Top 89 Songs of 2014
December 31, 2014
We asked, you voted! All December long listeners of The Current voted for their favorite songs of 2014, and the results are in!
It was no doubt an incredible year for music. Each month saw a barrage of new singles and albums from artists you know and love to up-and-coming acts. The Current played the songs and you, the music lover, responded to each of them. Now we're counting down the top tracks of 2014 you heard on The Current based on listeners' votes in our annual Top 89 poll.
From 4 p.m. to midnight CST on Wednesday, Dec. 31, we'll count down the Top 89 Songs of 2014, as voted by listeners of The Current. Starting at 4 p.m. CST, we'll host a retrospective of Top 89s past, then at 5 p.m. we'll reveal the Top 89 of 2014 track-by-track with #1 ringing in the New Year! We'll re-air the whole retrospective and countdown on New Year's Day from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. CST
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Top 89 Songs of 2014
Beginning at 5 p.m. CST, we'll reveal each song as it's played on air. You may need to reload the page to see the most recent results.
1. Hozier - "Take Me to Church"
2. Lizzo and Caroline Smith - "Let 'Em Say"
3. alt-J - "Left Hand Free"
4. Courtney Barnett - "Avant Gardener"
5. First Aid Kit - "My Silver Lining"
6. First Aid Kit - "Stay Gold"
7. Jeremy Messersmith - "It's Only Dancing"
8. Jack White - "Lazaretto"
9. St. Vincent - "Digital Witness"
10. tUnE-yArDs - "Water Fountain"
11. Future Islands - "Seasons (Waiting on You)"
12. Phantogram - "Fall in Love"
13. Glass Animals - "Gooey"
14. Sylvan Esso - "Coffee"
15. Jenny Lewis - "Just One of the Guys"
16. Jeremy Messersmith - "Ghost"
17. alt-J - "Every Other Freckle"
18. HAIM - "Forever"
19. alt-J - "Hunger of the Pine"
20. Haley Bonar - "Last War"
21. Lana Del Rey - "West Coast"
22. Ryan Adams - "Gimme Something Good"
23. The War on Drugs - "Under the Pressure"
24. Broken Bells - "After the Disco"
25. First Aid Kit - "Waitress Song"
26. Spoon - "Inside Out"
27. The Black Keys - "Fever"
28. Spoon - "Do You"
29. Bon Iver - "Heavenly Father"
30. Doomtree - ".38 Airweight"
31. Jenny Lewis - "She's Not Me"
32. The Decemberists - "Make You Better"
33. TV on the Radio - "Happy Idiot"
34. Father John Misty - "Bored in the USA"
35. Big Data - "Dangerous"
36. Lizzo - "Batches and Cookies" feat. Sophia Eris
37. J. Roddy Walston and the Business - "Take It As It Comes"
38. Atmosphere - "Kanye West"
39. St. Vincent - "Birth in Reverse"
40. Asgeir - "King and Cross"
41. The Black Keys - "Gotta Get Away"
42. Milky Chance - "Stolen Dance"
43. FKA twigs - "Two Weeks"
44. Cage the Elephant - "Cigarette Daydreams"
45. Arcade Fire - "Joan of Arc"
46. Robert Plant - "Rainbow"
47. Sam Smith - "Stay with Me"
48. Jake Bugg - "What Doesn't Kill You"
49. The War on Drugs - "Red Eyes"
50. Caroline Smith - "Half About Being a Woman"
51. Benjamin Booker - "Violent Shiver"
52. Trampled By Turtles - "Are You Behind the Shining Star?"
53. Hozier - "Jackie and Wilson"
54. The Avett Brothers - "Morning Song"
55. The New Pornographers - "Dancehall Domine"
56. Hippo Campus - "Little Grace"
57. Lorde - "Yellow Flicker Beat"
58. Chastity Brown - "Colorado"
59. Beck - "Blue Moon"
60. Courtney Barnett - "Pickles from the Jar"
61. Interpol - "All the Rage (Back Home)"
62. Phantogram - "Howling at the Moon"
63. Vance Joy - "Riptide"
64. Beck - "Waking Light"
65. Kendrick Lamar - "i"
66. The New Pornographers - "Brill Bruisers"
67. Arctic Monkeys - "Snap Out of It"
68. OK Go - "The Writing's on the Wall"
69. Arcade Fire - "Normal Person"
70. Jake Bugg - "Me and You"
71. Lykee Li - "No Rest for the Wicked"
72. PHOX - "Slow Motion"
73. Lucius - "Turn It Around"
74. Spoon - "Rent I Pay"
75. Atmosphere - "Bitter"
76. Temples - "Shelter Song"
77. Chet Faker - "1998"
78. Arcade Fire - "Here Comes the Night Time"
79. Leonard Cohan - "Almost Like the Blues"
80. The Head and the Heart - "Let's Be Still"
81. Weezer - "Back to the Shack"
82. Belle and Sebastian - "The Party Line"
83. Beck - "Heart Is a Drum"
84. Jack White - "Alone in My Home"
85. The New Basement Tapes - "Kansas City"
86. The Rural Alberta Advantage - "On the Rocks"
87. BANKS - "Beggin' for Thread"
88. Jungle - "Busy Earnin'"
89. Mac DeMarco - "Salad Days"
