95.5 FM · Providence, RI
WBRU countdowns
Providence's student-run modern rock station
RockLists holds 4 countdowns from WBRU: three year-end countdowns covering 2009–2011 and one all-time, decade and special countdowns, totaling 787 chart positions. The station’s first year-end number one on record is “Panic Switch” by Silversun Pickups (2009); its most recent is “Pumped up Kicks” by Foster The People (2011).
Year-end countdowns
Countdown series
All-time countdowns
Every WBRU year-end number one
| Year | Number one song | Countdown |
|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Panic Switch Silversun Pickups | WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2009 |
| 2010 | Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons | WBRU Top 95 Songs of 2010 |
| 2011 | Pumped up Kicks Foster The People | WBRU Top 95.5 Songs of 2011 |
About WBRU
WBRU 95.5 FM was a commercial alternative rock station run by Brown University students in Providence, Rhode Island, for more than fifty years. Its Modern Rock Top 500 countdown from 2001 is archived on RockLists.
WBRU grew out of a Brown University campus station and moved to 95.5 FM in 1966 as a student-operated commercial station. It adopted a modern rock format in the 1980s and became one of the most respected alternative stations in New England, breaking bands in the Providence and Boston markets while remaining entirely student-run.
The Modern Rock Top 500 from 2001, contributed by a listener, is one of the largest all-time countdowns in the archive. The station's FM license was sold in 2017 and WBRU continues as an online station.
- Call letters
- WBRU
- Frequency
- 95.5 FM
- Market
- Providence, RI
- Owner
- Brown Broadcasting Service (Brown University students)
- Format
- Alternative
- Format since
- 1966–2017
- Website
- wbru.com
- More
- Wikipedia
- Ranked with
- Alternative & Modern Rock
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