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WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010

The year-end countdown (2010) from WXPN in Philadelphia, PA ranks 100 songs, with “Little Lion Man” by Mumford & Sons at number one. The list features 72 different artists; Mumford & Sons has the most entries with four songs.

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Fan transcription posted on the We Want Airwaves blog (January 2011). WXPN's annual listener poll. #59 has no artist/title separator in the post. Capitalization of the post ("Lcd Soundsystem", "Dap-kings", "O.n.e.") normalized; "Fairground Boy" corrected to Fairground Boys.

# Song ListsBest
1 Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons 82 #1
2 Beg, Steal Or Borrow Ray LaMontagne 21 #1
3 Shadow People Dr. Dog 18 #3
4 The High Road Broken Bells 57 #1
5 Fuck You Cee-Lo Green 18 #2
6 Bloodbuzz Ohio The National 47 #2
7 Next Girl The Black Keys 14 #7
8 Ready to Start The Arcade Fire 54 #3
9 Repo Man Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs 5 #9
10 Tightrope Janelle Monae 13 #10
11 The Cave Mumford & Sons 72 #1
12 Bang Pop Free Energy 10 #12
13 In Sleep Lissie 11 #13
14 Soldier Of Love Sade 6 #14
15 Hannah Freelance Whales 6 #15
16 Do You Love Me Guster 16 #8
17 Tighten Up The Black Keys 82 #1
18 On Melancholy Hill Gorillaz 20 #18
19 Zebra Beach House 9 #7
20 First Flash of Freedom Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 2 #20
21 Anchor Alejandro Escovedo 7 #11
22 Healing Hands Citizen Cope 4 #19
23 Sun Hands Local Natives 5 #23
24 Burn It Down Los Lobos 5 #24
25 Take Me Into Town Dr. Dog 1 #25
26 Angel Dance Robert Plant 16 #11
27 If You Let Me JP, Chrissie and the Fairground Boys 1 #27
28 Cousins Vampire Weekend 40 #5
29 Boyfriend Best Coast 12 #18
30 Amazing One Eskimo 8 #30
31 Every Night (Is Friday Night Without You) Old 97's 6 #31
32 Everlasting Light The Black Keys 6 #32
33 Bushwick Blues Delta Spirit 10 #10
34 Giving Up The Gun Vampire Weekend 28 #15
35 Fade Like A Shadow KT Tunstall 8 #22
36 Laredo Band of Horses 36 #7
37 The Ghost Inside Broken Bells 22 #10
38 Stylo Gorillaz 30 #11
39 American Slang The Gaslight Anthem 10 #39
40 Roll Away Your Stone Mumford & Sons 34 #2
41 I Should Have Known It Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 7 #14
42 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) The Arcade Fire 14 #8
43 The Suburbs The Arcade Fire 29 #1
44 Wrote A Song For Everyone Mavis Staples 8 #21
45 On Your Way Down Trombone Shorty 1 #45
46 Hitchhiker Neil Young 1 #46
47 Simplify Ben Arnold 1 #47
48 Boy Ra Ra Riot 7 #48
49 Dance Yrself Clean LCD Soundsystem 19 #3
50 Parachute Ingrid Michaelson 4 #50
51 Hit 'Em Up Style Carolina Chocolate Drops 9 #51
52 Wake Up Everybody John Legend & The Roots 3 #42
53 Tragedy Peter Wolf 3 #42
54 Free Energy Free Energy 3 #54
55 My Time Minus the Bear 9 #17
56 I've Got a Feeling Secret Sisters 2 #56
57 I Walked Sufjan Stevens 2 #57
58 I Learned The Hard Way Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 6 #3
59 Hard Times John Legend & The Roots 2 #59
60 Where'd All The Time Go? Dr. Dog 3 #60
61 No Better Than This John Mellencamp 4 #44
62 In the Sun She & Him 7 #5
63 Depression Ryan Bingham & The Dead Horses 1 #63
64 I Want The World To Stop Belle & Sebastian 2 #64
65 Paris (Oh La La) Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 10 #4
66 Crash Years The New Pornographers 9 #23
67 After The Storm Mumford & Sons 2 #67
68 Horchata Vampire Weekend 21 #9
69 Radioactive Kings of Leon 53 #2
70 Sick Of You Cake 45 #4
71 We Used to Wait The Arcade Fire 24 #7
72 Dear God 2.0 The Roots 1 #72
73 The Curse Josh Ritter 7 #2
74 Compared to What John Legend & The Roots 4 #24
75 Scissor Runner Jenny & Johnny 4 #32
76 Always Junip 5 #39
77 From Above Ben Folds and Nick Hornby 4 #43
78 Good Work Ike Reilly 1 #78
79 You And Your Heart Jack Johnson 27 #4
80 You Can Dance Bryan Ferry 3 #79
81 Norway Beach House 11 #8
82 O.N.E. Yeasayer 4 #30
83 The Blackest Lily Corinne Bailey Rae 4 #77
84 Mystery Zone Spoon 6 #17
85 Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine 73 #1
86 Written In Reverse Spoon 23 #18
87 Crossfire Brandon Flowers 31 #6
88 Money Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 2 #13
89 At Or With Me Jack Johnson 18 #2
90 Hurricane Season Trombone Shorty 3 #68
91 Sound of Sunshine Michael Franti & Spearhead 11 #7
92 You Are Not Alone Mavis Staples 4 #92
93 El Camino Amos Lee 4 #29
94 Shame, Shame Dr. Dog 1 #94
95 Down By The Water The Decemberists 36 #8
96 Airplanes Local Natives 9 #14
97 Change Of Time Josh Ritter 9 #6
98 Ambling Alp Yeasayer 11 #4
99 Bright Lit Blue Skies Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti 1 #99
100 Undertow Warpaint 2 #100

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WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2010 was voted by WXPN’s listeners (Philadelphia, PA) in 2010. 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), "WXPN TOP 100 OF 2010".

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