Top Songs of 1991
Rank▼ All Time Rank▼ Artist▼ Song▼ Genres▼
1
2
 Nirvana Smells Like Teen Spirit Grunge
2
39
 R.E.M. Losing My Religion Jangle Pop
3
63
 Massive Attack Unfinished Sympathy Trip Hop
4
104
 U2 One Pop Rock
5
307
 Metallica Enter Sandman Heavy Metal
6
354
 Red Hot Chili Peppers Under the Bridge Alternative Rock
7
478
 Nirvana Come As You Are Grunge
8
570
 Pearl Jam Jeremy Grunge
9
682
 Pearl Jam Alive Grunge
10
707
 Nirvana Lithium Grunge
11
750
 Pavement Summer Babe Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
12
793
 Red Hot Chili Peppers Give It Away Funk Rock, Rap Rock
13
835
 Geto Boys Mind Playing Tricks on Me Hardcore Hip Hop, Southern Hip Hop
14
856
 My Bloody Valentine Only Shallow Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Shoegaze
15
958
 Naughty by Nature O.P.P. East Coast Hip Hop
16
963
 Bob Dylan Blind Willie McTell Singer/Songwriter
17
1113
 Guns N' Roses November Rain Hard Rock
18
1365
 A Tribe Called Quest Scenario East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
19
1447
 Primal Scream Higher Than the Sun Alternative Dance, Ambient House, Downtempo, Neo-Psychedelia
20
1519
 Cypress Hill How I Could Just Kill a Man Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
21
1941
 Moby Go (Woodtick Mix) Progressive House, Techno
22
2042
 U2 Mysterious Ways Alternative Dance, Pop Rock
23
2045
 Nirvana In Bloom Grunge
24
2150
 Bonnie Raitt I Can't Make You Love Me Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock
25
2156
 The Future Sound of London Papua New Guinea Progressive Breaks
26
2208
 Metallica Nothing Else Matters Hard Rock
27
2222
 Black Sheep The Choice Is Yours (Revisited) Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
28
2301
 Ministry Jesus Built My Hotrod Industrial Metal
29
2307
 A Tribe Called Quest Check the Rhime Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
30
2498
 Slint Good Morning, Captain Post-Hardcore, Post-Rock
31
2531
 Nirvana Drain You Grunge
32
2633
 R.E.M. Country Feedback Alt-Country, Alternative Rock, Folk Rock
33
2672
 De La Soul feat. Q-Tip A Roller Skating Jam Named 'Saturdays' East Coast Hip Hop
34
2789
 P.M. Dawn Set Adrift on Memory Bliss Pop Rap
35
2888
 Crystal Waters Gypsy Woman (She's Homeless) Garage House
36
2920
 Michael Jackson Black or White New Jack Swing, Pop Rock
37
2970
 Matthew Sweet Girlfriend Alternative Rock, Power Pop, Singer/Songwriter
38
3000
 Primal Scream Movin' On Up Alternative Dance, Neo-Psychedelia
39
3111
 My Bloody Valentine To Here Knows When Dream Pop, Shoegaze
40
3153
 Tom Cochrane Life Is a Highway Country Rock, Pop Rock
41
3179
 Lenny Kravitz It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over Funk, Pop Soul
42
3194
 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince Summertime East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
43
3286
 Pearl Jam Black Grunge
44
3342
 R.E.M. Shiny Happy People Jangle Pop
45
3413
 Richard Thompson 1952 Vincent Black Lightning Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
46
3456
 Soundgarden Jesus Christ Pose Alternative Metal, Grunge
47
3498
 Spin Doctors Two Princes Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
48
3499
 Prince and The New Power Generation Cream Contemporary R&B, Funk, Pop Rock
49
3526
 Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Learning to Fly Heartland Rock, Pop Rock
50
3546
 The KLF 3 A.M. Eternal (Live at the S.S.L.) House
51
3551
 James Sit Down Baggy / Madchester, Indie Pop
52
3563
 U2 The Fly Alternative Dance, Pop Rock
53
3583
 Yothu Yindi Treaty Tribal House
54
3621
 Massive Attack Safe from Harm Trip Hop
55
3658
 My Bloody Valentine When You Sleep Dream Pop, Noise Pop, Shoegaze
56
3678
 Temple of the Dog Hunger Strike Grunge
57
3755
 Teenage Fanclub The Concept Alternative Rock, Power Pop
58
3763
 Marc Cohn Walking in Memphis Adult Contemporary, Blue Eyed Soul, Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
59
3992
 PJ Harvey Dress Alternative Rock, Singer/Songwriter
60
3998
 Crowded House Weather with You Pop Rock
61
4024
 Teenage Fanclub Star Sign Alternative Rock, Power Pop
62
4046
 Anthrax feat. Chuck D. Bring the Noise Rap Metal, Thrash Metal
