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Year-end countdown · WERS 88.9 · 2022

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022

The year-end countdown (2022) from WERS 88.9 in Boston, MA ranks 88 songs, with “Burning” by Yeah Yeah Yeahs at number one. The list features 80 different artists.

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Listener-voted (nearly 500 listeners). The page marks first-time artists (*) and New England artists (^); the markers are dropped here. Corrected: Aoife O'Donavan (87), Allison Krauss (71). Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 Burning Yeah Yeah Yeahs 18 #1
2 Stick Season Noah Kahan 16 #1
3 You and Me On The Rock Brandi Carlile 11 #3
4 Cracker Island Gorillaz 17 #3
5 Weird Goodbyes The National 11 #5
6 Free Florence And The Machine 13 #3
7 As It Was Harry Styles 11 #2
8 Soul Sweet Song Tedeschi Trucks Band 5 #8
9 This Is Why Paramore 16 #3
10 Here To Forever Death Cab for Cutie 19 #4
11 Out Of My Head First Aid Kit 11 #8
12 Expert in a Dying Field The Beths 5 #4
13 The Hardest Cut Spoon 22 #4
14 Want Want Maggie Rogers 14 #14
15 Bad Habit Steve Lacy 11 #4
16 20 Air Traffic Controller 1 #16
17 All Comes Crashing Metric 12 #1
18 Grace Marcus Mumford 12 #9
19 The Otter CAAMP 8 #12
20 Too Late Now Wet Leg 9 #1
21 Private Eyes KT Tunstall 1 #21
22 Take A Picture Andrew Bird 6 #22
23 Part Of The Band 1975 11 #7
24 Jackie Down The Line Fontaines D.C. 13 #1
25 Shotgun Soccer Mommy 12 #10
26 These Are the Days Inhaler 6 #2
27 My Love Florence And The Machine 14 #1
28 Virginia The Head and the Heart 10 #12
29 BYOB Future Teens 1 #29
30 That's Where I Am Maggie Rogers 11 #2
31 The Perfect Pair Beabadoobee 8 #31
32 Vault of Heaven The Pixies 2 #32
33 Sidelines Phoebe Bridgers 8 #13
34 Yellow Tegan and Sara 1 #34
35 Next To Normal Lucius 14 #2
36 Hollywood Forever Cemetery Allison Ponthier 7 #9
37 Boy The Killers 14 #5
38 Love Me More Mitski 9 #7
39 Where We Are Lumineers 10 #1
40 Made Up Mind Bonnie Raitt 9 #2
41 Saturdays Broken Bells 8 #41
42 Alpha Zulu Phoenix 13 #11
43 Something To Someone Dermot Kennedy 2 #43
44 Wild Child The Black Keys 24 #1
45 McKenzie Houndmouth 2 #45
46 Believe CAAMP 8 #9
47 Mistakes Sharon Van Etten 8 #4
48 Hard Drive Gold Alt J 7 #10
49 Superstar Beach House 3 #33
50 Cage Billy Idol 4 #16
51 My Babe Spoon 9 #13
52 Kissing Lessons Lucy Dacus 8 #50
53 The Only Heartbreaker Mitski 8 #14
54 Turn Up the Sunshine Diana Ross and Tame Impala 3 #54
55 Snap Rosa Linn 9 #33
56 Lucky Ones Julian Lennon 3 #56
57 Hospital Madison Cunningham 5 #18
58 Warning Signs Band of Horses 5 #13
59 Lemon Tree Mt. Joy 7 #2
60 Night Moves Lissie 6 #37
61 Getting Started Sam Fender 1 #61
62 Easy to Be Around Will Dailey 1 #62
63 Settling Ripe 6 #48
64 Pharmacist Alvvays 3 #64
65 Tonight Phoenix 9 #12
66 Clarity Vance Joy 8 #13
67 A Little Bit Of Love Weezer 13 #2
68 Bad Love DEHD 7 #13
69 I Let My Guitar Do The Talking Buddy Guy 1 #69
70 Dance Around It Lucius 6 #64
71 Searching For My Love Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 5 #44
72 Hurts (But it Goes Away) The Head and the Heart 3 #72
73 Something Loud Jimmy Eat World 5 #25
74 Don't Look Now Jack Johnson 2 #74
75 What, Me Worry? Portugal. The Man 13 #9
76 Love Is Selfish Jack White 3 #36
77 Tek It Cafune 5 #25
78 Brother The Cloud Eddie Vedder 6 #30
79 Softly Arlo Parks 10 #11
80 Come Back Trombone Shorty 6 #10
81 German Cars Matt Nathanson 1 #81
82 Puffer Cautious Clay 5 #48
83 The Dealer Nilufer Yanya 1 #83
84 Body Language Mint Green 1 #84
85 Tippa My Tongue Red Hot Chili Peppers 6 #18
86 New Body Rhumba LCD Soundsystem 10 #4
87 Passengers Aoife O'Donovan 1 #87
88 Jeff Goldblum Mattiel 2 #75

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About this countdown

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2022 was voted by WERS 88.9’s listeners (Boston, MA) in 2022. 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, "The Top 88 of 2022".

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