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Special countdown · WYEP · September 2025

WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far)

The countdown (September 2025) from WYEP in Pittsburgh, PA ranks 714 songs, with “Mr. Brightside” by The Killers at number one. The list features 375 different artists; Radiohead has the most entries with twelve songs. Listener-voted: WYEP listeners voted during summer 2025 for their favorite songs of the 21st century so far, and the station counted down 1,150 songs over eight days in September 2025 (the announcement page gives the run as "Tuesday, Sept. 13" through Tuesday, Sept. 30). INCOMPLETE: only the top 714 positions survive. They come from the Google Sheet embedded in the station's page for the New Year re-air of the top 714 (December 31, 2025 - January 2, 2026), https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSm6gnhgmX0Uo6LW6ojsIurLQK76JXZP9kLw-0-u30z1BNYWIT0-JDjyXZWpevOfMTmffdDRGoacSa7/pubhtml; positions 715-1150 of the September countdown are missing. Artist credits normalized to the site's format ("X (featuring Y)" written "X feat. Y").

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# Song ListsBest
1 Mr. Brightside The Killers 114 #1
2 7 Nation Army The White Stripes 9 #2
3 Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine 73 #1
4 Hey Ya! Outkast 68 #1
5 The Story Brandi Carlile 25 #1
6 Rolling in the Deep Adele 52 #1
7 Do You Realize? The Flaming Lips 47 #3
8 Somebody That I Used To Know Gotye 65 #1
9 Royals Lorde 38 #1
10 Beautiful Day U2 124 #1
11 Float On Modest Mouse 91 #1
12 Take Me To Church Hozier 47 #1
13 Crazy Gnarls Barkley 45 #1
14 Rehab Amy Winehouse 40 #3
15 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz 80 #1
16 If We Were Vampires Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 17 #1
17 American Idiot Green Day 86 #1
18 Paper Planes M.I.A. 43 #2
19 Back to Black Amy Winehouse 29 #8
20 Valerie Mark Ronson 16 #20
21 Maps Yeah Yeah Yeahs 64 #1
22 Take Me Out Franz Ferdinand 82 #1
23 Chicago Sufjan Stevens 27 #15
24 Colors Black Pumas 25 #1
25 The Joke Brandi Carlile 24 #1
26 A-Punk Vampire Weekend 44 #6
27 Dancing On My Own Robyn 14 #27
28 Slow Burn Kacey Musgraves 17 #3
29 I and Love and You Avett Brothers 37 #1
30 Clocks Coldplay 101 #1
31 Such Great Heights The Postal Service 58 #2
32 Hold On Alabama Shakes 38 #1
33 Viva La Vida Coldplay 65 #1
34 Yellow Coldplay 98 #3
35 Pumped up Kicks Foster The People 83 #1
36 Kids MGMT 66 #1
37 Home Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros 57 #1
38 Impossible Germany Wilco 29 #1
39 New Slang The Shins 54 #3
40 Time To Pretend MGMT 51 #1
41 Boulevard of Broken Dreams Green Day 96 #1
42 Weird fishes Radiohead 6 #42
43 The Rising Bruce Springsteen 24 #5
44 Seasons (Waiting On You) Future Islands 28 #2
45 Harmony Hall Vampire Weekend 32 #1
46 Jesus Etc. Wilco 26 #5
47 Short Skirt/Long Jacket Cake 60 #2
48 Do I Wanna Know Arctic Monkeys 60 #1
49 I Will Wait Mumford & Sons 57 #1
50 S.O.B. Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 34 #1
51 Clint Eastwood Gorillaz 74 #2
52 Soul Meets Body Death Cab for Cutie 64 #2
53 1901 Phoenix 86 #1
54 Midnight City M83 55 #4
55 Uptown Funk Mark Ronson 13 #6
56 Bad Romance Lady Gaga 8 #14
57 Lonely Boy The Black Keys 78 #1
58 Just Breathe Pearl Jam 62 #2
59 Electric Feel MGMT 42 #2
60 Shake It Out Florence And The Machine 53 #3
61 Dance Yrself Clean LCD Soundsystem 19 #3
62 Heavy Metal Drummer Wilco 32 #2
63 Ho Hey Lumineers 63 #1
64 All These Things That I've Done The Killers 50 #2
65 Last Nite The Strokes 77 #1
66 The Scientist Coldplay 65 #1
67 Gold On The Ceiling The Black Keys 53 #1
68 Hurt Johnny Cash 77 #1
69 Good Luck Babe! Chappell Roan 14 #1
70 Not Strong Enough Boygenius 23 #1
