WFNX Top 101 of 2011

This station is owned by the Boston Phoenix, so although the station's ratings are visible only a microscope, it probably is a bigger source of revenue than the paper, given the economics of newspapers these days. Any way the programmers get free rein, and it shows.


1. Pumped Up Kicks - Foster The People
2. Young Blood - Naked & Famous
3. What You Know - Two Door CInema CLub
4. Shake Me Down - Cage The Elephant
5. Rolling In The Deep - Adele
6. Helena Beat - Foster The People
7. Changing - Airborne Toxic Event
8. You Are a Tourist - Death Cab for Cutie
9. Rope - Foo Fighters
10. Lonely Boy - Black Keys
11. Whirring - Joy Formidable
12. Money Grabber - Fitz & The Tantrums
13. Every Tear Drop is a Waterfall - Coldplay
14. Junk of The Heart (Happy) - The Kooks
15. Sail - AWOLNATION
16. Under Cover of Darkness - The Strokes
17. We Used To Wait - Arcade Fire
18. Cough Syrup - Young The Giant
19. Punching In A Dream - Naked & Famous
20. Going Out In Style - Dropkick Murphy's
21. Don't Stop (Color On The Walls) - Foster The People
22. Shake It Out - Florence + The Machine
23. If Ever I Stray - Frank Turner
24. Howlin' For You - Black Keys
25. Paradise - Coldplay
26. Colours - Group Love
27. My Body - Young The Giant
28. Rumour Has It – Adele
29. Midnight City - Walk
30. Walk - Foo Fighters
31. Holdin' on to Black Metal - My Morning Jacket
32. Darling Buds of May - Viva Brother
33. Roll Away Your Stone - Mumford & Sons
34. Under Cover Martyn - Two Door Cinema CLub
35. If I Had A Gun - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
36. If You Wanna - Vaccines
37. Calgary - Bon Iver
38. All I Ever Wanted - Airborne Toxic Event
39. Go Outside - Cults
40. Stay Young, Go Dancing - Death Cab For Cutie
41. Techno Fan - The Wombats
42. Not In Love - Crystal Castles w/ Robert Smith
43. Post Break-Up Sex - The Vaccines
44. Lotus Flower - Radiohead
45. Money - The Drums
46. Skip The Charades - Cold War Kids
47. Taken For A Fool - The Strokes
48. Got It All (This Can't Be Living Now) - Portugal The Man
49. Listen To Your Love - Mona
50. Blood Pressure - Mutemath
51. L.I.F.E.G.O.E.S.O.N. - Noah and The Whale
52. The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
53. The Hellcat Spangled Sha Lalalala - Arctic Monkeys
54. This Is Why We Fight - The Decemberists
55. Time Machine - Viva Brother
56. Somebody That I Used To Know - Gotye
57. Kick Drum Heart - Avett Brothers
58. The Roller - Beady Eye
59. Sick Of You - Cake
60. Days Are Forgotten - Kasabian
61. Machine Gun Blues - Social Distortion
62. Hawaiian Air - Friendly Fires
63. Irresistible Force - Jane's Addiction
64. Good For Great - Matt & Kim
65. Make Some Noise - Beastie Boys
66. Tokyo (Vampires & Roses) - The Wombats
67. People Say - Portugal The Man
68. Aberdeen - Cage The Elephant
69. Monarchy of Roses - Red Hot Chili Peppers
70. AKA...What a Life - Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds
71. Sleigh Bells - Rill Rill
72. Long Time - Cake
73. Shuffle - Bombay Bicycle Club
74. Uberlin - R.E.M.
75. After Midnight - Blink 182
76. Sunlight - Mean Creek
77. These Days - Foo Fighters
78. Still Life - The Horrors
79. Around My Heart - Cage The Elephant
80. Swim - Surfer Blood
81. Get Some - Lykke Li
82. Faith (When I Let You Down) - Taking Back Sunday
83. A Heavy Abacus - Joy Formidable
84. Guilty Girls - Buffalo Tom
85. Tongue Tied - Grouplove
86. Don't Sit Down (Because I've Moved Your Chair) - Arctic Monkeys'
87. Tallulah - Company of Thieves
88. Carve Away - The Sheila Divine
89. The Adventures of Rain Dance Maggie - Red Hot Chili Peppers
90. Sweet Sour - Band of Skulls
91. We Are Young - Fun
92. Underground - Jane's Addiction
93. Up Up Up - Givers
94. Mustache Man (Wasted) - Cake
95. Blood - The Dears
96. How'd You Like That? - The Kooks
97. New York City Moves To The Sound of L.A. - Funeral Party
98. Don't Play No Game That I Can't Win - Beastie Boys
99. So American - Portugal The Man
100. The Sound of Winter - Bush
101. Come Closer - Miles Kane