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Year-end countdown · WTMD · December 2011

WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011

The year-end countdown (December 2011) from WTMD in Baltimore, MD ranks 89 songs, with “Rolling in the Deep” by Adele at number one. The list features 68 different artists; Adele has the most entries with five songs.

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The fan blog We Want Airwaves posted the same list (cross-checked, identical). Typos corrected: Grafitti6 -> Graffiti6 (65), Umphrey's Mcgee (77), Katie Hertzig -> Katie Herzig (89).

# Song ListsBest
1 Rolling in the Deep Adele 52 #1
2 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
3 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
4 Rumor Has It Adele 28 #3
5 Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye 65 #1
6 Calamity Song The Decemberists 26 #6
7 Holdin' on to Black Metal My Morning Jacket 24 #5
8 Shanghai Cigarettes Caitlin Rose 2 #8
9 Bright Lights Gary Clark Jr. 11 #9
10 Well, Well Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa 2 #10
11 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
12 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
13 Usual Suspects Ha Ha Tonka 1 #13
14 You Were Never There Diego Garcia 8 #2
15 Second Song TV on the Radio 5 #15
16 Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes 27 #5
17 Feeding Line Boy & Bear 2 #4
18 She Walks in So Many Ways The Jayhawks 10 #16
19 Change The Sheets Kathleen Edwards 10 #19
20 Sydney Brett Dennen 8 #12
21 Down By The Water The Decemberists 36 #8
22 Roosevelt Island Eleanor Friedberger 2 #22
23 Civilian Wye Oak 3 #22
24 The Walk Mayer Hawthorne 24 #4
25 I Believe in You Black Dub 4 #25
26 I Might Wilco 15 #8
27 Stone Rollin' Raphael Saadiq 8 #7
28 Circuital My Morning Jacket 9 #28
29 The Cave Mumford & Sons 72 #1
30 Lucky Now Ryan Adams 16 #6
31 Art of Almost Wilco 4 #31
32 Cruel St. Vincent 12 #17
33 Our Hearts Are Wrong Jessica Lea Mayfield 7 #33
34 Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Coldplay 34 #4
35 Heart Attack Raphael Saadiq 4 #35
36 You're Too Weird Fruit Bats 2 #36
37 Lotus Flower Radiohead 22 #13
38 Set Fire To The Rain Adele 16 #19
39 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
40 Santa Fe Beirut 14 #24
41 Sister Ray Charles Jc Brooks & The Uptown Sound 1 #41
42 Mayhem Imelda May 9 #7
43 Black Spartacus Heart Attack Machine Nightwatchman 2 #43
44 Unkind Sloan 2 #44
45 Fragile Bird City And Colour 11 #18
46 Me and Lazarus Iron and Wine 2 #46
47 How Come You Never Go There Feist 12 #12
48 Baby We Were Young The Dirty Guv'nahs 1 #48
49 Time Spent in Los Angeles Dawes 18 #3
50 Barton Hollow The Civil Wars 16 #6
51 Perfume Old 97's 4 #51
52 Turn That Finger Around Honeyhoney 1 #52
53 Down In The Valley The Head and the Heart 9 #2
54 Long Time Cake 29 #9
55 Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) Portugal. The Man 20 #22
56 Adios To California John Hiatt 3 #56
57 A Little Bit of Everything Dawes 20 #2
58 Rosie The Bridge 1 #58
59 Under Cover of Darkness The Strokes 27 #10
60 Don't Carry It All The Decemberists 4 #60
61 Will Do TV on the Radio 24 #5
62 Paradise Coldplay 51 #8
63 Go Outside The Cults 14 #13
64 Dawned on Me Wilco 10 #10
65 Free Graffiti 6 5 #29
66 The Last Crusade Sam Roberts Band 6 #19
67 Grown Ocean Fleet Foxes 5 #49
68 Comeback Kid Brett Dennen 3 #25
69 Harlem River Blues Justin Townes Earle 15 #6
70 Roll Away Your Stone Mumford & Sons 34 #2
71 Bound for Glory Tedeschi Trucks Band 10 #35
72 Howlin' for You The Black Keys 58 #1
73 Tree by the River Iron and Wine 18 #9
74 Do to Me Trombone Shorty 3 #65
75 Windows Are Rolled Down Amos Lee 26 #1
76 Colorado Motel The Bridge 1 #76
77 Miami Virtue Umphrey's McGee 1 #77
78 I'll Be Waiting Adele 4 #7
79 Second Chance Peter Bjorn & John 10 #5
80 Velcro Bell X 1 3 #46
81 Saw You First Givers 3 #48
82 If I Wanted Someone Dawes 10 #10
83 Like A Tourist Death Cab for Cutie 1 #83
84 Video Games Lana Del Rey 24 #2
85 I Follow Rivers Lykke Li 7 #58
86 Don't Wanna Do It Tom Principato 2 #86
87 Calgary Bon Iver 16 #25
88 King of Diamonds Motopony 6 #70
89 Free My Mind Katie Herzig 1 #89

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About this countdown

WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2011 was broadcast by WTMD (Baltimore, MD) in December 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: WTMD 89.7, "The Top 89 Songs of 2011".

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