Top artists countdown · KROQ · Year End 1999

KROQ Top 106.7 Artists of All-Time (Year End 1999)

The all-time artists countdown (Year End 1999) is KROQ’s ranking of its listeners’ favorite artists in Los Angeles, CA, with Beastie Boys voted the number one artist.

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# Artist Entries
1 Beastie Boys 894
2 Depeche Mode 1,209
3 Sublime 486
4 The Offspring 831
5 Nirvana 1,670
6 U2 3,464
7 The Smashing Pumpkins 1,191
8 Rage Against the Machine 551
9 The Cure 1,447
10 Pearl Jam 2,372
11 Korn 459
12 Green Day 1,537
13 Red Hot Chili Peppers 1,797
14 blink-182 682
15 Nine Inch Nails 775
16 No Doubt 342
17 Beck 884
18 Garbage 425
19 Oingo Boingo 261
20 Limp Bizkit 283
21 The Smiths 725
22 Radiohead 1,086
23 R.E.M. 2,090
24 Social Distortion 438
25 Metallica 1,339
26 Tori Amos 383
27 Stone Temple Pilots 1,066
28 Hole 269
29 Jane's Addiction 542
30 Violent Femmes 429
31 Bush 675
32 Bob Marley 560
33 Rob Zombie 119
34 The Clash 1,325
35 Third Eye Blind 248
36 Duran Duran 386
37 311 575
38 Foo Fighters 1,636
39 Sugar Ray 102
40 Dave Matthews Band 611
41 Live 514
42 Fatboy Slim 197
43 Lenny Kravitz 482
44 Tool 471
45 New Order 657
46 Everclear 379
47 Soundgarden 731
48 Oasis 657
49 Pennywise 80
50 Kid Rock 141
51 Alice In Chains listed as “Alice in Chains” 895
52 Weezer 972
53 Smash Mouth 92
54 Fiona Apple 190
55 Creed 224
56 Save Ferris 55
57 Cake 537
58 The Police 1,294
59 Marilyn Manson 163
60 David Bowie 1,793
61 Goo Goo Dolls 231
62 Rancid 211
63 INXS 743
64 Björk 188
65 Bad Religion 178
66 The B-52's 559
67 The Prodigy 119
68 Blondie 444
69 Filter 172
70 The Ramones 607
71 Blur 354
72 Talking Heads 1,072
73 Sarah McLachlan 208
74 Primus 179
75 Siouxsie and the Banshees 360
76 The Chemical Brothers 162
77 The Cult 356
78 The Cranberries 359
79 Everlast 127
80 Echo and the Bunnymen listed as “Echo & the Bunnymen” 377
81 Orgy 80
82 Dramarama 128
83 Alanis Morissette 227
84 Lit 115
85 Peter Gabriel 785
86 The Verve 209
87 Devo 332
88 Counting Crows 416
89 Bauhaus 98
90 MxPx 49
91 Elvis Costello & the Attractions 539
92 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 160
93 X 164
94 Reel Big Fish 48
95 The Psychedelic Furs listed as “Psychedelic Furs” 360
96 The Crystal Method listed as “Crystal Method” 62
97 Billy Idol 563
98 Faith No More 189
99 Madness 189
100 Unwritten Law 76
101 The Sex Pistols listed as “Sex Pistols” 261
102 The Pretenders 671
103 Eve 6 116
104 The Go-Go's 119
105 Matchbox 20 85
106 The Pixies 533
106.7 System of a Down 367

About this countdown

KROQ Top 106.7 Artists of All-Time (Year End 1999) was broadcast by KROQ (Los Angeles, CA) in Year End 1999. 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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