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Year-end countdown · WTMD · December 2013

WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2013

The year-end countdown (December 2013) from WTMD in Baltimore, MD ranks 89 songs, with “Heavy Bells” by J. Roddy Walston and the Business at number one. The list features 76 different artists; Valerie June has the most entries with three songs.

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The station's vote page calls it "our annual list of the best songs of the year according to our listeners", drawing on requests, Facebook likes and a listener vote. Typos corrected: Patti Griffin -> Patty Griffin (47), Magnetic Zeroes -> Magnetic Zeros (68).

# Song ListsBest
1 Heavy Bells J. Roddy Walston and the Business 15 #1
2 Southern Sky John Murry 2 #2
3 Royals Lorde 38 #1
4 Reflektor The Arcade Fire 25 #3
5 Get Lucky Daft Punk 36 #1
6 Lost At Sea Great American Canyon Band 2 #6
7 Unbelievers Vampire Weekend 27 #3
8 From a Window Seat Dawes 17 #5
9 Ride On / Right On Phosphorescent 6 #9
10 Rising Tide Letitia VanSant and the Bonafides 2 #10
11 Working Woman Blues Valerie June 3 #11
12 Head On Man Man 12 #5
13 Heartbeat Kopecky Family Band 10 #13
14 Ohm Yo La Tengo 4 #14
15 Sunnier Days Diego Garcia 3 #15
16 Don't Swallow The Cap The National 19 #16
17 Find A Way Elastic Bond 2 #17
18 Pretty Green White Denim 4 #18
19 Wild Child Brett Dennen 9 #19
20 Broken Heart Dr. Dog 5 #3
21 Diane Young Vampire Weekend 26 #6
22 Marigold J. Roddy Walston and the Business 4 #22
23 The Wire Haim 17 #6
24 They Told Me Sallie Ford & The Sound Outside 3 #24
25 Things Will Change Treetop Flyers 4 #25
26 Come to My Party Black Joe Lewis 3 #26
27 Grace For Saints and Ramblers Iron and Wine 6 #27
28 Harper Lee Little Green Cars 10 #22
29 Man Neko Case 7 #17
30 Saints of Impossible Causes Joseph Arthur 7 #17
31 Song for Zula Phosphorescent 21 #1
32 Stranger The Devil Makes Three 4 #32
33 The Ceiling Wild Feathers 11 #4
34 Your Life Your Call Junip 7 #33
35 Born To Die King Khan & The Shrines 2 #35
36 Open Rhye 3 #36
37 Stranger To My Happiness Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 11 #37
38 Treat Me So Mean The Herd of Main Street 1 #38
39 We The Common Thao and the Get Down Stay Down 2 #39
40 You Can't Be Told Valerie June 4 #40
41 Another is Waiting Avett Brothers 10 #5
42 Bones 1 The Tontons 1 #42
43 Love Letter Clairy Browne & the Bangin' Rackettes 1 #43
44 Moving Travis 2 #44
45 New Paul McCartney 6 #45
46 Nothing Arrived Villagers 3 #36
47 Don't Let Me Die In Florida Patty Griffin 3 #47
48 Pushin' Against A Stone Valerie June 5 #48
49 Right Action Franz Ferdinand 11 #17
50 Stare At The Sun Eleanor Friedberger 1 #50
51 The Truth Dr. Dog 3 #31
52 99 Shades Of Crazy JJ Grey & Mofro 4 #52
53 Come Unto Me The Mavericks 8 #12
54 Daddy Was A Real Good Dancer The Dismemberment Plan 2 #54
55 High Hopes Bruce Springsteen 6 #26
56 Inhaler Foals 11 #46
57 The John Wayne Little Green Cars 9 #29
58 Little Bobby Pepper The Herd of Main Street 1 #58
59 Menagerie Caitlin Rose 1 #59
60 Oh Boy Boy 1 #60
61 Over The Edge Sarah Jarosz 3 #29
62 Retrograde James Blake 7 #13
63 Sirens Pearl Jam 19 #6
64 The One That Got Away The Civil Wars 7 #1
65 The One You Should Have Lone Bellow 1 #65
66 The Woodpile Frightened Rabbit 17 #13
67 47 Anders Osborne 1 #67
68 Better Days Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros 7 #28
69 High School Lover Cayucas 9 #15
70 Nothing More Alternate Routes 3 #70
71 Out of my League Fitz and the Tantrums 33 #1
72 Can You Get To That Mavis Staples 5 #72
73 Stockholm Jason Isbell 12 #2
74 The Dream's in the Ditch Deer Tick 5 #37
75 Thirst City And Colour 4 #42
76 Afterlife The Arcade Fire 9 #20
77 Are You Listening Kopecky Family Band 5 #25
78 Do It Again Camera Obscura 1 #78
79 Golden The Tontons 2 #79
80 Ramona Night Beds 2 #80
81 The Man Who Wants You Amos Lee 7 #10
82 Walk Us Uptown Elvis Costello and The Roots 6 #43
83 You Never Need Nobody Lone Bellow 11 #3
84 Rewrite Our Lives Ha Ha Tonka 1 #84
85 Holding On For Life Broken Bells 19 #21
86 Lightning Bolt Jake Bugg 21 #2
87 Queenie Eye Paul McCartney 3 #47
88 Pulaski At Night Andrew Bird 5 #35
89 Fugitive Air Of Montreal 2 #89

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About this countdown

WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2013 was voted by WTMD’s listeners (Baltimore, MD) in December 2013. 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 2013! Here's the List".

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