90% of these bands should fall off the earth. It's sad that the good 'Fuel' is tarnished by these assholes.

Yup, that pretty much sums that up. Yikes stripes. Although I can't hate Incubus.

8 bands on that list that I never even heard of. Judging from the rest of it, I think I'm better off.

Cut my life into pieces.

This list is hateful to the part of my brain which prizes quality over mediocrity, which is to say, all of it. This is why you don't let internet users make choices, folks. 'Cause they choose wrong. Also, what kind of a person visits billboard.com?

the list has limp bizkit on there, does not have any sort of hope for credibility...

"Modern Rock" is horrific. I find myself listening to top 40 radio over it on days I forget my iPod... the only rock station we have plays shit like Breaking Benjamin & Chevelle as well as lots of Bush songs & Orgy's cover of "Blue Monday." It's the new fucking millenium, is it necessary to play "Machine Head" three times a day & not any of the newer bands coming out?

There's so many typos in this article. Get a fucking editor, Billboard.

Ha! It's a bunch of nu-metal bands, and then, there at the end of the list, is Jack Johnson!

You guys realize this is the top selling bands right?

Puddle of Mudd. Cause they're the... "new Nirvana", right??

Billboard's or Kerrang's? Can't tell the difference.

I like to look on the bright side in that there is a good amount of tolerable bands on this list Green Day, White Stripes, Foo Fighters, JEW, RHCP, Rage and QOTSA. I guess Weezer. That being said most of the bands on this list even the awful ones hit their peak well before the 2000's.

Incubus used to be pretty fantastic.

I don't keep up with these things but was Jet ever popular beyond that single that ripped off Lust For Life (which in turn ripped off Phil Colins or some shit)?

Incubus is actually pretty good live

this is just stupid.

That fucking Staind song annoyed the hell out of me in middle school.

I wonder how many rapists are in that list.

I would buy these guys some beers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7W-2BJUveE

no Slackers?, No OWTH, No Dear Landlord?, booo to that-oldpunker-

Jack Johnson is a rock artist now?

nickelback at 5? you gotta be kidding, anyway the whole list is a joke but considering it was picked by 13 yo girls, well...

Popular Billboard bands are brutal, and are so by design. The whole intent of the record industry is to preserve the status quo of thoughtless culture and promote musical acts that do not threaten an existing structure. Remember when punk exploded in '94/'95? The music sold because it was the best product. However, when Rancid turned down $1.5 Million for the majors, and Brett wouldn't sell Epitaph for nine figures, and NOFX wouldn't provide MTV its videos, the industry had a real problem: it couldn't control the product. What if the independent, underground scene was allowed to prosper? What would happen to the power of the scumbag record label executives? The option of continuing to support punk rock through radio and television and absurb top 40 lists was simply unaccetable. A conscious decision was made to filter out support for a genre that had independent minded musicians who advocated independent thought. The major labels and radio stations and industry publications are so interconnected that they had to join together to protect their own interests: controlling product. Whether a song is good or not is totally irrelevant to the industry; the important criteria is control. Anyone who thinks music chart rankings are reflective of anything outside of marketing keeps their iPods loaded with hip hop, unce unce, and/or modern rock.

Dexters gonna be pissed that Green Day are above the Offspring

Shiiiiiiit........
Where do I start with this?
Obviously the mainstream is fucked and I'm well out of touch. I haven't really been forced to listen to nu-gayrock bands like Sether, Chevelle, etc. fortunately.
I can't understand how a band like 3 Days Grace (who I thought had like 1 hit song) could top Queens of the Stoneage. Staind - really? 2nd?? They'd have 1 hit song.... Puddle of mudd?.. 2 hits tops? Papa Roach? 1 hit?
It seems that this list is dominated by bands who had big singles early on in the decade when people actually still bought cds and paid for their music.
Its a good list to appraise for typical "headliner" bands as well as a gauge for the health of the music industry in general. All of this kind of music seems to have taken a back seat with RnB, pop, rap etc taking over the charts....
I'll state for the record - MEH!!!

Hey, does anyone have a link to the actual list from Billboard?? Was it posted on the website or just printed in the latest issue?

HAHAHA... now that's a fucking list.

i'm from oklahoma and this looks like a redneck's playlist...

God dammit what about #s 49 and 50 what the fuck is this all about. I gotta go to the webite now!

Green Day