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Year-end countdown · Exit 97.7 · 2018

WEXT Top 97 of 2018

The year-end countdown (2018) from Exit 97.7 in Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY ranks 97 songs, with “Hold Out Your Hand” by Brandi Carlile at number one. The list features 91 different artists.

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Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NYmarket
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Transcribed from the station's PDF as archived by the Wayback Machine (station page not found). The PDF prints each entry as "Song / Artist". Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 Hold Out Your Hand Brandi Carlile 7 #1
2 Fireworks First Aid Kit 10 #2
3 Life to Fix The Record Company 10 #3
4 World Gone Mad The Weight Band 1 #4
5 Radiator 110 Boz Scaggs 1 #5
6 Apollo St. Paul & The Broken Bones 11 #4
7 Girlfriend Anderson East 6 #7
8 A Little Honey Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 8 #8
9 Bad Bad News Leon Bridges 20 #1
10 Bang Bang Bang The Sea The Sea 1 #10
11 Living With Your Ghost Kara Grainger 1 #11
12 Tokyo Bay Nick Lowe 3 #12
13 Miles Away Josh Ritter 1 #13
14 Shrinking Man Ry Cooder 1 #14
15 The Walking Wounded Rosanne Cash 1 #15
16 Happiness Jones Wood Brothers 5 #16
17 The Things We Do To Each Other Cowboy Junkies 1 #17
18 Kick Out the Windows Parsonsfield 1 #18
19 Sure Feels Good Anyway Amy Ray 1 #19
20 Such a Simple Thing Ray LaMontagne 10 #10
21 Living in the Future Dawes 7 #21
22 The Blame's On Me Chris Smither 1 #22
23 Everything You Need Doyle Bramhall II 1 #23
24 Rollin' and Tumblin' Billy F. Gibbons 1 #24
25 Unwanted Number Elvis Costello and The Imposters 3 #25
26 Fighter Erin Costelo 1 #26
27 Beyond Leon Bridges 18 #2
28 Best Days Lissie 9 #28
29 Roll on Slow Glen Hansard 5 #29
30 Roll Away Birds of Chicago 1 #30
31 Books CAAMP 1 #31
32 You Worry Me Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 21 #1
33 Good Kisser Lake Street Dive 20 #7
34 Do Something The Ballroom Thieves 1 #34
35 Already Gone Brett Dennen 5 #35
36 Fine Line Parker Millsap 7 #14
37 Blood Brothers Jeffrey Foucault 1 #37
38 Good On You Son Mark Knopfler 2 #38
39 The Joke Brandi Carlile 24 #1
40 Silver Lining Mt. Joy 15 #17
41 Best Seat In The House Blackberry Smoke 1 #41
42 Black Rain Billy Thompson 1 #42
43 Bluebirds Over the Mountain Robert Plant 1 #43
44 1950 King Princess 5 #34
45 Downey to Lubbock Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore 1 #45
46 Once In A While Johnny Irion 1 #46
47 Quick Fix Sam Morrow 1 #47
48 Burn That Bridge Donovan Woods 1 #48
49 Before I Found You Van William 1 #49
50 Mean Mistreatin' Mama Warren Haynes 1 #50
51 Summer's End John Prine 7 #9
52 Keep A Little Soul Tom Petty 5 #29
53 Rebellion Rises Ziggy Marley 1 #53
54 New Light John Mayer 5 #28
55 Sucker's Prayer The Decemberists 11 #4
56 Ripple Jimmy Buffett, David Crosby and David Hidalgo 1 #56
57 Rolling On Israel Nash 3 #57
58 Hideaway Great Peacock 2 #58
59 St. Teresa Kathy Mattea 1 #59
60 Game to Lose I'm With Her 1 #60
61 Casanova Rayland Baxter 10 #7
62 Be With You Jules Shear 1 #62
63 Best of The Best of Times Darlingside 2 #63
64 Children of Paradise Willie Nile 1 #64
65 Short Court Style Natalie Prass 7 #2
66 Brothers Mary Gauthier 1 #66
67 All My Friends The Revivalists 12 #5
68 The Stones I Throw Amy Helm 1 #68
69 Mr. Tillman Father John Misty 16 #4
70 Looking Forward to the Past Tommy Emmanuel 1 #70
71 Saturday Sun Vance Joy 11 #20
72 New Love The National Reserve 1 #72
73 Total Disaster Rhett Miller 2 #73
74 Found The One Ben Harper & Charlie Musselwhite 1 #74
75 This Town's A Drag Cordovas 3 #75
76 People Get Old Lori McKenna 3 #10
77 Missile Site Ike Reilly 1 #77
78 I Got Eyes The James Hunter Six 2 #78
79 Get As Gone Can Get Sarah Borges & the Broken Singles 1 #79
80 One and the Same Sam Lewis 1 #80
81 Cry To Me John Hiatt 2 #81
82 To Rise You Gotta Fall Nicki Bluhm 1 #82
83 No More Darkness, No More Light Amos Lee 7 #15
84 Homesick Marcus King Band 8 #26
85 Cumberland Gap (live) Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 1 #85
86 Here's Looking At You Kid Brett Dennen 6 #41
87 Futures Darlingside 1 #87
88 Nina Cried Power Hozier 16 #1
89 Under The Wheels Calexico 6 #89
90 Another Way Donovan Woods 1 #90
91 True In Time John Gorka 1 #91
92 I'll Never Sing Your Name Fruition 3 #92
93 Can You See The Magpie Salute 1 #93
94 Make It True The Mammals 1 #94
95 Betting On the Sun Bird Streets 2 #52
96 Shame Elle King 8 #12
97 Undone Yarn 1 #97

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About this countdown

WEXT Top 97 of 2018 was broadcast by Exit 97.7 (Albany-Schenectady-Troy, NY) in 2018. 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: WEXT Exit 97.7, "The Top 97 of 2018" (PDF).

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