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

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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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