71 This is America Childish Gambino 21 #1
72 Too Sweet Hozier 21 #1
73 Video Games Lana Del Rey 24 #2
74 Skinny Love Bon Iver 27 #7
75 Wagon Wheel Old Crow Medicine Show 22 #23
76 All My Friends LCD Soundsystem 21 #10
77 Sex On Fire Kings of Leon 82 #1
78 The Underdog Spoon 38 #3
79 Simple Song The Shins 37 #3
80 Bloodbuzz Ohio The National 47 #2
81 Chaise Longue Wet Leg 29 #1
82 Hold On Hold On Neko Case 19 #3
83 Born This Way Lady Gaga 10 #44
84 Don't Know Why Norah Jones 13 #1
85 Everything In It's Right Place Radiohead 20 #2
86 Pretty Pimpin' Kurt Vile 25 #2
87 Breezeblocks Alt J 37 #2
88 Sound & Color Alabama Shakes 15 #20
89 Falling Slowly Glen Hansard 20 #16
90 Make Me Feel Janelle Monae 22 #2
91 Now And Then The Beatles 15 #2
92 BIRDS OF A FEATHER Billie Eilish 9 #3
93 One More Time Daft Punk 17 #7
94 Alright Kendrick Lamar 9 #37
95 Shadow People Dr. Dog 18 #3
96 Labour Paris Paloma 9 #3
97 The Funeral Band of Horses 21 #31
98 Cleopatra Lumineers 24 #2
99 Wolf Like Me TV on the Radio 36 #2
100 Fake Empire The National 24 #34
101 Aint no Rest for the Wicked Cage The Elephant 65 #1
102 Motion Sickness Phoebe Bridgers 19 #8
103 Little Talks Of Monsters And Men 56 #1
104 24 Frames Jason Isbell 24 #11
105 A Little Bit of Everything Dawes 20 #2
106 Get Lucky Daft Punk 36 #1
107 Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons 82 #1
108 Alaska Maggie Rogers 22 #3
109 The Suburbs The Arcade Fire 29 #1
110 I Will Follow You Into the Dark Death Cab for Cutie 40 #1
111 Snow (Hey Oh) Red Hot Chili Peppers 57 #6
112 The Less I Know the Better Tame Impala 23 #1
113 Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robots Pt. 1 The Flaming Lips 30 #15
114 The Cave Mumford & Sons 72 #1
115 White Winter Hymnal Fleet Foxes 26 #9
116 Portions For Foxes Rilo Kiley 22 #27
117 Stuck Between Stations Hold Steady 19 #117
118 Dont Wanna Fight Alabama Shakes 26 #1
119 Wake Up The Arcade Fire 31 #6
120 Ophelia Lumineers 39 #1
121 Right Back to It Waxahatchee 20 #1
122 All Your Favorite Bands Dawes 16 #3
123 I Will Possess Your Heart Death Cab for Cutie 43 #1
124 Dani California Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
125 Crazy in Love Beyoncé 11 #47
126 Fix You Coldplay 47 #13
127 Dead of Night Orville Peck 9 #23
128 Everything Now The Arcade Fire 21 #4
129 Head Underwater Jenny Lewis 8 #27
130 Messy Lola Young 15 #1
131 River Leon Bridges 6 #131
132 Gild The Lily Billy Strings 15 #5
133 Good Kisser Lake Street Dive 20 #7
134 No One Knows Queens of the Stone Age 110 #1
135 Chasing Cars Snow Patrol 40 #1
136 Road To Joy Peter Gabriel 13 #5
137 Pedestrian At Best Courtney Barnett 22 #4
138 Bring Me to Life Evanescence 57 #1
139 Gone Gone Gone (Done Moved On) Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 13 #11
140 Don't Let Go The Ghost Club 3 #140
141 Leave The Door Open Silk Sonic 8 #13
142 Rainbow Kacey Musgraves 6 #2
143 Moneygrabber Fitz and the Tantrums 37 #3
144 Cool About It Boygenius 16 #1
145 You Go Down Smooth Lake Street Dive 10 #2
146 Dreamsicle Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit 15 #13
147 FREEDOM Jon Batiste 19 #2
148 When My Time Comes Dawes 24 #9
149 Turn the Lights Back On Billy Joel 4 #67
150 Somewhere Only We Know Keane 58 #12
151 About Damn Time Lizzo 15 #1
152 Los Ageless St. Vincent 20 #2
153 Chasing Pavements Adele 16 #12
154 Hard Sun Eddie Vedder 34 #8
155 Worthy Mavis Staples 16 #19
156 Landed Ben Folds 25 #14
157 Ship To Wreck Florence And The Machine 26 #3
158 Take A Walk Passion Pit 43 #3
159 Paris (Oh La La) Grace Potter & The Nocturnals 10 #4
160 Cape Cod Kwassa Kwassa Vampire Weekend 13 #10
161 The District Sleeps Alone Tonight The Postal Service 17 #2
162 Vertigo U2 75 #4
163 When You Were Young The Killers 61 #2
164 Riptide Vance Joy 40 #1
165 Fell in Love With a Girl The White Stripes 64 #1
