Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1990
| Rank | Band | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Sinead O’Connor | Nothing Compares to You |
| 2 | Depeche Mode | Enjoy the Silence |
| 3 | Jane’s Addiction | Been Caught Stealing |
| 4 | Cure | Pictures of You |
| 5 | Stone Roses | Fools Gold |
| 6 | Faith No More | Epic (What is It) |
| 7 | Trash Can Sinatras | Only Tongue Can Tell |
| 8 | Social Distortion | Ball and Chain |
| 9 | Chris Isaak | Wicked Game |
| 10 | Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mine |
| 11 | Iggy Pop | Candy |
| 12 | Depeche Mode | World in My Eyes |
| 13 | Depeche Mode | Policy of Truth |
| 14 | Charlatans UK | The Only One I Know |
| 15 | Concrete Blonde | Joey |
| 16 | INXS | Suicide Blonde |
| 17 | Lightning Seeds | Pure |
| 18 | Nine Inch Nails | Head Like a Hole |
| 19 | Billy Idol | Cradle of Love |
| 20 | Sundays | Here’s Where the Story Ends |
| 21 | Jesus and Mary Chain | Head On |
| 22 | UB40 | The Way You Do the Things You Do |
| 23 | Peter Murphy | Cuts You Up |
| 24 | Soup Dragons | I’m Free |
| 25 | Gene Loves Jezebel | Jealous |
| 26 | Primal Scream | Loaded |
| 27 | Sinead O’Connor | The Emperors New Clothes |
| 28 | Cure | Never Enough |
| 29 | U2 | Night and Day |
| 30 | Midnight Oil | King of the Mountain |
| 31 | Michael Penn | This and That |
| 32 | House of Love | I Don’t Know Why I Love You |
| 33 | Soho | Hippy Chick |
| 34 | Living Colour | Type |
| 35 | They Might Be Giants | Birdhouse in Your Soul |
| 36 | Boom Crash Opera | Onion Skin |
| 37 | Erasure | Star |
| 38 | Jane’s Addiction | Stop |
| 39 | B-52's | Roam |
| 40 | Social Distortion | Story of My Life |
| 41 | Morrissey | Ouija Board, Ouija Board |
| 42 | Darling Buds | Crystal Clear |
| 43 | Billy Idol | Prodigal Blues |
| 44 | Adam Ant | Room at the Top |
| 45 | Concrete Blonde | Tomorrow Wendy |
| 46 | Psychedelic Furs | House |
| 47 | UB40 | Here I Am (Come and Take Me) |
| 48 | DNA featuring Suzanne Vega | Tom’s Diner |
| 49 | Oingo Boingo | Skin |
| 50 | Cure | Hello I Love You |
| 51 | Inspiral Carpets | This is How It Feels |
| 52 | Smithereens | Yesterday Girl |
| 53 | Lightning Seeds | All I Want |
| 54 | Midnight Oil | Forgotten Years |
| 55 | Sundays | Can’t Be Sure |
| 56 | Sisters of Mercy | More |
| 57 | Ocean Blue | Drifting Falling |
| 58 | Happy Mondays | Step On |
| 59 | Michael Penn | Brave New World |
| 60 | Public Image Limited | Don’t Ask Me |
| 61 | Pretenders | Never Do That |
| 62 | Pixies | Dig for Fire |
| 63 | Electronic | Getting Away With It |
| 64 | INXS | Bitter Tears |
| 65 | Lenny Kravitz | I Built This Garden For Us |
| 66 | Beloved | Hello |
| 67 | U2 | Unchained Melody |
| 68 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Show Me Your Soul |
| 69 | Church | Metropolis |
| 70 | Aztec Camera | Good Morning Britain |
| 71 | Candy Flip | Strawberry Fields Forever |
| 72 | Trash Can Sinatras | Obscurity Knocks |
| 73 | Cure | Harold and Joe |
| 74 | Faith No More | Falling to Pieces |
| 75 | Duran Duran | Serious |
| 76 | Jesus Jones | Move Mountains |
| 77 | Mission UK | Butterfly on a Wheel |
| 78 | Morrissey | November Spawned a Monster |
| 79 | Concrete Blonde | Everybody Knows |
| 80 | Too Much Joy | That’s a Lie |
| 81 | Lloyd Cole | Downtown |
| 82 | Happy Mondays | Kinky Afro |
| 83 | Eddy Grant | Gimme Hope Joanna |
| 84 | David J | I’ll Be Your Chauffeur |
| 85 | 808 State | Cubic |
| 86 | Railway Children | Every Beat of the Heart |
| 87 | House of Love | Beatles and Stones |
| 88 | World Party | Way Down Now |
| 89 | Human League | Heart Like a Wheel |
| 90 | Stone Roses | One Love |
| 91 | Depeche Mode | Halo |
| 92 | Posies | Golden Blunders |
| 93 | Creatures | Fury Eyes |
| 94 | EMF | Unbelievable |
| 95 | Pet Shop Boys | So Hard |
| 96 | Hunters and Collectors | When the River Runs Dry |
| 97 | Charlatans UK | Then |
| 98 | Duran Duran | Violence of Summer |
| 99 | INXS | Disappear |
| 100 | Heart Throbs | Dreamtime |
| 101 | New Order | World in Motion |
| 102 | Sonic Youth | Kool Thing |
| 103 | Real Life | God Tonight |
| 104 | Ultra Vivid Scene | Special One |
| 105 | Replacements | Someone Take the Wheel |
| 106 | Cocteau Twins | Iceblink Luck |
| 106.7 | Lewisidal Tendencies | Silent Night |