Year-end countdown · ALT 104.5 · 2011

Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011

The year-end countdown (2011) from ALT 104.5 in Philadelphia, PA ranks 51 songs, with “Pumped up Kicks” by Foster The People at number one. The list features 31 different artists; Mumford & Sons has the most entries with four songs.

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Listener-voted: the station's 2011 Obligatory End of the Year Survey page calls the results 'the best and worst in music as decided by you'. Transcribed from the captions of the station's 'Top 50.5 of 2011' photo gallery. The captions skip 41 and number both The Kooks and Cage the Elephant 43; the three entries after #40 are numbered 41-43 in gallery order, as in the We Want Airwaves fan-blog copy of the list. The 50.5 caption adds '(Recorded Live at Radio 104.5)', dropped here.

# Song ListsBest
1 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
2 Little Talks Of Monsters And Men 56 #1
3 Rolling in the Deep Adele 52 #1
4 The Cave Mumford & Sons 72 #1
5 My Body Young the Giant 39 #3
6 Young Blood Naked and Famous 33 #2
7 Walk Foo Fighters 54 #1
8 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
9 Paradise Coldplay 51 #8
10 Cough Syrup Young the Giant 44 #3
11 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
12 Helena Beat Foster The People 35 #6
13 We Are Young fun. 47 #1
14 Sail AWOLNATION 52 #1
15 The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie Red Hot Chili Peppers 48 #3
16 Changing The Airborne Toxic Event 29 #2
17 Ready to Start The Arcade Fire 54 #3
18 You are a Tourist Death Cab for Cutie 43 #3
19 Shake Me Down Cage The Elephant 55 #2
20 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
21 Punching in a Dream Naked and Famous 18 #5
22 Set Fire To The Rain Adele 16 #19
23 After Midnight blink-182 21 #14
24 These Days Foo Fighters 33 #3
25 Up All Night blink-182 25 #1
26 Whirring Joy Formidable 27 #4
27 Rope Foo Fighters 47 #1
28 All I Ever Wanted The Airborne Toxic Event 15 #18
29 Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons 82 #1
30 Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye 65 #1
31 Promise, Promises Incubus 21 #15
32 Dark Horses Switchfoot 19 #11
33 Don't Stop Foster The People 8 #29
34 Howlin' for You The Black Keys 58 #1
35 If I Had a Gun... Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 13 #21
36 Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Coldplay 34 #4
37 Roll Away Your Stone Mumford & Sons 34 #2
38 Tighten Up The Black Keys 82 #1
39 Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine 73 #1
40 Make It Stop (september's Children) Rise Against 12 #6
41 The Ballad of Mona Lisa Panic! at the Disco 11 #3
42 Junk of the Heart (Happy) The Kooks 22 #14
43 Aberdeen Cage The Elephant 20 #7
44 What You Know Two Door Cinema Club 17 #3
45 Called Out In The Dark Snow Patrol 14 #13
46 Help Is On The Way Rise Against 28 #3
47 Adolescents Incubus 24 #8
48 Under The Cover of Darkness The Strokes 5 #22
49 Sound of Winter Bush 4 #1
50 Midnight City M83 55 #4
50.5 Ghosts That We Knew Mumford & Sons 2 #51

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About this countdown

Radio 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2011 was voted by ALT 104.5’s listeners (Philadelphia, PA) 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 Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: Radio 104.5, photo gallery "Top 50.5 of 2011" (Wayback copy).

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