166 Rumor Has It Adele 28 #3
167 Let It Happen Tame Impala 30 #5
168 Call Me Maybe Carly Rae Jepsen 4 #168
169 Getting Ready to Get Down Josh Ritter 20 #5
170 Go Down River The Heavy Heavy 10 #9
171 Essence Lucinda Williams 20 #23
172 The Wire Haim 17 #6
173 Long Ride Home Patty Griffin 6 #173
174 On Melancholy Hill Gorillaz 20 #18
175 No Such Thing John Mayer 14 #16
176 Dreams Beck 31 #1
177 Grounds for Divorce Elbow 13 #15
178 Archbishop Harold Holmes Jack White 12 #2
179 Texas Sun Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 17 #1
180 Dashboard Modest Mouse 46 #2
181 Mississippi Bob Dylan 6 #137
182 Time Spent in Los Angeles Dawes 18 #3
183 Making A Fire Foo Fighters 10 #7
184 I Need Never Get Old Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats 20 #4
185 Northern Attitude Noah Kahan 10 #4
186 Extraordinary Machine Fiona Apple 10 #158
187 In These Shoes Kirsty MacColl 18 #2
188 Six O'Clock News Kathleen Edwards 9 #59
189 Here It Goes Again OK Go 29 #2
190 Mykonos Fleet Foxes 23 #9
191 Cold Little Heart Michael Kiwanuka 21 #2
192 Work Until I Die S G Goodman 2 #192
193 I Need You Jon Batiste 19 #1
194 Coffee Sylvan Esso 16 #5
195 Young Folks Peter Bjorn & John 37 #4
196 I Love It Icona Pop 2 #14
197 Dreams Brandi Carlile 16 #15
198 Smile Lily Allen 14 #15
199 Emmylou First Aid Kit 14 #5
200 New York, New York Ryan Adams 11 #6
201 No Hard Feelings Avett Brothers 8 #22
202 Cool-Doug, at Night Sammy Rae & The Friends 1 #202
203 Rivers And Roads The Head and the Heart 4 #203
204 Come Away with Me Norah Jones 19 #13
205 Hey Julie Fountains of Wayne 8 #16
206 The Night We Met Lord Huron 12 #6
207 Stick Season Noah Kahan 16 #1
208 Waiting On The World To Change John Mayer 6 #97
209 Avant Gardener Courtney Barnett 23 #3
210 Crowded Table Highwomen 15 #20
211 Little Black Submarines The Black Keys 41 #3
212 Lazarus David Bowie 18 #1
213 Radio Nowhere Bruce Springsteen 10 #5
214 Jealous Moon Sarah Jarosz 6 #18
215 Hang Me Up to Dry Cold War Kids 29 #2
216 By And By CAAMP 11 #18
217 Bohemian Like You The Dandy Warhols 47 #6
218 Electric Love Borns 22 #2
219 My Silver Lining First Aid Kit 20 #5
220 Someone like You Adele 28 #2
221 That's How I'm Feeling Jack White 19 #2
222 Some Nights fun. 31 #2
223 Bad Self Portraits Lake Street Dive 16 #6
224 Redbone Childish Gambino 19 #3
225 Pompeii Bastille 37 #1
226 Save it for a Rainy Day The Jayhawks 14 #82
227 Drops Of Jupiter (Tell Me) Train 30 #1
228 Shut Up & Dance Walk the Moon 26 #1
229 Steady, As She Goes The Raconteurs 48 #2
230 Magnetic Tunde Adebimpe 7 #17
231 City of Blinding Lights U2 16 #38
232 Somebody Told Me The Killers 75 #1
233 Heads Will Roll Yeah Yeah Yeahs 20 #4
234 I'm The Man Who Loves You Wilco 8 #26
235 Joy, Joy! Valerie June 7 #17
236 Cover Me Up Jason Isbell 9 #45
237 Feel It Still Portugal. The Man 46 #1
238 Bound for Glory Tedeschi Trucks Band 10 #35
239 Evolve Phish 7 #26
240 Holocene Bon Iver 20 #13
241 Samson Regina Spektor 7 #22
242 How You Like Me Now Heavy 15 #4
243 Fidelity Regina Spektor 26 #4
244 Set Fire To The Rain Adele 16 #19
245 Broken Horses Brandi Carlile 17 #5
246 1234 Feist 22 #2
247 Every Little Thing About You Raul Malo 6 #83
248 Modern Girl Bleachers 15 #1
249 Turtles all the way Down Sturgill Simpson 10 #28
250 The Hardest Cut Spoon 22 #4
251 Two Weeks Grizzly Bear 26 #5
252 Human Lenny Kravitz 4 #28
253 E-Pro Beck 41 #2
254 Orange Blossoms JJ Grey & Mofro 5 #25
255 Cold Chris Stapleton 12 #2
256 Fight Test The Flaming Lips 25 #19
257 Beg, Steal Or Borrow Ray LaMontagne 21 #1
258 How Lucky Kurt Vile 11 #7
259 Take Your Mama Scissor Sisters 16 #23
260 Sedona Houndmouth 30 #1
261 Hypotheticals Lake Street Dive 21 #1
262 Mercy Duffy 15 #2
263 Land Of Hopes And Dreams Bruce Springsteen 8 #5
