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 3

Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)
Everclear
From the album: Sparkle and Fade
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
10
Number
2

Natural One
Folk Implosion
From the album: Kids Original Soundtrack
Peak
1 (for 9 weeks)
Weeks
16
Number
3

All The Umbrellas In London
The Magnetic Fields
From the album: Get Lost
Peak
3
Weeks
12
Number
4 Down by 3

Kitty
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
From the album: The Presidents of the United States of America
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
10
Number
5 Up by 1

Bad Days
The Flaming Lips
From the album: Clouds Taste Metallic
Peak
5
Weeks
12
Number
6 Up by 1

In the Meantime
Spacehog
From the album: Resident Alien
Peak
6
Weeks
8
Number
7 Down by 2

My Friends
Red Hot Chili Peppers
From the album: One Hot Minute
Peak
3
Weeks
18
Number
8 Up by 2

Seal My Fate
Belly (band)
From the album: King
Peak
8
Weeks
13
Number
9

Queer
Garbage
From the album: Garbage
Peak
8
Weeks
19
Number
10 Down by 2

One Of Us
Joan Osborne
From the album: Relish
Peak
4
Weeks
18
Number
11 Up by 6

Wonderwall
Oasis
From the album: (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
Peak
11
Weeks
9
Number
12 Up by 1

Runaway
The Corrs
From the album: Forgiven, Not Forgotten
Peak
12
Weeks
15
Number
13 Up by 1

1979
The Smashing Pumpkins
From the album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Peak
13
Weeks
10
Number
14 Down by 3

Camel Walk
Southern Culture on the Skids
Peak
2
Weeks
23
Number
15 Up by 1

The World I Know
Collective Soul
From the album: Collective Soul
Peak
15
Weeks
12
Number
16 Down by 1

It's Oh So Quiet
Björk
From the album: Post
Peak
15
Weeks
14
Number
17 Down by 5

Friends of P.
The Rentals
From the album: Return of the Rentals
Peak
12
Weeks
15
Number
18 Up by 6

Brainville
The Flaming Lips
From the album: Clouds Taste Metallic
Peak
18
Weeks
7
Number
19 Up by 6

Closer to Free
BoDeans
From the album: Go Slow Down
Peak
19
Weeks
5
Number
20

Cumbersome
Seven Mary Three
From the album: American Standard
Peak
11
Weeks
20
Number
21 Up by 7

Thousand Dollar Car
The Bottle Rockets
Peak
21
Weeks
3
Number
22

P Control
Prince
From the album: The Gold Experience
Peak
22
Weeks
13
Number
23

Endorphinmachine
Prince
From the album: The Gold Experience
Peak
23
Weeks
10
Number
24 Down by 5

Lump
The Presidents Of The United States Of America
From the album: The Presidents of the United States of America
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
25 Down by 4

Free as a Bird
The Beatles
From the album: Anthology 1
Peak
20
Weeks
8
Number
26

Missing (Todd Terry Remix)
Everything But the Girl
From the album: Amplified Heart
Peak
26
Weeks
8
Number
27 Up by 4

Ironic
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Jagged Little Pill
Peak
27
Weeks
4
Number
28 Down by 10

Bright As Yellow
The Innocence Mission
From the album: Glow
Peak
4
Weeks
21
Number
29 Down by 2

Christmas at the Zoo
The Flaming Lips
From the album: Clouds Taste Metallic
Peak
25
Weeks
9
Number
30

Smoke and Mirrors
The Magnetic Fields
From the album: Get Lost
Peak
30
Weeks
6
Number
31 Debut

Aeroplane
Red Hot Chili Peppers
From the album: One Hot Minute
Peak
31
Weeks
1
Number
32 Down by 3

Car Song
Elastica
From the album: Elastica
Peak
17
Weeks
14
Number
33 Up by 2

Mighty K.C.
For Squirrels
Peak
33
Weeks
4
Number
34 Down by 2

Glycerine
Bush
From the album: Sixteen Stone
Peak
32
Weeks
9
Number
35 Debut

Big Me
Foo Fighters
From the album: Foo Fighters
Peak
35
Weeks
1
Number
36 Debut

Only Happy When it Rains
Garbage
From the album: Garbage
Peak
36
Weeks
1
Number
37 Down by 4

