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Year-end countdown · CFNY 102.1 The Edge · 1990

CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990

The year-end countdown for 1990 from CFNY 102.1 The Edge in Toronto, ON ranks 90 songs, with “Fools Gold” by The Stone Roses at number one. The list features 66 different artists; Depeche Mode has the most entries with four songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Fools Gold The Stone Roses 44 #1
2 Policy of Truth Depeche Mode 63 #2
3 Enjoy the Silence Depeche Mode 107 #2
4 Groove Is In The Heart Dee-Lite 21 #3
5 Nothing Compares 2 U Sinéad O'Connor 69 #1
6 The Only One I Know The Charlatans 37 #6
7 Wicked Game Chris Isaak 57 #7
8 Never Enough The Cure 24 #2
9 I'm Free The Soup Dragons 47 #1
10 World In My Eyes Depeche Mode 35 #5
11 Epic Faith No More 109 #6
12 The Emperor's New Clothes Sinéad O'Connor 40 #12
13 Pure The Lightning Seeds 37 #13
14 Here's Where The Story Ends The Sundays 56 #3
15 Ice Ice Baby Vanilla Ice 2 #15
16 Night and Day U2 5 #14
17 Suicide Blonde INXS 21 #8
18 Tom's Diner DNA 25 #14
19 Cuts You Up Peter Murphy 58 #10
20 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 85 #4
21 World in Motion New Order 5 #21
22 Iceblink Luck Cocteau Twins 14 #22
23 More Sisters of Mercy 24 #23
24 Stop! Jane's Addiction 56 #6
25 U Can't Touch This MC Hammer 3 #25
26 Song For Whoever The Beautiful South 4 #11
27 Joey Concrete Blonde 51 #15
28 Pictures of You The Cure 71 #4
29 What is Love Dee-Lite 3 #29
30 Motorcycle Mama The Sugarcubes 16 #30
31 The Power Snap 1 #31
32 November Spawned a Monster Morrissey 19 #16
33 Ouija Board, Ouija Board Morrissey 8 #16
34 Wash Your Face In My Sink The Dream Warriors 16 #34
35 Blue Sky Mine Midnight Oil 42 #9
36 So Hard Pet Shop Boys 5 #16
37 Getting Away With It Electronic 18 #21
38 One Love The Stone Roses 6 #38
39 She Ain't Pretty The Northern Pikes 3 #39
40 Way Down Now World Party 28 #40
41 Kool Thing Sonic Youth 38 #30
42 I am Stretched on Your Grave Sinéad O'Connor 5 #42
43 Head Like a Hole Nine Inch Nails 89 #1
44 Vogue Madonna 7 #44
45 Blue Savannah Erasure 4 #45
46 Thunderstruck AC/DC 132 #1
47 Down In It Nine Inch Nails 53 #47
48 Piccadily Palare Morrissey 1 #48
49 The Obvious Child Paul Simon 12 #49
50 Falling Julee Cruise 3 #50
51 Commercial Rain Inspiral Carpets 3 #51
52 Istanbul (Not Constantinople) They Might Be Giants 38 #5
53 Roam The B-52's 45 #18
54 Time After Time (Muffin Mix) The Beloved 1 #54
55 Sex Gorilla National Velvet 2 #55
56 Step On Happy Mondays 42 #8
57 Strawberry Fields Forever Candy Flip 6 #39
58 Hello I Love You The Cure 18 #35
59 Justify My Love Madonna 2 #53
60 Real Real Gone Van Morrison 2 #60
61 Hippychick Soho 28 #5
62 My Definition of A Boombastic Jazz Style The Dream Warriors 15 #52
63 Been Caught Stealing Jane's Addiction 112 #1
64 Deliverance Mission U.K. 3 #64
65 Girl With a Problem The Northern Pikes 1 #65
66 Made for T.V. King Apparatus 3 #66
67 Scratching the Whole Bootsauce 2 #67
68 Lightning Man Nitzer Ebb 5 #61
69 A Strange Kind of Love Peter Murphy 6 #60
70 Birdhouse In Your Soul They Might Be Giants 63 #4
71 Everybody, Everybody Black Box 1 #71
72 A Little Time The Beautiful South 3 #72
73 Head On The Jesus and Mary Chain 31 #21
74 Hello The Beloved 5 #66
75 Love Takes Time Mariah Carey 1 #75
76 Ride on Time Black Box 2 #24
77 Between Something and Nothing The Ocean Blue 8 #15
78 Black Cat Janet Jackson 2 #78
79 Pray MC Hammer 1 #79
80 Business Breeding Ground 1 #80
81 Then The Charlatans 4 #81
82 A Girl Like You The Smithereens 51 #30
83 Close to You Maxi Priest 1 #83
84 Inside Out Crash Vegas 1 #84
85 This Side of Love Terence Trent D'Arby 1 #85
86 Candy Iggy Pop 34 #3
87 The Humpty Dance Digital Underground 7 #85
88 Smoke Crash Vegas 2 #88
89 I Don't Know Why I Love You The House of Love 10 #10
90 Give It Up The Hothouse Flowers 3 #90

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About this countdown

CFNY Top 90 Songs of 1990 was broadcast by CFNY 102.1 The Edge (Toronto, ON). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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