264 Stay High Brittany Howard 18 #4
265 Highlands Middle Kids 10 #23
266 Ready to Start The Arcade Fire 54 #3
267 Lost Cause Beck 39 #7
268 Ms. Jackson Outkast 13 #30
269 Psychos Jenny Lewis 16 #3
270 Howlin' for You The Black Keys 58 #1
271 Hotel Yorba The White Stripes 14 #2
272 Step Into Your Power Ray LaMontagne 11 #24
273 Sometime Around Midnight The Airborne Toxic Event 53 #1
274 Laundry Room Avett Brothers 9 #85
275 The Pretender Foo Fighters 78 #1
276 Nude Radiohead 4 #12
277 Satellite Guster 28 #23
278 Jigsaw Falling Into Place Radiohead 25 #7
279 Shameika Fiona Apple 12 #4
280 Gunslinger Natalie Bergman 3 #44
281 Digital Witness St. Vincent 20 #5
282 Still Fighting It Ben Folds 9 #37
283 Oh Man! Fantastic Cat 1 #283
284 Deeper Well Kacey Musgraves 7 #8
285 Always A Friend Alejandro Escovedo 10 #62
286 Kyoto Phoebe Bridgers 20 #1
287 Hate To Say I Told You So The Hives 49 #1
288 Jazz On The Autobahn The Felice Brothers 8 #2
289 Ain't No Man Avett Brothers 21 #4
290 American Dreaming Sierra Ferrell 9 #20
291 Head Full of Doubt/Road Full of Promise Avett Brothers 18 #2
292 You Know I'm No Good Amy Winehouse 28 #9
293 Sonsick San Fermin 3 #68
294 Good with God Old 97's 8 #21
295 Laughing With Regina Spektor 12 #29
296 Love and Hate Michael Kiwanuka 15 #3
297 Good as Hell Lizzo 8 #1
298 5 Dollar Pony Rides Mac Miller 3 #35
299 Please Read The Letter Robert Plant & Alison Krauss 9 #38
300 Sprawl II (Mountains Beyond Mountains) The Arcade Fire 14 #8
301 You Don'T Know Me Ben Folds 20 #1
302 Meet Me in the Woods Lord Huron 9 #55
303 Rain Patty Griffin 12 #25
304 Council Skies Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds 3 #19
305 The Way We Get By Spoon 12 #117
306 Anyhow Tedeschi Trucks Band 14 #4
307 No Man's Woman Sinéad O'Connor 7 #23
308 The Architect Kacey Musgraves 7 #2
309 Dylan Thomas Better Oblivion Community Center 14 #9
310 Archie, Marry Me Alvvays 12 #88
311 Oblivion Grimes 7 #38
312 Wildfire Season Jobi Riccio 3 #20
313 Radio Sylvan Esso 12 #12
314 Anthem For a Seventeen Year-Old Girl Broken Social Scene 5 #314
315 The High Road Broken Bells 57 #1
316 I Still Believe Frank Turner 6 #7
317 Oh No! The Decemberists 12 #11
318 Things Have Changed Bob Dylan 14 #25
319 Tightrope Janelle Monae 13 #10
320 One Big Holiday My Morning Jacket 28 #17
321 Beyond Leon Bridges 18 #2
322 Wake Me Up When September Ends Green Day 44 #2
323 Prince Johnny St. Vincent 3 #163
324 Casimir Pulaski Day Sufjan Stevens 13 #56
325 Helplessness Blues Fleet Foxes 27 #5
326 Burial Ground The Decemberists 15 #6
327 Swim Until You Can't See Land Frightened Rabbit 16 #11
328 We Are Young fun. 47 #1
329 Good News Mac Miller 5 #23
330 Real Love Baby Father John Misty 18 #7
331 Bodysnatchers Radiohead 26 #9
332 Love Me More Mitski 9 #7
333 Chemtrails over the Country Club Lana Del Rey 2 #63
334 We're Going to Be Friends The White Stripes 8 #276
335 Oxford Comma Vampire Weekend 21 #10
336 Under the Pressure The War On Drugs 24 #2
337 Call me a Fool Valerie June 15 #4
338 Reptilia The Strokes 35 #10
339 My Doorbell The White Stripes 42 #7
340 Love Is Everywhere (Beware) Wilco 8 #7
341 Island in the Sun Weezer 60 #4
342 Australia The Shins 24 #8
343 Good Old Days The Revivalists 11 #8
344 Sing Me Spanish Techno The New Pornographers 15 #60
345 Stubborn Love Lumineers 29 #9
346 The Last D.J. Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers 4 #17
347 All Your'n Tyler Childers 9 #38
348 Wake The Dead Chuck Prophet 2 #75
349 Fake Palindromes Andrew Bird 5 #244
350 Kryptonite 3 Doors Down 80 #1
351 I Bet You Look Good on the Dancefloor Arctic Monkeys 48 #2
352 Heaven Los Lonely Boys 12 #26
353 Trouble Ray LaMontagne 18 #7
354 Look at Miss Ohio Gillian Welch 11 #91
355 White Horse Chris Stapleton 7 #11
356 Put Your Records On Corinne Bailey Rae 15 #48