Just
Radiohead
From the album: The Bends
Peak
7
Weeks
25
Number
38

Promises Broken
Soul Asylum
Peak
38
Weeks
2
Number
39 Down by 5

A Girl Like You
Edwyn Collins
From the album: Empire Records: The Soundtrack
Peak
3
Weeks
23
Number
40 Down by 3

High and Dry
Radiohead
From the album: The Bends
Peak
1 (for 7 weeks)
Weeks
30

Dropouts

Number
36 Dropout

Breakfast At Tiffany's
Deep Blue Something
From the album: Home
Peak
4
Weeks
25
Number
39 Dropout

Genius of Love
Tom Tom Club
From the album: Tom Tom Club
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
45
Number
40 Dropout

Bullet With Butterfly Wings
The Smashing Pumpkins
From the album: Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness
Peak
24
Weeks
14

A chart by

Date

January 27, 1996

Songs

40

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4 1 Everclear – "Santa Monica (Watch The World Die)" 1(×1) 10

2 2 Folk Implosion – "Natural One" 1(×9) 16

3 3 The Magnetic Fields – "All The Umbrellas In London" 3 12

1 4 The Presidents Of The United States Of America – "Kitty" 1(×4) 10

6 5 The Flaming Lips – "Bad Days" 5 12

7 6 Spacehog – "In the Meantime" 6 8

5 7 Red Hot Chili Peppers – "My Friends" 3 18

10 8 Belly (band) – "Seal My Fate" 8 13

9 9 Garbage – "Queer" 8 19

8 10 Joan Osborne – "One Of Us" 4 18

17 11 Oasis – "Wonderwall" 11 9

13 12 The Corrs – "Runaway" 12 15

14 13 The Smashing Pumpkins – "1979" 13 10

11 14 Southern Culture on the Skids – "Camel Walk" 2 23

16 15 Collective Soul – "The World I Know" 15 12

15 16 Björk – "It's Oh So Quiet" 15 14

12 17 The Rentals – "Friends of P." 12 15

24 18 The Flaming Lips – "Brainville" 18 7

25 19 BoDeans – "Closer to Free" 19 5

20 20 Seven Mary Three – "Cumbersome" 11 20

28 21 The Bottle Rockets – "Thousand Dollar Car" 21 3

22 22 Prince – "P Control" 22 13

23 23 Prince – "Endorphinmachine" 23 10

19 24 The Presidents Of The United States Of America – "Lump" 1(×3) 24

21 25 The Beatles – "Free as a Bird" 20 8

26 26 Everything But the Girl – "Missing (Todd Terry Remix)" 26 8

31 27 Alanis Morissette – "Ironic" 27 4

18 28 The Innocence Mission – "Bright As Yellow" 4 21

27 29 The Flaming Lips – "Christmas at the Zoo" 25 9

30 30 The Magnetic Fields – "Smoke and Mirrors" 30 6

NE 31 Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Aeroplane" 31 1

29 32 Elastica – "Car Song" 17 14

35 33 For Squirrels – "Mighty K.C." 33 4

32 34 Bush – "Glycerine" 32 9

NE 35 Foo Fighters – "Big Me" 35 1

NE 36 Garbage – "Only Happy When it Rains " 36 1

33 37 Radiohead – "Just" 7 25

38 38 Soul Asylum – "Promises Broken" 38 2

34 39 Edwyn Collins – "A Girl Like You" 3 23

37 40 Radiohead – "High and Dry" 1(×7) 30

DROPOUTS:

36 -- Deep Blue Something – "Breakfast At Tiffany's" 4 25

39 -- Tom Tom Club – "Genius of Love" 1(×1) 45

40 -- The Smashing Pumpkins – "Bullet With Butterfly Wings" 24 14

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