KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns#Countdowns by year
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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.{{listref|b}} Since 2009, the list has been compiled by fans from playlist data.{{cite web |title=KROQ 2010 Top 106.7 Most Played Songs Playlist |url=https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyyDoJkBXI8v4gQbK0z52M6N9TMMcI5fY |website=Darth Brett |publisher=YouTube}}
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.{{cite book |last1=Apter |first1=Jeff |title=Gwen Stefani and No Doubt: Simple Kind of Life |date=2009 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn= 9780857120489|page=151 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=X55AXwcfI88C&pg=PA151}} 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.{{cite journal |last1=Sullivan |first1=Kate |title=KROQ An Oral History |journal =Los Angeles Magazine|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=0l0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA90 |date=November 2001|publisher=Emmis Communications|pages=90–|issn=1522-9149}}
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"{{cite web |title=Beastie Boys #1 On The List Of 106.7 Biggest KROQ Bands |url=https://www.allaccess.com/net-news/archive/story/106500/beastie-boys-1-on-the-list-of-106-7-biggest-kroq-b |date=2012-05-12}} and "Flashback 500" or "Firecracker 500" (presenting the 500 most popular songs).{{cite web | url = http://www.rocklists.com/kroq.html | title = Complete list of countdowns from 1980 to present | work = Rocklists.com}} 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.{{cite web |title=KROQ Quarantine Countdown of the Top 106 (Point 7) Songs of All Time |url=https://kroq.radio.com/blogs/kroqcom/your-top-106-point-7-kroq-songs-of-all-time |website=KROQ.COM |date=2020-04-23}}
Countdowns by year
Lack of female artist representation
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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.{{listref|a}}{{listref|b}} However, since its inception, the number of female artists has decreased over the years,{{cite news |last1=Craughwell |first1=Kathleen |title=It's a Man's World at KROQ |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2002-jan-21-et-craughwell21-story.html |work=LA Times |date=2002-01-21}} with Sinéad O'Connor being the only woman, or female act, to top the countdown.{{listref|a}}{{listref|b}}{{cite web | url = https://www.chart2000.com/music/wejh6y.htm | title = Song title 66 - Nothing Compares 2 U | publisher = chart2000.com | author = Steve Hawtin | date = 2020-04-06 | work = Chart Entries | quote = KROQ 1 of 1990}} 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.{{cite web |title= Lorde First Woman in 17 Years to Top Alternative with 'Royals'|url=http://www.billboard.com/biz/articles/news/global/5646336/lorde-first-woman-in-17-years-to-top-alternative-with-royals|work=Billboard|access-date=2013-08-16|date= 2013-08-16}}
Over the years, KROQ's Weenie Roast has also faced allegations that it does not pay enough attention to gender equity.{{cite web |title= Weenie Roast: No Women Aloud? | url = https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1999-jun-17-ca-47405-story.html | first = Mike | last =Boehm | date= 1999-06-17 | work = Los Angeles Times}}
See also
Notes
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|id2=b |ref2={{cite web | url = http://www.frankspage.net/kroq.html | title = KROQ Top 106.7 Songs | work = Frank's Page}}
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References
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External links
- {{cite web | url = https://omny.fm/shows/of-all-time/kroq-s-top-106-7-of-1980 | type= podcast | date = 2020-03-16 | title = KROQ's Top 106.7 of 1980 | work = Of all Time| author = Micahel Marinello | author2 = Robert Mathers}}
- {{cite web | url = https://www.wddimpodcast.com/post/1983-kroq-top-106-7-songs-30-to-21 | title = 1983 KROQ Top 106.7 Songs 30 to 21 | date = 2020-03-13 | work = What Difference Does It Make The Podcast | type= podcast | author = Dave Sloan| author2 = Holly Cantos }}
- {{cite web | url = http://earlhoward.com/kroq.htm | title = KROQ Top 106.7 Countdowns of the 80s | work = earlhoward.com }}
- {{cite web | url = https://archive.org/details/cftp-kroq-1983-12-31 | title = Crap From The Past - Bonus: KROQ/Los Angeles, Top 106 Of 1983 Countdown | date = 1983-12-31 | via = archive.org}}