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Rock Rips Top 50 of 2011

Pos Song Artist Peak Notes
1 Croatian BandStigmata Omega Lithium 1 6 wks at #1
2 Dutch BandFaster Within Temptation 1 6 wks at #1
3 US BandFamiliar Taste of Poison Halestorm 1 4 wks at #1
4 Dutch BandShot in the Dark Within Temptation 1 3 wks at #1
5 US BandFinnish BandNot Strong Enough Apocalyptica/Brent Smith 1 4 wks at #1
6 Canadian BandSupposed to Be Default 1 3 wks at #1
7 Croatian BandDance With Me Omega Lithium 1 3 wks at #1
8 Aussie bandRiptide Sick Puppies 1 1 wks at #1
9 US bandUnbreakable Fireflight 1 2 wks at #1
10 Israeli BandPsychosomatic Tula 1 1 wks at #1
11 US BandPhotograph Chris Daughtry/Santana 1 1 wk at #1
12 US BandShed Some Light Halestorm 1 1 wk at #1
13 US bandI Am Only One We Are the Fallen 1 2 wks at #1
14 US BandOrdinary World Red 1 1 wk at #1
15 Canadian ArtistRain Rani Chatoorgoon 2 2 wks at #2
16 Finnish BandUS BandNot Strong Enough Apocalyptica/Doug Robb 1 1 wk at #1
17 Dutch BandWhere is the Edge? Within Temptation 1 2 wks at #1
18 Dutch bandThe Heart Demands Autumn 1 2 wks at #1
19 Belgian BandThe Beauty Must Die Skeptical Minds 1 1 wk at #1
20 Canadian BandSmile Avril Lavigne 1 1 wk at #1
21 US BandBury Me Alive We Are the Fallen 1 1 wk at #1
22 Dutch BandSinead Within Temptation 1 2 wks at #1
23 US BandThe Ballad of Mona Lisa Panic! At the Disco 1 1 wks at #1
24 Dutch BandNo More Nemesea 2 2 wk at #2
25 US BandDesperate Fireflight 2 2 wks at #2
26 US BandThe Crow and the Butterfly Shinedown 1 1 wk at #1
27 US BandTear the World Down We Are the Fallen 3
28 German bandUnser Stolz Borussia (Die BVB Hymne 2011) Krypteria 1 1 wks at #1
29 US BandCome Undone Cavo/Shannon Nicole 1 1 wks at #1
30 German BandLive to Fight Another Day Krypteria 1 1 wks at #1
31 German bandMagic Taborea Van Canto 3
32 Polish ArtistDivided Delight 2 2 wks at #2
33 US BandWith or Without You We Are the Fallen 2 2 wks at #2
34 Finnish BandEnough Tarja 2 2 wks at #2
35 Swedish BandHeroines Diablo Swing Orchestra 5
36 US BandFinnish BandBroken Pieces Apocalyptica/Lacey Mosley 3
37 Croatian BandColossus Omega Lithium 2 2 wks at #2
38 UK bandExogenesis Symphony Muse 6
39 US BandTogether Again Evanescence 3
40 Finnish BandEverything but You Manzana 4
41 Italian Band Just Dance Vanilla Sky 5
42 Dutch BandNothing Left Delain 4
43 US BandAll I Need to Be Fireflight 4
44 US BandAustralian artist The Letter Hoobastank/Vanessa Amorosi 4
45 US BandShed Some Light Shinedown/Lzzy Hale 4
46 US BandFixed at Zero VersaEmerge 5
47 US BandJourney City of Hope 5
48 Russian BandAngel O.K. SLOT 5
49 US BandFigure it Out VersaEmerge 7
50 US BandHey You Heart 6
Without a doubt, 2011 was Within Temptation's year! After reaching #1 with three hits between 2008 and 2009, they came back even bigger with a new CD that placed four #1s at the top. And not in a small way, either - all together, those four #1s added up to 13 weeks at the top. That's ¼ of the year! Other bands had a great year, too. Like Apocalyptica, who added three top 10s and two more #1s to their collection. Krypteria also reached the top not once but twice. Both Halestorm and newcomers We Are the Fallen had four hits including two #1s, and Fireflight garnered four top 10s, with one reaching the top. Hoobastank returned from hiatus with 4 charted hits. Red landed 6, with one going to #1. SLOT charted 5 times and Tarja 6 times. Croatia's Omega Lithium, who crown our chart, proved they're not a flash in the pan by placing another #1 and a #2 on our year-end chart. And no less notable is chart long-timer Avril Lavigne, who earned her very first #1 in 2011.

Omega LithiumWithin TemptationHalestorm
ApocalypticaDefaultSick Puppies

Chart facts: This year-end chart of the top 50 songs of 2011 is represented by hits from 14 countries (14 US, 7 Netherlands, 5 Finland, 3 Canada, 3 Germany, 3 Croatia, 2 Australia; and 1 each from UK, Belgium, Italy, Russia, Poland, Sweden, and Israel.).

10 artists have more than one entry: Omega Lithium is at #1, #7 and #37; Within Temptation is at #2, #4, #17 and #22; We Are the Fallen is at #13, #21 and #33. Apocalyptica is at #5, #16 and #36, Fireflight is at #9, #25 and #43, Halestorm is at #3 and #12, Shinedown is at #26 and #45, Krypteria is at #28 and #30, VersaEmerge is at #46 and #49, and Brent Smith, who only appeared solo as a featured artist, is at #5 and #12.

Other minutiae:
  • 11 artists from last year's top 50 are back this year: Halestorm, Muse, Shinedown, Autumn, SLOT, Apocalyptica, Lacuna Coil, Manzana, Default, Van Canto and Krypteria.
  • There are 6 remakes: "Photograph," "Shed Some Light," "Not Strong Enough," "With or Without You," "Ordinary World," and "Come Undone."
  • There were 26 #1s and 7 #2s.
  • There are 8-multi-act entries: Apocalyptica with Brent Smith, with Doug Robb, and with Lacey Mosley; Santana and Chris Daughtry; Cavo and Shannon Nicole; Halestorm and Brent Smith, Shinedown and Lzzy Hale; and Hoobastank with Vanessa Amorosi. Four are multi-national collaborations.
  • The lowest peaking song is "Figure it Out," which reached #7.
  • 11 artists are here with their first charted hit. 3 are in our top 10.
  • There is 1 foreign language song, 1 from a soundtrack, and 4 Christian rock hits on our chart.
  • 40 songs have a female presence.
  • "Stigmata" debuted at #4, and "Shot in the Dark" at #7.