Year-end countdown · WFNX · 2004

WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004

The year-end countdown for 2004 from WFNX in Boston, MA ranks 100 songs, with “American Idiot” by Green Day at number one. The list features 83 different artists; Jet has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
2 Float On Modest Mouse 91 #1
3 Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand 82 #1
4 Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs 64 #1
5 Somebody Told Me The Killers 75 #1
6 Vertigo U2 75 #4
7 Tessie Dropkick Murphys 1 #7
8 Such Great Heights The Postal Service 58 #2
9 Slither Velvet Revolver 32 #1
10 Slow Hands Interpol 39 #10
11 A Decade Under the Influence Taking Back Sunday 18 #1
12 Cold Hard Bitch Jet 46 #3
13 I Miss You blink-182 50 #8
14 Pain Jimmy Eat World 47 #4
15 Time Is Running Out Muse 43 #6
16 Megalomaniac Incubus 47 #1
17 I Believe in a Thing Called Love The Darkness 49 #9
18 Love Song 311 44 #2
19 Ch-Check It Out Beastie Boys 35 #6
20 Vindicated Dashboard Confessional 27 #4
21 Run Snow Patrol 43 #7
22 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
23 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
24 It's My Life No Doubt 20 #6
25 Darling Nikki Foo Fighters 37 #10
26 I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself The White Stripes 21 #26
27 Ocean Breathes Salty Modest Mouse 46 #5
28 Fortune Faded Red Hot Chili Peppers 25 #12
29 Dry Your Eyes The Streets 20 #1
30 Reptilia The Strokes 35 #10
31 Fall to Pieces Velvet Revolver 24 #6
32 Somewhere Only We Know Keane 58 #12
33 No Phone Cake 24 #24
34 The Sound of Settling Death Cab for Cutie 14 #20
35 Hit That The Offspring 33 #7
36 Moses Coldplay 19 #25
37 This Fire Franz Ferdinand 30 #21
38 Look What You've Done Jet 33 #23
39 Irish Blood, English Heart Morrissey 32 #18
40 Personal Jesus Marilyn Manson 16 #16
41 A Favor House Atlantic Coheed and Cambria 19 #2
42 Last Train Home Lostprophets 23 #2
43 Coin-Operated Boy The Dresden Dolls 21 #1
44 I'm Not Okay (I Promise) My Chemical Romance 36 #21
45 The End Has No End The Strokes 13 #35
46 Breakin' The Music 15 #46
47 Sympathy Get Up Kids 2 #17
48 C'mon C'mon The Von Bondies 25 #27
49 Silver and Cold AFI 24 #16
50 Reach for the Sky Social Distortion 32 #21
51 Down blink-182 26 #15
52 Rollover DJ Jet 16 #19
53 The End of the World The Cure 28 #17
54 Triple Trouble Beastie Boys 18 #22
55 Walk Idiot Walk The Hives 28 #32
56 Talk Shows On Mute Incubus 21 #13
57 Surfing on a Rocket Air 4 #57
58 Pieces Sum 41 17 #1
59 Primitive (The Way I Treat You) Ambulance LTD 10 #59
60 All Because of You U2 27 #6
61 So Says I The Shins 8 #40
62 Here I Am The Explosion 5 #41
63 Hysteria Muse 40 #3
64 All Downhill From Here New Found Glory 14 #42
65 Can't Stand Me Now The Libertines 10 #65
66 Take It Away The Used 12 #47
67 Inside of Love Nada Surf 3 #43
68 What You Are Audioslave 11 #30
69 They Jem 4 #50
70 Anthem of Our Dying Day Story of the Year 17 #3
71 Underwear Goes Inside the Pants Lazyboy 7 #10
72 Some Postman Presidents of USA 1 #72
73 Ride The Vines 23 #43
74 Light and Day Polyphonic Spree 18 #13
75 Raging Red Dear Leader 2 #49
76 Misfit Elefant 7 #44
77 Imagine A Perfect Circle 8 #24
78 Walking With A Ghost Tegan and Sara 33 #4
79 Big Brat Phantom Planet 23 #20
80 My Coco Stellastarr* 16 #14
81 The Rules Ben Kweller 9 #81
82 Still In Love Song The Stills 15 #14
83 The Rat The Walkmen 26 #23
84 Sister Saviour The Rapture 9 #61
85 One Horse Town The Thrills 14 #37
86 Right Right Now Now Beastie Boys 6 #46
87 First of the Gang to Die Morrissey 12 #44
88 Mass Destruction Faithless 8 #41
89 This Photograph is Proof Taking Back Sunday 7 #62
90 the Art Read Yellow 1 #90
91 Mexican Wine Fountains of Wayne 4 #47
92 Just Lose It Eminem 1 #92
93 Nowhere Again Secret Machines 19 #22
94 Chain The Fire Theft 4 #49
95 TKO Le Tigre 4 #83
96 Light of a Fading Star Flogging Molly 1 #96
97 Chocolate Snow Patrol 21 #11
98 Mono Courtney Love 7 #71
99 Anchors Aweigh Bouncing Souls 1 #99
100 Bam Thwok The Pixies 14 #10

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About this countdown

WFNX Top 100 Songs of 2004 was broadcast by WFNX (Boston, MA). 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 Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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