63
4078
 Blur There's No Other Way Baggy / Madchester
64
4087
 Tori Amos Silent All These Years Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
65
4093
 Michael Jackson Remember the Time New Jack Swing, Pop
66
4104
 Prince and The New Power Generation Gett Off Contemporary R&B, Funk
67
4329
 Human Resource Dominator Hardcore [EDM], Techno, UK Hard House
68
4426
 The KLF Justified and Ancient Dance-Pop
69
4513
 Aphex Twin Aboriginal Mix / Digeridoo Acid Techno
70
4524
 Billy Bragg Sexuality Jangle Pop, Singer/Songwriter
71
4549
 Nirvana Polly Acoustic Rock, Alternative Rock
72
4554
 Right Said Fred I'm Too Sexy Dance-Pop, Novelty
73
4665
 Bonnie Raitt Something to Talk About Adult Contemporary, Country Pop, Pop Rock
74
4711
 De La Soul Ring Ring Ring (Ha Ha Hey) East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap, Pop Rap
75
4729
 Red Hot Chili Peppers Soul to Squeeze Acoustic Rock, Alternative Rock
76
4759
 Bryan Adams (Everything I Do) I Do It for You Adult Contemporary, Soft Rock
77
4813
 Alain Bashung Madame Rêve Baroque Pop, Chanson, French Pop
78
4928
 The Source feat. Candi Staton You Got the Love Breakbeat, House, Pop Soul
79
5174
 La Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio Pachuco Latin Alternative, Third Wave Ska
80
5196
 Lenny Kravitz Always on the Run Funk Rock
81
5215
 Metallica The Unforgiven Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
82
5440
 William Sheller Un homme heureux Chanson
83
5445
 Guns N' Roses Estranged Hard Rock
84
5463
 Alain Bashung Osez Josephine Chanson, French Pop, Pop Rock
85
5499
 Mariah Carey Emotions Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
86
5509
 Pearl Jam Even Flow Grunge
87
5524
 Sebadoh The Freed Pig Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
88
5558
 Shanice I Love Your Smile Contemporary R&B, Pop
89
5564
 Prince & The New Power Generation Diamonds and Pearls Pop Soul
90
5565
 Hole Teenage Whore Grunge, Riot Grrrl
91
5602
 The Prodigy Charly Breakbeat Hardcore
92
5647
 U2 Even Better Than the Real Thing Alternative Dance
93
5660
 Pixies Planet of Sound Indie Rock
94
5782
 Guns N' Roses You Could Be Mine Film Soundtrack, Hard Rock
95
5914
 Red Hot Chili Peppers Suck My Kiss Funk Rock, Rap Rock
96
5934
 Nirvana Territorial Pissings Grunge, Punk Rock
97
5969
 Ice Cube No Vaseline Boom Bap, Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
98
6013
 Guns N' Roses Don't Cry Hard Rock, Pop Rock
99
6014
 Public Enemy Shut 'Em Down Conscious Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
100
6026
 Electronic Get the Message Alternative Dance, Synthpop
101
6114
 AFX Analogue Bubblebath I Acid Techno, Ambient Techno
102
6204
 Pizzicato Five Twiggy Twiggy Shibuya-kei, Yé-yé
103
6216
 Pixies Alec Eiffel Indie Rock
104
6262
 Manic Street Preachers You Love Us Alternative Rock, Hard Rock, Punk Rock
105
6322
 Bob Dylan She's Your Lover Now Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
106
6363
 Chapterhouse Pearl Dream Pop, Shoegaze
107
6365
 Paul Kelly [Australia] From Little Things Big Things Grow Folk Rock
108
6472
 Color Me Badd I Wanna Sex You Up Boy Band, New Jack Swing
109
6522
 Young Disciples Apparently Nothin' Acid Jazz
110
6580
 Bizarre Inc. Playing with Knives Breakbeat Hardcore
111
6630
 CeCe Peniston Finally Dance-Pop, Garage House
112
6728
 Metallica Sad But True Heavy Metal
113
6771
 Pulp My Legendary Girlfriend Alternative Dance, Indie Pop
114
6803
 Crowded House Fall at Your Feet Pop Rock
115
6880
 Nirvana On a Plain Grunge
116
6978
 Public Enemy Can't Truss It East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
117
7283
 Massive Attack Hymn of the Big Wheel Trip Hop
118
7387
 My Bloody Valentine Sometimes Dream Pop, Shoegaze
119
7389
 Kirsty MacColl Walking Down Madison Alternative Dance
120
7870
 U2 Zoo Station Alternative Dance, Pop Rock
121
7882
 Public Enemy By the Time I Get to Arizona Conscious Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
122
7954
 My Bloody Valentine Swallow Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia, Shoegaze
123
7958
 Taraf de Haidouks Balada conducatorolui L?ut?reasc?
