| 1 | Sinead O'Connor | Nothing Compares 2 U | I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990) | |
| 2 | Depeche Mode | Enjoy the Silence | Violator (1990) | |
| 3 | Jane's Addiction | Been Caught Stealing | Ritual de lo Habitual (1990) | |
| 4 | The Cure | Pictures of You | Disintegration (1989) | |
| 5 | The Stone Roses | Fools Gold | Non-album Single (1989) | |
| 6 | Faith No More | Epic | The Real Thing (1989) | |
| 7 | Trashcan Sinatras | Only Tongue Can Tell | Cake (1990) | |
| 8 | Social Distortion | Ball and Chain | Social Distortion (1990) | |
| 9 | Chris Isaak | Wicked Game | Heart Shaped World (1989) | |
| 10 | Midnight Oil | Blue Sky Mine | Blue Sky Mining (1990) | |
| 11 | Iggy Pop | Candy | Brick by Brick (1990) | |
| 12 | Depeche Mode | World in My Eyes | Violator (1990) | |
| 13 | Depeche Mode | Policy of Truth | Violator (1990) | |
| 14 | The Charlatans | The Only One I Know | Some Friendly (1990) | |
| 15 | Concrete Blonde | Joey | Bloodletting (1990) | |
| 16 | INXS | Suicide Blonde | X (1990) | |
| 17 | The Lightning Seeds | Pure | Cloudcuckooland (1990) | |
| 18 | Nine Inch Nails | Head Like a Hole | Pretty Hate Machine (1989) | |
| 19 | Billy Idol | Cradle of Love | Charmed Life (1990) | |
| 20 | The Sundays | Here's Where the Story Ends | Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990) | |
| 21 | The Jesus and Mary Chain | Head On | Automatic (1989) | |
| 22 | UB40 | The Way You Do the Things You Do | Labour of Love II (1989) | |
| 23 | Peter Murphy | Cuts You Up | Deep (1990) | |
| 24 | The Soup Dragons | I'm Free (feat. Junior Reid) | Lovegod (1990) | |
| 25 | Gene Loves Jezebel | Jealous | Kiss of Life (1990) | |
| 26 | Primal Scream | Loaded | Screamadelica (1990) | |
| 27 | Sinead O'Connor | The Emperor's New Clothes | I Do Not Want What I Haven’t Got (1990) | |
| 28 | The Cure | Never Enough | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 29 | U2 | Night and Day | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 30 | Midnight Oil | King of the Mountain | Blue Sky Mining (1990) | |
| 31 | Michael Penn | This & That | March (1989) | |
| 32 | The House of Love | I Don't Know Why I Love You | The House of Love (1990) | |
| 33 | Soho | Hippychick | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 34 | Living Colour | Type | Time’s Up (1990) | |
| 35 | They Might Be Giants | Birdhouse in Your Soul | Flood (1990) | |
| 36 | Boom Crash Opera | Onion Skin | These Here Are Crazy Times (1989) | |
| 37 | Erasure | Star | Wild! (1989) | |
| 38 | Jane's Addiction | Stop! | Ritual de lo Habitual (1990) | |
| 39 | The B-52's | Roam | Cosmic Thing (1989) | |
| 40 | Social Distortion | Story of My Life | Social Distortion (1990) | |
| 41 | Morrissey | Ouija Board, Ouija Board | Non-album Single (1989) | |
| 42 | The Darling Buds | Crystal Clear | Crawdaddy (1990) | |
| 43 | Billy Idol | Prodigal Blues | Charmed Life (1990) | |
| 44 | Adam Ant | Room at the Top | Manners & Physique (1990) | |
| 45 | Concrete Blonde | Tomorrow, Wendy | Bloodletting (1990) | |
| 46 | The Psychedelic Furs | House | Book of Days (1989) | |
| 47 | UB40 | Here I Am (Come and Take Me) | Labour of Love II (1989) | |
| 48 | Suzanne Vega | Tom's Diner | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 49 | Oingo Boingo | Skin | Dark at the End of the Tunnel (1990) | |
| 50 | The Cure | Hello I Love You | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 51 | Inspiral Carpets | This Is How It Feels | Life (1990) | |
| 52 | The Smithereens | Yesterday Girl | 11 (1989) | |
| 53 | The Lightning Seeds | All I Want | Cloudcuckooland (1990) | |
| 54 | Midnight Oil | Forgotten Years | Blue Sky Mining (1990) | |
