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The best indie rock songs of 2010

Q: What was the top indie rock song of 2010?

Combining 1 year-end radio countdowns, the top indie rock song of 2010 is "Dog Days Are Over" by Florence And The Machine, which appeared on 1 of the lists.

One radio stations and charts published year-end countdowns for 2010: The Current. Combining every list, the top indie rock song of 2010 is “Dog Days Are Over” by Florence And The Machine, which appeared on one of the one countdowns and was voted number one by one of them. Mumford & Sons was the year’s most-charted artist, with four different songs placing 4 times across the countdowns.

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Top 100 songs of 2010

Ranked by combined points across every 2010 year-end countdown in this format. How it works.

#	Song	Strength	Lists	Best	#1s
1	Dog Days Are Over Florence And The Machine	100	1	#1	1
2	Little Lion Man Mumford & Sons	99	1	#2	–
3	Dance Yrself Clean LCD Soundsystem	98	1	#3	–
4	Wait So Long Trampled by Turtles	97	1	#4	–
5	The Cave Mumford & Sons	96	1	#5	–
6	Forget You Cee Lo	94	1	#6	–
7	White Blank Page Mumford & Sons	93	1	#7	–
8	Tighten Up The Black Keys	92	1	#8	–
9	January Wedding Avett Brothers	91	1	#9	–
10	Dixon's Girl Dessa	90	1	#10	–
11	The Suburbs The Arcade Fire	89	1	#11	–
12	The High Road Broken Bells	88	1	#12	–
13	Ready to Start The Arcade Fire	87	1	#13	–
14	Airplanes Local Natives	85	1	#14	–
15	Bloodbuzz Ohio The National	84	1	#15	–
16	You'll Be Bright Cloud Cult	83	1	#16	–
17	When My Time Comes Dawes	82	1	#17	–
18	Freefallin' Atmosphere	81	1	#18	–
19	The Chaconne Dessa	80	1	#19	–
20	Conversation 16 The National	79	1	#20	–
21	Winter Winds Mumford & Sons	78	1	#21	–
22	Running With the Wolves Cloud Cult	76	1	#22	–
23	Tightrope Janelle Monae	75	1	#23	–
24	This Too Shall Pass OK Go	74	1	#24	–
25	Carries On Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros	73	1	#25	–
26	Howlin' for You The Black Keys	72	1	#26	–
27	The Ghost Inside Broken Bells	71	1	#27	–
28	Ambling Alp Yeasayer	70	1	#28	–
29	Rhinestone Eyes Gorillaz	69	1	#29	–
30	The Best Day Atmosphere	67	1	#30	–
31	Laredo Band of Horses	66	1	#31	–
32	Mouthful of Diamonds Phantogram	64	1	#33	–
33	A Girl, a Boy, and a Graveyard Jeremy Messersmith	63	1	#34	–
34	Violet! Jeremy Messersmith	62	1	#35	–
35	Beg Steal Or Borrow Ray LaMontagne and The Pariah Dogs	61	1	#36	–
36	Basic Space The xx	60	1	#37	–
37	Cameras Matt And Kim	58	1	#38	–
38	I Can Change LCD Soundsystem	57	1	#39	–
39	Sinister Kid The Black Keys	56	1	#40	–
40	Down By The Water The Decemberists	55	1	#41	–
41	Not The Kid Communist Daughter	54	1	#42	–
42	From Above Ben Folds and Nick Hornby	53	1	#43	–
43	Cold War Janelle Monae	52	1	#44	–
44	Shutterbugg Big Boi	51	1	#45	–
45	Crown On The Ground Sleigh Bells	49	1	#46	–
46	That Western Skyline Dawes	48	1	#47	–
47	On Melancholy Hill Gorillaz	47	1	#48	–
48	Spanish Pipedream Avett Brothers	46	1	#49	–
49	Swim Until You Can't See Land Frightened Rabbit	45	1	#50	–
50	Horchata Vampire Weekend	44	1	#51	–
51	Congratulations MGMT	43	1	#52	–
52	Norway Beach House	42	1	#53	–
53	Written In Reverse Spoon	40	1	#54	–
54	VCR The xx	39	1	#55	–
55	City With No Children The Arcade Fire	38	1	#56	–
56	Half Light II (No Celebration) The Arcade Fire	37	1	#57	–
57	I Walked Sufjan Stevens	36	1	#58	–
58	Odessa Caribou	35	1	#59	–
59	Zebra Beach House	34	1	#60	–
60	You Must Be Out Of Your Mind The Magnetic Fields	33	1	#61	–
61	Boyfriend Best Coast	31	1	#62	–
62	Sick Of You Cake	30	1	#63	–
63	Audience Cold War Kids	29	1	#64	–
64	Dillinger Eyes Jeremy Messersmith	28	1	#65	–
65	The Only One The Black Keys	27	1	#66	–
66	Beat The Devil's Tattoo Black Rebel Motorcycle Club	26	1	#67	–
67	Victory Trampled by Turtles	25	1	#68	–
68	Bang Pop Free Energy	24	1	#69	–
69	Organ Donor Jeremy Messersmith	22	1	#70	–
70	Tall Boy Har Mar Superstar	21	1	#71	–
71	Giving Up The Gun Vampire Weekend	20	1	#72	–
72	In Sleep Lissie	19	1	#73	–
73	Gaudy Side of Town Gayngs	18	1	#74	–
74	Cousins Vampire Weekend	17	1	#75	–
75	I Learned The Hard Way Sharon Jones and the Dap Kings	16	1	#76	–
76	Crash Years The New Pornographers	15	1	#77	–
77	Pow Pow LCD Soundsystem	13	1	#78	–
78	Sound of Sunshine Michael Franti & Spearhead	12	1	#79	–
79	XXXO M.I.A.	11	1	#80	–
80	Bang Bang Bang Mark Ronson	10	1	#81	–
81	Lasso Phoenix	9	1	#82	–
82	Lost In The World Kanye West	8	1	#83	–
83	Shadow People Dr. Dog	7	1	#84	–
84	White Knuckles OK Go	6	1	#85	–
85	Die By The Drop The Dead Weather	4	1	#86	–
86	Go do Jonsi	3	1	#87	–
87	Radioactive Kings of Leon	2	1	#88	–
88	Terrible Love The National	1	1	#89	–

Every station’s number one of 2010

Station	Number one song	Countdown
The Current	Terrible Love The National	The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010

All 2010 countdowns in this ranking

The Current The Current Top 89 Songs of 2010 88 songs · partial

About the 2010 ranking

Radio stations count down their listeners’ favorite songs at the end of every year. Each station’s list reflects its own audience, so a song that ruled Los Angeles could miss the top ten in Chicago. To find the songs that defined 2010 everywhere, RockLists gives every appearance percentile-based points (a number one earns 100, the last position earns close to zero) and adds them up across all one qualifying countdowns. Each radio format is ranked separately, so classic rock and hard rock countdowns never shift the indie & aaa results; use the tabs above to switch formats. Read the full methodology.