124
8000
 Julian Cope Safesurfer Neo-Psychedelia
125
8159
 Queen The Show Must Go On Hard Rock, Symphonic Rock
126
8277
 Red Hot Chili Peppers Breaking the Girl Alternative Rock
127
8362
 My Bloody Valentine I Only Said Noise Pop, Shoegaze
128
8367
 Catherine Wheel Black Metallic Shoegaze
129
8412
 M People How Can I Love You More? House, Pop Soul
130
8529
 U2 Until the End of the World Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
131
8629
 Soundgarden Outshined Alternative Metal, Grunge
132
8636
 Nirvana Aneurysm Grunge
133
8686
 Mercury Rev Car Wash Hair Neo-Psychedelia
134
8687
 Paula Abdul Rush, Rush Pop
135
8693
 The Magnetic Fields 100,000 Fireflies Twee Pop
136
8727
 Second Phase Mentasm Hardcore [EDM], Techno
137
8741
 Ozzy Osbourne No More Tears Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
138
8782
 La Maldita Vecindad y Los Hijos del Quinto Patio Kumbala Danzón, Latin Alternative
139
8818
 Siouxsie and The Banshees Kiss Them for Me Alternative Dance, Art Pop
140
9007
 Spin Doctors Little Miss Can't Be Wrong Funk Rock, Pop Rock
141
9030
 Crowded House Four Seasons in One Day Soft Rock
142
9093
 Rheostatics Record Body Count Indie Rock
143
9176
 fIREHOSE Flyin' the Flannel Alternative Rock
144
9262
 MC Solaar Caroline Boom Bap, French Hip Hop
145
9331
 3rd Bass Pop Goes the Weasel East Coast Hip Hop
146
9358
 2Pac Brenda's Got a Baby Conscious Hip Hop, West Coast Hip Hop
147
9450
 Luis Alberto Spinetta Seguir viviendo sin tu amor New Wave, Pop Rock
148
9687
 Oumou Sangare Moussolou Wassoulou
149
9778
 Big Audio Dynamite II Rush Alternative Dance
150
9805
 Smashing Pumpkins Rhinoceros Alternative Rock
151
9887
 The Beautiful South Old Red Eyes Is Back Indie Pop, Sophisti-Pop
152
9888
 Tim Dog Fuck Compton Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
153
9926
 Liquid Sweet Harmony Breakbeat Hardcore
154
9986
 Michael Jackson Will You Be There Pop Soul

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
The Field Mice Missing the Moon Alternative Dance, Dream Pop, Synthpop
Nirvana Something in the Way Acoustic Rock, Alternative Rock
Jane Siberry with k.d. lang Calling All Angels Ambient Pop, Art Pop
The Wonder Stuff The Size of a Cow Indie Pop, Power Pop
T99 Anasthasia Breakbeat Hardcore, Techno
Stephan Eicher Déjeuner en paix Pop Rock
Main Source feat. Nas, Joe Fatal, and Akinyele Live at the Barbeque Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
Dire Straits Calling Elvis Pop Rock, Roots Rock
Pet Shop Boys Where the Streets Have No Name Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Mr. Big To Be With You Acoustic Rock, Pop Rock
Teenage Fanclub What You Do to Me Alternative Rock, Power Pop
The Prodigy Everybody in the Place Breakbeat Hardcore
Richard Thompson I Feel So Good Folk Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Guns N' Roses Live and Let Die Hard Rock
Bob Dylan Series of Dreams Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Roger McGuinn King of the Hill Jangle Pop
Sounds of Blackness Optimistic Contemporary R&B
Fabiana Cantilo Mi enfermedad Pop Rock
Jean Leloup 1990 French Pop, Power Pop
Joe Meek feat. The Blue Men I Hear a New World Space Age Pop
Soundgarden Rusty Cage Alternative Metal, Grunge
Michael Jackson Jam Dance-Pop, New Jack Swing
Noir Désir En route pour la joie Alternative Rock
Mercury Rev Chasing a Bee Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia, Noise Rock
Primus Jerry Was a Race Car Driver Alternative Rock, Funk Metal
A Tribe Called Quest Jazz (We've Got) East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
N.W.A Alwayz Into Somethin' G-Funk, Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
Genesis I Can't Dance Pop Rock
Teenage Fanclub God Knows It's True Alternative Rock, Power Pop
Queen These Are the Days of Our Lives Soft Rock
Electronic Feel Every Beat Alternative Dance, Baggy / Madchester
Orbital Satan Techno
Sepultura Dead Embryonic Cells Thrash Metal
Nice & Smooth Hip Hop Junkies East Coast Hip Hop
Bassheads Is There Anybody Out There? Acid House
Sting All This Time Pop Rock
Sebadoh Gimme Indie Rock Indie Rock
U2 Love Is Blindness Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
