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Year-end countdown · KROQ · 1989

KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989

The year-end countdown for 1989 from KROQ in Los Angeles, CA ranks 107 songs, with “Love Song” by The Cure at number one. The list features 78 different artists; The B-52's has the most entries with four songs.

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1 Love Song The Cure 62 #1
2 Love Shack The B-52's 61 #1
3 Everlasting Love U2 11 #3
4 Personal Jesus Depeche Mode 69 #4
5 Sowing the Seeds of Love Tears for Fears 27 #5
6 Good Thing Fine Young Cannibals 16 #6
7 So Alive Love and Rockets 54 #1
8 Fire Woman The Cult 32 #6
9 Stand R.E.M. 52 #4
10 Here Comes Your Man The Pixies 53 #2
11 Last Cigarette Dramarama 20 #11
12 Proud to Fall Ian McCulloch 5 #12
13 Round and Round New Order 13 #7
14 Mayor of Simpleton XTC 33 #3
15 Between Something and Nothing The Ocean Blue 8 #15
16 Higher Ground Red Hot Chili Peppers 49 #9
17 Veronica Elvis Costello 29 #10
18 I'll Be You The Replacements 44 #8
19 Fascination Street The Cure 43 #5
20 Compulsion Martin Gore 7 #20
21 Don't Crash the Car Tonight Mary's Danish 2 #21
22 Last of the International Playboys Morrissey 1 #22
23 Way of the World Max Q 3 #23
24 Channel Z The B-52's 13 #8
25 Kingdom of Rain The The 9 #22
26 Disappointed Public Image Ltd. 21 #11
27 Flesh and Blood Oingo Boingo 2 #27
28 No Myth Michael Penn 27 #23
29 Stop! Erasure 4 #29
30 A Girl Like You The Smithereens 39 #30
31 She Drives Me Crazy Fine Young Cannibals 42 #4
32 Pop Song '89 R.E.M. 23 #32
33 Come Anytime Hoodoo Gurus 4 #33
34 Dancing Barefoot U2 3 #34
35 Everlasting Love Howard Jones 2 #35
36 Contact Big Audio Dynamite 20 #29
37 Pictures of Matchstick Men Camper Van Beethoven 30 #28
38 Interesting Drug Morrissey 8 #14
39 Let The Day Begin The Call 21 #33
40 Edie (Ciao Baby) The Cult 16 #15
41 Love is a Shield Camouflage 2 #41
42 Look Who's Dancing Ziggy Marley 3 #41
43 Cult of Personality Living Colour 47 #42
44 I Want That Man Deborah Harry 3 #13
45 God is a Bullet Concrete Blonde 29 #45
46 Dear God Midge Ure 12 #46
47 Into the Heart of Love Mighty Lemon Drops 1 #47
48 Going Southbound Stan Ridgway 2 #48
49 Lullaby The Cure 32 #3
50 Oh Daddy Adrian Belew 19 #50
51 House The Psychedelic Furs 3 #46
52 Sick of It The Primitives 3 #45
53 God Part II U2 12 #17
54 No Big Deal Love and Rockets 6 #22
55 Lay All Your Love On Me Information Society 1 #55
56 Eat For Two 10,000 Maniacs 16 #31
57 Vanishing Point New Order 3 #27
58 Mountain Song Jane's Addiction 33 #58
59 Love and Anger Kate Bush 5 #11
60 Angel of Harlem U2 29 #11
61 Let Love Rule Lenny Kravitz 31 #15
62 Eardrum Buzz Wire 4 #62
63 Blues from a Gun The Jesus and Mary Chain 5 #13
64 Where Did I Go Wrong? UB40 4 #8
65 Sun King The Cult 5 #65
66 Baby I Don't Care Transvision Vamp 2 #50
67 King For A Day XTC 16 #67
68 Roam The B-52's 35 #22
69 World Party The Waterboys 1 #69
70 Bombers in the Sky Thompson Twins 1 #70
71 Do You Believe in Shame Duran Duran 1 #71
72 The Prisoner Howard Jones 1 #72
73 Don't Ask Me Why Eurythmics 2 #28
74 Getting Away With It Electronic 16 #21
75 Regina The Sugarcubes 7 #44
76 I Wanna Be Adored The Stone Roses 47 #10
77 Self Fuzzbox 1 #77
78 Another World Hoodoo Gurus 1 #78
79 Beat of Love Voice of the Beehive 3 #79
80 Pure The Lightning Seeds 33 #13
81 Achin' To Be The Replacements 18 #61
82 Cosmic Thing The B-52's 5 #36
83 Nightmares Violent Femmes 18 #83
84 Brother and Sister Erasure 1 #84
85 Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah The Pogues 23 #85
86 Dirty Old Town David Byrne 2 #86
87 Standing There The Creatures 3 #87
88 Take a Step Back Simple Minds 1 #88
89 Who Will Be There Ziggy Marley 1 #89
90 I'm On My Way The Proclaimers 1 #90
91 Revival Eurythmics 1 #91
92 Madonna of the Wasps Robyn Hitchcock 3 #92
93 A Strange Kind of Love Peter Murphy 6 #60
94 Dirty Blvd. Lou Reed 12 #70
95 Don't Let Me Down Gently The Wonderstuff 2 #95
96 Don't Look Back Fine Young Cannibals 5 #62
97 Warrior Public Image Ltd. 3 #97
98 Run 2 New Order 1 #98
99 ...This Town... Elvis Costello 1 #99
100 Year of the Knife Tears for Fears 1 #100
101 If It's Love Squeeze 2 #24
102 It This Love King Swamp 1 #102
103 Under the God Tin Machine 1 #103
104 She Bangs the Drums The Stone Roses 10 #7
105 Happy Birthday Concrete Blonde 16 #96
106 Plastic Fantastic Flesh for Lulu 1 #106
106.7 Hey Ladies Beastie Boys 19 #107

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KROQ Top 106.7 Songs of 1989 was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA). 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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