Year-end countdown · Live 105 · 2008-12-XX

Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008

The year-end countdown (2008-12-XX) from Live 105 in San Francisco, CA ranks 105 songs, with “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay at number one. The list features 69 different artists; Linkin Park has the most entries with five songs.

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Obvious typos fixed against source: "Foxboro Hut Tubs" -> Foxboro Hot Tubs; "Guns & Roses" -> Guns N' Roses; "M.i.a." preserved as M.I.A.; "re-eduction through labor" -> Re-Education (Through Labor). Artist names were printed in ALL CAPS in the source and standardized to title case; MGMT preserved as printed (stylized, all caps).

# Song ListsBest
1 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
2 The Pretender Foo Fighters 78 #1
3 Believe The Bravery 32 #2
4 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
5 Hammerhead The Offspring 21 #2
6 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
7 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
8 Icky Thump The White Stripes 54 #1
9 Shadow of the Day Linkin Park 25 #4
10 Empty Walls Serj Tankian 20 #10
11 Shadowplay The Killers 21 #8
12 You're Gonna Go Far, Kid The Offspring 44 #1
13 Paralyzer Finger Eleven 32 #1
14 Let It Die Foo Fighters 29 #2
15 Falling Down Atreyu 7 #13
16 Leave Out All The Rest Linkin Park 11 #4
17 The Good Left Undone Rise Against 22 #3
18 Kids MGMT 66 #1
19 Knights of Cydonia Muse 60 #1
20 Human The Killers 36 #6
21 Paper Planes M.I.A. 43 #2
22 What I've Done Linkin Park 39 #1
23 Troublemaker Weezer 19 #7
24 Prayer of the Refugee Rise Against 22 #5
25 Never Too Late Three Days Grace 28 #4
26 Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters 29 #5
27 crushcrushcrush Paramore 15 #11
28 Salute Your Solution The Raconteurs 17 #4
29 The Kill 30 Seconds to Mars 32 #2
30 Discipline Nine Inch Nails 15 #4
31 If I Had Eyes Jack Johnson 24 #1
32 When You Were Young The Killers 61 #2
33 Handlebars Flobots 18 #2
34 Love Hurts Incubus 25 #1
35 The Adventure Angels & Airwaves 18 #6
36 Starlight Muse 57 #1
37 Gamma Ray Beck 14 #10
38 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
39 The Western World Pennywise 12 #1
40 I'm Not Over Carolina Liar 14 #13
41 The Day That Never Comes Metallica 15 #8
42 You Atmosphere 8 #9
43 Cath Death Cab for Cutie 33 #20
44 Re-Education (Through Labor) Rise Against 27 #4
45 Help Me Alkaline Trio 10 #29
46 Read My Mind The Killers 32 #2
47 Bodysnatchers Radiohead 26 #9
48 Big Casino Jimmy Eat World 19 #19
49 I Don't Care Apocalyptica 26 #1
50 Wild International One Day As A Lion 10 #21
51 Sky Is Over Serj Tankian 9 #38
52 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
53 Always Where I Need to Be The Kooks 13 #33
54 Welcome to the Black Parade My Chemical Romance 51 #1
55 Mother Mary Foxboro Hot Tubs 9 #24
56 Supermassive Black Hole Muse 35 #3
57 Lost! Coldplay 21 #1
58 Inside The Fire Disturbed 20 #3
59 Misery Business Paramore 33 #8
60 Ready to Fall Rise Against 18 #9
61 They Say Scars On Broadway 9 #20
62 Love Me Dead Ludo 13 #2
63 Believe Staind 16 #3
64 2AM Slightly Stoopid 9 #1
65 Hope Jack Johnson 10 #11
66 Far Behind Social Distortion 23 #17
67 Ricochet Shiny Toy Guns 5 #20
68 One Month Off Bloc Party 3 #66
69 The Shock Of The Lightning Oasis 15 #17
70 We Are Rockstars Does It Offend You, Yeah? 1 #70
71 Rise Above This Seether 16 #3
72 Undead Hollywood Undead 14 #14
73 Rise Flobots 5 #49
74 Given Up Linkin Park 18 #6
75 Map of the Problematic Muse 1 #75
76 Decode Paramore 25 #3
77 The Only One The Cure 7 #77
78 Ulysses Franz Ferdinand 16 #6
79 The Resolution Jack's Mannequin 7 #9
80 Something Is Not Right With Me Cold War Kids 10 #35
81 Chinese Democracy Guns N Roses 4 #64
82 Almost Easy Avenged Sevenfold 15 #2
83 Ghost Town Shiny Toy Guns 10 #32
84 Heart Attack Low Vs Diamond 3 #84
85 Propane Nightmares Pendulum 11 #13
86 Thrash Unreal Against Me! 18 #15
87 That's Not My Name The Ting Tings 18 #9
88 Everything's Magic Angels & Airwaves 11 #35
89 Safe and Sound Rebelution 1 #89
90 Fake It Seether 25 #2
91 Audience Of One Rise Against 29 #3
92 Kristy, Are You Doing Ok? The Offspring 17 #16
93 Spaceman The Killers 25 #9
94 Second Chance Shinedown 33 #2
95 You Don't Know What Love Is (You Just Do as You're Told) The White Stripes 18 #22
96 Anna Molly Incubus 37 #2
97 Bleed It Out Linkin Park 31 #5
98 Volet Hill Coldplay 25 #12
99 Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John 37 #4
100 9 in the Afternoon Panic! at the Disco 1 #100
101 Dashboard Modest Mouse 46 #2
102 Jigsaw Falling Into Place Radiohead 25 #7
103 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
104 Time Won't Let Me Go The Bravery 19 #13
105 An Honest Goodbye Bad Religion 2 #59

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About this countdown

Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008 was broadcast by Live 105 (San Francisco, CA) in 2008-12-XX. 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: LIVE 105 (live105.com), "Top 105 of 2008".

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