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KALX 90.7 · Year-end countdown series

KALX Most Played New Songs of the Year

RockLists has 3 editions of the KALX Most Played New Songs of the Year, from 2023 to 2025. Across all of them, the most successful song is “The Embrace I” by Force + Jarboe, which appears in 2 editions.

3editions
2023–2025years
3different #1s

Every edition and its number one

YearCountdownNumber oneSize
2023 200 Most Played New Songs in 2023 RunningSnõõper 200
2024 500 Most Played New Songs in 2024 Strange WorldLa Luz 500
2025 300 Most Played New Songs in 2025 HyperglyphChicago Underground Duo 300

How the top songs moved between editions

Each song’s position in every edition. A dash means it did not appear.

#Song'23'24'25
1 The Embrace IForce + Jarboe – 19 –
2 talk talkabracadabra 7 250 –
3 AnimateLore City – 99 142
4 My Love Mine All MineMitski 29 273 –
5 Reds for a Blue PlanetBobby Lee 122 171 –
6 HyperglyphChicago Underground Duo – – 1
7 Strange WorldLa Luz – 1 –
8 RunningSnõõper 1 – –
9 Life IsJessica Pratt – 2 –
10 Life SignsWater From Your Eyes – – 2
11 SharafSahra Halgan – 3 –
12 BadI Sabah OlmadanAltin Gün 2 – –
13 Lobster TelephonePeggy Gou – 4 –
14 Playing ClassicsWater From Your Eyes – – 3
15 MahalGlass Beams – 5 –
16 Tumbleweed QuarantineDead Air Fresheners 3 – –
17 AngoisseALVILDA – – 4
18 Real Or MagicShannon and the Clams – 6 –
19 Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girlyeule – 7 –
20 BusNaked Roommate – – 5
21 Something blueHiroshi Yoshimura – 8 –
22 Queen Of The RubDub Specialist 4 – –
23 The Latter Years CJackson Greenberg – 174 –
24 CheapGrazia – 9 –
25 S.N.CDarkside – – 6
26 Passportbrabrabra – 10 –
27 Brass BellScreaming Females 5 – –
28 Behind The Black CurtainBudos Band – – 7
29 The VowShannon and the Clams – 11 –
30 InversionMartina Bertoni – 12 –
31 Transmuted MatterStereolab – – 8
32 FlutterMIZU – 13 –
33 Nurse!bar italia 6 – –
34 Paris 73 ZweiCan – 14 –
35 Rooms Without EndAux Meadows – – 9
36 Ah YehBeak> – 15 –
37 l'histoire de ta vieCéline Dessberg – – 10
38 MalunguBixiga 70 – 16 –
39 Mare MareNewen Afrobeat – 17 –
40 CirclesArtificial Go – – 11
41 ScatterbrainJuicebumps – 18 –
42 Day of the Living SkySun Ra Arkestra 8 – –
43 out of body out of mindabove me – – 12
44 Mad RushPhilip Glass – 20 –
45 chained to a cloudSlowdive 9 – –
46 Bonne AnnéeAle Hop & Titi Bakorta – – 13
47 TazidertBombino – 21 –
48 BoysAmen Dunes – 22 –
49 Take My HandBig Freedia – – 14
50 No Matter HowTorrey – 23 –
51 Anti-gloryHorsegirl 10 – –
52 Pull the RopeIbibio Sound Machine – 24 –
53 Changing StatesMatmos – – 15
54 Better HateJessica Pratt – 25 –
55 Room 720Dengue Fever 11 – –
56 RaoulSnapped Ankles – – 16
57 DandelionsLa Luz – 26 –
58 Had Ya CalledNourished by Time – 27 –
59 Quand le grenier aura pris feuAnadol & Marie Klock – – 17
60 Sonido CósmicoHermanos Gutierrez – 28 –