All-time countdown · X96 · May 28, 2022
X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time
The all-time countdown (May 28, 2022) from X96 in Salt Lake City, UT ranks 500 songs, with “Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm” by Crash Test Dummies at number one. The list features 252 different artists; Depeche Mode has the most entries with eleven songs.
Aired May 28-30, 2022. The station says it 'looked at X96 airplay over the last 30 years, Billboard charts, streaming charts, Utah's love for certain bands over the years, etc.' Printed counting down from 500; the top 15 also give the release year, dropped here. The Smashing Pumpkins 'Tonight, Tonight' appears twice in the source (23 and 4). Corrected 'featuriung', 'Japenese', 'Morrissette', 'Jealously', 'Everyting', 'Go-Gos's', 'Cecelia And The Sattelite', 'The Impression I That I Get', 'Pepeprs' and 'R.E.M'; a promotional sentence after #269 is dropped. Artist credits normalized to the site's format (e.g. "X (ft. Y)" written "X feat. Y").
About this countdown
X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time was broadcast by X96 (Salt Lake City, UT) in May 28, 2022. 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.
Source: X96, "X96 Top 500 Alternative Songs of All Time".
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