2009 was a weird year for rock station year end countdowns. Several stations that have been doing them for years skipped this year -- and maybe are discontinuing forever -- KITS in San Francisco, KNDD in Seattle, KGSR in Austin all discontinued their longrunning countdowns. Even KROQ downsized its countdown to 20 (they did top 20s for each year of the last decade) KNDD also substituted a top 100 of the '00's for its yearly countdown, as did Canadian alt rocker CJZN.
XETRA out of Tijuana, Mexico (with studios in San Diego) is a station that has been doing countdowns for years and they didn't let us down this year.
1. Use Somebody -- Kings of Leon
2. Kids -- MGMT
3. Ain't No Rest for the Wicked -- Cage the Elephant
4. Savior -- Rise Against
5. Panic Switch -- Silversun Pickups
6. Pany -- Far
7. New Divide -- Linkin Park
8. The Feel Good Drag -- Anberlin
9. Uprising -- Muse
10. Second Chance -- Shinedown
11. 21 Guns -- Green Day
12. Medicate -- AFI
13. Fireflies -- Owl City
14. Black Heart Inertia -- Incubus
15. Meet Me On the Equinox -- Death Cab for Cutie
16. 1901 -- Phoenix
17. Spaceman -- The Killers
18. (If You're Wondering If I Want You To) I Want You To -- Weezer
19. I Love College -- Asher Roth
20. Know Your Enemy -- Green Day
21. Undead -- Hollywood Undead
22. Audience of One -- Rise Agaisnt
23. Ignorance -- Paramore
24. Supermassive Black Hole -- Muse
25. Say Hey (I Love You) -- Michael Franti & Spearhead
26. Sex on Fire -- Kings of Leon
27. Kings and Queens -- 30 Seconds to Mars
28. Check My Brain -- Alice in Chains
29. Just Breathe -- Pearl Jam
30. No You Girls -- Franz Ferdindand
31. Back Agaisnt the Wall -- Cage the Elephant
32. Help, I'm Alive -- Metric
33. Sometime Around Midnight -- Airborne Toxic Event
34. Breaking -- Anberlin
35. Wrong -- Depeche Mode
36. Decode -- Paramore
37. The Fixer -- Pearl Jam
38. Mess of Me -- Switchfoot
39. Notion -- Kings of Leon
40. You're Gonna Go Far Kid -- The Offspring
41. One Day -- Matishyahu
42. For What It's Worth -- Placebo
43. Ride to California -- Paper Tongues
44. Last One to Die- Rancid
45. I Would Do For You -- Slightly Stoopid
46. Slow Poison -- The Bravery
47. East Jesus Nowhere -- Green Day
48. Lifeline -- Papa Roach
49. Re-Education (Through Labor) -- Rise Against
50. Vida La Vida -- Coldplay
51. I Don't Care -- Apocalyptica feat. Adam Gontier
52. Take Me Home -- After Midnight Project
53. To Lose My Life -- White Lies
54. 100 Little Curses -- Street Sweeper Social Club
55. Ulysses -- Franz Ferdinand
56. Substitution -- Silversun Pickups
57. Hey You -- 311
58. Electric Feel --MGMT
59. Heartless -- The Fray
60. Wishing Well -- Airborne Toxic Event
61. Wheels -- Foo Fighters
62. Sink Into Me -- Taking Back Sunday
63. Pork and Beans -- Weezer
64. Daylight -- Matt and Kim
65. New Dark Ages -- Bad Religion
66. In This City -- Iglu & Hartly
67. 2 AM -- Slightly Stoopid
68. Brother -- Pearl Jam
69. Human -- The Killers
70. Sinner -- Big B feat. Scott Russo
71. Die For You -- Pennywise
72. Wake Up -- Arcade Fire
73. If Rap Gets Jeolous -- K'naan
74. United States of Eurasia -- Muse
75. Hammerhead -- The Offspring
76. A Dustland Fairytale -- The Killers
77. Shadow of the Day -- Linkin Park
78. New Fang -- Them Crooked Vultures
79. If You Only Knew -- Shinedown
80. Time to Pretend -- MGMT
81. I Like You So Much Better When You're Naked -- Ida Maria
82. Crawl Back In -- Dead By Sunrise
83. Break -- Three Days Grace
84. Grapevine Fires -- Death Cab for Cutie
85. The Western World -- Pennywise
86. True Faith -- Anberlin
87. Resistance -- Muse
88. Jars -- Chevelle
89. Beautiful Thieves -- AFI
90. Wannabe in L.A. -- Eagles of Death Metal
91. Again -- Flyleaf
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The reason they have stopped is because radio stations; since the dee jays are no longer responsible for playlists, only play a bout 20-30 new alt rock songs all year. In fact radio atations all over the U.S. play fewer songs each year. The goodold days of radio are behind us.
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