The WSTW Top 25 Countdown – 20 Years of Hits

Every weekend, WSTW plays back the biggest songs of the past week during the WSTW Top 25 Countdown with Jason Thomas.  And we mean every weekend – this fall marks 20 years of Jason playing your favorite songs.  So this Labor Day Weekend, it’s time to celebrate this weekend staple!

We’ve gathered all the charts from the past 20 years and developed a Top 200 list of the Best of the Best.  This weekend special feature is based on peak chart position, overall weekly performance, and annual chart positions.

Missed the special?  Here are the WSTW Top 25 Countdown’s Top 200 songs:

  1. Justin Timberlake – Can’t Stop the Feeling
  2. Lifehouse – Whatever It Takes
  3. Ed Sheeran – Perfect
  4. Black Eyed Peas – I Gotta Feeling
  5. Pink – So What
  6. Ed Sheeran – Shape of You
  7. Alessia Cara – Scars to Your Beautiful
  8. P!nk – Please Don’t Leave Me
  9. Vertical Horizon – Everything You Want
  10. Metro Station – Shake It
  11. Gotye – Somebody That I Used to Know
  12. Evanescence – My Immortal
  13. Goo Goo Dolls – Slide
  14. OneRepublic – Good Life
  15. Lifehouse – Halfway Gone
  16. Mark Ronson/Bruno Mars – Uptown Funk!
  17. Maroon 5 – Daylight
  18. Lifehouse – You And Me
  19. Nico & Vinz – Am I Wrong
  20. Justin Bieber – Love Yourself
  21. Portugal. The Man – Feel It Still
  22. Hinder – Lips of an Angel
  23. Lenny Kravitz – Again
  24. OneRepublic – Counting Stars
  25. Lumineers – Ho Hey
  26. Fun. – We Are Young
  27. P!nk – Perfect
  28. Nickelback – Photograph
  29. Adele – Someone Like You
  30. Hoobastank – Reason, The
  31. Bo Bice – Real Thing, The
  32. Stacie Orrico – More To Life
  33. The Killers – Mister Brightside
  34. Black Eyed Peas – Where Is The Love?
  35. Sugar Ray – Every Morning
  36. Kylie Minogue – Love At First Sight
  37. Kid Rock/Sheryl Crow – Picture
  38. Owl City – Fireflies
  39. Gavin DeGraw – In Love With a Girl
  40. Our Lady Peace – Somewhere Out There
  41. Lifehouse – Hanging By A Moment
  42. Train – If It’s Love
  43. Matchbox 20 – Unwell
  44. Matchbox 20 – Bent
  45. Shawn Mendes – There’s Nothing Holdin’ Me Back
  46. Taylor Swift – You Belong With Me
  47. Daughtry – Life After You
  48. Neon Trees – Everybody Talks
  49. Imagine Dragons – Whatever It Takes
  50. Daughtry – September
  51. Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
  52. Smash Mouth – All Star
  53. Maroon 5/C Aguilera – Moves Like Jagger
  54. Chainsmokers/Halsey – Closer
  55. Natasha Bedingfield – Unwritten
  56. Phillip Phillips – Gone, Gone, Gone
  57. Panic! At the Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies
  58. Kelly Clarkson – Miss Independent
  59. Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
  60. Lou Bega – Mambo No. 5
  61. Avicii – Wake Me Up
  62. Nelly/Tim McGraw – Over And Over
  63. INXS – Pretty Vegas
  64. No Doubt – Hey Baby
  65. Avril Lavigne – Keep Holding On
  66. Katy Perry – Firework
  67. Christina Aguilera – Beautiful
  68. Lifehouse – First Time
  69. 3 Doors Down – Kryptonite
  70. Twenty One Pilots – Stressed Out
  71. 3 Doors Down – Here Without You
  72. Kelly Clarkson – Breakaway
  73. Jason Derulo – Want to Want Me
  74. Imagine Dragons – Believer
  75. The Script – Breakeven
  76. Pink – Blow Me One Last Kiss
  77. Leona Lewis – Bleeding Love
  78. Dido – Thank You
  79. Third Eye Blind – Jumper
  80. Rihanna f. Mikky Ekko – Stay
  81. Adam Lambert – Whataya Want From Me
  82. Daughtry – Feels Like Tonight
  83. Camila Cabello – Havana
  84. X-Ambassadors – Renegades
  85. Pharrell Williams – Happy
  86. The Weeknd – Can’t Feel My Face
  87. Robin Thicke/TI/Pharrell – Blurred Lines
  88. Taylor Swift – Wildest Dreams
  89. Maroon 5 – One More Night
  90. Pink – Don’t Let Me Get Me
  91. Hozier – Take Me to Church
  92. Ashlee Simpson – Pieces Of Me
  93. Usher, Lil John & Ludacris – Yeah!
  94. Nickelback – Gotta Be Somebody
