88.5 FM · Philadelphia, PA

WXPN countdowns

RockLists holds 26 countdowns from WXPN: 17 year-end countdowns covering 2007–2025 and nine all-time, decade and special countdowns, totaling 10,997 chart positions. The station’s first year-end number one on record is “Impossible Germany” by Wilco (2007); its most recent is “The World's Gone Wrong” by Lucinda Williams (2025).

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10,997chart positions

2007–2025year-end lists

On airstatus

Year-end countdowns

Countdown series

All-time countdowns

Top artists countdowns

Top artists countdown · 2006 885 All-Time Greatest Artists (2006) 882 artists · partial

Special countdowns

Every WXPN year-end number one

Year	Number one song	Countdown
2007	Impossible Germany Wilco	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2007
2008	I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2008
2009	Home Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2009
2010	Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010
2011	Pumped up Kicks Foster The People	WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011
2012	Ho Hey Lumineers	WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2012
2013	Get Lucky Daft Punk	WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2013
2014	Take Me To Church Hozier	WXPN Year in Review: Top 200 Songs of 2014
2017	If We Were Vampires Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit	WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2017
2018	Come on to Me Paul McCartney	WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018
2019	I Found Out The Head and the Heart	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2019
2020	All In It Together Mavis Staples	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2020
2021	Days Go By Haerts	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2021
2022	Cosmic Guilt Cosmic Guilt	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2022
2023	Sideways Skull Hold Steady	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2023
2024	Together Snacktime	WXPN Top 100 Most Played Songs of 2024
2025	The World's Gone Wrong Lucinda Williams	WXPN Top 100 Songs of 2025

About WXPN

WXPN (88.5 FM) is a non-commercial radio station licensed to the Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, airing an adult album alternative (AAA) format. The station's call sign, often abbreviated XPN, stands for "Experimental Pennsylvania Network." WXPN first signed on in 1957, originally broadcasting at 88.9 MHz before moving to its current 88.5 MHz frequency in 1990. WXPN produces World Cafe, a music program distributed nationally by NPR.

Call letters: WXPN
Frequency: 88.5 FM
Market: Philadelphia, PA
Owner: University of Pennsylvania (Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania)
Format: Adult album alternative
Format since: 1957
Website: xpn.org/
More: Wikipedia
Ranked with: Indie & Adult Alternative

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