KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns

The KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns is an end-of-year countdown that lists the top "106.7" songs on the Los Angeles station KROQ as voted by listeners. The countdown started in 1980, and ran every year until 2009.[b] Since 2009, the list has been compiled by fans from playlist data.[1]

KROQ Top 106.7 Countdown chart toppers
  • Devo
  • Missing Persons
  • The Clash
  • Sinead O'Connor

In the late 1970s and early 1980s, KROQ's proximity to Hollywood and the Los Angeles music scene gave it a unique place in the development of the punk and alternative rock genres.[2] In its heyday, KROQ was considered the most powerful radio station in the world. It was the top-rated station in the Los Angeles metropolitan area, and its "ROQ of the 80s" format was copied nationwide.[3] Its renegade roots, and willingness to experiment, came along at the same time as the birth of punk and new wave. The choices made by the station and its staff had a worldwide impact. This is reflected in the annual list of most popular songs.[3]

Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees The Cure and Depeche Mode topped the annual list more than once, with Green Day, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and The White Stripes also making that achievement.

The end of year countdown was the first among the station's "lists". Among others released are the "List Of 106.7 Biggest KROQ Bands"[4][5] and "Flashback 500" or "Firecracker 500" (presenting the 500 most popular songs).[4] In April 2020, the station released a COVID Quarantine edition of the "Top 106.7 Songs of All Time", with Everlong by the Foo Fighters topping the list.[6]

Countdowns by year
KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns
YearNumber 1 SongArtistReference
1980Whip ItDevo[7][b]
1981Mental HopscotchMissing Persons[a]
1982Rock the CasbahThe Clash[a]
1983Is There Something I Should Know?Duran Duran[a]
1984RelaxFrankie Goes to Hollywood[a]
1985Shake the DiseaseDepeche Mode[a]
1986SuburbiaPet Shop Boys[a]
1987Just Like HeavenThe Cure[a]
1988Route 66Depeche Mode[a]
1989Love SongThe Cure[a]
1990Nothing Compares 2 USinead O'Connor[a]
1991Losing My ReligionR.E.M.[a]
1992Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers[a]
1993PlushStone Temple Pilots[a]
1994LongviewGreen Day[a]
1995Lightning CrashesLive[a]
1996Down311[a]
1997Wrong WaySublime[a]
1998IntergalacticBeastie Boys[a]
1999What's My Age Again?Blink-182[a]
2000Last ResortPapa Roach[a]
2001In the EndLinkin Park[a]
2002Fell in Love with a GirlThe White Stripes[a]
2003Seven Nation ArmyThe White Stripes[a]
2004Float OnModest Mouse[a]
2005Boulevard of Broken DreamsGreen Day[a]
2006Dani CaliforniaRed Hot Chili Peppers[a]
2007The PretenderFoo Fighters[a]
2008You're Gonna Go Far, KidThe Offspring[a]
2009Use SomebodyKings of Leon[a]
2010LisztomaniaPhoenix[a]
2011Pumped Up KicksFoster the People[a]
2012We Are YoungFun.[a]
2013RadioactiveImagine Dragons[b]

Lack of female artist representation
Female artists

Over the years, bands like The Go-Gos and The Bangles made the list, but didn't make the top spot. Missing Persons, fronted by Dale Bozzio, topped the chart in 1981, the chart's second year.[a][b] However, since its inception, the number of female artists has decreased over the years,[8] with Sinéad O'Connor being the only woman, or female act, to top the countdown.[a][b][9] This is the same phenomena seen on the Billboard's Alternative Songs chart that went seventeen years without a woman topping the chart from 1996 to 2013.[10]

Over the years, KROQ's Weenie Roast has also faced allegations that it does not pay enough attention to gender equity.[11]

See also

Notes
  1. "List of KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns". RadioHitlist.
  2. "KROQ Top 106.7 Songs". Frank's Page.

References
  1. "KROQ 2010 Top 106.7 Most Played Songs Playlist". Darth Brett. YouTube.
  2. Apter, Jeff (2009). Gwen Stefani and No Doubt: Simple Kind of Life. Omnibus Press. p. 151. ISBN 9780857120489.
  3. Sullivan, Kate (November 2001). "KROQ An Oral History". Los Angeles Magazine. Emmis Communications: 90–. ISSN 1522-9149.
  4. "Complete list of countdowns from 1980 to present". Rocklists.com.
  5. "Beastie Boys #1 On The List Of 106.7 Biggest KROQ Bands". May 12, 2012.
  6. "KROQ Quarantine Countdown of the Top 106 (Point 7) Songs of All Time". KROQ.COM. April 23, 2020.
  7. "Top 80 Songs of 1980". KROQ. radio.com.
  8. Craughwell, Kathleen (January 21, 2002). "It's a Man's World at KROQ". LA Times.
  9. Steve Hawtin (April 6, 2020). "Song title 66 - Nothing Compares 2 U". Chart Entries. chart2000.com. KROQ 1 of 1990
  10. "Lorde First Woman in 17 Years to Top Alternative with 'Royals'". Billboard. August 16, 2013. Retrieved August 16, 2013.
  11. Boehm, Mike (June 17, 1999). "Weenie Roast: No Women Aloud?". Los Angeles Times.
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