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Year-end countdown · WERS 88.9 · 2023

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2023

The year-end countdown (2023) from WERS 88.9 in Boston, MA ranks 88 songs, with “Not Strong Enough” by Boygenius at number one. The list features 78 different artists; Boygenius has the most entries with three songs.

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Listener-voted ("Over 500 WERS listeners voted"). Tie for #1 (boygenius and Noah Kahan), so there is no #2. Positions 21-88 are a numbered list on the page starting at 21. Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 (tie) Not Strong Enough Boygenius 23 #1
1 (tie) Dial Drunk Noah Kahan 17 #1
3 More Than a Love Song Black Pumas 18 #3
4 When We Were Close Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 15 #4
5 Francesca Hozier 14 #5
6 My Love Mine All Mine Mitski 14 #2
7 Running Out of Time Paramore 6 #7
8 Act Natural Margaret Glaspy 10 #7
9 The Alcott The National 7 #6
10 Evicted Wilco 12 #10
11 Modern Girl Bleachers 15 #1
12 Cool About It Boygenius 16 #1
13 Forgiving Ties Deer Tick 14 #7
14 Salad Blondshell 5 #14
15 Rescued Foo Fighters 19 #2
16 Say Yes to Heaven Lana Del Rey 8 #5
17 Eat Your Young Hozier 19 #2
18 Jealous Moon Sarah Jarosz 6 #18
19 The Narcissist Blur 15 #14
20 Your Side of Town The Killers 8 #20
21 EZbreezy Air Traffic Controller 1 #21
22 Psychos Jenny Lewis 16 #3
23 Good Time Grace Potter 6 #12
24 Angry The Rolling Stones 14 #2
25 Odyssey Beck & Phoenix 11 #25
26 Astral Plane Say She She 7 #25
27 Road To Joy Peter Gabriel 13 #5
28 Tropic Morning News The National 12 #8
29 Welcome to my Island Caroline Polachek 6 #6
30 Now And Then The Beatles 15 #2
31 An Arrow In The Wall Death Cab for Cutie 7 #17
32 Ghosts Again Depeche Mode 15 #2
33 The Invisible Girl Dave Herlihy 1 #33
34 Barbaric Blur 4 #34
35 Vampire Empire Big Thief 14 #3
36 No More Lies Thundercat 2 #36
37 Lose Control Teddy Swims 6 #18
38 We're All Gonna Die Joy Oladokun 8 #12
39 The American Dream Is Killing Me Green Day 15 #2
40 Honey Lone Bellow 9 #10
41 Love Will Get You There Inhaler 7 #9
42 Lose You Bully 11 #10
43 Ready Or Not Shakey Graves 6 #14
44 Atomic City U2 14 #18
45 Under You Foo Fighters 14 #5
46 Go Down River The Heavy Heavy 10 #9
47 Thinking About You Beck 14 #25
48 Highlands Middle Kids 10 #23
49 Winslow Gardens Ben Folds 4 #5
50 What Now Brittany Howard 10 #1
51 A Good Thing Claud 1 #51
52 Calling Your Name Jon Batiste 8 #21
53 Really Really Light The New Pornographers 5 #34
54 Nothing Matters Last Dinner Party 22 #3
55 $20 Boygenius 9 #9
56 Purple Wunderhorse 2 #56
57 Boyhood The Japanese House 2 #57
58 Mother Nature MGMT 5 #33
59 For Your Soul Josh Ritter 10 #1
60 She's a Liar Little Fuss 1 #60
61 Just To Keep You Satisfied Inhaler 4 #61
62 Break Free Dave Matthews Band 2 #25
63 Kisses Slowdive 9 #16
64 Honey Samia 8 #8
65 Panopticom Peter Gabriel 1 #65
66 Weightless Arlo Parks 10 #4
67 Kid The Revivalists 15 #6
68 Wings Of Time Tame Impala 3 #68
69 Did You Know That There's A Tunnel Under Ocean's Boulevard Lana Del Rey 2 #44
70 Council Skies Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 3 #19
71 NYE Local Natives 4 #38
72 Days Move Slow Bully 10 #3
73 The Way Manchester Orchestra 9 #6
74 Echolalia Yves Tumor 2 #59
75 Come On Aphrodite Natalie Merchant 5 #33
76 Back On 74 Jungle 8 #17
77 Comments Iggy Pop 1 #77
78 Too Much, Enough Nation of Language 2 #64
79 Every Chance I Get (I Want You In The Flesh) Dan Auerbach 4 #44
80 Alley Light Squirrel Flower 2 #80
81 Roll The Credits Danielle Ponder 7 #41
82 Pretty Vicious The Struts 5 #10
83 Bang Bang Momma 2 #83
84 Can't Believe We're Here J Mascis 5 #50
85 All I Really Wanna Do Devon Gilfillian 10 #2
86 Nothing Left To Lose Everything But The Girl 8 #6
87 Alive Bakar 4 #82
88 After Midnight Phoenix 4 #33

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About this countdown

WERS Top 88 Songs of 2023 was voted by WERS 88.9’s listeners (Boston, MA) in 2023. 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 2023".

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