The Results are in! Obligatory Year End Awards 2021 Winners!

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.

Make sure to check our ALT 104.5 Staff Picks by clicking here!

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

Favorite cover song of 2021

Beggin’ – Maneskin (embed video:Måneskin - Beggin’ (Official Video) - YouTube)

Runner Up: Bennie and The Jets – twenty one pilots

Favorite Philly-Area Band/Artist of 2021

The War on Drugs

Runner Up:The Wonder Years

Favorite Concert/Performance of 2021

Hella Mega Tour – Citizens Bank Park with Green Day, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, and The Interrupters

Runner Up: Glass Animals – Skyline Stage at The Mann

Most Overlooked Artist of 2021

Girl in Red

Runner Up: The Killers

Favorite App

Spotify

Runner Up: Instagram 

Most anticipated album of 2022

The Lumineers - Brightside

Runner Up: Red Hot Chili Peppers

Favorite band/artist to follow on socials

twenty one pilots

Runner Up: AJR

Favorite Podcast

Face Jam

Runner Up: Smart Less 


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