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WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021

The year-end countdown (2021) from WTMD in Baltimore, MD ranks 89 songs, with “Valentine” by Snail Mail at number one. The list features 84 different artists.

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Listener-voted. #83 is printed title-first (Boomer – Bartees Strange); columns swapped here. Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 Valentine Snail Mail 10 #1
2 FREEDOM Jon Batiste 19 #2
3 Chaise Longue Wet Leg 29 #1
4 The Hardest Cut Spoon 22 #4
5 Like I Used To Sharon Van Etten and Angel Olsen 11 #5
6 Easy On Me Adele 11 #5
7 Crutch Band of Horses 11 #3
8 Call me a Fool Valerie June 15 #4
9 Right On Time Brandi Carlile 16 #1
10 Dirt Boy Peach Face 1 #10
11 Magnificent Hurt Elvis Costello and The Imposters 13 #11
12 Black Myself Amythyst Kiah 14 #2
13 U&ME Alt J 13 #13
14 Love Love Love My Morning Jacket 14 #8
15 Walking at a Downtown Pace Parquet Courts 5 #15
16 I Don't Live Here Anymore The War On Drugs 25 #2
17 Squid Tattoo Sean Rowe 2 #17
18 Survivor Nathaniel Rateliff 3 #1
19 Hush The Marias 11 #6
20 Be Sweet Japanese Breakfast 22 #2
21 I Need You Jon Batiste 19 #1
22 Hold Yourself TuneYards 11 #22
23 Solar Power Lorde 19 #6
24 Hurt Arlo Parks 17 #5
25 Certainty Big Thief 7 #18
26 Hey Lou Liz Phair 3 #26
27 Run Run Run Kurt Vile 2 #27
28 Hypotheticals Lake Street Dive 21 #1
29 Price of Blue Flock of Dimes 1 #29
30 Las Vegas Houndmouth 4 #30
31 Once Twice Melody Beach House 11 #3
32 Spirit Power and Soul Johnny Marr 2 #32
33 We Are Between Modest Mouse 13 #4
34 Love & Hate In A Different Time Gabriels 6 #34
35 Evergreen Bendigo Fletcher 2 #35
36 Click Click Domino Ida Mae 1 #36
37 Wolves Garbage 5 #20
38 justified Kacey Musgraves 12 #10
39 Better Michigander 6 #12
40 Waiting For my Fix Josey Wails 2 #34
41 Vertigo Alice Merton 10 #13
42 Brando Lucy Dacus 11 #8
43 Can't Let Go Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 16 #4
44 Worry With You Sleater-Kinney 11 #21
45 Trying To Break Your Heart Flyte 1 #45
46 Head On Jose Gonzalez 3 #46
47 Peach Future Islands 2 #47
48 Never Leave You The Record Company 5 #48
49 Low Chet Faker 9 #4
50 My People Cha Wa 2 #44
51 Smile Valerie June 5 #51
52 Paul Newman Daytona Rolex Brett Dennen 2 #52
53 Not Dead Yet Lord Huron 17 #3
54 Every Night Nuevo 1 #54
55 I Love This Life Bob Schneider 2 #40
56 Strangers Black Pumas 7 #56
57 Low Era Geese 4 #46
58 Slow Train Pressing Strings 1 #58
59 Johnny & Jonnie Twin Shadow 5 #1
60 Bed Head Manchester Orchestra 11 #1
61 Pay Your Way in Pain St. Vincent 12 #6
62 Sunshine Grant Swift 1 #62
63 Seven Pieces June Star 1 #63
64 Questions Middle Kids 7 #7
65 Head Right Wilderado 6 #42
66 Freedom Illiterate Light 6 #2
67 Know That I Know Lake Street Dive 6 #29
68 Diamond Studded Shoes Yola 15 #1
69 Space Girl Frances Forever 7 #39
70 My Cleveland Heart Jackson Browne 6 #42
71 Hey Hey Ramona Bosley 1 #71
72 Love Don't Nathaniel Rateliff 1 #72
73 B. Santa Ana, 1986 Nick Waterhouse 2 #73
74 Motorbike Leon Bridges 13 #7
75 See The World Brett Dennen 7 #20
76 Spies Tori Amos 3 #30
77 Scratchcard Lanyard Dry Cleaning 1 #77
78 Stay In The Car Bachelor 8 #37
79 Mouthful of Blood Juliana Hatfield 2 #41
80 Galacticana Strand Of Oaks 8 #23
81 Roots and Wings The Wallflowers 6 #7
82 Handful of Water Sofia Valdez 1 #82
83 Boomer Bartees Strange 5 #38
84 I'll Call You Mine Girl In Red 8 #27
85 Nightflyer Allison Russell 10 #1
86 In The Stone The Goon Sax 1 #86
87 Bitter Taste Billy Idol 5 #4
88 Just for Kids Ben Kweller 2 #86
89 No Hole In My Head Tom Jones 1 #89

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About this countdown

WTMD Top 89 Songs of 2021 was voted by WTMD’s listeners (Baltimore, MD) in 2021. 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, "Top 89 Songs of 2021 – Check out the list!".

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