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Year-end countdown · X96 · December 31, 2021

X96 Top 50 Songs of 2021

The year-end countdown (December 31, 2021) from X96 in Salt Lake City, UT ranks 50 songs, with “Heat Waves” by Glass Animals at number one. The list features 45 different artists.

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Aired on New Year's Eve 2021 and repeated on New Year's Day; the page does not say how the list was compiled. Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").

# Song ListsBest
1 Heat Waves Glass Animals 17 #1
2 Follow You Imagine Dragons 6 #1
3 My Ex's Best Friend Machine Gun Kelly 1 #3
4 Let The Bad Times Roll The Offspring 6 #4
5 Nowhere Generation Rise Against 8 #5
6 All My Favorite Songs Weezer 14 #6
7 Beggin' Maneskin 12 #2
8 Shy Away Twenty One Pilots 5 #2
9 Way Less Sad Ajr 2 #9
10 Quiet Town The Killers 11 #5
11 NDA Billie Eilish 4 #11
12 Once In A Lifetime All Time Low 5 #11
13 Brightside Lumineers 16 #6
14 Waiting On A War Foo Fighters 13 #3
15 Wrecked Imagine Dragons 5 #11
16 Missing Piece Vance Joy 10 #2
17 Saturday Twenty One Pilots 4 #2
18 Serotonin Girl In Red 9 #7
19 Pollyanna Green Day 2 #19
20 Taking Me Back Jack White 17 #3
21 Your Power Billie Eilish 8 #21
22 Record Player Daisy the Great 2 #22
23 New Invention I Don't Know How But They Found Me 1 #23
24 We Are Between Modest Mouse 13 #4
25 Sticky The Maine 3 #25
26 Can You Handle My Love? Walk the Moon 3 #18
27 Distorted Light Beam Bastille 4 #27
28 Papercuts Machine Gun Kelly 1 #28
29 Happy Endings Mike Shinoda 1 #29
30 Palm Reader Dreamers 1 #30
31 Every Window Is A Mirror Joywave 1 #31
32 Self Destructor Chevelle 4 #3
33 Moaning Lisa Smile Wolf Alice 20 #12
34 Fake Friend Nothing, Nowhere 1 #34
35 The Bandit Kings of Leon 13 #8
36 Overwhelmed Royal & The Serpent 5 #15
37 Estella Kenny Hoopla 4 #12
38 Higher Power Coldplay 6 #4
39 1 Last Cigarette The Band Camino 1 #39
40 Dirty grandson 3 #40
41 I Don't Live Here Anymore The War On Drugs 25 #2
42 Colorado Milky Chance 8 #5
43 I Don't Wanna Talk (I Just Wanna Dance) Glass Animals 8 #1
44 Rage Dirty Heads 2 #40
45 Wanna Be JXDN 1 #45
46 What You Say Cold War Kids 12 #6
47 Fleabag Yungblud 1 #47
48 Vertigo Alice Merton 10 #13
49 Stop Making This Hurt Bleachers 14 #6
50 Solar Power Lorde 19 #6

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About this countdown

X96 Top 50 Songs of 2021 was broadcast by X96 (Salt Lake City, UT) in December 31, 2021. 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 Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Source: X96, "X96 Top 50 Songs of 2021".

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