# KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns

* Devo
* Missing Persons
* The Clash
* Sinéad O'Connor
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. Since 2009, the list has been compiled by fans from playlist data.
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, new wave and alternative rock genres. 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. 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.
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" and "Flashback 500" or "Firecracker 500" (presenting the 500 most popular songs). 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.

## Countdowns by year

KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns :
| Year | Number 1 Song | Artist |
| 1980 | Whip It | Devo |
| 1981 | Mental Hopscotch | Missing Persons |
| 1982 | Rock the Casbah | The Clash |
| 1983 | Is There Something I Should Know? | Duran Duran |
| 1984 | Relax | Frankie Goes to Hollywood |
| 1985 | Shake the Disease | Depeche Mode |
| 1986 | Suburbia | Pet Shop Boys |
| 1987 | Just Like Heaven | The Cure |
| 1988 | Route 66 | Depeche Mode |
| 1989 | Love Song | The Cure |
| 1990 | Nothing Compares 2 U | Sinéad O'Connor |
| 1991 | Losing My Religion | R.E.M. |
| 1992 | Under the Bridge | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 1993 | Plush | Stone Temple Pilots |
| 1994 | Longview | Green Day |
| 1995 | Lightning Crashes | Live |
| 1996 | Down | 311 |
| 1997 | Wrong Way | Sublime |
| 1998 | Intergalactic | Beastie Boys |
| 1999 | What's My Age Again? | Blink-182 |
| 2000 | Last Resort | Papa Roach |
| 2001 | In the End | Linkin Park |
| 2002 | Fell in Love with a Girl | The White Stripes |
| 2003 | Seven Nation Army | The White Stripes |
| 2004 | Float On | Modest Mouse |
| 2005 | Boulevard of Broken Dreams | Green Day |
| 2006 | Dani California | Red Hot Chili Peppers |
| 2007 | The Pretender | Foo Fighters |
| 2008 | You're Gonna Go Far, Kid | The Offspring |
| 2009 | Use Somebody | Kings of Leon |
| 2010 | Lisztomania | Phoenix |
| 2011 | Pumped Up Kicks | Foster the People |
| 2012 | We Are Young | Fun. |
| 2013 | Radioactive | Imagine Dragons |

## Lack of female artist representation

* The Go-Gos
* The Bangles
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. However, since its inception, the number of female artists has decreased over the years, with Sinéad O'Connor being the only woman, or female act, to top the countdown. 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.
Over the years, KROQ's Weenie Roast has also faced allegations that it does not pay enough attention to gender equity.