357 Stacy's Mom Fountains of Wayne 33 #1
358 Supernatural Clarks 1 #358
359 Sorry Beyoncé 1 #359
360 Murder Most Foul Bob Dylan 6 #6
361 New Shoes Paolo Nutini 11 #50
362 Flightless Bird, American Mouth Iron and Wine 2 #362
363 Useless Desires Patty Griffin 7 #136
364 Top Floor, Bottom Buzzer Morphine 5 #88
365 Orange Sky Alexi Murdoch 13 #44
366 Frankie's Gun The Felice Brothers 8 #7
367 Lazy Eye Silversun Pickups 54 #1
368 Idioteque Radiohead 23 #37
369 Sequestered In Memphis Hold Steady 21 #9
370 My Type Saint Motel 16 #1
371 Changes Charles Bradley 11 #45
372 Cardinal Kacey Musgraves 18 #2
373 Trippin' On You John Butler 2 #52
374 When We Were Young Adele 5 #28
375 Heavenly Day Patty Griffin 14 #23
376 Hello Adele 19 #3
377 Sisyphus Andrew Bird 15 #5
378 Over Everything Kurt Vile & Courtney Barnett 7 #1
379 Tongue Tied Grouplove 41 #4
380 Love Lana Del Rey 8 #21
381 Fallin' Alicia Keys 7 #25
382 Summer Girl Haim 14 #14
383 Knives Out Radiohead 11 #49
384 Feel The Heavy Heavy 3 #62
385 Little Secrets Passion Pit 18 #8
386 Ready Set Go Grace Potter 1 #386
387 Best To You Blood Orange 3 #73
388 Summer's End John Prine 7 #9
389 Rebellion (Lies) The Arcade Fire 47 #6
390 Good Days SZA 5 #22
391 Born Too Late Clarks 11 #64
392 Keep It Between The Lines Sturgill Simpson 5 #11
393 Your Touch The Black Keys 16 #34
394 Cold War Cautious Clay 8 #79
395 Harlem River Blues Justin Townes Earle 15 #6
396 All of Me John Legend 4 #125
397 Impossible Weight Deep Sea Diver 11 #33
398 Back in Your Head Tegan and Sara 16 #15
399 We Can't Make It Here James McMurtry 4 #85
400 Elephant Tame Impala 30 #6
401 Silver Lining Mt. Joy 15 #17
402 Keep the Car Running The Arcade Fire 30 #13
403 Hoppapolla Sigur Ros 10 #43
404 Reckoner Radiohead 18 #40
405 Inept Apollo Nation of Language 9 #15
406 Alibi Hurray For The Riff Raff 3 #64
407 From Eden Hozier 14 #9
408 First Day of My Life Bright Eyes 17 #57
409 Simulation Swarm Big Thief 18 #2
410 Hell N Back Bakar 14 #10
411 Inside The Lines Chaparelle 3 #62
412 Lose Control Teddy Swims 6 #18
413 Wildest Dreams Taylor Swift 1 #413
414 House Of Cards Radiohead 17 #3
415 Buttercup Lucinda Williams 5 #35
416 Sleep At Night The Chicks 2 #81
417 Everybody's Changing Keane 20 #51
418 Jackie and Wilson Hozier 17 #30
419 Mystery of Love Sufjan Stevens 2 #78
420 Revelator Gillian Welch 3 #388
421 Time Waited My Morning Jacket 15 #1
422 Fool For Love Lord Huron 13 #3
423 Coma Girl Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros 17 #60
424 Old Old Fashioned Frightened Rabbit 1 #424
425 Nobody Mitski 9 #10
426 Here in 68 Joe Grushecky and the Houserockers 1 #426
427 Ghosts Again Depeche Mode 15 #2
428 Mountain Sound Of Monsters And Men 38 #3
429 B-Side Khruangbin & Leon Bridges 10 #15
430 Out Of The Game Rufus Wainwright 8 #29
431 The Tornado Loves You Neko Case 21 #5
432 Time (You and I) Khruangbin 11 #8
433 By the Way Red Hot Chili Peppers 70 #1
434 Highway Tune Greta Van Fleet 21 #3
435 Cigarette Daydreams Cage The Elephant 28 #4
436 Lottery Jade Bird 14 #12
437 Thunder On The Mountain Bob Dylan 4 #143
438 Plastic Beach Future Islands 4 #43
439 Glenfern Kathleen Edwards 1 #439
440 Don't Leave Me (ne Me Quitte Pas) Regina Spektor 3 #153
441 Turn it Around Lucius 11 #34
442 Relationships Haim 14 #4
443 Rita Los Lobos 1 #443
444 King Kunta Kendrick Lamar 11 #2
445 Stockholm Jason Isbell 12 #2
446 I'm Amazed My Morning Jacket 21 #8
447 First of the Gang to Die Morrissey 12 #44
448 Space Song Beach House 10 #58
449 Ultraviolet Clover County 7 #23
450 Love You Anyway Devon Gilfillian 11 #4
451 Flower Moon Durand Jones & The Indications 6 #28
452 The Walk Mayer Hawthorne 24 #4
453 Scott Street Phoebe Bridgers 3 #52
454 Untitled Interpol 2 #38
455 Two Against Nature Steely Dan 1 #455