A Tribe Called Quest Excursions Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Negativland I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For Musical Parody, Plunderphonics
Jean-Louis Murat Le col de la Croix-Morand Chanson, French Pop
Ice-T O.G. Original Gangster Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
Morrissey Pregnant for the Last Time Indie Pop
Mayhem Freezing Moon Black Metal
Naughty by Nature Uptown Anthem Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
Throwing Muses Not Too Soon Indie Rock
World of Twist Sons of the Stage Baggy / Madchester, Neo-Psychedelia
Pet Shop Boys DJ Culture Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Metallica Wherever I May Roam Heavy Metal
Ice-T New Jack Hustler (Nino's Theme) Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
Saint Etienne Nothing Can Stop Us Alternative Dance, Dance-Pop
Cypress Hill Hand on the Pump Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers Into the Great Wide Open Heartland Rock
Naughty by Nature Everything's Gonna Be Alright (Ghetto Bastard) Conscious Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop
The Orb Perpetual Dawn Ambient House, Dub
A House Endless Art Art Rock, Indie Rock, Spoken Word
Spiritualized Feel So Sad Neo-Psychedelia, Space Rock
React 2 Rhythm Intoxication House
Del tha Funkeé Homosapien Mistadobalina Boom Bap, West Coast Hip Hop
P.M. Dawn Paper Doll Downtempo, East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
Headless Chickens Cruise Control Dance-Pop
Garland Jeffreys Hail, Hail Rock 'n' Roll Pop Rock
R.E.M. Near Wild Heaven Jangle Pop
Urban Soul Alright Garage House
Slint Breadcrumb Trail Math Rock, Post-Hardcore
Black Sheep Flavor of the Month East Coast Hip Hop
Simple Minds Let There Be Love Pop Rock
Talk Talk Ascension Day Art Rock, Post-Rock
Ray Heredia Alegría de vivir Flamenco Nuevo
Manic Street Preachers Motown Junk Punk Rock
The KLF Last Train to Transcentral (Live from the Lost Continent) Acid Trance
The Rolling Stones Highwire Hard Rock, Rock & Roll
Ice Cube Steady Mobbin' Boom Bap, Gangsta Rap, West Coast Hip Hop
Gang Starr Check the Technique East Coast Hip Hop, Jazz Rap
Shabba Ranks feat. Maxi Priest Housecall Contemporary R&B
Matthew Sweet Winona Alt-Country, Singer/Songwriter
Smashing Pumpkins Siva Alternative Rock
Acen Close Your Eyes Breakbeat Hardcore
Simply Red Stars Blue Eyed Soul, Pop Soul
U2 Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Carter the Unstoppable Sex Machine After the Watershed Alternative Dance
Enya Caribbean Blue Celtic New Age
Public Enemy Nighttrain Conscious Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop, Political Hip Hop
Orbital Belfast Techno
MC Breed Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin' G-Funk
Elvis Costello The Other Side of Summer Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Ozzy Osbourne Mama, I'm Coming Home Hard Rock, Heavy Metal
Genaside II Narra Mine Breakbeat Hardcore
Nirvana Breed Grunge, Punk Rock
Lennie De Ice We Are I.E. Breakbeat Hardcore
Altern 8 Infiltrate 202 Breakbeat Hardcore
Teenage Fanclub Alcoholiday Jangle Pop, Power Pop
Les Negresses Vertes Sous le soleil de Bodéga Chanson alternative
Blur Sing Art Rock, Shoegaze
Ratcat Don't Go Now Indie Pop, Power Pop
Eg & Alice Indian Sophisti-Pop
The Sugarcubes Hit Alternative Dance
Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble Little Wing Electric Texas Blues
Vanessa Williams Save the Best for Last Adult Contemporary
Paul Weller Into Tomorrow Alternative Rock, Blue Eyed Soul, Pop Rock, Sunshine Pop
Primal Scream Don't Fight It, Feel It Acid House, Alternative Dance
Material Issue Valerie Loves Me Power Pop
Pixies U-Mass Indie Rock
Bad Religion Atomic Garden Melodic Hardcore, Skate Punk
Elvis Costello So Like Candy Pop Rock
Toad the Wet Sprocket All I Want Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Marc Almond Jacky Dance-Pop, Synthpop
Shades of Rhythm The Sound of Eden Breakbeat Hardcore, House
Helmet Unsung Alternative Metal
Red Hot Chili Peppers Blood Sugar Sex Magik Alternative Rock, Funk Rock
Queen Innuendo Hard Rock, Progressive Rock, Rock Opera