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Year-end countdown · WBER · 2025

WBER Listener Countdown 2025

The year-end countdown (2025) from WBER in Rochester, NY ranks 57 songs, with “catch these fists” by Wet Leg at number one. The list features 52 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 catch these fists Wet Leg 21 #1
2 And Nothing is Forever The Cure 1 #2
3 Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine 17 #1
4 As Alive As You Need to Be Nine Inch Nails 9 #3
5 When We Were Stars Guster 4 #5
6 Everybody Laughs David Byrne 12 #6
7 My Mind Is A Mountain Deftones 2 #7
8 Little Chaos Orla Gartland 8 #8
9 Favorite Fontaines D.C. 18 #3
10 Spike Island Pulp 9 #10
11 Oh No! The Decemberists 12 #11
12 There's No Future In Optimism Garbage 1 #12
13 Holy Roller The Format 1 #13
14 This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party 17 #3
15 Who Laughs Last? Lord Huron 2 #15
16 Unravelling Muse 3 #16
17 Why Am I Dancing? Pet Shop Boys 1 #17
18 Campfire Symphony (Watching Sparks Fly By) Chris Trapper 1 #18
19 Give It Time Goose 8 #4
20 Virus Ani DiFranco 1 #20
21 Pink Elephant The Arcade Fire 2 #21
22 Dreams Go Polica 2 #11
23 Picture Window Japanese Breakfast 8 #23
24 Seein' Stars Turnstile 5 #1
25 Something In the Air Lauren Mayberry 1 #25
26 Billionaire Kathleen Edwards 1 #26
27 Broken Music for Broken People The London Suede 1 #27
28 Better Broken Sarah McLachlan 3 #28
29 Swoon Peter Murphy 1 #29
30 Glad St. Etienne 1 #30
31 Kids Table Bright Eyes 1 #31
32 Relationships Haim 14 #4
33 Thatch Goose 1 #33
34 The Night Before The Black Keys 9 #13
35 Good Blood Mexico City Elbow 1 #35
36 Hi Chaos Mogwai 1 #36
37 Swept Away Chris Trapper 1 #37
38 Got to Give Pearl Jam 1 #38
39 Renegade Doves 1 #39
40 Your Side Bob Mould 1 #40
41 Pick Me Up Alice Merton 1 #41
42 Awards Season Bon Iver 1 #42
43 Oh, Mother Lauren Mayberry 1 #43
44 Bad News blink-182 1 #44
45 Home Travis 1 #45
46 Is It Making You Feel Something? Superchunk 1 #46
47 Peace of Me Morcheeba 1 #47
48 Bobby Sox Green Day 6 #17
49 Call for Love Morcheeba 1 #49
50 Paint a Picture The Hives 1 #50
51 I Am a Mountain (IAAM) Coldplay 1 #51
52 The Hope Amy MacDonald 1 #52
53 Here We Go Crazy Bob Mould 5 #53
54 Heartbreak Ivy 2 #11
55 If They Could Only Know The Kooks 1 #55
56 Can Old Lovers Ever Just Be Friends Tom O'Dell 1 #56
57 Head Rush Gordi 1 #57

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About this countdown

WBER Listener Countdown 2025 was voted by WBER’s listeners (Rochester, NY) in 2025. 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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