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 Up by 1

Fire in My Heart
Super Furry Animals
From the album: Guerrilla
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
9
Number
2 Up by 1

The Frug
Rilo Kiley
Peak
2
Weeks
13
Number
3 Down by 2

Don't Change Your Plans
Ben Folds Five
From the album: The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
15
Number
4

Shower Your Love
Kula Shaker
Peak
4
Weeks
13
Number
5 Up by 1

Free to Go
Folk Implosion
From the album: One Part Lullaby
Peak
5
Weeks
6
Number
6 Down by 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
20
Number
7

Let Forever Be
The Chemical Brothers featuring Noel Gallagher
From the album: Surrender
Peak
1 (for 5 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
8 Up by 3

Valentine
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
8
Weeks
10
Number
9 Down by 1

Jagged
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
4
Weeks
24
Number
10 Down by 1

Beautiful Stranger
Madonna
From the album: Austin Powers: The Spy Who Shagged Me - Music from the Motion Picture
Peak
8
Weeks
17
Number
11 Down by 1

Strawberryfire
The Apples in Stereo
From the album: Her Wallpaper Reverie
Peak
9
Weeks
14
Number
12 Up by 3

Child Psychology
Black Box Recorder
From the album: England Made Me
Peak
12
Weeks
7
Number
13

Fortified Grapes
Gordon (the band)
Peak
12
Weeks
12
Number
14

Sucks to Be You
Prozzäk
Peak
14
Weeks
11
Number
15 Up by 2

Waitin' for a Superman
The Flaming Lips
From the album: The Soft Bulletin
Peak
15
Weeks
7
Number
16 Down by 4

Spit on a Stranger
Pavement
From the album: Terror Twilight
Peak
10
Weeks
14
Number
17 Down by 1

Drunk Is Better Than Dead
The Push Stars
From the album: After the Party
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
18

Cathedrals
Jump Little Children
Peak
14
Weeks
20
Number
19 Up by 4

Emergency! Emergency!
The Promise Ring
Peak
19
Weeks
5
Number
20

Natalie's Party
Shack
Peak
20
Weeks
10
Number
21

Dogs Got a Bone
The Beta Band
From the album: The Three E.P.'s
Peak
21
Weeks
14
Number
22

Mexican God
Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians
Peak
22
Weeks
12
Number
23 Up by 1

Barrel of a Gun
Guster
From the album: Lost and Gone Forever
Peak
23
Weeks
5
Number
24 Up by 1

Red Dragon Tattoo
Fountains of Wayne
From the album: Utopia Parkway
Peak
24
Weeks
9
Number
25 Up by 2

Via Chicago
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
25
Weeks
4
Number
26 Up by 5

Muscle Museum
Muse
From the album: Showbiz
Peak
26
Weeks
3
Number
27 Up by 2

Burn to Shine
Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals
From the album: Burn to Shine
Peak
27
Weeks
5
Number
28 Down by 9

Sweet Child O' Mine
Sheryl Crow
Peak
7
Weeks
18
Number
29 Up by 5

The Book of Love
The Magnetic Fields
From the album: 69 Love Songs
Peak
29
Weeks
2
Number
30

Nobody Has To Know
Spain
Peak
30
Weeks
7
Number
31 Up by 2

Seven
David Bowie
From the album: 'hours...'
Peak
31
Weeks
3
Number
32 Down by 4

Coming up Roses
Owsley
Peak
15
Weeks
21
Number
33 Up by 4

Hanginaround
Counting Crows
From the album: This Desert Life
Peak
33
Weeks
2
Number
34 Down by 8

Murder (Or a Heart Attack)
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
6
Weeks
20
Number
35 Up by 3

It's Saturday
Marcy Playground
From the album: Shapeshifter
Peak
35
Weeks
2
Number
36 Up by 3

Crash on the Barrelhead
Old 97's
From the album: Fight Songs
Peak
36
Weeks
2
Number
37 Down by 5

Comedy
Shack
Peak
24
Weeks
16
Number
38 Debut

Millennium Blues
Matthew Sweet
From the album: In Reverse
Peak
38
Weeks
1
Number
39 Up by 1

Rendez-vu
Basement Jaxx
From the album: Remedy
Peak
39
Weeks
4
Number
40 Down by 5

Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)
Wilco
From the album: Summerteeth
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
22

Dropouts

Number
36 Dropout

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

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Date

October 16, 1999

Songs

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2 1 Super Furry Animals – “Fire in My Heart” 1(×1) 9

3 2 Rilo Kiley – “The Frug” 2 13

1 3 Ben Folds Five – “Don't Change Your Plans” 1(×2) 15

4 4 Kula Shaker – “Shower Your Love” 4 13

6 5 Folk Implosion – “Free to Go” 5 6

5 6 Manic Street Preachers – “If You Tolerate This Your Children Will Be Next” 1(×3) 20

7 7 The Chemical Brothers ft. Noel Gallagher – “Let Forever Be” 1(×5) 22

11 8 Old 97's – “Valentine” 8 10

8 9 Old 97's – “Jagged” 4 24

9 10 Madonna – “Beautiful Stranger” 8 17

10 11 The Apples in Stereo – “Strawberryfire” 9 14

15 12 Black Box Recorder – “Child Psychology” 12 7

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

14 14 Prozzäk – “Sucks to Be You” 14 11

17 15 The Flaming Lips – “Waitin' for a Superman” 15 7

12 16 Pavement – “Spit on a Stranger” 10 14

16 17 The Push Stars – “Drunk Is Better Than Dead” 1(×1) 24

18 18 Jump Little Children – “Cathedrals” 14 20

23 19 The Promise Ring – “Emergency! Emergency!” 19 5

20 20 Shack – “Natalie's Party” 20 10

21 21 The Beta Band – “Dogs Got a Bone” 21 14

22 22 Robyn Hitchcock & The Egyptians – “Mexican God” 22 12

24 23 Guster – “Barrel of a Gun” 23 5

25 24 Fountains of Wayne – “Red Dragon Tattoo” 24 9

27 25 Wilco – “Via Chicago” 25 4

31 26 Muse – “Muscle Museum” 26 3

29 27 Ben Harper and the Innocent Criminals – “Burn to Shine” 27 5

19 28 Sheryl Crow – “Sweet Child O' Mine” 7 18

34 29 The Magnetic Fields – “The Book of Love” 29 2

30 30 Spain – “Nobody Has To Know” 30 7

33 31 David Bowie – “Seven” 31 3

28 32 Owsley – “Coming up Roses” 15 21

37 33 Counting Crows – “Hanginaround” 33 2

26 34 Old 97's – “Murder (Or a Heart Attack)” 6 20

38 35 Marcy Playground – “It's Saturday” 35 2

39 36 Old 97's – “Crash on the Barrelhead” 36 2

32 37 Shack – “Comedy” 24 16

NE 38 Matthew Sweet – “Millennium Blues” 38 1

40 39 Basement Jaxx – “Rendez-vu” 39 4

35 40 Wilco – “Nothing'severgonnastandinmyway (Again)” 1(×2) 22

DROPOUTS:

36 -- Dido – “Here with Me” 19 16

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