We’re counting down 88 of the year’s best songs. From favourites via the likes of Foo Fighters, The Beaches, Noah Kahan, City and Colour, and Blink-182, to cuts from breakout artists like Aysanabee, Billy Raffoul, and Grouplove.

It’s The Great 88, counting down your favourite songs of the year, airing New Year’s Eve to New Years Day on Indie88.

Catch Indie88’s The Great 88, hosted by Adam Ricard, on 88.1 FM.

Dec 31 – 10a-5p and repeats 5p -12a  

Jan 01 – 10a-5p and repeats 5p -12a  

  1. The Beaches – “Blame Brett”
  2. Foo Fighters – “Rescued”
  3. Noah Kahan – “Stick Season”
  4. Gorillaz – “New Gold ft. Tame Impala & Bootie Brown”
  5. City and Colour – “Underground”
  6. Depeche Mode – “Ghosts Again”
  7. Queens of the Stone Age – “Paper Machete”
  8. The Revivalists – “Kid”
  9. Alvvays – “Belinda Says”
  10. Portugal. The Man – “Dummy”
  11. Sam Roberts Band – “Picture of Love”
  12. Foo Fighters – “Under You”
  13. Blink-182 – “One More Time”
  14. Aysanabee – “Somebody Else”
  15. Dizzy – “Open Up Wide”
  16. Noah Kahan – “Dial Drunk”
  17. The Killers – “Your Side of Town”
  18. Olivia Rodrigo – “Bad Idea Right?”
  19. Death Cab For Cutie – “Pepper”
  20. Charlotte Cardin – “Confetti”
  21. Green Day – “The American Dream is Killing Me”
  22. Metric – “Just The Once”
  23. Milky Chance – “Living In a Haze”
  24. Olivia Rodrigo – “Vampire”
  25. Post Malone – “Chemical”
  26. Queens of the Stone Age – “Emotion Sickness”
  27. Billy Raffoul – “We Could Get High”
  28. Hozier – “Eat Your Young”
  29. City and Colour – “Meant To Be”
  30. Ruby Waters – “Flash Flood”
  31. White Reaper – “Pages”
  32. The Glorious Sons – “Mercy Mercy”
  33. Grouplove – “Hello”
  34. Zach Bryan – “Spotless ft. The Lumineers”
  35. Young The Giant – “The Walk Home”
  36. Boygenius – Not Strong Enough”
  37. Good Kid – “No Time To Explain”
  38. Black Pumas – “More Than A Love Song”
  39. Paramore – “This Is Why”
  40. Colony House – “Cannonballers”
  41. July Talk – “Certain Father”
  42. Cold War Kids – “Run Away With Me”
  43. Sports Team – “The Drop”
  44. The Strumbellas – “Hold Me”
  45. U2 – “Atomic City”
  46. Talk – “Wasteland”
  47. Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds – “Easy Now”
  48. City and Colour – “Hard, Hard Time”
  49. Boy Golden – “Hard Headed”
  50. Vance Joy – “Catalonia”
  51. Blur – “The Narcissist”
  52. Portugal. The Man – “Summer of Luv ft. Unknown Mortal Orchestra”
  53. Yeah Yeah Yeahs – “Wolf”
  54. Beck – “Odyssey ft. Phoenix”
  55. Chvrches – “Over”
  56. Bleachers – “Modern Girl”
  57. Sum 41 – “Landmines”
  58. Dan Mangan – “Say When” 
  59. Monowhales – “Rich$$$”
  60. Little Image – “Out of My Mind”
  61. Beck – “Thinking About You”
  62. Jane’s Party – “Ships On An Ocean”
  63. The Darcys – “Trouble Found Me”
  64. K. Flay – “Raw Raw” 
  65. Lovejoy – “Call Me What You Like”
  66. Mother Mother – “Normalize”
  67. Ten Kills The Pack – “Lying In The Grass Thinking About Death”
  68. Makeba – “Jain”
  69. July Talk – “When You Stop”
  70. Charlotte Cardin – “Jim Carrey”
  71. The Rural Alberta Advantage – “Plague Dogs”
  72. Yukon Blonde – “Up 2 U”
  73. Brittany Howard – “What Now”
  74. Arkells – “Skin”
  75. Phoenix – “After Midnight ft. Clairo”
  76. Wilco – “Evicted”
  77. Romy – “Enjoy Your Life”
  78. Inhaler – “Love Will Get You There”
  79. Cannons – “Loving You”
  80. The Revivalists – “Good Old Days”
  81. Sam Roberts Band – “Projection”
  82. JJ Wilde – “Hands”
  83. Good Kid – “Mimi’s Delivery Service”
  84. Talk – “A Little Bit Happy”
  85. The Heavy Heavy – “Go Down River”
  86. Lenny Kravitz – “TK421”
  87. Fast Romantics – “F Yourself”
  88. Iskwe – “I Get High ft. Nina Hagen”