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“Ava Adore” by The Smashing Pumpkins
From the album Adore (1998)
“Ava Adore” by The Smashing Pumpkins appears on 26 radio countdowns from 16 stations between 1998 and 2023. It was first released in 1998 on the album Adore. Its best result is #6 on the Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998. In the combined RockLists rankings it is the #9 alternative song of 1998, #2,685 alternative song of all time and #109 of the '90s.
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"Ava Adore" led The Smashing Pumpkins into Adore, their fourth album, as its first single in May 1998, and anybody still waiting for a wall of guitars got a shock. Billy Corgan wrote it and produced it with Brad Wood, and he built it out of loops and electronics as much as live instruments: a slinking, mechanical stomp with Matt Walker's drums locked to the machines and Corgan's voice curling like smoke over the top. It sounds like a goth cabaret staged in a factory. Corgan mixed it with Flood.
The gamble paid off abroad, where it went to number one in Iceland and number five in New Zealand, and at home it climbed to number three on the Modern Rock Tracks chart.
Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.
RockLists rankings
Alternative & Modern Rock
All Rock Formats
Year-end countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 31 | KROQ Los Angeles, CA | KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 13 | 91X San Diego, CA / Tijuana | 91X Top 91 Songs of 1998 | 91 |
| 1998 | 22 | Live 105 San Francisco, CA | Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 | 106 |
| 1998 | 6 | Q101 Chicago, IL | Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 37 | WHFS Washington, DC / Baltimore, MD | WHFS Top 99.1 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 15 | WFNX Boston, MA | WFNX Top 101.7 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
| 1998 | 31 | 107.7 The End Seattle, WA | The End Top 107 Songs of 1998 | 107 |
| 1998 | 17 | The Buzz Burlington, VT / Plattsburgh, NY / Montreal, QC | The Buzz Top 99 Songs of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 30 | DC101 Washington, D.C. | DC101 Top 101 Songs of 1998 | 101 |
| 1998 | 63 | WBER Rochester, NY | WBER Listener Countdown 1998 | 98 |
| 1998 | 32 | 102.7 WEQX Southern Vermont and the Capital District of New York (Albany) | WEQX Top 102.7 of 1998 | 103 |
| 1998 | 45 | Triple J Australia (national) | Triple J Hottest 100 of 1998 | 100 |
| 1998 | 32 | Radio & Records United States (national airplay chart) | Radio & Records Top 103 Songs of 1998 | 102 |
All-time and decade countdowns
| Year | # | Station | Countdown | of |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1999 | 233 | KROQ | KROQ Top 300 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 1999) | 300 |
| 1999 | 429 | WHFS | WHFS Top 500 Songs of the '90s (December 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 612 | Q101 | Q101 Top 1,011 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1017 |
| 1999 | 481 | WFNX | WFNX Top 500 Songs of All-Time (June 1999) | 500 |
| 1999 | 755 | 107.7 The End | The End Top 1077 Songs of All-Time (December 1999) | 1077 |
| 1999 | 780 | CFNY 102.1 The Edge | CFNY Top 1002 Songs of All-Time (November 1999) | 1002 |
| 2004 | 289 | 107.7 The End | The End Original Alternative 500 (May 2004) | 500 |
| 2005 | 555 | 99X | 99X Freedom of Choice 1000 (2005) | 1000 |
| 2007 | 235 | KROQ | KROQ Top 500 Most Requested Songs of the '90s (Labor Day 2007) | 500 |
| 2020 | 350 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2020) | 420 |
| 2021 | 305 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2021) | 420 |
| 2022 | 305 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2022) | 420 |
| 2023 | 291 | 105.9 The X | 105.9 The X July 420 (2023) | 420 |
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