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“Miss World” by Hole

From the album Live Through This (1994)

“Miss World” by Hole appears on 25 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 1994 and 2023. It was first released in 1994 on the album Live Through This. Its best result is #17 on the John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1994. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #36 alternative song of 1994, #1,676 alternative song of all time and #424 of the '90s.

25countdowns
16stations
#17best position
0#1 finishes
0top 10 finishes
1994–2023years charted

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Hole - Miss World (Official Music Video)

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"Miss World" was the first taste of Live Through This, Hole's second album, sent out as its lead single in 1994. Courtney Love and lead guitarist Eric Erlandson wrote it, Paul Q. Kolderie and Sean Slade produced, and Scott Litt mixed, and the track lurches from a bruised, sing-song murmur into a full-throated grunge wail, Love's voice cracking and snarling as the guitars pile up behind her.

In the US it came out on Portland's independent Tim/Kerr label as a pink 7-inch, plus a limited picture disc backed with the band's cover of the Wipers' "Over the Edge"; in Europe, City Slang paired it with an alternate mix of "Rock Star". Sophie Muller shot the video that March.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.

RockLists rankings

Alternative & Modern Rock

Indie & Adult Alternative

All Rock Formats

Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1994 59 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1994 107
1994 35 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana 91X Top 91 Songs of 1994 91
1994 62 Live 105 San Francisco, CA Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 106
1994 69 Q101 Chicago, IL Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 101
1994 17 John Peel (BBC Radio 1) John Peel's Festive Fifty of 1994 50
1994 34 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 1994 100
1994 56 Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) Radio & Records Top 94 Songs of 1994 94

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1995 263 Live 105 Live 105 Revolutionary 300 (July 1995) 300
1996 441 Q101 Q101 Top 500 Songs of All-Time (1996) 500
1999 465 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 319 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 268 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 1146 CD101 CD101 Top 2000 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 2000
1999 266 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
2000 1149 CD101 CD101 Top 2001 Songs of All-Time (December 2000) 2001
2001 1150 CD101 CD101 Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (December 2001) 2002
2002 1149 CD101 CD101 Top 2003 Songs of All-Time (December 2002) 2003
2002 975 Fred (XM 44) Fred XM Top 2002 Songs of All-Time (July 2002) 2002
2003 1134 CD101 CD101 Top 2004 Songs of All-Time (December 2003) 2004
2004 1134 CD101 CD101 Top 2005 Songs of All-Time (December 2004) 2005
2005 1134 CD101 CD101 Top 2006 Songs of All-Time (December 2005) 1994
2007 399 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2021 611 90.9 The Bridge 90.9 The Bridge Top 909 Songs of the '90s 908
2023 577 The Current The Current's 893 Essential Songs of the '90s 893
2023 405 WYEP WYEP Countdown to Fall 2023 1229

Charting alongside it in 1994

Best songs of 1994 →
  1. 1Black Hole SunSoundgarden
  2. 2CloserNine Inch Nails
  3. 3Self-EsteemThe Offspring
  4. 4Interstate Love SongStone Temple Pilots
  5. 5Come Out and PlayThe Offspring
  6. 6Basket CaseGreen Day

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