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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994

The year-end countdown for 1994 from Q101 in Chicago, IL ranks 101 songs, with “Closer” by Nine Inch Nails at number one. The list features 58 different artists; Pearl Jam has the most entries with six songs.

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1 Closer Nine Inch Nails 109 #1
2 Black Hole Sun Soundgarden 154 #1
3 Self-Esteem The Offspring 110 #1
4 I Alone Live 97 #4
5 Interstate Love Song Stone Temple Pilots 135 #3
6 Seether Veruca Salt 52 #3
7 Basket Case Green Day 120 #1
8 All Apologies Nirvana 145 #2
9 Loser Beck 125 #2
10 Mr. Jones Counting Crows 96 #4
11 Yellow Ledbetter Pearl Jam 117 #2
12 Zombie The Cranberries 97 #1
13 Come Out and Play The Offspring 97 #2
14 Far Behind Candlebox 58 #7
15 All I Wanna Do Sheryl Crow 45 #6
16 Longview Green Day 113 #1
17 Landslide The Smashing Pumpkins 40 #15
18 What's The Frequency Kenneth? R.E.M. 62 #2
19 Supernova Liz Phair 41 #19
20 About A Girl Nirvana 75 #7
21 Buddy Holly Weezer 97 #2
22 Feel The Pain Dinosaur Jr. 42 #16
23 Elderly Woman Behind the Counter in a Small Town Pearl Jam 71 #4
24 Laid James 72 #1
25 Doll Parts Hole 57 #2
26 Fell On Black Days Soundgarden 104 #11
27 Round Here Counting Crows 53 #20
28 When I Come Around Green Day 119 #2
29 No Excuses Alice In Chains 72 #3
30 Fade Into You Mazzy Star 65 #4
31 21st Century Digital Boy Bad Religion 32 #26
32 Big Empty Stone Temple Pilots 97 #10
33 Stay (I Missed You) Lisa Loeb 22 #22
34 Sabotage Beastie Boys 111 #3
35 Fall Down Toad The Wet Sprocket 24 #4
36 Rape Me Nirvana 49 #18
37 Undone (The Sweater Song) Weezer 71 #3
38 Bang And Blame R.E.M. 25 #16
39 Dissident Pearl Jam 48 #21
40 Cornflake Girl Tori Amos 65 #16
41 Welcome to Paradise Green Day 74 #6
42 Supersonic Oasis 44 #30
43 You Candlebox 35 #35
44 A Murder of One Counting Crows 21 #44
45 Spoonman Soundgarden 101 #14
46 Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm Crash Test Dummies 44 #6
47 Shine Collective Soul 85 #24
48 Big Time Sensuality Björk 28 #48
49 Creep Stone Temple Pilots 77 #44
50 Your Favorite Thing Sugar 19 #28
51 All I Want Is You U2 46 #6
52 Backwater Meat Puppets 63 #7
53 The More You Ignore Me, The Closer I Get Morrissey 27 #3
54 Gotta Get Away The Offspring 63 #18
55 Get Off This Cracker 24 #22
56 Dumb Nirvana 73 #17
57 Selling The Drama Live 54 #1
58 Possession Sarah McLachlan 40 #24
59 Girl, You'll Be A Woman Soon Urge Overkill 32 #14
60 Not For You Pearl Jam 32 #24
61 Einstein On The Beach (For An Eggman) Counting Crows 25 #11
62 Sure Shot Beastie Boys 47 #12
63 Crush With Eyeliner R.E.M. 22 #50
64 I Stay Away Alice In Chains 47 #22
65 Sweet Jane Cowboy Junkies 57 #4
66 Infected Bad Religion 28 #39
67 Girls And Boys Blur 42 #16
68 My Wave Soundgarden 36 #38
69 Miss World Hole 25 #17
70 Until I Fall Away Gin Blossoms 14 #45
71 Sometimes Always The Jesus and Mary Chain 24 #31
72 Night In My Veins The Pretenders 13 #28
73 Lucas With The Lid Off Lucas 4 #72
74 Mayonnaise The Smashing Pumpkins 30 #74
75 Liar Rollins Band 15 #60
76 Rain King Counting Crows 30 #12
77 You Suck Murmurs 4 #52
78 Verse Chorus Verse Nirvana 25 #33
79 Always Erasure 8 #50
80 Bull In The Heather Sonic Youth 19 #58
81 Burn Nine Inch Nails 3 #81
82 Push Th' Little Daisies Ween 15 #10
83 Better Man Pearl Jam 148 #2
84 Millennium Killing Joke 3 #84
85 God Tori Amos 40 #30
86 Strange Currencies R.E.M. 20 #31
87 Got Me Wrong Alice In Chains 16 #36
88 Cut Your Hair Pavement 47 #34
89 Good Enough Sarah McLachlan 12 #52
90 Freedom Rage Against the Machine 11 #70
91 Burn The Cure 5 #57
92 Eurotrash Girl Cracker 22 #46
93 Hobo Humpin' Slobo Babe Whale 6 #66
94 Rocket The Smashing Pumpkins 26 #94
95 Something's Always Wrong Toad The Wet Sprocket 27 #38
96 March of the Pigs Nine Inch Nails 19 #22
97 Leaving Las Vegas Sheryl Crow 19 #36
98 Glorified G Pearl Jam 40 #30
99 Gentlemen Afghan Whigs 24 #75
100 Salvation Rancid 13 #54
101 She Don't Use Jelly The Flaming Lips 47 #62

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Q101 Top 101 Songs of 1994 was broadcast by Q101 (Chicago, IL). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

Contributed by Kevin Biebel, Dave Ebzky, Tim Wojtowicz. Thank you!

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