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

Don't Change Your Plans
Ben Folds Five
From the album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
14
Number
2

Fire in My Heart
Super Furry Animals
From the album: Guerrilla
Peak
2
Weeks
8
Number
3 Up by 1

The Frug
Rilo Kiley
Peak
3
Weeks
12
Number
4 Up by 1

Shower Your Love
Kula Shaker
Peak
4
Weeks
12
Number
5 Down by 2

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
19
Number
6 Up by 4

Free to Go
Folk Implosion
From the album: One Part Lullaby
Peak
6
Weeks
5
Number
7 Down by 1

Let Forever Be
The Chemical Brothers featuring Noel Gallagher
From the album: Surrender
Peak
1 (for 5 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
8 Down by 1

Jagged
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
4
Weeks
23
Number
9 Down by 1

Beautiful Stranger
Madonna
From the album: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Music from the Motion Picture
Peak
8
Weeks
16
Number
10 Down by 1

Strawberryfire
The Apples in Stereo
From the album: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Peak
9
Weeks
13
Number
11 Up by 2

Valentine
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
11
Weeks
9
Number
12 Down by 1

Spit on a Stranger
Pavement
From the album: Terror Twilight
Peak
10
Weeks
13
Number
13 Down by 1

Fortified Grapes
Gordon (the band)
Peak
12
Weeks
11
Number
14 Up by 1

Sucks to Be You
Prozzäk
Peak
14
Weeks
10
Number
15 Up by 3

Child Psychology
Black Box Recorder
From the album: England Made Me
Peak
15
Weeks
6
Number
16 Down by 2

Drunk Is Better Than Dead
The Push Stars
From the album: After the Party
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
17 Up by 2

Waitin' for a Superman
The Flaming Lips
From the album: The Soft Bulletin
Peak
17
Weeks
6
Number
18 Down by 2

Cathedrals
Jump Little Children
Peak
14
Weeks
19
Number
19 Down by 2

Sweet Child O' Mine
Sheryl Crow
Peak
7
Weeks
17
Number
20

Natalie's Party
Shack
Peak
20
Weeks
9
Number
21

Dogs Got a Bone
The Beta Band
From the album: The Three E.P.'s
Peak
21
Weeks
13
Number
22

Mexican God
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Peak
22
Weeks
11
Number
23 Up by 3

Emergency! Emergency!
The Promise Ring
Peak
23
Weeks
4
Number
24 Up by 3

Barrel of a Gun
Guster
From the album: Lost and Gone Forever
Peak
24
Weeks
4
Number
25

Red Dragon Tattoo
Fountains of Wayne
From the album: Utopia Parkway
Peak
25
Weeks
8
Number
26 Down by 2

Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
6
Weeks
19
Number
27 Up by 6

Via Chicago
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
27
Weeks
3
Number
28

Coming up Roses
Owsley
Peak
15
Weeks
20
Number
29 Up by 3

Burn to Shine
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
From the album: Burn to Shine
Peak
29
Weeks
4
Number
30 Up by 1

Nobody Has To Know
Spain
Peak
30
Weeks
6
Number
31 Up by 5

Muscle Museum
Muse
From the album: Showbiz
Peak
31
Weeks
2
Number
32 Down by 3

Comedy
Shack
Peak
24
Weeks
15
Number
33 Up by 6

Seven
David Bowie
From the album: 'hours...'
Peak
33
Weeks
2
Number
34 Debut

The Book of Love
The Magnetic Fields
From the album: 69 Love Songs
Peak
34
Weeks
1
Number
35 Down by 5

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
36 Down by 13

Here with Me
Dido
From the album: No Angel
Peak
19
Weeks
16
Number
37 Debut

Hanginaround
Counting Crows
From the album: This Desert Life
Peak
37
Weeks
1
Number
38 Debut

It's Saturday
Marcy Playground
From the album: Shapeshifter
Peak
38
Weeks
1
Number
39 Debut

Crash on the Barrelhead
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40

Rendez-vu
Basement Jaxx
From the album: Remedy
Peak
40
Weeks
3

Dropouts

Number
34 Dropout

Get Set
Taxiride
Peak
11
Weeks
21
Number
35 Dropout

Every You Every Me
Placebo
From the album: Without You I'm Nothing
Peak
3
Weeks
26
Number
37 Dropout

Welcome to the Fold
Filter
From the album: Title of Record
Peak
37
Weeks
11
Number
38 Dropout

Do Right
Jimmie's Chicken Shack
Peak
38
Weeks
6

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Date

October 9, 1999

Songs

40

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1 1 Ben Folds Five – “Don't Change Your Plans” 1(×2) 14

2 2 Super Furry Animals – “Fire in My Heart” 2 8

4 3 Rilo Kiley – “The Frug” 3 12

5 4 Kula Shaker – “Shower Your Love” 4 12

3 5 Manic Street Preachers – “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” 1(×3) 19

10 6 Folk Implosion – “Free to Go” 6 5

6 7 The Chemical Brothers ft. Noel Gallagher – “Let Forever Be” 1(×5) 21

7 8 Old 97's – “Jagged” 4 23

8 9 Madonna – “Beautiful Stranger” 8 16

9 10 The Apples in Stereo – “Strawberryfire” 9 13

13 11 Old 97's – “Valentine” 11 9

11 12 Pavement – “Spit on a Stranger” 10 13

12 13 Gordon (the band) – “Fortified Grapes” 12 11

15 14 Prozzäk – “Sucks to Be You” 14 10

18 15 Black Box Recorder – “Child Psychology” 15 6

14 16 The Push Stars – “Drunk Is Better Than Dead” 1(×1) 23

19 17 The Flaming Lips – “Waitin' for a Superman” 17 6

16 18 Jump Little Children – “Cathedrals” 14 19

17 19 Sheryl Crow – “Sweet Child O' Mine” 7 17

20 20 Shack – “Natalie's Party” 20 9

21 21 The Beta Band – “Dogs Got a Bone” 21 13

22 22 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Mexican God” 22 11

26 23 The Promise Ring – “Emergency! Emergency!” 23 4

27 24 Guster – “Barrel of a Gun” 24 4

25 25 Fountains of Wayne – “Red Dragon Tattoo” 25 8

24 26 Old 97's – “Murder (Or a Heart Attack)” 6 19

33 27 Wilco – “Via Chicago” 27 3

28 28 Owsley – “Coming up Roses” 15 20

32 29 Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – “Burn to Shine” 29 4

31 30 Spain – “Nobody Has To Know” 30 6

36 31 Muse – “Muscle Museum” 31 2

29 32 Shack – “Comedy” 24 15

39 33 David Bowie – “Seven” 33 2

NE 34 The Magnetic Fields – “The Book of Love” 34 1

30 35 Wilco – “Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” 1(×2) 21

23 36 Dido – “Here with Me” 19 16

NE 37 Counting Crows – “Hanginaround” 37 1

NE 38 Marcy Playground – “It's Saturday” 38 1

NE 39 Old 97's – “Crash on the Barrelhead” 39 1

40 40 Basement Jaxx – “Rendez-vu” 40 3

DROPOUTS:

34 -- Taxiride – “Get Set” 11 21

35 -- Placebo – “Every You Every Me” 3 26

37 -- Filter – “Welcome to the Fold” 37 11

38 -- Jimmie's Chicken Shack – “Do Right” 38 6

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