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WCYY Top 50 of the Year

RockLists has 5 editions of the WCYY Top 50 of the Year, from 2009 to 2014. Across all of them, the most successful song is “Savior” by Rise Against, which appears in 2 editions.

5editions

2009–2014years

5different #1s

1missing years

Every edition and its number one

Year	Countdown	Number one	Size
2009	Top 50 of 2009	Use Somebody Kings of Leon	50
2010	Top 50 of 2010	Lay Me Down Dirty Heads	50
2011	Top 50 Songs of 2011	Pumped up Kicks Foster The People	50
2013	Year End Top 50 of 2013	Radioactive Imagine Dragons	50
2014	Top 50 CYY Songs of 2014	Cigarette Daydreams Cage The Elephant	50

Missing from the archive: 2012. Have one of these?

How the top songs moved between editions

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

#	Song	'09	'10	'11	'13	'14
1	Savior Rise Against	11	2	–	–	–
2	Come A Little Closer Cage The Elephant	–	–	–	12	4
3	Do I Wanna Know Arctic Monkeys	–	–	–	17	1
4	Team Lorde	–	–	–	30	14
5	Use Somebody Kings of Leon	1	–	–	–	–
6	Radioactive Imagine Dragons	–	–	–	1	–
7	Lay Me Down Dirty Heads	–	1	–	–	–
8	Pumped up Kicks Foster The People	–	–	1	–	–
9	Rope Foo Fighters	–	–	2	–	–
10	Second Chance Shinedown	2	–	–	–	–
11	Safe and Sound Capital Cities	–	–	–	2	–
12	Come With Me Now Kongos	–	–	–	–	2
13	The Resistance Muse	–	3	–	–	–
14	Sweater Weather Neighbourhood	–	–	–	3	–
15	The Walker Fitz and the Tantrums	–	–	–	–	3
16	Shake Me Down Cage The Elephant	–	–	3	–	–
17	Feel Good Drag Anberlin	3	–	–	–	–
18	Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant	4	–	–	–	–
19	Another Way to Die Disturbed	–	4	–	–	–
20	Demons Imagine Dragons	–	–	–	4	–
21	Walk Foo Fighters	–	–	4	–	–
22	Riptide Sick Puppies	–	–	5	–	–
23	Audience Of One Rise Against	5	–	–	–	–
24	1901 Phoenix	–	5	–	–	–
25	Fever The Black Keys	–	–	–	–	5
26	Mountain Sound Of Monsters And Men	–	–	–	5	–
27	You're Going Down Sick Puppies	6	–	–	–	–
28	In One Ear Cage The Elephant	–	6	–	–	–
29	Sirens Pearl Jam	–	–	–	6	–
30	Riptide Vance Joy	–	–	–	–	6
31	Help Is On The Way Rise Against	–	–	6	–	–
32	Stolen Dance Milky Chance	–	–	–	–	7
33	Sail AWOLNATION	–	–	7	–	–
34	New Divide Linkin Park	7	–	–	–	–
35	Animal Neon Trees	–	7	–	–	–
36	My Songs Know What you Did in the Dark (Light Em Up)Fall Out Boy	–	–	–	7	–
37	Waiting For The End Linkin Park	–	46	13	–	–
38	I sat by the Ocean Queens of the Stone Age	–	–	–	39	20
39	I Don't Care Apocalyptica	8	–	–	–	–
40	Nightmare Avenged Sevenfold	–	8	–	–	–
41	Out of my League Fitz and the Tantrums	–	–	–	8	–
42	Country Song Seether	–	–	8	–	–
43	Dangerous Big Data	–	–	–	–	8
44	My Sweet Summer Dirty Heads	–	–	–	–	9
45	Kids MGMT	9	–	–	–	–
46	Odd One Sick Puppies	–	9	–	–	–
47	Royals Lorde	–	–	–	9	–
48	The Cave Mumford & Sons	–	–	9	–	–
49	The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie Red Hot Chili Peppers	–	–	10	–	–
50	Panic Switch Silversun Pickups	10	–	–	–	–
51	Take Me To Church Hozier	–	–	–	–	10
52	I'm Awesome Spose	–	10	–	–	–
53	Harlem New Politics	–	–	–	10	–
54	Tighten Up The Black Keys	–	11	–	–	–
55	Up in the Air 30 Seconds to Mars	–	–	–	11	–
56	Bad Blood Bastille	–	–	–	–	11
57	Not Again Staind	–	–	11	–	–
58	I Wanna Get Better Bleachers	–	–	–	–	12
59	Howlin' for You The Black Keys	–	–	12	–	–
60	Check My Brain Alice In Chains	12	–	–	–	–