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

Power World
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
10
Number
2

If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow
From the album: Sheryl Crow
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
14
Number
3 Up by 1

Dark Secret
Matthew Sweet
From the album: The Craft Soundtrack
Peak
3
Weeks
14
Number
4 Up by 1

Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get
The Low & Sweet Orchestra
From the album: Goodbye To All That
Peak
4
Weeks
13
Number
5 Down by 2

Novocaine For The Soul
Eels
From the album: Beautiful Freak
Peak
3
Weeks
17
Number
6

Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)
The Virgin-Whore Complex
Peak
5
Weeks
17
Number
7

Sleepy Maggie
Ashley MacIsaac
Peak
7
Weeks
11
Number
8 Up by 1

The Distance
Cake
From the album: Fashion Nugget
Peak
8
Weeks
9
Number
9 Up by 2

Devils Haircut
Beck
From the album: Odelay
Peak
9
Weeks
10
Number
10

Ahead By A Century
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
10
Weeks
19
Number
11 Down by 3

You're One
Imperial Teen
From the album: Seasick
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
12 Up by 2

Daily Mutilation
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
12
Weeks
8
Number
13

This Misery
Wild Colonials
Peak
13
Weeks
12
Number
14 Down by 2

Throwaway
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
4
Weeks
22
Number
15 Up by 7

Mouth
Merril Bainbridge
From the album: The Garden
Peak
15
Weeks
11
Number
16

Whoever You Are
Geggy Tah
Peak
16
Weeks
15
Number
17 Up by 1

Bound For The Floor
Local H
From the album: As Good as Dead
Peak
17
Weeks
12
Number
18 Up by 8

Naked Eye
Luscious Jackson
From the album: Fever in Fever Out
Peak
18
Weeks
7
Number
19 Down by 4

Popular
Nada Surf
From the album: High / Low
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
20

E-Bow The Letter
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
19
Weeks
15
Number
21 Up by 3

Don't Wake Daddy
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
21
Weeks
9
Number
22 Down by 1

Soundtrack to Mary
Soul Coughing
From the album: Irresistible Bliss
Peak
21
Weeks
16
Number
23 Up by 2

Lady Picture Show
Stone Temple Pilots
From the album: Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Peak
23
Weeks
8
Number
24 Up by 3

Falling
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
24
Weeks
5
Number
25 Down by 8

6th Avenue Heartache
The Wallflowers
From the album: Bringing Down the Horse
Peak
11
Weeks
24
Number
26 Down by 3

Big Chair
Reacharound
Peak
23
Weeks
18
Number
27 Up by 2

Head Over Feet
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Jagged Little Pill
Peak
27
Weeks
7
Number
28

I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
From the album: Now in a Minute
Peak
28
Weeks
16
Number
29 Up by 10

Faster Pussycat to the Library!
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
29
Weeks
2
Number
30 Up by 7

Swallowed
Bush
From the album: Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition)
Peak
30
Weeks
3
Number
31 Up by 7

Love Rollercoaster
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Peak
31
Weeks
2
Number
32 Up by 1

Bittersweet Me
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
32
Weeks
6
Number
33 Down by 14

Only Talking Sense
The Finn Brothers
Peak
4
Weeks
23
Number
34

El Scorcho
Weezer
From the album: Pinkerton
Peak
34
Weeks
5
Number
35

Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
John Mellencamp
From the album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
Peak
35
Weeks
4
Number
36

Damage I've Done
The Heads featuring Johnette Napolitano
Peak
36
Weeks
4
Number
37 Debut

Ontario
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
37
Weeks
1
Number
38 Debut

#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper Remix)
Garbage
From the album: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture
Peak
38
Weeks
1
Number
39 Debut

Radiation Vibe
Fountains of Wayne
From the album: Fountains of Wayne
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40 Debut

Crash into Me
Dave Matthews Band
Peak
40
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
30 Dropout

The Golden Age
Cracker
From the album: The Golden Age
Peak
10
Weeks
23
Number
31 Dropout

All I Know
Screaming Trees
From the album: Dust
Peak
16
Weeks
21
Number
32 Dropout

Ohio Air Show Plane Crash
Joe Henry
From the album: Trampoline
Peak
32
Weeks
8
Number
40 Dropout

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

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Date

November 30, 1996

Songs

40

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1 1 Sam Phillips – “Power World” 1(×4) 10

2 2 Sheryl Crow – “If It Makes You Happy” 1(×3) 14

4 3 Matthew Sweet – “Dark Secret” 3 14

5 4 The Low & Sweet Orchestra – “Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get” 4 13

3 5 Eels – “Novocaine For The Soul” 3 17

6 6 The Virgin-Whore Complex – “Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)” 5 17

7 7 Ashley MacIsaac – “Sleepy Maggie” 7 11

9 8 Cake – “The Distance” 8 9

11 9 Beck – “Devils Haircut” 9 10

10 10 The Tragically Hip – “Ahead By A Century” 10 19

8 11 Imperial Teen – “You're One” 1(×3) 21

14 12 The Posies – “Daily Mutilation” 12 8

13 13 Wild Colonials – “This Misery” 13 12

12 14 The Posies – “Throwaway” 4 22

22 15 Merril Bainbridge – “Mouth” 15 11

16 16 Geggy Tah – “Whoever You Are” 16 15

18 17 Local H – “Bound For The Floor” 17 12

26 18 Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” 18 7

15 19 Nada Surf – “Popular” 1(×1) 22

20 20 R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” 19 15

24 21 The Tragically Hip – “Don't Wake Daddy” 21 9

21 22 Soul Coughing – “Soundtrack to Mary” 21 16

25 23 Stone Temple Pilots – “Lady Picture Show” 23 8

27 24 Semisonic – “Falling” 24 5

17 25 The Wallflowers – “6th Avenue Heartache” 11 24

23 26 Reacharound – “Big Chair” 23 18

29 27 Alanis Morissette – “Head Over Feet” 27 7

28 28 Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” 28 16

39 29 Sam Phillips – “Faster Pussycat to the Library!” 29 2

37 30 Bush – “Swallowed” 30 3

38 31 Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Love Rollercoaster” 31 2

33 32 R.E.M. – “Bittersweet Me” 32 6

19 33 The Finn Brothers – “Only Talking Sense” 4 23

34 34 Weezer – “El Scorcho” 34 5

35 35 John Mellencamp – “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)” 35 4

36 36 The Heads ft. Johnette Napolitano – “Damage I've Done” 36 4

NE 37 The Posies – “Ontario” 37 1

NE 38 Garbage – “#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper Remix)” 38 1

NE 39 Fountains of Wayne – “Radiation Vibe” 39 1

NE 40 Dave Matthews Band – “Crash into Me” 40 1

DROPOUTS:

30 -- Cracker – “The Golden Age” 10 23

31 -- Screaming Trees – “All I Know” 16 21

32 -- Joe Henry – “Ohio Air Show Plane Crash” 32 8

40 -- Belly (band) – “Broken” 1(×6) 26

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