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

Power World
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
7
Number
2 Down by 1

If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow
From the album: Sheryl Crow
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
11
Number
3 Up by 3

Novocaine For The Soul
Eels
From the album: Beautiful Freak
Peak
3
Weeks
14
Number
4

Throwaway
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
4
Weeks
19
Number
5

Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)
The Virgin-Whore Complex
Peak
5
Weeks
14
Number
6 Down by 3

You're One
Imperial Teen
From the album: Seasick
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
7

Dark Secret
Matthew Sweet
From the album: The Craft Soundtrack
Peak
7
Weeks
11
Number
8

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

Popular
Nada Surf
From the album: High / Low
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
19
Number
10 Up by 1

Ahead By A Century
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
10
Weeks
16
Number
11 Up by 4

Sleepy Maggie
Ashley MacIsaac
Peak
11
Weeks
8
Number
12

6th Avenue Heartache
The Wallflowers
From the album: Bringing Down the Horse
Peak
11
Weeks
21
Number
13 Up by 1

This Misery
Wild Colonials
Peak
13
Weeks
9
Number
14 Down by 4

Only Talking Sense
The Finn Brothers
Peak
4
Weeks
20
Number
15 Down by 2

The Golden Age
Cracker
From the album: The Golden Age
Peak
10
Weeks
21
Number
16 Up by 5

The Distance
Cake
From the album: Fashion Nugget
Peak
16
Weeks
6
Number
17

Whoever You Are
Geggy Tah
Peak
17
Weeks
12
Number
18 Up by 4

Devils Haircut
Beck
From the album: Odelay
Peak
18
Weeks
7
Number
19 Down by 3

All I Know
Screaming Trees
From the album: Dust
Peak
16
Weeks
19
Number
20 Down by 1

E-Bow The Letter
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
19
Weeks
12
Number
21 Up by 2

Soundtrack to Mary
Soul Coughing
From the album: Irresistible Bliss
Peak
21
Weeks
13
Number
22 Up by 2

Bound For The Floor
Local H
From the album: As Good as Dead
Peak
22
Weeks
9
Number
23 Up by 2

Big Chair
Reacharound
Peak
23
Weeks
15
Number
24 Up by 3

Daily Mutilation
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
24
Weeks
5
Number
25 Down by 7

Broken
Belly (band)
From the album: Twister (Music From the Motion Picture Soundtrack)
Peak
1 (for 6 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
26 Down by 6

Trampoline
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
27 Up by 1

Mouth
Merril Bainbridge
From the album: The Garden
Peak
27
Weeks
8
Number
28 Up by 2

Don't Wake Daddy
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
28
Weeks
6
Number
29

I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
From the album: Now in a Minute
Peak
29
Weeks
13
Number
30 Up by 3

Lady Picture Show
Stone Temple Pilots
From the album: Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Peak
30
Weeks
5
Number
31 Up by 3

Naked Eye
Luscious Jackson
From the album: Fever in Fever Out
Peak
31
Weeks
4
Number
32

Ohio Air Show Plane Crash
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
32
Weeks
6
Number
33 Up by 3

Head Over Feet
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Jagged Little Pill
Peak
33
Weeks
4
Number
34 Down by 8

Gift Shop
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
35 Up by 5

Falling
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
35
Weeks
2
Number
36 Up by 1

Bittersweet Me
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
36
Weeks
3
Number
37 Down by 6

Free to Decide
The Cranberries
From the album: To the Faithful Departed
Peak
9
Weeks
21
Number
38

El Scorcho
Weezer
From the album: Pinkerton
Peak
38
Weeks
2
Number
39 Debut

Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
John Mellencamp
From the album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40 Debut

Damage I've Done
The Heads featuring Johnette Napolitano
Peak
40
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
35 Dropout

Down in Flames
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
26
Number
39 Dropout

Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand
Primitive Radio Gods
From the album: Rocket
Peak
6
Weeks
23

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Date

November 9, 1996

Songs

40

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2 1 Sam Phillips – “Power World” 1(×1) 7

1 2 Sheryl Crow – “If It Makes You Happy” 1(×3) 11

6 3 Eels – “Novocaine For The Soul” 3 14

4 4 The Posies – “Throwaway” 4 19

5 5 The Virgin-Whore Complex – “Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)” 5 14

3 6 Imperial Teen – “You're One” 1(×3) 18

7 7 Matthew Sweet – “Dark Secret” 7 11

8 8 The Low & Sweet Orchestra – “Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get” 8 10

9 9 Nada Surf – “Popular” 1(×1) 19

11 10 The Tragically Hip – “Ahead By A Century” 10 16

15 11 Ashley MacIsaac – “Sleepy Maggie” 11 8

12 12 The Wallflowers – “6th Avenue Heartache” 11 21

14 13 Wild Colonials – “This Misery” 13 9

10 14 The Finn Brothers – “Only Talking Sense” 4 20

13 15 Cracker – “The Golden Age” 10 21

21 16 Cake – “The Distance” 16 6

17 17 Geggy Tah – “Whoever You Are” 17 12

22 18 Beck – “Devils Haircut” 18 7

16 19 Screaming Trees – “All I Know” 16 19

19 20 R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” 19 12

23 21 Soul Coughing – “Soundtrack to Mary” 21 13

24 22 Local H – “Bound For The Floor” 22 9

25 23 Reacharound – “Big Chair” 23 15

27 24 The Posies – “Daily Mutilation” 24 5

18 25 Belly (band) – “Broken” 1(×6) 24

20 26 Joe Henry – “Trampoline” 1(×1) 23

28 27 Merril Bainbridge – “Mouth” 27 8

30 28 The Tragically Hip – “Don't Wake Daddy” 28 6

29 29 Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” 29 13

33 30 Stone Temple Pilots – “Lady Picture Show” 30 5

34 31 Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” 31 4

32 32 Joe Henry – “Ohio Air Show Plane Crash” 32 6

36 33 Alanis Morissette – “Head Over Feet” 33 4

26 34 The Tragically Hip – “Gift Shop” 1(×3) 22

40 35 Semisonic – “Falling” 35 2

37 36 R.E.M. – “Bittersweet Me” 36 3

31 37 The Cranberries – “Free to Decide” 9 21

38 38 Weezer – “El Scorcho” 38 2

NE 39 John Mellencamp – “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)” 39 1

NE 40 The Heads ft. Johnette Napolitano – “Damage I've Done” 40 1

DROPOUTS:

35 -- Semisonic – “Down in Flames” 1(×1) 26

39 -- Primitive Radio Gods – “Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand” 6 23

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