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WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011

The year-end countdown (2011) from WXPN in Philadelphia, PA ranks 100 songs, with “Pumped up Kicks” by Foster The People at number one. The list features 66 different artists; Adele has the most entries with five songs.

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Fan transcription posted on the We Want Airwaves blog (January 2012). WXPN's year-end listener poll. #70, #95, #96 and #100 have no artist/title separator in the post; #96 is printed "Tune-yards Bizness Buy", where "Buy" is left over from a store link and was dropped. Capitalization normalized ("Tv On The Radio", "Dna", "R. E. M.").

# Song ListsBest
1 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
2 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
3 Rolling in the Deep Adele 52 #1
4 You Were Never There Diego Garcia 8 #2
5 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
6 Time Spent in Los Angeles Dawes 18 #3
7 Used To Be A Cop Drive-By Truckers 3 #7
8 A Little Bit of Everything Dawes 20 #2
9 Sophia Laura Marling 8 #6
10 If I Wanted Someone Dawes 10 #10
11 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
12 The Walk Mayer Hawthorne 24 #4
13 Holocene Bon Iver 20 #13
14 Windows Are Rolled Down Amos Lee 26 #1
15 Holdin' on to Black Metal My Morning Jacket 24 #5
16 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
17 Rumor Has It Adele 28 #3
18 This Is Why We Fight The Decemberists 36 #2
19 Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes 27 #5
20 Poison & Wine The Civil Wars 7 #15
21 She Walks in So Many Ways The Jayhawks 10 #16
22 Lucky Now Ryan Adams 16 #6
23 Barton Hollow The Civil Wars 16 #6
24 Santa Fe Beirut 14 #24
25 Down By The Water The Decemberists 36 #8
26 Go Outside The Cults 14 #13
27 Don't Owe You A Thang Gary Clark Jr. 5 #27
28 Little Talks Of Monsters And Men 56 #1
29 El Camino Amos Lee 4 #29
30 Baby Missiles The War On Drugs 2 #30
31 The Afterlife Paul Simon 11 #8
32 Paradise Coldplay 51 #8
33 Video Games Lana Del Rey 24 #2
34 Calgary Bon Iver 16 #25
35 Bound for Glory Tedeschi Trucks Band 10 #35
36 House Ben Folds Five 3 #36
37 Set Fire To The Rain Adele 16 #19
38 One Sunday Morning (Song For Jane Smiley's Boyfriend) Wilco 4 #38
39 Second Song TV on the Radio 5 #15
40 How Come You Never Go There Feist 12 #12
41 You are a Tourist Death Cab for Cutie 43 #3
42 Helena Beat Foster The People 35 #6
43 Our Hearts Are Wrong Jessica Lea Mayfield 7 #33
44 Tree by the River Iron and Wine 18 #9
45 Will Do TV on the Radio 24 #5
46 Velcro Bell X 1 3 #46
47 The Way it Goes Gillian Welch 10 #19
48 So Beautiful or So What Paul Simon 7 #20
49 Up Up Up Givers 6 #49
50 Dust Bowl Joe Bonamassa 2 #23
51 All Eyes On You Diego Garcia 2 #51
52 Apple Like A Wrecking Ball Hoots And Hellmouth 1 #52
53 Art of Almost Wilco 4 #31
54 Wonderful (The Way I Feel) My Morning Jacket 5 #41
55 Under Cover of Darkness The Strokes 27 #10
56 Even If I Don't Rachael Yamagata 1 #56
57 Violin Amos Lee 2 #57
58 Stone Rollin' Raphael Saadiq 8 #7
59 Every Teardrop is a Waterfall Coldplay 34 #4
60 Change The Sheets Kathleen Edwards 10 #19
61 Limit To Your Love James Blake 4 #50
62 Back In the Crowd Tom Waits 3 #21
63 Rewrite Paul Simon 4 #17
64 The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie Red Hot Chili Peppers 48 #3
65 Hold On Alabama Shakes 38 #1
66 Flower Amos Lee 6 #19
67 Calamity Song The Decemberists 26 #6
68 I Might Wilco 15 #8
69 Fire Away Dawes 2 #27
70 Circuital My Morning Jacket 9 #28
71 Heart Attack Raphael Saadiq 4 #35
72 Lotus Flower Radiohead 22 #13
73 Grown Ocean Fleet Foxes 5 #49
74 Well, Well Beth Hart & Joe Bonamassa 2 #10
75 Cruel St. Vincent 12 #17
76 Stay Young, Go Dancing Death Cab for Cutie 20 #28
77 Games People Play Lissie 1 #77
78 Down In The Valley The Head and the Heart 9 #2
79 Sad Song The Cars 9 #16
80 Sorry The Smithereens 3 #64
81 Sensitive Man Nick Lowe 1 #81
82 Fragile Bird City And Colour 11 #18
83 June Hymn The Decemberists 4 #12
84 Discoverer R.E.M. 5 #27
85 Midnight City M83 55 #4
86 Come See About Me Tedeschi Trucks Band 1 #86
87 Shell Games Bright Eyes 7 #11
88 Man In Motion Warren Haynes 4 #26
89 Laura Diego Garcia 1 #89
90 Turning Tables Adele 2 #90
91 Miracle Worker Superheavy 5 #39
92 DNA Kills 1 #92
93 I Follow Rivers Lykke Li 7 #58
94 Walk Foo Fighters 54 #1
95 Kmag Yoyo Hayes Carll 4 #95
96 Bizness TuneYards 2 #96
97 Getting Ready For Christmas Day Paul Simon 1 #97
98 Dawned on Me Wilco 10 #10
99 Don't Stop (Color On The Walls Foster The People 22 #15
100 Make Some Noise Beastie Boys 29 #11

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About this countdown

WXPN Year in Review: Top 100 Songs of 2011 was voted by WXPN’s listeners (Philadelphia, PA) in 2011. 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 Year in Review 2011".

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