  95. Matchbox 20 – If You’re Gone
  96. No Doubt – Hella Good
  97. Enrique Iglesias – Hero
  98. Goo Goo Dolls – Let Love In
  99. Avril Lavigne – Girlfriend
  100. Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down
  101. Jesse McCartney – Beautiful Soul
  102. No Doubt – It’s My Life
  103. Katy Perry/Juicy J – Dark Horse
  104. OneRepublic – Secrets
  105. Uncle Kracker – Follow Me
  106. Eagle-Eye Cherry – Save Tonight
  107. Ed Sheeran – Thinking Out Loud
  108. Sam Smith – Stay With Me
  109. Pink f. Nate Ruess – Just Give Me a Reason
  110. Hot Chelle Rae – Tonight Tonight
  111. Adele – Send My Love
  112. Max f. Gnash – Lights Down Low
  113. John Legend – All of Me
  114. Script – For the First Time
  115. Maroon 5 – Misery
  116. Simple Plan – Untitled
  117. Niall Horan – Slow Hands
  118. One Direction – Story of My Life
  119. Maroon 5 – She Will Be Loved
  120. Sixpence None The Richer – Kiss Me
  121. Colbie Caillat – Fallin’ For You
  122. Camila Cabello – Never Be The Same
  123. John Mayer – Your Body Is A Wonderland
  124. Imagine Dragons – Thunder
  125. Charli XCX – Boom Clap
  126. Los Lonely Boys – Heaven
  127. Shawn Mendes – Stitches
  128. Zedd/Alessia Cara – Stay
  129. Ellie Goulding – Love Me Like You Do
  130. Len – Steal My Sunshine
  131. All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
  132. Avril Lavigne – What the Hell
  133. Sugar Ray – When It’s Over
  134. Justin Bieber – Sorry
  135. Ryan Cabrera – On The Way Down
  136. Taylor Swift – Delicate
  137. Nine Days – Absolutely (Story of a Girl)
  138. Carrie Underwood – Before He Cheats
  139. Phillip Phillips – Home
  140. Justin Timberlake – Not a Bad Thing
  141. Lifehouse – Broken
  142. Adele – Hello
  143. Jessie J, Ariana Grande, Minaj – Bang Bang
  144. Taylor Swift – Love Story
  145. Katy Perry/Snoop Dogg – California Gurls
  146. Taylor Swift – Bad Blood
  147. Lee Ann Womack – I Hope You Dance
  148. Katy Perry – One that Got Away, The
  149. Green Day – Wake Me Up When September Ends
  150. Twenty One Pilots – Heathens
  151. Jennifer Paige – Crush
  152. Nickelback – How You Remind Me
  153. Plain White T’s – One, 2, 3, 4 (I Love You)
  154. Fall Out Boy – Dance, Dance
  155. Savage Garden – I Knew I Loved You
  156. Ed Sheeran – Don’t
  157. Faith Hill – Breathe
  158. Counting Crows – Hanginaround
  159. Kelly Clarkson – Mister Know It All
  160. Rihanna – We Found Love
  161. Walk the Moon – Shut Up and Dance
  162. Train – Drive By
  163. The Fray – Over My Head (Cable Car)
  164. Chainsmokers/Coldplay – Something Just Like This
  165. Rob Thomas – Lonely No More
  166. Zedd/Maren Morris/Grey – Middle, The
  167. Maroon 5 – This Love
  168. Puddle of Mudd – Blurry
  169. Five For Fighting – Superman (It’s Not Easy)
  170. Fastball – Out Of My Head
  171. Bastille – Pompeii
  172. Pink – Try
  173. John Mayer – Waiting On The World To Change
  174. Rachel Platten – Fight Song
  175. The Fray – You Found Me
  176. Goo Goo Dolls – Stay With You
  177. DNCE – Cake By the Ocean
  178. Kelly Clarkson – Stronger
  179. Michelle Branch – Goodbye To You
  180. Sia f. Sean Paul – Cheap Thrills
  181. Magic! – Rude
  182. Taylor Swift – Blank Space
  183. Shinedown – Second Chance
  184. Daughtry – It’s Not Over
  185. Madonna – Music
  186. Lukas Graham – Seven Years
  187. Colbie Caillat – Brighter Than the Sun
  188. Daughtry – Over You
  189. Anna Nalick – Breathe (2AM)
  190. Matchbox 20 – Back 2 Good
  191. Evan & Jaron – Crazy For This Girl
  192. Katy Perry – Roar
  193. KT Tunstall – Black Horse & the Cherry Tree
  194. Jojo – Leave (Get Out)
  195. Avril Lavigne – I’m With You
  196. Fall Out Boy – Thnks Fr Th Mmrs
  197. Avril Lavigne – Complicated
  198. Adele – Water Under the Bridge
  199. Taylor Swift – Shake It Off
  200. The Fray – How To Save A Life
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