Below is a list of not all #1s on the chart, but of all those that ended up #1 for the year. Beginning when the chart began in 2000, right up until 2025 - a full 25 years of the best of the best!
| Year |
Song and Artist |
Weeks at #1 |
Notes |
| 2000 |
Fuel - Hemorrhage in my Hands |
7 weeks |
Their first song on our chart, and their biggest. |
| 2001 |
Incubus - Drive |
6 weeks |
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| 2002 |
Puddle of Mudd - Blurry |
5 weeks |
Although they were everywhere back in their day, the band charted 11 songs, 4 of them #1s, and then disappeared after 2012. |
| 2003 |
Matthew Good - Weapon |
7 weeks |
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| 2004 |
Seether & Amy Lee - Broken |
7 weeks |
Remember when Amy and Shaun were a couple? And then they had that bitter breakup and she wrote "Call Me When You're Sober" about it? This was at the beginning of the relationship. |
| 2005 |
Span - Stay As You Are |
7 weeks |
From Norway, this is the Rock Rips equivalent of a 1-hit wonder. Still, they proved that bands off North America could have big hits - and it's been that way ever since. Picked up from being features in an ad for the Nissan Xterra. |
| 2006 |
Evanescence - Call Me When You're Sober |
8 weeks |
Still the reigning song for weeks at #1, and an awesome breakup song. (Listen to 2004's song above. Note the first line of the song. Then listen to just after the end of this song.) |
| 2007 |
Daughtry - It's Not Over |
5 weeks |
A semi-finalist on American Idol season 4, Daughtry's success was not weighed by his success on the show. His first CD landed 5 #1s and 7 charted songs, a record at that time which was not eclipsed until recently. He continues to hit the charts, landing his most recent #1 in 2024. |
| 2008 |
Within Temptation & Keith Caputo - What Have You Done? |
6 weeks |
A visceral roller-coaster with additional vocals from Keith Caputo, this is their biggest hit to date. The band has more #1s and more weeks at #1 than any other on Rock Rips. |
| 2009 |
Epica - Never Enough |
5 weeks |
Note the trend to symphonic metal. Epica continued that trend. |
| 2010 |
Elis - I Come Undone |
5 weeks |
This band, from the tiny country of Liechtenstein, landed 5 songs on the chart, two of which reached #1. They evolved into Zirkonium and then Call of Silence and have been on hold ever since. |
| 2011 |
Omega Lithium - Stigmata |
6 weeks |
This Croation band splashed mightily onto the scene, taking eastern Europe by storm - and then dissolved a few years later.. |
| 2012 |
Sonata Arctica - I Have a Right |
4 weeks |
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| 2013 |
Halestorm - Here's to Us |
6 weeks |
Still their biggest hit to date, and covered on the TV series Glee (with more toned-down lyrics). |
| 2014 |
Nightwish - Ghost Love Score |
4 weeks |
Not their biggest hit, or even the one that spent the most time at #1, but this new version marked the addition of Floor Jansen and the world was never the same since... |
| 2015 |
Rainover - Rebirth |
5 weeks |
Embroiled in legal battles since 2021, this is one band you just ache to her new stuff from. |
| 2016 |
Semblant - What Lies Ahead |
7 weeks |
Their first and biggest hit, but they went on to have 6 more #1s and 6 other top 20s. |
| 2017 |
Sevi - On My Own |
7 weeks |
Another case of their frist and biggest, but still active and they've had 9 reach #1! |
| 2018 |
The Damn Truth - Love is Blindness |
6 weeks |
Emerging Canadian band cover of a U2 song. |
| 2019 |
Delain - Masters of Destiny |
6 weeks |
Perhaps their best performance, this song happened to be on the last album with Charlotte Wessels. |
| 2020 |
Chaos Magic - Like Never Before |
6 weeks |
Chaos Magic took us by storm, and earned six #1s and three #7 hits but haven't been heard form since 2023. |
| 2021 |
Amaranthe - Endlessly |
6 weeks |
This was their 6th #1, far eclipsing any before and none since. The song was written for the wedding of guitarist and bandmate Olof Mörck, and features footage from the actual event. be sure to look at the top comments - Harry Potter fans will get the joke from @AnthonyKravitz. |
| 2022 |
The Warning & Alessia Cara - Enter Sandman |
5 weeks |
Five weeks at the top was the first of their first 10 songs reaching #1! Now The Warning is headlining stadiums all over the world. An interesting collaboration of artists from Mexico and Canada. |
| 2023 |
The Dark Side of the Moon & Charlotte Wessels - May it Be |
5 weeks |
This hodepodge supergroup made up of band members from Amaranthe, Feuerschwanz, and Ad Infinitum just happens to feature Melissa Bonny and adds the voice of Charlotte Wessels, making it her second appearance in a year-end list along with 2019. The third cover of a Lord of the Rings or Hobbit song to reach #1, after Van Canto's version of "Into the West" in 2014, and Anaria's cover of "I See Fire" in 2016. |
| 2024 |
Xandria - Two Worlds |
4 weeks |
This is the biggest of their 7 charted songs from a single CD, of which 6 went to #1, earning the record for most successful CD. Perhaps even 7 #1s, if you include the 80's mix done by Canttias, which also went to #1. Xandria also became the firts band to grab both #1 and #2 on the year-end chart. |
| 2025 |
Xandria - Universal |
4 weeks |
Another record-breaker, not likely to be matched any time soon. From their follow-up EP, this made Xandria the frist band to not only get two year-end #1s, but two in a row! |
