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Year-end countdown · WYEP · December 2025

WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2025

The year-end countdown (December 2025) from WYEP in Pittsburgh, PA ranks 91 songs, with “Horses” by Jesse Welles at number one. The list features 91 different artists.

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Year-end list of the best music released in 2025, published December 8, 2025; the page does not say how it was ranked.

# Song ListsBest
1 Horses Jesse Welles 12 #1
2 Everything Is Peaceful Love Bon Iver 14 #2
3 Another Life Alabama Shakes 14 #3
4 Dracula Tame Impala 16 #3
5 Sally, When The Wine Runs Out Role Model 16 #5
6 mangetout Wet Leg 21 #1
7 Save Your Soul Kathleen Edwards 8 #7
8 Elderberry Wine Wednesday 15 #1
9 moody Royel Otis 21 #5
10 Enough Jeff Tweedy 15 #10
11 Everybody Scream Florence And The Machine 17 #1
12 Everybody Laughs David Byrne 12 #6
13 Time Waited My Morning Jacket 15 #1
14 Caroline Mumford & Sons 8 #5
15 Wreck Neko Case 11 #3
16 Nothing I Need Lord Huron 15 #7
17 Human Brandi Carlile 6 #10
18 Lucy Mt. Joy 13 #3
19 White Horses Wolf Alice 13 #3
20 Wildfire Season Jobi Riccio 3 #20
21 Ankles Lucy Dacus 12 #5
22 Tanana Portugal. The Man 9 #22
23 Big Money Jon Batiste 10 #17
24 What Was That Lorde 12 #22
25 It's Amazing To Be Young Fontaines D.C. 17 #1
26 Chateau Blues Spoon 9 #26
27 Metal The Beths 11 #18
28 Ordinary Creature Of Monsters And Men 12 #28
29 Afterlife Alex G 8 #9
30 Fire Sign S G Goodman 2 #30
31 Magnetic Tunde Adebimpe 7 #17
32 Downstairs Matt Maeson 8 #26
33 I Want You (Fever) Momma 12 #13
34 Nettles Ethel Cain 2 #34
35 5 Dollar Pony Rides Mac Miller 3 #35
36 Tyrants Sam Fender 1 #36
37 Wash Away The Pain Zack Keim 1 #37
38 The Subway Chappell Roan 5 #2
39 Hey You The Belair Lip Bombs 4 #39
40 Bad Dreams Teddy Swims 9 #20
41 Orlando in Love Japanese Breakfast 4 #28
42 Taxes Geese 6 #5
43 Sushi and Coca Cola St. Paul & The Broken Bones 13 #8
44 Same Old Song Lumineers 13 #2
45 Rust Mon Rovîa 3 #45
46 Elegantly wasted Hermanos Gutierrez 15 #2
47 Nose on the grindstone Tyler Childers 7 #4
48 Spaceman in Tulsa Counting Crows 7 #7
49 Joy, Joy! Valerie June 7 #17
50 What Do I Know Deep Sea Diver 5 #12
51 Human Mind Mavis Staples 4 #33
52 This Is The Killer Speaking Last Dinner Party 17 #3
53 All I Need Maribou State 3 #53
54 Show and Tell Benjamin Booker 1 #54
55 Puff Of Smoke Wood Brothers 4 #27
56 Waiting Essential Machine 1 #56
57 That's Gonna Leave a Mark Molly Tuttle 8 #3
58 After Me? Kashus Culpepper 5 #28
59 Daisy Marfa 5 #44
60 Signs Of Life My Politic 1 #60
61 Cut & Rewind Say She She 3 #14
62 Palm Readers Palmyra 3 #53
63 Clams Casino Brian Dunne 2 #63
64 Better Broken Sarah McLachlan 3 #28
65 Yamaha Dijon 7 #4
66 Relationships Haim 14 #4
67 Common Folk Lone Bellow 1 #67
68 Voodoo Charm Christone Kingfish Ingram 2 #68
69 I Wanna Get Better Colatura 1 #69
70 One More Dance Around The Sun Great Lake Swimmers 2 #70
71 Words Big Thief 4 #6
72 Rock A Bye Baby Jean Dawson 4 #13
73 Float Jay Som 3 #68
74 People Of Substance Craig Finn 4 #25
75 Call It A Draw Uwade 2 #75
76 Heartbreak TuneYards 6 #19
77 Upside Southern Avenue 4 #40
78 Don't Let The Bastards Get You Down Margo Price 6 #6
79 Heathcliff Snocaps 4 #69
80 Let Things Go CAAMP 9 #14
81 After The Setting Sun The Head and the Heart 6 #12
82 Still Blue Sunday (1994) 1 #82
83 Together Snacktime 3 #77
84 Lonesome Drifter Charley Crockett 10 #9
85 The New Normal Sheryl Crow 2 #85
86 Like Water Jack Swing 1 #86
87 Honeydew (No Light) Josh Ritter 1 #87
88 Sugar In The Tank Julien Baker & Torres 10 #24
89 Bovine Excision Samia 5 #36
90 Inept Apollo Nation of Language 9 #15
91 The Power Curtis Harding 1 #91

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About this countdown

WYEP Top 91 Songs of 2025 was broadcast by WYEP (Pittsburgh, PA) in December 2025. 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: WYEP, "Top 91 Songs of 2025".

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