| 55 | The Sundays | Can't Be Sure | Reading, Writing and Arithmetic (1990) | |
| 56 | The Sisters of Mercy | More | Vision Thing (1990) | |
| 57 | The Ocean Blue | Drifting, Falling | The Ocean Blue (1989) | |
| 58 | Happy Mondays | Step On | Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990) | |
| 59 | Michael Penn | Brave New World | March (1989) | |
| 60 | Public Image Ltd. | Don't Ask Me | The Greatest Hits, So Far (1990) | |
| 61 | Pretenders | Never Do That | Packed! (1990) | |
| 62 | Pixies | Dig for Fire | Bossanova (1990) | |
| 63 | Electronic | Getting Away With It | Non-album Single (1989) | |
| 64 | INXS | Bitter Tears | X (1990) | |
| 65 | Lenny Kravitz | I Build This Garden For Us | Let Love Rule (1989) | |
| 66 | The Beloved | Hello | Happiness (1990) | |
| 67 | U2 | Unchained Melody | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 68 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Show Me Your Soul | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 69 | The Church | Metropolis | Gold Afternoon Fix (1990) | |
| 70 | Aztec Camera | Good Morning Britain | Stray (1990) | |
| 71 | Candy Flip | Strawberry Fields Forever | Madstock… (1990) | |
| 72 | Trashcan Sinatras | Obscurity Knocks | Cake (1990) | |
| 73 | The Cure | Harold and Joe | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 74 | Faith No More | Falling to Pieces | The Real Thing (1989) | |
| 75 | Duran Duran | Serious | Liberty (1990) | |
| 76 | Jesus Jones | Move Mountains | Doubt (1990) | |
| 77 | The Mission | Butterfly on a Wheel | Carved in Sand (1990) | |
| 78 | Morrissey | November Spawned a Monster | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 79 | Concrete Blonde | Everybody Knows | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 80 | Too Much Joy | That's a Lie (remix) | Son of Sam I Am (1988) | |
| 81 | Lloyd Cole | Downtown | Lloyd Cole (1990) | |
| 82 | Happy Mondays | Kinky Afro | Pills ‘n’ Thrills and Bellyaches (1990) | |
| 83 | Eddy Grant | Gimme Hope Jo'Anna | File Under Rock (1988) | |
| 84 | David J | I'll Be Your Chauffeur | Songs from Another Season (1990) | |
| 85 | 808 State | Cubik | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 86 | The Railway Children | Every Beat of the Heart | Native Place (1990) | |
| 87 | The House of Love | Beatles and the Stones | The House of Love (1990) | |
| 88 | World Party | Way Down Now | Goodbye Jumbo (1990) | |
| 89 | The Human League | Heart Like a Wheel | Romantic? (1990) | |
| 90 | The Stone Roses | One Love | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 91 | Depeche Mode | Halo | Violator (1990) | |
| 92 | The Posies | Golden Blunders | Dear 23 (1990) | |
| 93 | The Creatures | Fury Eyes | Boomerang (1989) | |
| 94 | EMF | Unbelievable | Schubert Dip (1990) | |
| 95 | Pet Shop Boys | So Hard | Behaviour (1990) | |
| 96 | Hunters & Collectors | When the River Runs Dry | Ghost Nation (1989) | |
| 97 | The Charlatans | Then | Some Friendly (1990) | |
| 98 | Duran Duran | Violence of Summer (Love's Taking Over) | Liberty (1990) | |
| 99 | INXS | Disappear | X (1990) | |
| 100 | The Heart Throbs | Dreamtime | Cleopatra Grip (1990) | |
| 101 | New Order | World in Motion... | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 102 | Sonic Youth | Kool Thing | Goo (1990) | |
| 103 | Real Life | God Tonight | Non-album Single (1990) | |
| 104 | Ultra Vivid Scene | Special One | Joy 1967–1990 (1990) | |
| 105 | The Replacements | Someone Take the Wheel | All Shook Down (1990) | |
| 106 | Cocteau Twins | Iceblink Luck | Heaven or Las Vegas (1990) | |
| 106.7 | Lewisidal Tendencies | Silent Night | Non-album Single (1990) | |
