In Retrospect

If I had the power, perhaps in an alternate timeline, the Top 40 would have been quite different...

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Number
1

If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next
Manic Street Preachers
From the album: This Is My Truth Tell Me Yours
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
2

Don't Change Your Plans
Ben Folds Five
From the album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Peak
2
Weeks
12
Number
3 Up by 9

Fire in My Heart
Super Furry Animals
From the album: Guerrilla
Peak
3
Weeks
6
Number
4 Down by 1

Let Forever Be
The Chemical Brothers featuring Noel Gallagher
From the album: Surrender
Peak
1 (for 5 weeks)
Weeks
19
Number
5 Up by 1

The Frug
Rilo Kiley
Peak
5
Weeks
10
Number
6 Down by 2

Jagged
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
4
Weeks
21
Number
7 Up by 4

Shower Your Love
Kula Shaker
Peak
7
Weeks
10
Number
8

Beautiful Stranger
Madonna
From the album: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Music from the Motion Picture
Peak
8
Weeks
14
Number
9

Strawberryfire
The Apples in Stereo
From the album: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Peak
9
Weeks
11
Number
10

Spit on a Stranger
Pavement
From the album: Terror Twilight
Peak
10
Weeks
11
Number
11 Down by 6

Drunk Is Better Than Dead
The Push Stars
From the album: After the Party
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
12 Up by 2

Fortified Grapes
Gordon (the band)
Peak
12
Weeks
9
Number
13 Down by 6

Sweet Child O' Mine
Sheryl Crow
Peak
7
Weeks
15
Number
14 Down by 1

Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
6
Weeks
17
Number
15

Cathedrals
Jump Little Children
Peak
14
Weeks
17
Number
16 Up by 2

Sucks to Be You
Prozzäk
Peak
16
Weeks
8
Number
17 Up by 3

Valentine
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
17
Weeks
7
Number
18 Down by 2

Coming up Roses
Owsley
Peak
15
Weeks
18
Number
19 Up by 8

Free to Go
Folk Implosion
From the album: One Part Lullaby
Peak
19
Weeks
3
Number
20 Down by 1

Here with Me
Dido
From the album: No Angel
Peak
19
Weeks
14
Number
21

Dogs Got a Bone
The Beta Band
From the album: The Three E.P.'s
Peak
21
Weeks
11
Number
22

Natalie's Party
Shack
Peak
22
Weeks
7
Number
23

Mexican God
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Peak
23
Weeks
9
Number
24 Up by 2

Child Psychology
Black Box Recorder
From the album: England Made Me
Peak
24
Weeks
4
Number
25

Red Dragon Tattoo
Fountains of Wayne
From the album: Utopia Parkway
Peak
25
Weeks
6
Number
26 Up by 3

Waitin' for a Superman
The Flaming Lips
From the album: The Soft Bulletin
Peak
26
Weeks
4
Number
27 Down by 10

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
19
Number
28 Down by 4

Comedy
Shack
Peak
24
Weeks
13
Number
29 Up by 10

Emergency! Emergency!
The Promise Ring
Peak
29
Weeks
2
Number
30 Down by 2

Get Set
Taxiride
Peak
11
Weeks
20
Number
31

Every You Every Me
Placebo
From the album: Without You I'm Nothing
Peak
3
Weeks
25
Number
32 Up by 3

Nobody Has To Know
Spain
Peak
32
Weeks
4
Number
33 Up by 3

Barrel of a Gun
Guster
From the album: Lost and Gone Forever
Peak
33
Weeks
2
Number
34 Down by 4

Scar Tissue
Red Hot Chili Peppers
From the album: Californication
Peak
18
Weeks
15
Number
35 Up by 5

Burn to Shine
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
From the album: Burn to Shine
Peak
35
Weeks
2
Number
36 Debut

Via Chicago
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
36
Weeks
1
Number
37

Welcome to the Fold
Filter
From the album: Title of Record
Peak
37
Weeks
10
Number
38

Do Right
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Peak
38
Weeks
5
Number
39 Down by 7

I'm Always in Love
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
27
Number
40 Debut

Rendez-vu
Basement Jaxx
From the album: Remedy
Peak
40
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
33 Dropout

Total Devastation
Jimi Tenor
Peak
8
Weeks
22
Number
34 Dropout

Erase/Rewind
The Cardigans
From the album: Gran Turismo
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
25

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Date

September 25, 1999

Songs

40

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1 1 Manic Street Preachers – “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” 1(×3) 17

2 2 Ben Folds Five – “Don't Change Your Plans” 2 12

12 3 Super Furry Animals – “Fire in My Heart” 3 6

3 4 The Chemical Brothers ft. Noel Gallagher – “Let Forever Be” 1(×5) 19

6 5 Rilo Kiley – “The Frug” 5 10

4 6 Old 97's – “Jagged” 4 21

11 7 Kula Shaker – “Shower Your Love” 7 10

8 8 Madonna – “Beautiful Stranger” 8 14

9 9 The Apples in Stereo – “Strawberryfire” 9 11

10 10 Pavement – “Spit on a Stranger” 10 11

5 11 The Push Stars – “Drunk Is Better Than Dead” 1(×1) 21

14 12 Gordon (the band) – “Fortified Grapes” 12 9

7 13 Sheryl Crow – “Sweet Child O' Mine” 7 15

13 14 Old 97's – “Murder (Or a Heart Attack)” 6 17

15 15 Jump Little Children – “Cathedrals” 14 17

18 16 Prozzäk – “Sucks to Be You” 16 8

20 17 Old 97's – “Valentine” 17 7

16 18 Owsley – “Coming up Roses” 15 18

27 19 Folk Implosion – “Free to Go” 19 3

19 20 Dido – “Here with Me” 19 14

21 21 The Beta Band – “Dogs Got a Bone” 21 11

22 22 Shack – “Natalie's Party” 22 7

23 23 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Mexican God” 23 9

26 24 Black Box Recorder – “Child Psychology” 24 4

25 25 Fountains of Wayne – “Red Dragon Tattoo” 25 6

29 26 The Flaming Lips – “Waitin' for a Superman” 26 4

17 27 Wilco – “Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” 1(×2) 19

24 28 Shack – “Comedy” 24 13

39 29 The Promise Ring – “Emergency! Emergency!” 29 2

28 30 Taxiride – “Get Set” 11 20

31 31 Placebo – “Every You Every Me” 3 25

35 32 Spain – “Nobody Has To Know” 32 4

36 33 Guster – “Barrel of a Gun” 33 2

30 34 Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Scar Tissue” 18 15

40 35 Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – “Burn to Shine” 35 2

NE 36 Wilco – “Via Chicago” 36 1

37 37 Filter – “Welcome to the Fold” 37 10

38 38 Jimmie's Chicken Shack – “Do Right” 38 5

32 39 Wilco – “I'm Always in Love” 1(×4) 27

NE 40 Basement Jaxx – “Rendez-vu” 40 1

DROPOUTS:

33 -- Jimi Tenor – “Total Devastation” 8 22

34 -- The Cardigans – “Erase/Rewind” 1(×2) 25

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