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WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025

The year-end countdown (2025) from WFUV in New York, NY ranks 90 songs, with “mangetout” by Wet Leg at number one. The list features 69 different artists; Goose has the most entries with three songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 mangetout Wet Leg 21 #1
2 The Subway Chappell Roan 5 #2
3 White Horses Wolf Alice 13 #3
4 catch these fists Wet Leg 21 #1
5 It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C. 17 #1
6 Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine 17 #1
7 Lucy Mt. Joy 13 #3
8 Sally, When The Wine Runs Out Role Model 16 #5
9 Cobra Geese 9 #9
10 Relationships Haim 14 #4
11 Everything Is Peaceful Love Bon Iver 14 #2
12 Nothing I Need Lord Huron 15 #7
13 Human Brandi Carlile 6 #10
14 Madalena Goose 11 #1
15 Inept Apollo Nation of Language 9 #15
16 I'm Not Ready for the Change Nation of Language 3 #16
17 Everybody Laughs David Byrne 12 #6
18 Where Is My Husband! RAYE 4 #5
19 Elderberry Wine Wednesday 15 #1
20 Bloom Baby Bloom Wolf Alice 13 #11
21 One Thing Lola Young 5 #18
22 Dracula Tame Impala 16 #3
23 Enough Jeff Tweedy 15 #10
24 Time Waited My Morning Jacket 15 #1
25 This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party 17 #3
26 Incomprehensible Big Thief 11 #10
27 At the Party, In Every Life Gigi Perez 1 #27
28 The Fate of Ophelia Taylor Swift 1 #28
29 Spike Island Pulp 9 #10
30 Another Life Alabama Shakes 14 #3
31 Horses Jesse Welles 12 #1
32 Down to Be Wrong Haim 3 #9
33 Give It Time Goose 8 #4
34 Lover Girl Laufey 7 #8
35 Stay In Your Lane Courtney Barnett 9 #10
36 moody Royel Otis 21 #5
37 Returning To Myself Brandi Carlile 8 #16
38 That's Gonna Leave a Mark Molly Tuttle 8 #3
39 Nice To Each Other Olivia Dean 5 #7
40 Words Big Thief 4 #6
41 Seein' Stars Turnstile 5 #1
42 Parachute Hayley Williams 5 #12
43 NEVER ENOUGH Turnstile 12 #1
44 Metal The Beths 11 #18
45 Delete Ya Djo 3 #45
46 The Happy Dictator Gorillaz 8 #6
47 Save Your Soul Kathleen Edwards 8 #7
48 Bonnet of Pins Matt Berninger 8 #48
49 Ankles Lucy Dacus 12 #5
50 Rubber Band Man Mumford & Sons 10 #2
51 Henry, Come On Lana Del Rey 3 #29
52 If the World Burns Down Kacey Musgraves 1 #52
53 Bury Me Jason Isbell 7 #8
54 As Alive As You Need to Be Nine Inch Nails 9 #3
55 Afterlife Alex G 8 #9
56 I Want You (Fever) Momma 12 #13
57 Same Old Song Lumineers 13 #2
58 Straight Line Was A Lie The Beths 9 #16
59 From Bon Iver 6 #31
60 Your Direction Goose 6 #10
61 Free Little Simz 2 #61
62 Tough Luck Laufey 1 #62
63 No Rain, No Flowers The Black Keys 9 #5
64 Idiot Box Sharon Van Etten and the Attachment Theory 10 #1
65 Shovel Deep Sea Diver 4 #65
66 Chemistry Gigi Perez 2 #17
67 Let Things Go CAAMP 9 #14
68 Picture Window Japanese Breakfast 8 #23
69 Heathcliff Snocaps 4 #69
70 Bullseye Lucy Dacus 1 #70
71 Rushmere Mumford & Sons 11 #9
72 Guess I'm Falling In Love Spoon 9 #12
73 After Me? Kashus Culpepper 5 #28
74 Wreck Neko Case 11 #3
75 Ordinary Creature Of Monsters And Men 12 #28
76 Elegantly wasted Hermanos Gutierrez 15 #2
77 Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett 10 #9
78 4chan Stan Lily Allen 1 #78
79 First We Ever Met Lumineers 4 #28
80 Chateau Blues Spoon 9 #26
81 Basic Being Basic Djo 7 #12
82 Watch Me Go Lord Huron 12 #7
83 Who's Your Boyfriend Royel Otis 4 #35
84 Clams Casino Brian Dunne 2 #63
85 Rust Mon Rovîa 3 #45
86 All I Need Maribou State 3 #53
87 Coyote Mt. Joy 7 #5
88 Cold at Night The Mountain Goats 1 #88
89 Yamaha Dijon 7 #4
90 When a Good Man Cries CMAT 3 #78

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About this countdown

WFUV Top 90 Songs of 2025 was voted by WFUV’s listeners (New York, NY) in 2025. 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 2025: Listener Poll Results".

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