456 Revolution Rock N Roll Low Cut Connie 10 #21
457 The Blower's Daughter Damien Rice 8 #46
458 Masterpiece Big Thief 2 #458
459 The Man Comes Around Johnny Cash 3 #261
460 The Narcissist Blur 15 #14
461 You Are Not Alone Mavis Staples 4 #92
462 I Remember Everything John Prine 10 #10
463 Girl From The Record Shop Frank Turner 8 #27
464 Wave Alejandro Escovedo 1 #464
465 Are You Gonna Be My Girl Jet 84 #1
466 Dance With A Stranger Lake Street Dive 8 #16
467 Death Valley High Orville Peck and Beck 3 #11
468 Wildflowers & Wine Marcus King 1 #468
469 Joy Santana & Chris Stapleton 2 #35
470 Lazaretto Jack White 21 #1
471 Fallingwater Maggie Rogers 8 #24
472 Stranger To My Happiness Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 11 #37
473 Son Of Sam Elliott Smith 11 #36
474 Dirty Paws Of Monsters And Men 14 #27
475 Losing You Solange 1 #475
476 La Cienenga Just Smiled Ryan Adams 4 #476
477 Left Hand Free Alt J 30 #2
478 Such a Simple Thing Ray LaMontagne 10 #10
479 27 Jennifers Mike Doughty 15 #15
480 My City Of Ruins Bruce Springsteen 6 #84
481 Knocking On Your Screen Door John Prine 4 #9
482 Formation Beyoncé 8 #179
483 Star Witness Neko Case 11 #100
484 Miles And Miles The Heavy Heavy 10 #10
485 Armor Sara Bareilles 9 #41
486 The Writing's On The Wall OK Go 6 #22
487 Kathleen Josh Ritter 19 #81
488 Help, Im Alive Metric 31 #2
489 Half Acre Hem 5 #47
490 Revolution Heartless Bastards 8 #26
491 This Is Why We Fight The Decemberists 36 #2
492 She's Leaving You M J Lenderman 17 #1
493 Every Other Freckle Alt J 11 #7
494 Hungersite Goose 6 #29
495 Break My Soul Beyoncé 9 #6
496 Kick Drum Heart Avett Brothers 24 #7
497 Hang Loose Alabama Shakes 11 #16
498 Flake Jack Johnson 39 #1
499 Good Fortune PJ Harvey 17 #2
500 Golden My Morning Jacket 15 #81
501 Time To Run Lord Huron 6 #2
502 Bad Bad News Leon Bridges 20 #1
503 Since I Left You The Avalanches 9 #8
504 Gravity John Mayer 9 #110
505 Lightning Bolt Jake Bugg 21 #2
506 Amsterdam Guster 28 #3
507 Cracker Island Gorillaz 17 #3
508 The House That Heaven Built Japandroids 15 #4
509 Remind Me Brooke Annibale 2 #234
510 Astral Plane Say She She 7 #25
511 Sunshine Getaway JD McPherson 8 #20
512 So Glad You Made It Fantastic Cat 2 #47
513 chinatown Bleachers 4 #63
514 Wolf First Aid Kit 4 #63
515 Dancin' Around My Grave Andy Frasco & The U.N. 5 #76
516 Girls In Their Summer Clothes Bruce Springsteen 9 #14
517 Roll The Credits Danielle Ponder 7 #41
518 See The World Gomez 17 #52
519 Heart Is a Drum Beck 7 #33
520 Soak Up The Sun Sheryl Crow 8 #6
521 Depreston Courtney Barnett 9 #17
522 In My Place Coldplay 47 #2
523 Decoration Day Drive-By Truckers 5 #319
524 Time Stands Nathaniel Rateliff 13 #3
525 Lost In My Mind The Head and the Heart 30 #4
526 All My Fault Fantastic Cat 3 #48
527 Ways to Go Grouplove 19 #14
528 Panic Switch Silversun Pickups 59 #1
529 Scare Easy Mudcrutch 6 #20
530 Burn The Witch Radiohead 18 #5
531 If I Had Eyes Jack Johnson 24 #1
532 Thinkin Bout You Frank Ocean 13 #43
533 I'm Shakin' Jack White 15 #7
534 16 Military Wives The Decemberists 18 #15
535 King of the Mountain Kate Bush 5 #71
536 You and Me On The Rock Brandi Carlile 11 #3
537 Sheep Mt. Joy 1 #537
538 Shiver Coldplay 23 #32
539 Helena Beat Foster The People 35 #6
540 Call It Dreaming Iron and Wine 10 #27
541 Wow Beck 24 #1
542 Little Motel Modest Mouse 2 #69
543 Bottom Of A Bottle Julien Baker & Torres 1 #543
544 Black Horse & the Cherry Tree KT Tunstall 13 #92
545 Us Regina Spektor 5 #250
546 Girl You Look Amazing Nicole Atkins 5 #33
547 Tighten Up The Black Keys 82 #1
548 Into the Fire Bruce Springsteen 1 #548
549 Sure Don't Miss You The Dip 1 #549
550 The Door Teddy Swims 6 #8
551 Suddenly I See KT Tunstall 16 #127
552 Fireworks First Aid Kit 10 #2
553 Smooth Sailin' Leon Bridges 22 #10
