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WBER Listener Countdown 2021

The year-end countdown (2021) from WBER in Rochester, NY ranks 83 songs, with “How Not To Drown” by CHVRCHES at number one. The list features 63 different artists.

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From WBER's countdown archive page: listeners vote for their five favourite songs of the year and the station counts down the results on New Year's Day. Names printed surname-first or as 'National, The' are turned around, and obvious misspellings are corrected where spotted.

# Song ListsBest
1 How Not To Drown CHVRCHES 7 #1
2 Under the Table Fiona Apple 11 #2
3 Bed Head Manchester Orchestra 11 #1
4 I Don't Live Here Anymore The War On Drugs 25 #2
5 Make It Through Chris Trapper 1 #5
6 The Steps Haim 16 #1
7 We Are Between Modest Mouse 13 #4
8 Genesis Deftones 1 #8
9 In The Den Hum 1 #9
10 Survivor Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 16 #7
11 And Me Dinosaur Jr. 1 #11
12 Godhead Garbage 1 #12
13 Good Side Liz Phair 3 #13
14 Taking Me Back Jack White 17 #3
15 Hurt Meg Myers 1 #15
16 Nudge It Sleaford Mods 1 #16
17 A Ghost Travis 3 #17
18 Nowhere Generation Rise Against 8 #5
19 Options Open Kathleen Edwards 10 #3
20 Starlight Creek Chris Trapper 1 #20
21 Worry With You Sleater-Kinney 11 #21
22 Baby It's You London Grammar 2 #22
23 Free Yourself The Chemical Brothers 1 #23
24 Good Girls CHVRCHES 3 #24
25 Hunt Aiko 1 #25
26 All You Ever Wanted Rag'N'Bone Man 5 #26
27 Keel Timing Manchester Orchestra 1 #27
28 Step Into You Hum 1 #28
29 Broken Bottles Anya Marina 1 #29
30 Spies Tori Amos 3 #30
31 Stupid Things Keane 1 #31
32 I Am Nothing Stabbing Westward 1 #32
33 I Don't Believe In Anything The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 1 #33
34 Sleepwalker The Killers 1 #34
35 Numbers Weezer 1 #35
36 Dry Fantasy Mogwai 1 #36
37 Urantia Deftones 1 #37
38 Another Hit Of Showmanship The Struts 1 #38
39 Simultaneously Ani DiFranco 3 #39
40 Love Dies Young Foo Fighters 10 #3
41 The Satanic Rites Of Blacula Rob Zombie 1 #41
42 Look At The Sky Porter Robinson 1 #42
43 My Only Love Moby 1 #43
44 Genocidal Humanoidz System of a Down 2 #26
45 Save Your Tears The Smashing Pumpkins 1 #45
46 The Sun Hasn't Left Modest Mouse 7 #46
47 Making A Fire Foo Fighters 10 #7
48 Hold On Toad The Wet Sprocket 1 #48
49 We Go On The Avalanches 1 #49
50 Screens Weezer 1 #50
51 Wonder Lone Bellow 1 #51
52 Kiss The Corners Torres 1 #52
53 Chloroform Ani DiFranco 1 #53
54 Chase The Night Away Keane 1 #54
55 The Triumph Of King (A Crypt Of Preservation And Superstition) Rob Zombie 1 #55
56 The Bandit Kings of Leon 13 #8
57 Crash Nilufer Yanya 1 #57
58 Death Dance Approximately Citizen 1 #58
59 Lie To Me Less Than Jake 2 #39
60 Ceiling Granny Mogwai 1 #60
61 Another Try Haim 1 #61
62 Same Damn Luck Nilufer Yanya 1 #62
63 Kick Spanish Love Songs 1 #63
64 If Only Man Man 1 #64
65 Always In Love A Certain Ratio 1 #65
66 This Is Not Utopia The Offspring 1 #66
67 Cannibal Jonsi 1 #67
68 In This Rough Twwo 1 #68
69 Lawmaker Darkside 1 #69
70 Monkey Wrench Myself Less Than Jake 1 #70
71 The Man Anya Marina 1 #71
72 How Does It Feel London Grammar 1 #72
73 Lost In Translation Neighbourhood 1 #73
74 Lover's Heart Delta Spirit 1 #74
75 Let You Bully 1 #75
76 Locking Eyes Off With Their Heads 1 #76
77 Hide It Away Will Butler 1 #77
78 Ring Sylvan Esso 1 #78
79 Baby Blue Shades Bad Suns 1 #79
80 Wyttch The Smashing Pumpkins 1 #80
81 The Fool Spiral Stairs 1 #81
82 Black And Red Citizen 1 #82
83 Mother Porter Robinson 1 #83

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About this countdown

WBER Listener Countdown 2021 was voted by WBER’s listeners (Rochester, NY) in 2021. 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: WBER 90.5, "Countdowns".

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