WXPN Year in Review: Top 50 Songs of 2018

WXPN's year-end listener poll: the station's Best of 2018 page said it would play back "the Top 50 Best songs of the year, voted on [by] you, the listeners" on New Year's Eve (https://web.archive.org/web/20181216202808/http://xpn.org:80/music-artist/best-of/2018). Transcribed from the station's data file for the playback, which gives each song's rank and air time; the countdown ran on December 31, 2018 from about noon to 4 p.m., from #50 to #1. The source order (#50 first) is kept. Featured artist moved from the title to the artist column (#8).

#	Song	Lists	Best
50	Come on to Me Paul McCartney	7	#27
49	Charity Courtney Barnett	9	#18
48	Life to Fix The Record Company	10	#3
47	How Simple Hop Along	2	#40
46	Hunger Florence And The Machine	13	#3
45	Such a Simple Thing Ray LaMontagne	10	#10
44	Kindness of Strangers Courtney Marie Andrews	1	#44
43	Nobody Mitski	9	#10
42	The Spot Your Smith	4	#42
41	Nameless, Faceless Courtney Barnett	10	#20
40	Prior Things Hop Along	2	#40
39	Comeback Kid Sharon Van Etten	10	#39
38	Mariners Apartment Complex Lana Del Rey	9	#1
37	Feed the Fire Dawes	5	#12
36	Bad Luck Neko Case	12	#21
35	Light On Maggie Rogers	21	#9
34	Fists of Fury Kamasi Washington	3	#23
33	Silver Lining Mt. Joy	15	#17
32	Everybody's Coming To My House David Byrne	13	#8
31	Wide Awake Parquet Courts	5	#7
30	You Worry Me Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats	21	#1
29	Fever Pitch Rainbow Kitten Surprise	19	#6
28	The Mother Brandi Carlile	5	#4
27	Bassackwards Kurt Vile	1	#27
26	Homesick Marcus King Band	8	#26
25	Severed The Decemberists	13	#4
24	5 Dollars Christine and the Queens	1	#24
23	Living in the Future Dawes	7	#21
22	Casanova Rayland Baxter	10	#7
21	Mockingbird Ruston Kelly	5	#21
20	Healing Tide The War and Treaty	5	#20
19	Soul No. 5 Caroline Rose	6	#19
18	Gold Rush Death Cab for Cutie	18	#2
17	Short Court Style Natalie Prass	7	#2
16	New Birth in New England Phosphorescent	10	#6
15	No More Darkness, No More Light Amos Lee	7	#15
14	Loading Zones Kurt Vile	17	#2
13	If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be) Leon Bridges	9	#13
12	This is America Childish Gambino	21	#1
11	Beyond Leon Bridges	18	#2
10	People Get Old Lori McKenna	3	#10
9	Jeannie Becomes a Mom Caroline Rose	6	#3
8	Girlfriend Christine and the Queens	2	#8
7	Nina Cried Power Hozier	16	#1
6	Make Me Feel Janelle Monae	22	#2
5	Bad Bad News Leon Bridges	20	#1
4	Beverly Low Cut Connie	11	#4
3	Slow Burn Kacey Musgraves	17	#3
2	High Horse Kacey Musgraves	2	#2
1	The Joke Brandi Carlile	24	#1