Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1989
| Rank | Band | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Cure | Love Song |
| 2 | B-52's | Love Shack |
| 3 | U2 | Everlasting Love |
| 4 | Depeche Mode | Personal Jesus |
| 5 | Tears for Fears | Sowing the Seeds of Love |
| 6 | Fine Young Cannibals | Good Thing |
| 7 | Love and Rockets | So Alive |
| 8 | Cult | Fire Woman |
| 9 | R.E.M. | Stand |
| 10 | Pixies | Here Comes Your Man |
| 11 | Dramarama | Last Cigarette |
| 12 | Ian McCulloch | Proud to Fall |
| 13 | New Order | Round and Round |
| 14 | XTC | Mayor of Simpleton |
| 15 | Ocean Blue | Between Something and Nothing |
| 16 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Higher Ground |
| 17 | Elvis Costello | Veronica |
| 18 | Replacements | I’ll Be You |
| 19 | Cure | Fascination Street |
| 20 | Martin L Gore | Compulsion |
| 21 | Mary’s Danish | Don’t Crash the Car Tonight |
| 22 | Morrissey | Last of the International Playboys |
| 23 | Max Q | Way of the World |
| 24 | B-52's | Channel Z |
| 25 | The The | Kingdom of Rain |
| 26 | Public Image Limited | Disappointed |
| 27 | Oingo Boingo | Flesh and Blood |
| 28 | Michael Penn | No Myth |
| 29 | Erasure | Stop |
| 30 | Smithereens | A Girl Like You |
| 31 | Fine Young Cannibals | She Drives Me Crazy |
| 32 | R.E.M. | Pop Song 89 |
| 33 | Hoodoo Gurus | Come Anytime |
| 34 | U2 | Dancing Barefoot |
| 35 | Howard Jones | Everlasting Love |
| 36 | Big Audio Dynamite | Contact |
| 37 | Camper Van Beethoven | Pictures of Matchstick Man |
| 38 | Morrissey | Interesting Drug |
| 39 | Call | Let the Day Begin |
| 40 | Cult | Edie (Ciao Baby) |
| 41 | Camouflage | Love is a Shield |
| 42 | Ziggy Marley | Look Who’s Dancing |
| 43 | Living Colour | Cult of Personality |
| 44 | Deborah Harry | I Want That Man |
| 45 | Concrete Blonde | God is a Bullet |
| 46 | XTC | Dear God |
| 47 | Mighty Lemon Drops | Into the Heart of Love |
| 48 | Stan Ridgeway | Southbound |
| 49 | Cure | Lullaby |
| 50 | Adrian Belew | Oh Daddy |
| 51 | Psychedelic Furs | House |
| 52 | Primitives | Sick of It |
| 53 | U2 | God Part II |
| 54 | Love and Rockets | No Big Deal |
| 55 | Information Society | Lay All Your Love On Me |
| 56 | 10,000 Maniacs | Eat For Two |
| 57 | New Order | Vanishing Point |
| 58 | Jane’s Addiction | Mountain Song |
| 59 | Kate Bush | Love and Anger |
| 60 | U2 | Angel of Harlem |
| 61 | Lenny Kravitz | Let Love Rule |
| 62 | Wire | Eardrum Buzz |
| 63 | Jesus and Mary Chain | Blues from a Gun |
| 64 | UB40 | Where Did I Go Wrong |
| 65 | Cult | Sun King |
| 66 | Transvision Vamp | Baby I Don’t Care |
| 67 | XTC | King for a Day |
| 68 | B-52's | Roam |
| 69 | Waterboys | Fisherman's Blues |
| 70 | Thompson Twins | Bombers in the Sky |
| 71 | Duran Duran | Do You Believe in Shame |
| 72 | Howard Jones | The Prisoner |
| 73 | Eurythmics | Don’t Ask Me Why |
| 74 | Electronic | Getting Away With It |
| 75 | Sugarcubes | Regina |
| 76 | Stone Roses | I Wanna Be Adored |
| 77 | Fuzzbox | Self |
| 78 | Hoodoo Gurus | Another World |
| 79 | Voice of the Beehive | Beat of Love |
| 80 | Lightning Seeds | Pure |
| 81 | Replacements | Achin’ To Be |
| 82 | B-52's | Cosmic Thing |
| 83 | Violent Femmes | Nightmares |
| 84 | Erasure | Brother and Sister |
| 85 | Pogues | Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah Yeah |
| 86 | David Byrne | Dirty Old Town |
| 87 | Creatures | Standing There |
| 88 | Simple Minds | Take a Step Back |
| 89 | Ziggy Marley | Who Will Be There |
| 90 | Proclaimers | I’m On My Way |
| 91 | Eurythmics | Revival |
| 92 | Robyn Hitchcock | Madonna of the Wasps |
| 93 | Peter Murphy | Strange Kind of Love |
| 94 | Lou Reed | Dirty Blvd |
| 95 | Wonderstuff | Don’t Let Me Down Gently |
| 96 | Fine Young Cannibals | Don’t Look Back |
| 97 | Public Image Limited | Warrior |
| 98 | New Order | Run 2 |
| 99 | Elvis Costello | This Town |
| 100 | Tears for Fears | Year of the Knife |
| 101 | Squeeze | If it’s Love |
| 102 | King Swamp | Is This Love |
| 103 | Tin Machine | Under the God |
| 104 | Stone Roses | She Bangs the Drums |
| 105 | Concrete Blonde | Happy Birthday |
| 106 | Flesh for Lulu | Plastic Fantastic |
| 106.7 | Beastie Boys | Hey Ladies |