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Year-end countdown · CFNY 102.1 The Edge · December 31, 2012

102.1 The Edge Top 50 New Rock Songs of 2012

The year-end countdown (December 31, 2012) from CFNY 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, ON ranks 50 songs, with “I Will Wait” by Mumford & Sons at number one. The list features 43 different artists.

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For 2012 the station counted down 50 songs rather than 102/annual-digit-matched sizes used in other years. Rank order taken from the page's own <ol> markup (not printed as explicit numbers).

# Song ListsBest
1 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons 57 #1
2 Gold On The Ceiling The Black Keys 53 #1
3 Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye 65 #1
4 We Are Young fun. 47 #1
5 Madness Muse 49 #2
6 Burn It Down Linkin Park 19 #3
7 Youth Without Youth Metric 17 #7
8 Tongue Tied Grouplove 41 #4
9 Little Talks Of Monsters And Men 56 #1
10 Ho Hey Lumineers 63 #1
11 Little Black Submarines The Black Keys 41 #3
12 These Days Foo Fighters 33 #3
13 Some Nights fun. 31 #2
14 Oh Love Green Day 15 #8
15 Viking Death March Billy Talent 1 #15
16 Damini Ubiquitous Synergy Seeker 1 #16
17 Midnight City M83 55 #4
18 The Grand Optimist City And Colour 2 #18
19 Bloody Mary (Nerve Endings) Silversun Pickups 11 #7
20 Seven Seas Blues Monster Truck 1 #20
21 Don't Stop (Color On The Walls Foster The People 22 #15
22 Stairway Yukon Blonde 1 #22
23 Days Go By The Offspring 9 #11
24 White Doves Young Empires 2 #24
25 Too Close Alex Clare 23 #3
26 The Way It Is The Sheepdogs 3 #26
27 Albatross Big Wreck 2 #27
28 45 The Gaslight Anthem 18 #1
29 The House That Heaven Built Japandroids 15 #4
30 It's Time Imagine Dragons 36 #1
31 Heavyweight Our Lady Peace 1 #31
32 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
33 Chalk Outline Three Days Grace 6 #17
34 Kill Your Heroes AWOLNATION 14 #9
35 We Don't Sleep Tonight Young Empires 1 #35
36 Sixteen Saltines Jack White 16 #13
37 Michigan Left Arkells 1 #37
38 Take A Walk Passion Pit 43 #3
39 Let's Fall in Love Mother Mother 1 #39
40 Been Away Too Long Soundgarden 9 #15
41 Breathing Underwater Metric 15 #21
42 Simple Song The Shins 37 #3
43 We Got the Love I Mother Earth 1 #43
44 Love Interruption Jack White 20 #2
45 Let It In Sam Roberts Band 1 #45
46 The Dog Is Mine K-OS 1 #46
47 Surprise Surprise Billy Talent 1 #47
48 Runaways The Killers 19 #5
49 Wolves Big Wreck 1 #49
50 At Transformation The Tragically Hip 4 #16

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About this countdown

102.1 The Edge Top 50 New Rock Songs of 2012 was voted by CFNY 102.1 The Edge’s listeners (Toronto, ON) in December 31, 2012. Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: 102.1 the Edge (archived countdown page), "Top 50 New Rock Songs of 2012".

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