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“The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson

From the album Antichrist Superstar (1996)

“The Beautiful People” by Marilyn Manson appears on 41 radio countdowns from 22 stations between 1996 and 2025. It was first released in 1996 on the album Antichrist Superstar. Its best result is #1 on the WBER Listener Countdown 1996. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #69 alternative song of 1996, #839 alternative song of all time and #252 of the '90s.

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22stations
#1best position
1#1 finishes
2top 10 finishes
1996–2025years charted

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"The Beautiful People" kicked the door in for Antichrist Superstar, Marilyn Manson's second album, arriving as its lead single in September 1996 with a riff that stomps like a jackbooted parade. Trent Reznor produced it with Dave Ogilvie and Manson himself, and the sound is industrial metal at its most brutally blunt: Ginger Fish's drums hammering, Jeordie White (who wrote the music) grinding away on bass and guitar, Madonna Wayne Gacy's keyboards hissing in the cracks.

The title comes from Marylin Bender's 1967 book on the scandals of the jet set, and Manson turns it into a sneer at the culture of beauty and at the pampered elite that the album's demagogue antihero rails against. It came out on Nothing Records and Interscope, and in 2006 VH1 ranked it No. 28 among its 40 Greatest Metal Songs.

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

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Year-end countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1996 69 KROQ Los Angeles, CA KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1996 107
1996 71 WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1996 99
1996 72 107.7 The End Seattle, WA The End Top 107 Songs of 1996 107
1996 85 WBCN Boston, MA WBCN Top 104 Songs of 1996 104
1996 1 WBER Rochester, NY WBER Listener Countdown 1996 100
1997 38 105.7 The Point St. Louis, MO 105.7 The Point Top 105.7 of 1997 106
1997 8 Triple J Australia (national) Triple J Hottest 100 of 1997 100
1997 37 WRCX Rock 103.5 Chicago, IL WRCX Top 103 Songs of 1997 103

All-time and decade countdowns

Year#StationCountdownof
1998 12 Triple J Triple J Hottest 100 of All-Time (1998) 100
1999 145 KROQ KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) 300
1999 131 WHFS WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) 500
1999 201 Q101 Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1017
1999 471 WFNX WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) 500
1999 97 107.7 The End The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) 1077
1999 789 CFNY 102.1 The Edge CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) 1002
1999 29 The Buzz The Buzz Top 99 Songs of All-Time (1999) 99
2002 70 K-Rock K-Rock Top 92 Party Songs of All-Time (2002) 92
2002 87 The Buzz The Buzz Top Songs of All-Time (Labor Day 2002, partial) 144
2002 902 KISW KISW Top 999 of All Time (2002) 999
2004 73 Q101 Q101 Top 300 Party Songs of All-Time (July 2004) 300
2005 294 99X 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) 1000
2006 105 107.7 The End The End Top 107 Songs of the '90s (December 2006) 107
2006 215 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2006 359 Live 105 Live 105 500 Co-Op Countdown (Memorial Day 2006) 500
2007 167 KROQ KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) 500
2008 429 KROQ KROQ Flashback 500 (Memorial Day 2008) 500
2009 133 CFNY 102.1 The Edge The Top 200 Songs of the 90's According to 102.1 The Edge 200
2009 234 Live 105 Live 105 Memorial 500 Song List (2009) 500
2013 16 KBPI KBPI Top 200 Songs of All Time 200
2014 185 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2014) 500
2015 189 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2015) 500
2019 276 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2019) 500
2020 73 DC101 Top DC101 of the 90's 101
2020 428 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2020) 500
2020 90 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) 420
2020 143 DC101 The DC101 Top 500 500
2021 421 106.7 WLLZ WLLZ 500 (2021) 500
2022 138 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) 420
2023 254 94.3 WCYY WCYY CYY 500 Most Played Songs (2023) 500
2023 122 105.9 The X 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) 420
2025 333 WFPK WFPK Top 500 Songs of the '90s 500

Also listed as: Beautiful People.

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