The Results are in! Obligatory Year End Awards 2021 Winners!
Music. One of the true saving graces of 2021. You voted and the results are in. Here are the best of the best of the year, according to YOU, the ALT 104.5 music community.
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Without further ado....
The ALT 104.5 Top 50.5 Songs of 2021
1. Imagine Dragons - Follow You
2. Glass Animals - Heat Waves
3. Machine Gun Kelly & Blackbear - My Ex’s Best Friend
4. Maneskin - Beggin
5. All Time Low - Monsters f/blackbear
6. Weezer - All My Favorite Songs f/AJR
7. Girl in Red - Serotonin
8. Clairo - Sofia
9. Twenty One Pilots - Shy Away
10. Machine Gun Kelly - Bloody Valentine
11. Willow - transparentsoul f/Travis Barker
12. AJR - Way Less Sad
13. Kings of Leon - The Bandit
14. Billie Eilish - Therefore I Am
15. Royal & The Serpent - Overwhelmed
16. Vance Joy - Missing Piece
17. Foo Fighters - Waiting on a War
18. Walk the Moon - Can You Handle My Love?
19. Coldplay x BTS - My Universe
20. Twenty One Pilots - Saturday
21. Coldplay - Higher Power
22. Modest Mouse - We Are Between
23. All Time Low - Once In a Lifetime
24. Offspring - Let The Bad Times Roll
25. Lumineers - Brightside
26. Rise Against - Nowhere Generation
27. Phoebe Bridgers - Kyoto
28. Glass Animals - I Don’t Wanna Talk
29. The Maine - Sticky
30. Kings of Leon - Time in Disguise
31. Daisy the Great x AJR - Record Player
32. Foo Fighters - Making a Fire
33. Bleachers - Stop Making This Hurt
34. Imagine Dragons - Enemy
35. War on Drugs - I Don’t Live Here Anymore
36. Imagine Dragons - Wrecked
37. Bastille - Distorted Light Beam
38. Kennyhoopla, Travis Barker - Estella
39. Billie Eilish - NDA
40. Grandson - Dirty
41. Milky Chance - Colorado
42. Maneskin - I Wanna Be Your Slave
43. Billie Eilish - Your Power
44. Churches - He Said She Said
45. Twenty One Pilots - The Outside
46. Cold War Kids - What You Say
47. Mike Shinoda - Happy Endings f/I. Dior/UPSAHL
48. Lorde - Solar Power
49. Halsey - You Asked For This
50. Wet Leg - Chaise Longue
50.5. Nathaniel Rateliff f/Nightsweats - Survivor
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Best Album of 2021
Scaled And Icy – twenty one pilots
Runner Up: OK Orchestra - AJR
Artist of the Year 2021
Twenty One Pilots
Runner Up: AJR
Best New Artist of 2021
Girl in Red
Runner Up: Maneskin
Best Music Video of 2021
Saturday - twenty one pilots
Runner Up: My Universe - Coldplay / BTS