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KITS · 105.3 FM · San Francisco, CA

Live 105 countdowns

The Bay Area's modern rock station

RockLists holds 39 countdowns from Live 105: 27 year-end countdowns covering 1986–2016 and twelve all-time, decade and special countdowns, totaling 5,860 chart positions. The station’s first year-end number one on record is “Bizarre Love Triangle” by New Order (1986); its most recent is “Heathens” by Twenty One Pilots (2016).

39countdowns
5,860chart positions
1986–2016year-end lists
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Year-end countdowns

1986 Top 105.3 Songs of 1986 10 songs · partial 1987 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987 105 songs · partial 1988 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988 106 songs 1989 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989 105 songs · partial 1990 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990 105 songs · partial 1991 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991 105 songs 1992 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992 105 songs 1993 Top 105 Songs of 1993 105 songs 1994 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994 106 songs 1995 Top 105.3 Songs of 1995 10 songs · partial 1996 Top 105.3 Songs of 1996 25 songs · partial 1997 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997 105 songs 1998 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998 106 songs 1999 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999 106 songs 2000 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000 105 songs 2001 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001 106 songs 2002 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002 106 songs 2003 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003 106 songs 2004 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004 106 songs 2005 Top 105.3 Songs of 2005 106 songs 2006 Top 105.3 Songs of 2006 106 songs 2007 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007 106 songs 2008 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008 105 songs 2011 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck in 2011 10 songs · partial 2013 Top Songs of 2013 20 songs 2015 Top 25 Songs of 2015 25 songs 2016 Top 25 Songs of 2016 26 songs

Countdown series

All-time countdowns

Decade countdowns

Top artists countdowns

Every Live 105 year-end number one

YearNumber one songCountdown
1986 Bizarre Love Triangle New Order Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1986
1987 Love's Taboo Cube Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1987
1988 This Party Sucks The Slickee Boys Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1988
1989 So Alive Love and Rockets Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1989
1990 I'm Free The Soup Dragons Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1990
1991 Smells Like Teen Spirit Nirvana Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1991
1992 Creep Radiohead Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1992
1993 Cannonball The Breeders Live 105 Top 105 Songs of 1993
1994 Longview Green Day Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1994
1995 Wonderwall Oasis Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1995
1996 The Distance Cake Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1996
1997 The Impression That I Get The Mighty Mighty Bosstones Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1997
1998 Intergalactic Beastie Boys Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1998
1999 My Own Worst Enemy Lit Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 1999
2000 Last Resort Papa Roach Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2000
2001 It's Been Awhile Staind Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2001
2002 Hate To Say I Told You So The Hives Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2002
2003 Seven Nation Army The White Stripes Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2003
2004 Float On Modest Mouse Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2004
2005 Feel Good Inc. Gorillaz Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2005
2006 Dare Gorillaz Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2006
2007 Starlight Muse Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2007
2008 Viva La Vida Coldplay Live 105 Top 105.3 Songs of 2008
2011 Get Some Lykke Li Live 105 Top 50 Songs That Didn't Suck in 2011
2013 Royals Lorde Live 105 Top Songs of 2013
2015 Renegades X Ambassadors Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2015
2016 Heathens Twenty One Pilots Live 105 Top 25 Songs of 2016

About Live 105

Live 105 (KITS 105.3 FM) flipped to alternative rock in October 1986 and became the Bay Area's defining modern rock station for three decades. Its Top 105.3 year-end countdowns, the Memorial Day all-time countdowns, the Revolutionary 500 and its all-time artist polls are all archived on RockLists.

KITS flipped from mainstream Top 40 to alternative as Live 105 in October 1986, with Richard Sands as program director and Steve Masters as music director. Masters had already been playing modern rock on his night show for some time and became the station's signature voice.

The 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake destroyed the Live 105 studios at 9th and Market Streets. The station was back on the air within a day or two, broadcasting from a van parked next to its transmitter on San Bruno Mountain, and soon relocated to new studios on Harrison Street. Masters left in 1995 after ten years to work for the MCA label Way Cool, later returning in 2002 for a retro lunch-hour show.

CBS/Infinity acquired the station from Entercom in 1997. When sister station KOME in San Jose flipped from alternative to classic rock the following year, much of the KOME staff, including PD Jay Taylor and midday host Ally Storm, migrated to Live 105, and Howard Stern's syndicated show moved with them. Sean Demery, formerly of 99X Atlanta, replaced Taylor as PD in 2002.

Live 105 is known for its annual BFD festival, held every June at Shoreline Amphitheatre in Mountain View. The station rebranded as Alt 105.3 in 2017 under CBS Radio, shortly before the company merged with Entercom (now Audacy).

Call letters
KITS
Frequency
105.3 FM
Market
San Francisco, CA
Owner
Audacy (formerly CBS Radio / Infinity Broadcasting)
Format
Alternative
Format since
1986

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