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