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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994

The year-end countdown for 1994 from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails at number one. The list features 58 different artists; Pearl Jam has the most entries with six songs.

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# Song ListsBest
1 Closer Nine Inch Nails 67 #1
2 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 75 #2
3 Self-Esteem The Offspring 62 #1
4 I Alone Live 56 #4
5 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 63 #5
6 Seether Veruca Salt 39 #3
7 Basket Case Green Day 74 #1
8 All Apologies Nirvana 69 #2
9 Loser Beck 77 #2
10 Mr. Jones Counting Crows 70 #4
11 Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam 57 #2
12 Zombie The Cranberries 71 #1
13 Come Out and Play The Offspring 43 #2
14 Far Behind Candlebox 16 #7
15 All I Wanna Do Sheryl Crow 35 #6
16 Longview Green Day 63 #1
17 Landslide The Smashing Pumpkins 32 #15
18 What's The Frequency Kenneth? R.E.M. 44 #2
19 Supernova Liz Phair 35 #19
20 About A Girl Nirvana 45 #7
21 Buddy Holly Weezer 62 #8
22 Feel The Pain Dinosaur Jr. 33 #16
23 Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Pearl Jam 46 #4
24 Laid James 59 #1
25 Doll Parts Hole 44 #2
26 Fell On Black Days Soundgarden 54 #11
27 Round Here Counting Crows 36 #20
28 When I Come Around Green Day 60 #2
29 No Excuses Alice In Chains 43 #12
30 Fade Into You Mazzy Star 46 #10
31 21st Century Digital Boy Bad Religion 24 #31
32 Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots 43 #10
33 Stay Lisa Loeb 2 #33
34 Sabotage Beastie Boys 73 #3
35 Fall Down Toad The Wet Sprocket 22 #4
36 Rape Me Nirvana 31 #18
37 Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer 53 #3
38 Bang And Blame R.E.M. 21 #16
39 Dissident Pearl Jam 24 #21
40 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos 51 #16
41 Welcome to Paradise Green Day 52 #6
42 Supersonic Oasis 40 #30
43 You Candlebox 9 #35
44 A Murder of One Counting Crows 20 #44
45 Spoonman Soundgarden 46 #27
46 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Crash Test Dummies 34 #6
47 Shine Collective Soul 33 #24
48 Big Time Sensuality Björk 21 #48
49 Creep Stone Temple Pilots 35 #44
50 Your Favorite Thing Sugar 19 #28
51 All I Want Is You U2 36 #32
52 Backwater Meat Puppets 40 #7
53 The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get Morrissey 23 #3
54 Gotta Get Away The Offspring 34 #41
55 Get Off This Cracker 21 #22
56 Dumb Nirvana 38 #17
57 Selling The Drama Live 37 #1
58 Possession Sarah McLachlan 25 #24
59 Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Urge Overkill 24 #54
60 Not For You Pearl Jam 25 #24
61 Einstein on the Beach Counting Crows 9 #33
62 Sure Shot Beastie Boys 34 #12
63 Crush With Eyeliner R.E.M. 18 #50
64 I Stay Away Alice In Chains 18 #60
65 Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies 43 #17
66 Infected Bad Religion 25 #39
67 Girls And Boys Blur 35 #16
68 My Wave Soundgarden 24 #38
69 Miss World Hole 23 #17
70 Until I Fall Away Gin Blossoms 13 #45
71 Sometimes Always The Jesus and Mary Chain 23 #31
72 Night In My Veins The Pretenders 13 #28
73 Lucas With The Lid Off Lucas 4 #72
74 Mayonnaise The Smashing Pumpkins 25 #74
75 Liar Rollins Band 14 #60
76 Rain King Counting Crows 24 #12
77 You Suck Murmurs 3 #52
78 Verse Chorus Verse Nirvana 23 #33
79 Always Erasure 7 #50
80 Bull In The Heather Sonic Youth 15 #58
81 Burn Nine Inch Nails 3 #81
82 Push Th' Little Daisies Ween 12 #10
83 Better Man Pearl Jam 71 #3
84 Millennium Killing Joke 3 #84
85 God Tori Amos 36 #30
86 Strange Currencies R.E.M. 16 #31
87 Got Me Wrong Alice In Chains 7 #77
88 Cut Your Hair Pavement 41 #34
89 Good Enough Sarah McLachlan 12 #52
90 Freedom Rage Against the Machine 10 #70
91 Burn The Cure 5 #57
92 Eurotrash Girl Cracker 18 #46
93 Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe Whale 5 #66
94 Rocket The Smashing Pumpkins 23 #94
95 Something's Always Wrong Toad The Wet Sprocket 22 #38
96 March of the Pigs Nine Inch Nails 13 #22
97 Leaving Las Vegas Sheryl Crow 16 #36
98 Glorified G Pearl Jam 22 #32
99 Gentlemen Afghan Whigs 21 #75
100 Salvation Rancid 12 #54
101 She Don't Use Jelly The Flaming Lips 30 #62

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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL). 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.

Contributed by Kevin Biebel, Dave Ebzky, Tim Wojtowicz. Thank you!

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