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Year-end countdown · WERS 88.9 · December 31, 2015

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015

The year-end countdown (December 31, 2015) from WERS 88.9 in Boston, MA ranks 88 songs, with “Ex's & Oh's” by Elle King at number one. The list features 72 different artists; U2 has the most entries with three songs.

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Counted down by George Knight from 4pm New Year's Eve. WERS: "Your input drives how much we play all the new songs... this is YOUR countdown based on what you wanted to hear during the year. Tabulations are complete." Printed as title—artist. Corrected: U-2 (3, 8), Robert De Long (4), Sleater Kinney (9), Imagine Dragon (14), Langhorn Slim (82).

# Song ListsBest
1 Ex's & Oh's Elle King 31 #1
2 Lampshades On Fire Modest Mouse 30 #2
3 California U2 1 #3
4 Long Way Down Robert Delong 10 #4
5 Lifted Up (1985) Passion Pit 5 #5
6 Mess Is Mine Vance Joy 18 #6
7 Little Wanderer Death Cab for Cutie 1 #7
8 Volcano U2 1 #8
9 No Cities To Love Sleater-Kinney 1 #9
10 False Hope Laura Marling 5 #10
11 Wherever Is Your Heart Brandi Carlile 13 #11
12 Black Sun Death Cab for Cutie 19 #4
13 Fool For Love Lord Huron 13 #3
14 Shots Imagine Dragons 7 #14
15 They Want My Soul Spoon 3 #15
16 Blame It On Me George Ezra 11 #2
17 Sagres The Tallest Man On Earth 2 #17
18 Kathleen Catfish and the Bottlemen 7 #6
19 Sedona Houndmouth 30 #1
20 My Type Saint Motel 16 #1
21 Smooth Sailin' Leon Bridges 22 #10
22 Weight Of Love The Black Keys 10 #14
23 Electric Love Borns 22 #2
24 True Affection Father John Misty 2 #24
25 Falling From The Sky Calexico 7 #25
26 What Kind Of Man Florence And The Machine 14 #4
27 The Ground Walks, with Time in a Bottle Modest Mouse 1 #27
28 Endlessly Guster 3 #28
29 Dont Wanna Fight Alabama Shakes 26 #1
30 Believe Mumford & Sons 14 #1
31 Loud Places Jamie xx 9 #14
32 Crystals Of Monsters And Men 13 #9
33 Let It Happen Tame Impala 30 #5
34 The Wolf Mumford & Sons 17 #6
35 Ghosts of Beverly Drive Death Cab for Cutie 3 #5
36 Dead Fox Courtney Barnett 5 #36
37 Dreams Beck 31 #1
38 Work Song Hozier 10 #28
39 Feeling OK Best Coast 4 #39
40 Tear In My Heart Twenty One Pilots 12 #1
41 Big Decisions My Morning Jacket 9 #12
42 The Wrong Year The Decemberists 5 #25
43 Things Happen Dawes 14 #6
44 Wherever You Go Sublime with Rome 4 #44
45 Renegades X Ambassadors 21 #1
46 Compound Fracture My Morning Jacket 7 #15
47 Human Of Monsters And Men 1 #47
48 Next Storm Frank Turner 12 #10
49 Home Field Report 1 #49
50 All The Pretty Girls Kaleo 9 #19
51 Someone New Hozier 9 #13
52 First Cold War Kids 31 #2
53 Random Name Generator Wilco 11 #25
54 Once A Day Michael Franti 1 #54
55 Restless New Order 4 #27
56 Ship To Wreck Florence And The Machine 26 #3
57 Should Have Known Better Sufjan Stevens 8 #16
58 Nightlight Silversun Pickups 8 #18
59 24 Frames Jason Isbell 24 #11
60 Bros Wolf Alice 6 #48
61 Song For Someone U2 5 #20
62 Different Colors Walk the Moon 5 #30
63 Return To The Moon El Vy 16 #17
64 Empty Nesters Toro Y Moi 1 #64
65 Empire Of Monsters And Men 6 #64
66 Wide Open The Chemical Brothers 6 #35
67 Bad Blood Ryan Adams 11 #24
68 How Big, How Blue, How Beautiful Florence And The Machine 1 #68
69 Why Would I Now The Decemberists 3 #12
70 Mountain At My Gates Foals 24 #4
71 The Eye Brandi Carlile 14 #6
72 All Across This Land Blitzen Trapper 5 #47
73 I Feel Love (Every Million Miles) The Dead Weather 8 #14
74 Taste The Ceiling Wilco 1 #74
75 Pray For Rain Pure Bathing Culture 3 #75
76 Sunken Ship Will Dailey 1 #76
77 Body Bassh 3 #13
78 Loop De Li Bryan Ferry 1 #78
79 I'm Not The Only One Sam Smith 7 #8
80 Phone in a Pool Ben Folds 6 #20
81 Unsteady X Ambassadors 14 #2
82 Strangers Langhorne Slim 2 #82
83 Satisfy Me Anderson East 3 #8
84 Bird Of Prey Natalie Prass 3 #44
85 Way She Moves Scott Weiland and the Wildabouts 1 #85
86 Dearly Departed Shakey Graves 22 #4
87 Shake & Tremble Django Django 3 #45
88 Greens and Blues The Pixies 2 #60

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About this countdown

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2015 was broadcast by WERS 88.9 (Boston, MA) in December 31, 2015. 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: WERS 88.9, "Top 88 Tunes of 2015 from 88.9".

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