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Tune in from from 10am - 5pm on December 31st to hear the Top 100 Songs Of The Year, voted on by you, the XPN Community! Follow along and check out XPN Host and Staff picks below.

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XPN Top 100 Songs Of 2016 Countdown

  • 1 - You Want It Darker - Leonard Cohen
  • 2 - I Can't Give Everything Away - David Bowie
  • 3 - Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales - Car Seat Headrest
  • 4 - What It Means - Drive-By Truckers
  • 5 - When the Tequila Runs Out - Dawes
  • 6 - Love & Hate - Michael Kiwanuka
  • 7 - Fallin' Rain - Karl Blau
  • 8 - I Can't Stop Thinking About You - Sting
  • 9 - Rita Mae Young - The Record Company
  • 10 - Lazarus - David Bowie
  • 11 - Blackstar - David Bowie
  • 12 - Call Off Your Dogs - Lake Street Dive
  • 13 - Burn The Witch - Radiohead
  • 14 - If I Ever Was a Child - Wilco
  • 15 - Ain't No Man - The Avett Brothers
  • 16 - Off The Ground - The Record Company
  • 17 - Ain't Nothing Wrong With That - The Marcus King Band
  • 18 - White Flag - Joseph
  • 19 - Eye Of A Hurricane - Kyle Craft
  • 20 - Vincent - Car Seat Headrest
  • 21 - Vaporize - Amos Lee
  • 22 - Here In Spirit - Jim James
  • 23 - Lost At Sea - Dawg Yawp
  • 24 - Shine - Mondo Cozmo
  • 25 - Black Man In A White World - Michael Kiwanuka
  • 26 - Dust - Parquet Courts
  • 27 - Pink + White - Frank Ocean
  • 28 - A 1000 Times - Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam
  • 29 - Only A River - Bob Weir
  • 30 - All We Ever Knew - The Head And The Heart
  • 31 - Brace For Impact - Sturgill Simpson
  • 32 - Go Back - Darlingside
  • 33 - Running Out Of Time - Amos Lee
  • 34 - I'm Still Here - Sharon Jones And The Dap-Kings
  • 35 - Gardenia - Iggy Pop
  • 36 - Katchi - Nick Waterhouse
  • 37 - Ophelia - The Lumineers
  • 38 - Hands of Time - Margo Price
  • 39 - There Will Be Time - Mumford & Sons and Baaba Maal
  • 40 - Wristband - Paul Simon
  • 41 - Nothing More To Say - The Frightnrs
  • 42 - Changes - Charles Bradley
  • 43 - Human - Rag 'N' Bone Man
  • 44 - Berlin Got Blurry - Parquet Courts
  • 45 - In Bloom - Sturgill Simpson
  • 46 - Wow - Beck
  • 47 - One More Night - Michael Kiwanuka
  • 48 - Shut Up Kiss Me - Angel Olsen
  • 49 - Longer - Lydia Loveless
  • 50 - You & I - Margaret Glaspy
  • 51 - Dark Necessities - Red Hot Chili Peppers
  • 52 - Blessings - Chance The Rapper
  • 53 - Cranes In The Sky - Solange
  • 54 - Holy Commotion - The Pretenders
  • 55 - New Song - Warpaint
  • 56 - Your Best American Girl - Mitski
  • 57 - Flipside - Norah Jones
  • 58 - Cleopatra - The Lumineers
  • 59 - Let Me Get By - Tedeschi Trucks Band
  • 60 - Decks Dark - Radiohead
  • 61 - We The People - A Tribe Called Quest
  • 62 - Homecoming - Ray Lamontagne
  • 63 - Your Love - Middle Kids
  • 64 - Casual Party - Band Of Horses
  • 65 - Fill In The Blank - Car Seat Headrest
  • 66 - Cautionary Tale - Dylan LeBlanc
  • 67 - Capsized - Andrew Bird
  • 68 - No Matter Where We Go - Whitney
  • 69 - Bad Year for Rock and Roll - Chuck Prophet
  • 70 - On Hold - The xx
  • 71 - SOS (Overboard) - Joseph
  • 72 - Alaska - Maggie Rogers
  • 73 - Hey No Pressure - Ray Lamontagne
  • 74 - Ain't It A Sin - Charles Bradley
  • 75 - Biloxi - Hiss Golden Messenger
  • 76 - Long May You Sail - Simo
  • 77 - Daydreaming - Radiohead
  • 78 - I Know - Shovels & Rope
  • 79 - Way Down We Go - Kaleo
  • 80 - No Woman - Whitney
  • 81 - Rhythm & Blues - The Head And The Heart
  • 82 - Stoplight Kisses - The Cactus Blossoms
  • 83 - HandClap - Fitz & The Tantrums
  • 84 - The Wheel - PJ Harvey
  • 85 - 8 (circle) - Bon Iver
  • 86 - Best Kept Secret - case/lang/veirs
  • 87 - Gypsy In Me - Bonnie Raitt
  • 88 - Atomic Number - case/lang/veirs
  • 89 - Let Me Get There (feat. Kurt Vile) - Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
  • 90 - Quiet Corners and Empty Spaces - The Jayhawks
  • 91 - Dust - Lucinda Williams
  • 92 - Hurtin' (On The Bottle) - Margo Price
  • 93 - Trailer - Mudcrutch
  • 94 - Roller - Quilt
  • 95 - FloriDada - Animal Collective
  • 96 - Breath and Burning - Phish
  • 97 - Roll With The Punches - Dawes
  • 98 - Old Friends - Pinegrove
  • 99 - Radio - Sylvan Esso
  • 100 - Solving Problems - Brent Cobb

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