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Year-end countdown · 107.1 The Peak · 2008

WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2008

The year-end countdown (2008) from 107.1 The Peak in Westchester County, NY ranks 107 songs, with “Viva La Vida” by Coldplay at number one. The list features 87 different artists; Coldplay has the most entries with three songs.

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Fan transcription posted on the We Want Airwaves blog. Spelling corrected from the blog post: Eric Hutchinson (4), Ray LaMontagne (6), John Mellencamp (24), Brett Dennen (31), The B-52's (66), The Raconteurs (79), Morrissey (93), Sheryl Crow (103). No. 67 appears in the post as "Casey Fear -- Paddy"; read here as Paddy Casey, "Fear".

# Song ListsBest
1 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
2 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
3 House Of Cards Radiohead 17 #3
4 Rock & Roll Eric Hutchinson 8 #4
5 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
6 You are the best thing Ray LaMontagne 22 #6
7 Dream Catch Me Newton Faulkner 3 #7
8 Shattered (Turn the Car Around) O.A.R. 4 #8
9 Sequestered In Memphis Hold Steady 21 #9
10 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
11 I'm Yours Jason Mraz 12 #4
12 Human The Killers 36 #6
13 Orphans Beck 4 #13
14 Come On Get Higher Matt Nathanson 3 #14
15 Long Road to Ruin Foo Fighters 29 #5
16 I'm Amazed My Morning Jacket 21 #8
17 Take Back The City Snow Patrol 10 #17
18 The Way I Am Ingrid Michaelson 9 #5
19 Supernatural Superserious R.E.M. 19 #3
20 If I Had Eyes Jack Johnson 24 #1
21 Old Enough The Raconteurs 5 #13
22 Come Around Counting Crows 5 #5
23 Mercy Duffy 15 #2
24 My Sweet Love John Mellencamp 2 #24
25 Strange Overtones David Byrne and Brian Eno 19 #8
26 Volet Hill Coldplay 25 #12
27 Sweet and Low Augustana 4 #26
28 Say Hey (I Love You) Michael Franti & Spearhead 28 #2
29 U Want Me 2 Sarah McLachlan 2 #29
30 Many Shades of Black The Raconteurs 4 #14
31 Make You Crazy Brett Dennen 9 #11
32 Freeway Aimee Mann 7 #32
33 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
34 Peace, Love & Happiness G. Love & Special Sauce 5 #34
35 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
36 You Got Yr. Cherry Bomb Spoon 17 #36
37 You Can't Count On Me Counting Crows 5 #6
38 Dirty City Steve Winwood 2 #18
39 Lost! Coldplay 21 #1
40 Cath Death Cab for Cutie 33 #20
41 The Pedestrian Foxboro Hot Tubs 1 #41
42 Way Past Long Sonny Landreth 1 #42
43 Pork And Beans Weezer 38 #1
44 Life, Love & Laughter Donavon Frankenreiter 2 #34
45 Boots of Chinese Plastic The Pretenders 7 #45
46 That's Entrainment Van Morrison 2 #43
47 It's Alright Dar Williams 6 #47
48 The Shock Of The Lightning Oasis 15 #17
49 Livin' In the Future Bruce Springsteen 2 #49
50 Saving My Face KT Tunstall 2 #50
51 Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 9 #38
52 Believe The Bravery 32 #2
53 7:26 Michael Nappi 1 #53
54 Goodbye Daughters of the Revolution Black Crowes 6 #2
55 Say John Mayer 3 #49
56 Fix It Ryan Adams And The Cardinals 7 #29
57 Scare Easy Mudcrutch 6 #20
58 Busy Thinking 'Bout Today Phil Roy 1 #58
59 Whole Thing Big Blue Ball 2 #31
60 Habit Forming X Levitation Cult 1 #60
61 Something Good This Way Comes Jakob Dylan 8 #24
62 The News Carbon/Silicon 5 #62
63 Little Favours KT Tunstall 3 #63
64 Trashcan Delta Spirit 8 #45
65 It'll All Come Around Back Door Slam 1 #65
66 Funplex The B-52's 10 #42
67 Fear Paddy Casey 1 #67
68 Duncan and Brady Bob Dylan 1 #68
69 Always Where I Need to Be The Kooks 13 #33
70 Lake Michigan Rogue Wave 8 #66
71 Burn You Up, Burn You Down Big Blue Ball 2 #71
72 All That I Know Collective Soul 2 #72
73 Dance With Me Old 97's 10 #36
74 I Thought About You The Beautiful Girls 2 #38
75 Love Is Noise The Verve 7 #43
76 The Weight of Her Butch Walker 2 #76
77 Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend 21 #10
78 No Hiding Place Elvis Costello 2 #3
79 You Don't Understand Me The Raconteurs 1 #79
80 Invisible Man Joe Jackson 3 #21
81 No Sunlight Death Cab for Cutie 8 #9
82 Never miss a beat Kaiser Chiefs 7 #13
83 No One's Gonna Love You Band of Horses 13 #72
84 Grounds for Divorce Elbow 13 #15
85 Busy Being Fabulous The Eagles 1 #85
86 31 Today Aimee Mann 2 #86
87 The Lovers Are Losing Keane 2 #87
88 Mother Mary Foxboro Hot Tubs 9 #24
89 Hope Jack Johnson 10 #11
90 Testify Danielia Cotton 2 #90
91 The Only One The Cure 7 #77
92 Unsettle My Heart The Boat People 1 #92
93 That's How People Grow Up Morrissey 1 #93
94 On My Way Del Sol 1 #94
95 Lover of the Bayou Mudcrutch 3 #34
96 Underneath Alanis Morissette 2 #82
97 All In My Head Shawn Mullins 2 #75
98 Hollow Man R.E.M. 5 #30
99 Listen Amos Lee 4 #21
100 Thank You Too My Morning Jacket 6 #53
101 Back Door Slam Back Door Slam 1 #101
102 Gamma Ray Beck 14 #10
103 Love Is Free Sheryl Crow 4 #33
104 Until the Day Is Done R.E.M. 3 #60
105 The Clockwise Witness DeVotchKa 1 #105
106 Why Do Men Fight? Carbon/Silicon 1 #106
107 Sweeter Than the Rest Joan Osborne 1 #107

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About this countdown

WXPK Top 107 Songs of 2008 was broadcast by 107.1 The Peak (Westchester County, NY) in 2008. 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: We Want Airwaves (fan blog), "WXPK TOP 107 of 2008".

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