Top 106.7 KROQ Songs in the Year
1985
| Rank | Band | Song |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | Depeche Mode | Shake the Disease |
| 2 | Felony | Vigilante |
| 3 | Pet Shop Boys | Opportunities (Let's Make Lots of Money) |
| 4 | Cure | In Between Days |
| 5 | Tears for Fears | Shout |
| 6 | Dead or Alive | You Spin Me Round |
| 7 | A-ha | Take On Me |
| 8 | INXS | This Time |
| 9 | Tears for Fears | Everybody Wants to Rule the World |
| 10 | Oingo Boingo | Dead Man's Party |
| 11 | Simple Minds | Alive and Kicking |
| 12 | New Order | The Perfect Kiss |
| 13 | Adam Ant | Viva La Rock |
| 14 | Simple Minds | Don't You Forget About Me |
| 15 | Big Audio Dynamite | The Bottom Line |
| 16 | King | Love and Pride |
| 17 | OMD | So In Love |
| 18 | Time Zone | World Destruction |
| 19 | Depeche Mode | Flexible |
| 20 | Sting | If You Love Somebody Set Them Free |
| 21 | Tears for Fears | Head Over Heels |
| 22 | Mick Jagger and David Bowie | Dancing in the Streets |
| 23 | Jane Weidlin | Blue Kiss |
| 24 | Murray Head | One Night in Bangkok |
| 25 | Mick Jagger | Just Another Night |
| 26 | Midnight Oil | Kosciusko |
| 27 | Phil Collins | Sussudio |
| 28 | Philip Oakey and Giorgio Moroder | Good Bye Bad Times |
| 29 | Talking Heads | Stay Up Late |
| 30 | John Palumbo | Blowing Up Detroit |
| 31 | Artists United Against Apartheid | Sun City |
| 32 | Scritti Politti | The Perfect Way |
| 33 | ABC | Be Near Me |
| 34 | Echo and the Bunnymen | Bring on the Dancing Horses |
| 35 | UB40 and Chrissie Hynde | I Got You Babe |
| 36 | Arcadia | Election Day |
| 37 | Kate Bush | Running Up That Hill |
| 38 | Duran Duran | A View to a Kill |
| 39 | Oingo Boingo | Weird Science |
| 40 | Depeche Mode | It's Called a Heart |
| 41 | Talking Heads | Road to Nowhere |
| 42 | Power Station | Some Like it Hot |
| 43 | Dead or Alive | My Heart Goes Bang |
| 44 | Cure | Close to Me |
| 45 | New Order | Subculture |
| 46 | Danse Society | Say it Again |
| 47 | Oingo Boingo | Just Another Day |
| 48 | OMD | Secrets |
| 49 | Thompson Twins | King for a Day |
| 50 | Falco | Vienna Calling |
| 51 | Bryan Ferry | Slave to Love |
| 52 | King | Won't You Hold My Hand Now |
| 53 | INXS | What You Need |
| 54 | Shriekback | Nemesis |
| 55 | ABC | Vanity Kills |
| 56 | Alarm | Strength |
| 57 | Power Station | Communication |
| 58 | Thompson Twins | Lay Your Hands on Me |
| 59 | Dead or Alive | Lover Come Back to Me |
| 60 | Wang Chung | Fire in the Twilight |
| 61 | Eurythmics | Would I Lie to You |
| 62 | Howard Jones | Things Can Only Get Better |
| 63 | A-ha | The Sun Always Shines on TV |
| 64 | Armoury Show | Castles in Spain |
| 65 | Cult | She Sells Sanctuary |
| 66 | Power Station | Bang a Gong |
| 67 | Simple Minds | Sanctify Yourself |
| 68 | Pete Townshend | Face the Face |
| 69 | Thompson Twins | Don't Mess With Dr. Dream |
| 70 | Gino Vanelli | Black Cars |
| 71 | X | Burning House of Love |
| 72 | ABC | How to be a Millionaire |
| 73 | Fine Young Cannibals | Johnny Come Home |
| 74 | U2 | A Sort of Homecoming |
| 75 | Cars | Tonight She Comes |
| 76 | Danny Elfman | Gratitude |
| 77 | David Bowie | Loving the Alien |
| 78 | Howard Jones | Life in One Day |
| 79 | General Public | Never You Done That |
| 80 | Nina Hagen | Universal Radio |
| 81 | Dream Academy | Love Parade |
| 82 | Firm | Radioactive |
| 83 | Go West | Eye to Eye |
| 84 | Graham Parker | Break Them Down |
| 85 | Baltimora | Tarzan Boy |
| 86 | Cheech Marin | Born in East LA |
| 87 | Prince | Raspberry Beret |
| 88 | Lloyd Cole and the Commotions | Perfect Skin |
| 89 | Katrina and the Waves | Walking on Sunshine |
| 90 | Dead or Alive | In Too Deep |
| 91 | Prince | America |
| 92 | Sting | Love is the 7th Wave |
| 93 | Living Daylights | Colleen |
| 94 | Boomtown Rats | Dave |
| 95 | Eurythmics | Love You Like a Ball & Chain |
| 96 | Siouxsie and the Banshees | Cities in Dust |
| 97 | Mr. Mister | Broken Wings |
| 98 | Squeeze | Hits of the Year |
| 99 | Phil Collins | Don't Lose My Number |
| 100 | Flash in the Pan | Midnight Man |
| 101 | Nick Heyward | Warning Sign |
| 102 | David Bowie | This is not America |
| 103 | Paul Hardcastle | Nineteen |
| 104 | Elton John | An Act of War |
| 105 | Lone Justice | East of Eden |
| 106 | Living Daylights | Kat Box Beach |
| 106.7 | Video Kids | Woodpeckers in Space |