554 Silver Lining Rilo Kiley 17 #27
555 How to Disappear Completely Radiohead 5 #251
556 Laredo Band of Horses 36 #7
557 Seventeen Sharon Van Etten 22 #5
558 Duquesne Whistle Bob Dylan 6 #20
559 Fool For You Cee-Lo Green 1 #559
560 Rockin The Suburbs Ben Folds 19 #12
561 Half At Home In Love The Commonheart 1 #561
562 New York St. Vincent 10 #2
563 Y-Control Yeah Yeah Yeahs 16 #46
564 This Life Vampire Weekend 20 #1
565 Diamond Studded Shoes Yola 15 #1
566 War On War Wilco 4 #503
567 The System Only Dreams in Total Darkness The National 20 #4
568 Spirits The Strumbellas 19 #7
569 100% Endurance Yard Act 2 #569
570 Terrible Love The National 10 #38
571 Nothing Matters Last Dinner Party 22 #3
572 A Sorta Fairytale Tori Amos 17 #13
573 She Moves in Her Own Way The Kooks 21 #11
574 I am Trying to Break Your Heart Wilco 13 #16
575 Unbelievers Vampire Weekend 27 #3
576 Happy Idiot TV on the Radio 21 #13
577 You & Me You & Me 6 #29
578 Phantom Limb The Shins 39 #3
579 All My Favorite Songs Weezer 14 #6
580 Burning Yeah Yeah Yeahs 18 #1
581 Ashes Of American Flags Wilco 4 #385
582 Fishing Widespread Panic 1 #582
583 catch these fists Wet Leg 21 #1
584 Nose on the grindstone Tyler Childers 7 #4
585 Mess Is Mine Vance Joy 18 #6
586 Elevation U2 36 #4
587 Gloria Lumineers 20 #5
588 Them Changes Thundercat 6 #330
589 Keep Me in Your Heart Warren Zevon 13 #19
590 Faraway Look Yola 6 #6
591 Hard to Explain The Strokes 36 #5
592 Lilacs Waxahatchee 14 #10
593 Honey Lone Bellow 9 #10
594 Backyard Lover Merce Lemon 1 #594
595 Selfish Soul Sudan Archives 5 #22
596 Don't Forget Me Maggie Rogers 14 #1
597 Everytime We Touch Cascada 1 #597
598 American Teenager Ethel Cain 2 #59
599 Eet Regina Spektor 7 #14
600 In a Drawer Band of Horses 15 #10
601 Juice Lizzo 19 #1
602 Everybody's Coming To My House David Byrne 13 #8
603 Recovery Frank Turner 22 #4
604 Gold Rush Death Cab for Cutie 18 #2
605 Sugarfoot Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears 13 #18
606 Girl In The War Josh Ritter 6 #88
607 Silence Is Golden The Beths 6 #73
608 The National Anthem Radiohead 9 #112
609 Hope The High Road Jason Isbell & 400 Unit 6 #482
610 Walking With A Ghost Tegan and Sara 33 #4
611 Tessellate Alt J 16 #12
612 Green Light Lorde 13 #6
613 Man Neko Case 7 #17
614 Best of You Foo Fighters 75 #1
615 Doomsday Elvis Perkins 4 #214
616 Uprising Muse 81 #1
617 Say It Like You Mean It Sleater-Kinney 5 #42
618 exile Taylor Swift 11 #3
619 Glitter and Gold Barns Courtney 3 #60
620 If It Feels Good (Then It Must Be) Leon Bridges 9 #13
621 How It Ends DeVotchKa 7 #69
622 Francesca Hozier 14 #5
623 You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen 14 #5
624 Last Good Day of the Year Cousteau 7 #39
625 Crow Merce Lemon 1 #625
626 Action Figure Party Action Figure Party 9 #15
627 Weapon of Choice Fatboy Slim 20 #21
628 On the Radio Regina Spektor 7 #48
629 Them Kids Sam Roberts 5 #6
630 Should Have Known Better Sufjan Stevens 8 #16
631 The Longest One Night Stand Clarks 1 #631
632 Vampire Empire Big Thief 14 #3
633 Untitled #4 Sigur Ros 2 #633
634 L.E.S. Artistes Santigold 15 #21
635 Knock Knock Mac Miller 1 #635
636 Summertime Clothes Animal Collective 11 #6
637 Little Boys With Shiny Toys Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings 1 #637
638 Minority Green Day 39 #6
639 Kissing Lessons Lucy Dacus 8 #50
640 Palm Readers Palmyra 3 #53
641 Night Or Day Franz Ferdinand 3 #50
642 England 2 Columbia 0 Kirsty MacColl 3 #147
643 Uh-huh Jade Bird 18 #1
644 Monsters Los Coast 1 #644
645 Halfway To Believing Bill Deasy 1 #645
646 Save It For Later Eddie Vedder 5 #8
647 The Way You Shine Jim Donovan and Sun King Warriors 1 #647
648 Freeway Aimee Mann 7 #32
649 Toe Jam The BPA 2 #27
650 Earthquake Driver Counting Crows 2 #65
651 Live and Die Avett Brothers 13 #4
