Here are unofficial the top 100 songs of the 2000s on the Hot AC chart, based on peak positions. Ties were broken by an inverse point system. All chart data © Mediabase Research, but again these are not official rankings from them.
1. Wherever You Will Go – The Calling
2. Unwell – Matchbox Twenty
3. Bubbly – Colbie Caillat
4. Complicated – Avril Lavigne
5. Smooth – Santana/Rob Thomas (using only weeks at #1 in 2000)
6. Here without You – 3 Doors Down
7. Everything You Want – Vertical Horizon
8. Bad Day – Daniel Powter
9. Bent – Matchbox Twenty
10. This Love – Maroon 5
11. Photograph – Nickelback
12. How to Save a Life – Fray
13. You Found Me – Fray
14. She Will Be Loved – Maroon 5
15. I’m Yours – Jason Mraz
16. The Reason – Hoobastank
17. Game of Love, Santana f/ Michelle Branch
18. Use Somebody, Kings of Leon
19. Home – Daughtry
20. Drops of Jupiter (Tell Me) – Train
21. You and Me – Lifehouse
22. If You’re Gone – Matchbox Twenty
23. Love Song – Sarah Bareilles
24. Boulevard of Broken Dreams – Green Day
25. Lonely No More – Rob Thomas
26. I’m with You – Avril Lavigne
27. Bleeding Love – Leona Lewis
28. Why Don’t You & I? – Santana f/ Chad Kroeger (Alex Band)
29. With Arms Wide Open – Creed
30. Soak Up the Sun – Sheryl Crow
31. It’s Not Over – Daughtry
32. Big Girls Don’t Cry (Personal) – Fergie
33. Second Chance – Shinedown
34. Give a Little Bit – Goo Goo Dolls
35. Thankyou – Dido
36. Viva La Vida, Coldplay
37. Gotta Be Somebody – Nickelback
38. Hanging by a Moment – Lifehouse
39. Far Away – Nickelback
40. Black Horse & the Cherry Tree – KT Tunstall
41. If Everyone Cared – Nickelback
42. Already Gone – Kelly Clarkson (assuming Kelly remains at #1 for the remainder of 2009)
43. You’re Beautiful – James Blunt
44. Follow Me – Uncle Kracker
45. Behind These Hazel Eyes – Kelly Clarkson
46. Chasing Cars – Snow Patrol
47. Superman (It’s Not Easy) – Five for Fighting
48. Only Time – Enya
49. Calling All Angels – Train
50. Feels Light Tonight – Daughtry
51. Savin’ Me – Nickelback
52. Crazy – Gnarls Barkley
53. Sober – Pink
54. No Surprise – Daughtry
55. Again – Lenny Kravitz
56. My Immortal – Evanescence
57. It’s Not My Time – 3 Doors Down
58. Hot N cold – Katy Perry
59. When It’s Over – Sugar Ray
60. Wake Me Up When September Ends – Green Day
61. Breathe – Faith Hill
62. Hey There Delilah – Plain White T’s
63. Please Don’t Leave Me – Pink
64. Apologize – Timbaland f/ OneRepublic
65. Daughters – John Mayer
66. Her Diamonds – Rob Thomas
67. How You Remind Me – Nickelback
68. Who Knew – Pink
69. Makes Me Wonder – Maroon 5
70. Then the Morning Comes – Smash Mouth
71. Drift Away – Uncle Kracker f/ Dobie Gray
72. One Thing – Finger Eleven
73. The First Cut Is the Deepest – Sheryl Crow
74. Landslide – Dixie Chicks
75. Unwritten – Natasha Bedingfield
76. I Try – Macy Gray
77. Absolutely (Story of a Girl) – Nine Days
78. Heaven – Los Lonely Boys
79. Pinch Me – Barenaked Ladies
80. Underneath It All – No Doubt f/ Lady Saw
81. Because of You – Kelly Clarkson
82. If Today Was Your Last Day – Nickelback
83. A Thousand Miles – Vanessa Carlton
84. Waiting for the World to Change – John Mayer
85. Shattered (Turn the Car Around) – O.A.R.
86. One Last Breath – Creed,
87. Breakaway – Kelly Clarkson
88. Picture – Kid Rock f/ Sheryl Crow
89. You Belong with Me – Taylor Swift
90. Love Remains the Same – Gavin Rossdale
91. Sorry – Buckcherry
92. Ever the Same – Rob Thomas
93. The Sweet Escape – Gwen Stefani f/ Akon
94. So What – Pink
95. All Summer Long – Kid Rock
96. Meet Virginia – Train
97. The Middle – Jimmy Eat World
98. Where Are You Going – Dave Matthews Band
99. Gives You Hell – All-American Rejects
100. Since U Been Gone – Kelly Clarkson
