
  74. Audioslave – “Be Yourself”
  75. Eve 6 – “Inside Out”
  76. Jesus Jones – “The Devil You Know”
  77. Happy Mondays – “Kinky Afro”
  78. Ian McCulloch – “Proud to Fall”
  79. 311 – “Down”
  80. Depeche Mode – “Walking in My Shoes”
  81. Linkin Park – “The Catalyst”
  82. Unwritten Law – “Seein’ Red”
  83. The Offspring – “You’re Gonna Go Far, Kid”
  84. Alien Ant Farm – “Smooth Criminal”
  85. Chumbawamba – “Tubthumping”
  86. Julian Cope – “Charlotte Anne”
  87. The B-52’s – “Channel Z”
  88. Muse – “Dead Inside”
  89. Tears for Fears – “Break It Down Again”
  90. Fuel – “Hemorrhage (In My Hands)”
  91. Public Image Ltd. – “Disappointed”
  92. Staind – “It’s Been Awhile”
  93. Green Day – “Boulevard of Broken Dreams”
  94. Papa Roach – “Last Resort”
  95. The Cure – “Never Enough”
  96. Hoobastank – “The Reason”
  97. Linkin Park – “Somewhere I Belong”
  98. Lit – “My Own Worst Enemy”
  99. The Lemonheads – “Into Your Arms”
  100. Goo Goo Dolls – “Slide”
  101. Barenaked Ladies – “One Week”
  102. Chevelle – “Send the Pain Below”
  103. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie”
  104. Linkin Park – “What I’ve Done”
  105. Sugar Ray – “Every Morning”
  106. Crash Kings – “Mountain Man”
  107. Fun – “Some Nights”
  108. Muse – “Resistance”
  109. Lifehouse – “Hanging by a Moment”
  110. Stone Temple Pilots – “Between the Lines”
  111. A Perfect Circle – “Weak and Powerless”
  112. Puddle of Mudd – “Blurry”
  113. 311 – “Love Song”
  114. Elvis Costello – “The Other Side of Summer”
  115. Linkin Park – “Lying from You”
  116. Fitz and The Tantrums – “Out of My League”
  117. Mumford & Sons – “Believe”
  118. Thirty Seconds to Mars – “From Yesterday”
  119. Finger Eleven – “Paralyzer”
  120. Sugar Ray – “Fly”
  121. Alex Clare – “Too Close”
  122. Anberlin – “Feel Good Drag”
  123. Staind – “So Far Away”
  124. Twenty One Pilots – “Stressed Out”
  125. Limp Bizkit – “Re-Arranged”
  126. Sum 41 – “Fat Lip”
  127. Bush – “The Sound of Winter”
  128. The B-52’s – “Good Stuff”
  129. Grouplove – “Tongue Tied”
  130. The Offspring – “Hit That”
  131. Trapt – “Headstrong”
  132. X Ambassadors – “Renegades”
  133. Nothing but Thieves – “Trip Switch”
  134. Incubus – “Love Hurts”
  135. Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Dani California”
  136. Linkin Park – “Waiting for the End”
  137. Fitz and the Tantrums – “The Walker”
  138. Big Data featuring Joywave – “Dangerous”
  139. The Railway Children – “Every Beat of the Heart”
  140. Velvet Revolver – “Slither”
  141. The Neighbourhood – “Sweater Weather”
  142. Three Days Grace – “Just Like You”
  143. Jet – “Cold Hard Bitch”
  144. 3 Doors Down – “Kryptonite”
  145. Kongos – “Come with Me Now”
  146. The Dirty Heads featuring Rome Ramirez – “Lay Me Down”
  147. Linkin Park – “Burn It Down”
  148. The Sisters of Mercy – “More”
  149. Saliva – “Always”
  150. David J – “I’ll Be Your Chauffeur”
  151. Three Days Grace – “Animal I Have Become”
  152. Chad Kroeger featuring Josey Scott – “Hero”
  153. Capital Cities – “Safe and Sound”
  154. Shinedown – “Second Chance”
  155. Seether – “Rise Above This”
  156. Creed – “Higher”
  157. Crazy Town – “Butterfly”
  158. Linkin Park – “Breaking the Habit”
  159. Three Days Grace – “Pain”
  160. 10 Years – “Wasteland”
  161. Nickelback – “How You Remind Me”
  162. P.O.D. – “Youth of the Nation”
  163. Staind – “Believe”
  164. Puddle of Mudd – “Psycho”
  165. Seether – “Fake It”
  166. Awolnation – “Hollow Moon (Bad Wolf)”
  167. Gene Loves Jezebel – “Jealous”
  168. Lostprophets – “Last Train Home”
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