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WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011

The year-end countdown (2011) from WFUV in New York, NY ranks 90 songs, with “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele at number one. The list features 66 different artists; The Decemberists has the most entries with four songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Rolling in the Deep Adele 52 #1
2 A Little Bit of Everything Dawes 20 #2
3 Time Spent in Los Angeles Dawes 18 #3
4 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
5 Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes 27 #5
6 Lucky Now Ryan Adams 16 #6
7 Mayhem Imelda May 9 #7
8 Down By The Water The Decemberists 36 #8
9 Beautiful Now James Maddock 1 #9
10 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
11 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
12 Sydney Brett Dennen 8 #12
13 Holocene Bon Iver 20 #13
14 Midnight City M83 55 #4
15 Poison & Wine The Civil Wars 7 #15
16 She Walks in So Many Ways The Jayhawks 10 #16
17 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
18 Windows Are Rolled Down Amos Lee 26 #1
19 Lippy Kids Elbow 3 #19
20 Love the Way You Walk Away Blitzen Trapper 1 #20
21 I Might Wilco 15 #8
22 Born With A Broken Heart David Wax Museum 1 #22
23 Blessed Lucinda Williams 1 #23
24 Holdin' on to Black Metal My Morning Jacket 24 #5
25 Roller Coaster Town Garland Jeffreys 1 #25
26 Down In The Valley The Head and the Heart 9 #2
27 Fire Away Dawes 2 #27
28 The Way it Goes Gillian Welch 10 #19
29 June Hymn The Decemberists 4 #12
30 Dawned on Me Wilco 10 #10
31 The Walk Mayer Hawthorne 24 #4
32 Stella's Driving James Maddock 1 #32
33 Bad As Me Tom Waits 3 #33
34 Someone's Gonna Break… Fountains of Wayne 1 #34
35 Buttercup Lucinda Williams 5 #35
36 So Beautiful or So What Paul Simon 7 #20
37 Dirty Rain Ryan Adams 1 #37
38 Danger Sallie Ford/Sound Outside 1 #38
39 Paper Airplane Alison Krauss/U.S. 1 #39
40 Santa Fe Beirut 14 #24
41 Tree by the River Iron and Wine 18 #9
42 Wonderful (The Way I Feel) My Morning Jacket 5 #41
43 Dazzling Blue Paul Simon 2 #43
44 Waitin' on the Sky Steve Earle 2 #44
45 Calamity Song The Decemberists 26 #6
46 One Guitar Willie Nile 2 #46
47 Over The Sun Joseph Arthur 1 #47
48 Back In the Crowd Tom Waits 3 #21
49 Standing O Wilco 1 #49
50 Gangsta TuneYards 2 #50
51 Rumor Has It Adele 28 #3
52 Miss K Deer Tick 3 #18
53 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
54 Damn This Town John Hiatt 1 #54
55 Grown Ocean Fleet Foxes 5 #49
56 Cry, Cry, Cry Nicole Atkins 4 #56
57 Stone Rollin' Raphael Saadiq 8 #7
58 Bound for Glory Tedeschi Trucks Band 10 #35
59 He Don't Live Here No More Robbie Robertson 4 #19
60 What a Little Bit of Love Can Do Jeff Bridges 1 #60
61 Lotus Flower Radiohead 22 #13
62 Barton Hollow The Civil Wars 16 #6
63 This Is Why We Fight The Decemberists 36 #2
64 Sorry The Smithereens 3 #64
65 Do to Me Trombone Shorty 3 #65
66 Calgary Bon Iver 16 #25
67 How Come You Never Go There Feist 12 #12
68 You Were Never There Diego Garcia 8 #2
69 Flower Amos Lee 6 #19
70 Beauty Queen Sister The Indigo Girls 1 #70
71 Limit To Your Love James Blake 4 #50
72 Sugar Buzz KD Lang 1 #72
73 Towers Bon Iver 2 #11
74 Let the Light In Bob Schneider 2 #74
75 Shell Games Bright Eyes 7 #11
76 The Afterlife Paul Simon 11 #8
77 Long Time Cake 29 #9
78 The Circle Married The Line Feist 1 #78
79 The Water's Edge KD Lang 1 #79
80 Sophia Laura Marling 8 #6
81 Will Do TV on the Radio 24 #5
82 Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) Portugal. The Man 20 #22
83 Oh My Heart R.E.M. 1 #83
84 Love Shines Ron Sexsmith 1 #84
85 Cruel St. Vincent 12 #17
86 Werewolves The Damnwells 2 #86
87 King of Diamonds Motopony 6 #70
88 Junk of the Heart (Happy) The Kooks 22 #14
89 Me Me Me Middle Brother 2 #65
90 Everybody Needs Love Drive-By Truckers 2 #56

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About this countdown

WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2011 was voted by WFUV’s listeners (New York, NY) in 2011. 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: WFUV, "Best of 2011: Listener Poll Results".

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