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 It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow
From the album: Sheryl Crow
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
9
Number
2 Up by 5

Power World
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
2
Weeks
5
Number
3

You're One
Imperial Teen
From the album: Seasick
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
16
Number
4

Throwaway
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
4
Weeks
17
Number
5

Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)
The Virgin-Whore Complex
Peak
5
Weeks
12
Number
6 Down by 4

Popular
Nada Surf
From the album: High / Low
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
7 Up by 1

Novocaine For The Soul
Eels
From the album: Beautiful Freak
Peak
7
Weeks
12
Number
8 Up by 1

Dark Secret
Matthew Sweet
From the album: The Craft Soundtrack
Peak
8
Weeks
9
Number
9 Up by 6

Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get
The Low & Sweet Orchestra
From the album: Goodbye To All That
Peak
9
Weeks
8
Number
10 Down by 4

Only Talking Sense
The Finn Brothers
Peak
4
Weeks
18
Number
11 Up by 1

6th Avenue Heartache
The Wallflowers
From the album: Bringing Down the Horse
Peak
11
Weeks
19
Number
12 Down by 2

The Golden Age
Cracker
From the album: The Golden Age
Peak
10
Weeks
19
Number
13 Up by 3

Ahead By A Century
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
13
Weeks
14
Number
14 Down by 3

Broken
Belly (band)
From the album: Twister (Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
1 (for 6 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
15 Down by 2

Trampoline
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
16 Down by 2

Gift Shop
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
20
Number
17

All I Know
Screaming Trees
From the album: Dust
Peak
16
Weeks
17
Number
18 Up by 1

Whoever You Are
Geggy Tah
Peak
18
Weeks
10
Number
19 Up by 3

This Misery
Wild Colonials
Peak
19
Weeks
7
Number
20 Up by 1

E-Bow The Letter
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
20
Weeks
10
Number
21 Up by 3

Sleepy Maggie
Ashley MacIsaac
Peak
21
Weeks
6
Number
22 Up by 3

The Distance
Cake
From the album: Fashion Nugget
Peak
22
Weeks
4
Number
23

Soundtrack to Mary
Soul Coughing
From the album: Irresistible Bliss
Peak
23
Weeks
11
Number
24 Down by 6

Down in Flames
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
25
Number
25 Up by 7

Devils Haircut
Beck
From the album: Odelay
Peak
25
Weeks
5
Number
26 Down by 6

Some Kind Of Fun
Ass Ponys
From the album: The Known Universe
Peak
18
Weeks
18
Number
27 Up by 1

Bound For The Floor
Local H
From the album: As Good as Dead
Peak
27
Weeks
7
Number
28 Up by 1

Big Chair
Reacharound
Peak
28
Weeks
13
Number
29 Down by 2

Free to Decide
The Cranberries
From the album: To the Faithful Departed
Peak
9
Weeks
19
Number
30

I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
From the album: Now in a Minute
Peak
30
Weeks
11
Number
31

Mouth
Merril Bainbridge
From the album: The Garden
Peak
31
Weeks
6
Number
32 Up by 1

Don't Wake Daddy
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
32
Weeks
4
Number
33 Up by 4

Daily Mutilation
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
33
Weeks
3
Number
34 Down by 8

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
Primitive Radio Gods
From the album: Rocket
Peak
6
Weeks
22
Number
35 Up by 1

Ohio Air Show Plane Crash
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
35
Weeks
4
Number
36 Up by 2

Lady Picture Show
Stone Temple Pilots
From the album: Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Peak
36
Weeks
3
Number
37 Up by 2

Naked Eye
Luscious Jackson
From the album: Fever in Fever Out
Peak
37
Weeks
2
Number
38 Up by 2

Head Over Feet
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Jagged Little Pill
Peak
38
Weeks
2
Number
39 Debut

Bittersweet Me
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40 Down by 5

Open the Door
Magnapop
Peak
1 (for 5 weeks)
Weeks
26

Dropouts

Number
34 Dropout

Rainfall
A Flock of Seagulls
Peak
10
Weeks
22

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Date

October 26, 1996

Songs

40

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1 1 Sheryl Crow – “If It Makes You Happy” 1(×2) 9

7 2 Sam Phillips – “Power World” 2 5

3 3 Imperial Teen – “You're One” 1(×3) 16

4 4 The Posies – “Throwaway” 4 17

5 5 The Virgin-Whore Complex – “Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)” 5 12

2 6 Nada Surf – “Popular” 1(×1) 17

8 7 Eels – “Novocaine For The Soul” 7 12

9 8 Matthew Sweet – “Dark Secret” 8 9

15 9 The Low & Sweet Orchestra – “Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get” 9 8

6 10 The Finn Brothers – “Only Talking Sense” 4 18

12 11 The Wallflowers – “6th Avenue Heartache” 11 19

10 12 Cracker – “The Golden Age” 10 19

16 13 The Tragically Hip – “Ahead By A Century” 13 14

11 14 Belly (band) – “Broken” 1(×6) 22

13 15 Joe Henry – “Trampoline” 1(×1) 21

14 16 The Tragically Hip – “Gift Shop” 1(×3) 20

17 17 Screaming Trees – “All I Know” 16 17

19 18 Geggy Tah – “Whoever You Are” 18 10

22 19 Wild Colonials – “This Misery” 19 7

21 20 R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” 20 10

24 21 Ashley MacIsaac – “Sleepy Maggie” 21 6

25 22 Cake – “The Distance” 22 4

23 23 Soul Coughing – “Soundtrack to Mary” 23 11

18 24 Semisonic – “Down in Flames” 1(×1) 25

32 25 Beck – “Devils Haircut” 25 5

20 26 Ass Ponys – “Some Kind Of Fun” 18 18

28 27 Local H – “Bound For The Floor” 27 7

29 28 Reacharound – “Big Chair” 28 13

27 29 The Cranberries – “Free to Decide” 9 19

30 30 Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” 30 11

31 31 Merril Bainbridge – “Mouth” 31 6

33 32 The Tragically Hip – “Don't Wake Daddy” 32 4

37 33 The Posies – “Daily Mutilation” 33 3

26 34 Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand” 6 22

36 35 Joe Henry – “Ohio Air Show Plane Crash” 35 4

38 36 Stone Temple Pilots – “Lady Picture Show” 36 3

39 37 Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” 37 2

40 38 Alanis Morissette – “Head Over Feet” 38 2

NE 39 R.E.M. – “Bittersweet Me” 39 1

35 40 Magnapop – “Open the Door” 1(×5) 26

DROPOUTS:

34 -- A Flock of Seagulls – “Rainfall” 10 22

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