All-time countdown · KEXP · March 5, 2022
KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)
The all-time countdown (March 5, 2022) from KEXP in Seattle, WA ranks 491 songs, with “Mad World” by Tears for Fears at number one. The list features 253 different artists; The Clash has the most entries with 15 songs.
Produced in celebration of KEXP's 50th Anniversary; voting closed February 25, 2022, and the countdown aired March 5-11, 2022 (2022 Spring Fundraising Drive), as voted by listeners. The source lists rank 321 twice (Catherine Wheel, "Black Metallic" and Prince, "Raspberry Beret") and omits rank 323; based on the unambiguous surrounding printed sequence (325, 324, [321], 322, 321, 320, 319) the Catherine Wheel entry is corrected here to 323. A handful of obvious spelling typos were corrected (e.g. "Boemmian Rhapsody" to "Bohemian Rhapsody", "Led Zepppelin" to "Led Zeppelin", "Sinead O Connor" to "Sinéad O'Connor").
About this countdown
KEXP Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022) was voted by KEXP’s listeners (Seattle, WA) in March 5, 2022. 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 Indie & Adult Alternative rankings.
Source: KEXP, "Top Songs of the Last 50 Years (1972-2022)".
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