652 Want Want Maggie Rogers 14 #14
653 I'd Rather Go Blind Grace Potter 2 #49
654 Someone Great LCD Soundsystem 11 #7
655 Terms and Conditions Benji. 2 #44
656 Back Seat Chastity Brown 2 #77
657 February Seven Avett Brothers 4 #41
658 Every Night (Is Friday Night Without You) Old 97's 6 #31
659 Portland, Oregon Loretta Lynn 23 #20
660 Human Rag'N'Bone Man 21 #5
661 NPWA Billy Bragg 2 #597
662 Hollywood Forever Cemetery August Ponthier 1 #662
663 California Oh He Dead 4 #8
664 Serpents Sharon Van Etten 11 #51
665 Love Lost Mac Miller 1 #665
666 I Like That Janelle Monae 4 #60
667 Arms of a Women Amos Lee 9 #69
668 I Don't Want to Talk About Love No More Amy Rigby 2 #461
669 Dreamworld Rilo Kiley 3 #86
670 Spent the Day in Bed Morrissey 8 #16
671 Wasted Word Kris Delmhorst 5 #445
672 Downwind Sean Rowe 2 #672
673 Your Little Hoodrat Friend Hold Steady 5 #101
674 Sailor Song Gigi Perez 13 #16
675 Hear My Dear Tedeschi Trucks Band 2 #61
676 Write About Love Belle & Sebastian 1 #676
677 Patient Zero Aimee Mann 2 #71
678 Mountain At My Gates Foals 24 #4
679 (Under The) Heavy Sun Daniel Lanois 1 #679
680 Mint Tea Johnny Blue Skies 7 #22
681 Can You Get To That Mavis Staples 5 #72
682 Stay Out Of It Michigander 4 #41
683 A Night to Remember beabadoobee & Laufey 3 #50
684 Sweet Amarillo Old Crow Medicine Show 6 #15
685 WON'T GIVE IN The Finn Brothers 2 #685
686 Off The Record My Morning Jacket 23 #30
687 Maybe Tonight Nicole Atkins 6 #235
688 10 AM Automatic The Black Keys 17 #22
689 I Summon You Spoon 5 #629
690 James River Blues Old Crow Medicine Show 1 #690
691 Speak My Mind Palmyra 1 #691
692 To Be Young Ryan Adams 5 #149
693 Capsized Andrew Bird 13 #26
694 Dear Life Beck 11 #14
695 Who Wants Jade Bird 1 #695
696 Hey You Clarks 4 #350
697 What You Say Cold War Kids 12 #6
698 Hard Working Man Marcus King 7 #15
699 Goshen '97 Strand Of Oaks 5 #12
700 Wonderlust King Gogol Bordello 2 #700
701 We Appreciate Power Grimes 1 #701
702 Dirty Money Antibalas 4 #165
703 Lord I'm Discouraged Hold Steady 5 #86
704 Where Are You Going? Dave Matthews Band 15 #5
705 The Afterlife Paul Simon 11 #8
706 I Wish I Was Sober Frightened Rabbit 8 #37
707 Dark Necessities Red Hot Chili Peppers 23 #5
708 For Today Jessica Lea Mayfield 2 #359
709 Babylon David Gray 43 #3
710 Mr. Tembo Damon Albarn 3 #151
711 The Crane Wife 3 The Decemberists 12 #121
712 Paddle To The Stars The Dip 3 #1
713 Let Me Be Great Sampa the Great 2 #713
714 Daft Punk Is Playing At My House LCD Soundsystem 20 #51

Listener-voted: WYEP listeners voted during summer 2025 for their favorite songs of the 21st century so far, and the station counted down 1,150 songs over eight days in September 2025 (the announcement page gives the run as "Tuesday, Sept. 13" through Tuesday, Sept. 30). INCOMPLETE: only the top 714 positions survive. They come from the Google Sheet embedded in the station's page for the New Year re-air of the top 714 (December 31, 2025 - January 2, 2026), https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/e/2PACX-1vSm6gnhgmX0Uo6LW6ojsIurLQK76JXZP9kLw-0-u30z1BNYWIT0-JDjyXZWpevOfMTmffdDRGoacSa7/pubhtml; positions 715-1150 of the September countdown are missing. Artist credits normalized to the site's format ("X (featuring Y)" written "X feat. Y").

About this countdown

WYEP Best Songs of the 21st Century (So Far) was voted by WYEP’s listeners (Pittsburgh, PA) in September 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. Because it is a themed or special countdown, it is archived here but not counted in the combined rankings.

Source: WYEP, "Here's what you chose as the Best Songs of the 21st Century (so far)" (Google Sheet "WYEP's Best Songs of 21st Century (So Far)" embedded in the page).

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