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 6 weeks)
Weeks
12
Number
2

Dark Secret
Matthew Sweet
From the album: The Craft Soundtrack
Peak
2
Weeks
16
Number
3

Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get
The Low & Sweet Orchestra
From the album: Goodbye To All That
Peak
3
Weeks
15
Number
4 Up by 1

The Distance
Cake
From the album: Fashion Nugget
Peak
4
Weeks
11
Number
5 Down by 1

If It Makes You Happy
Sheryl Crow
From the album: Sheryl Crow
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
16
Number
6 Up by 1

Sleepy Maggie
Ashley MacIsaac
Peak
6
Weeks
13
Number
7 Down by 1

Novocaine For The Soul
Eels
From the album: Beautiful Freak
Peak
3
Weeks
19
Number
8

Devils Haircut
Beck
From the album: Odelay
Peak
8
Weeks
12
Number
9

Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)
The Virgin-Whore Complex
Peak
5
Weeks
19
Number
10 Up by 1

Daily Mutilation
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
10
Weeks
10
Number
11 Up by 4

Naked Eye
Luscious Jackson
From the album: Fever in Fever Out
Peak
11
Weeks
9
Number
12 Up by 1

This Misery
Wild Colonials
Peak
12
Weeks
14
Number
13 Down by 3

Ahead By A Century
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
10
Weeks
21
Number
14

Mouth
Merril Bainbridge
From the album: The Garden
Peak
14
Weeks
13
Number
15 Down by 3

You're One
Imperial Teen
From the album: Seasick
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
16

Whoever You Are
Geggy Tah
Peak
16
Weeks
17
Number
17

Bound For The Floor
Local H
From the album: As Good as Dead
Peak
17
Weeks
14
Number
18

Don't Wake Daddy
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Trouble at the Henhouse
Peak
18
Weeks
11
Number
19

Lady Picture Show
Stone Temple Pilots
From the album: Tiny Music...Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop
Peak
19
Weeks
10
Number
20

Falling
Semisonic
From the album: Great Divide
Peak
20
Weeks
7
Number
21 Up by 1

Faster Pussycat to the Library!
Sam Phillips
From the album: Omnipop (It's Only a Flesh Wound Lambchop)
Peak
21
Weeks
4
Number
22 Down by 1

E-Bow The Letter
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
19
Weeks
17
Number
23 Up by 1

Head Over Feet
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Jagged Little Pill
Peak
23
Weeks
9
Number
24 Up by 2

Swallowed
Bush
From the album: Razorblade Suitcase (In Addition)
Peak
24
Weeks
5
Number
25 Up by 4

#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper Remix)
Garbage
From the album: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet: Music from the Motion Picture
Peak
25
Weeks
3
Number
26 Up by 1

Love Rollercoaster
Red Hot Chili Peppers
Peak
26
Weeks
4
Number
27 Up by 6

Ontario
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
27
Weeks
3
Number
28 Down by 5

Throwaway
The Posies
From the album: Amazing Disgrace
Peak
4
Weeks
24
Number
29 Up by 7

Radiation Vibe
Fountains of Wayne
From the album: Fountains of Wayne
Peak
29
Weeks
3
Number
30 Up by 1

Bittersweet Me
R.E.M.
From the album: New Adventures in Hi-Fi
Peak
30
Weeks
8
Number
31 Up by 8

Lovefool
The Cardigans
From the album: First Band on the Moon
Peak
31
Weeks
2
Number
32 Up by 8

A Long December
Counting Crows
From the album: Recovering the Satellites
Peak
32
Weeks
2
Number
33 Up by 1

Damage I've Done
The Heads featuring Johnette Napolitano
Peak
33
Weeks
6
Number
34 Down by 9

Popular
Nada Surf
From the album: High / Low
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
24
Number
35

Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)
John Mellencamp
From the album: Mr. Happy Go Lucky
Peak
35
Weeks
6
Number
36 Up by 1

Crash into Me
Dave Matthews Band
Peak
36
Weeks
3
Number
37 Down by 9

Soundtrack to Mary
Soul Coughing
From the album: Irresistible Bliss
Peak
21
Weeks
18
Number
38 Down by 8

Big Chair
Reacharound
Peak
23
Weeks
20
Number
39 Down by 7

I Love You Always Forever
Donna Lewis
From the album: Now in a Minute
Peak
28
Weeks
18
Number
40 Debut

Fire Water Burn
Bloodhound Gang
From the album: One Fierce Beer Coaster
Peak
40
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
38 Dropout

El Scorcho
Weezer
From the album: Pinkerton
Peak
34
Weeks
6

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Date

December 14, 1996

Songs

40

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1 1 Sam Phillips – “Power World” 1(×6) 12

2 2 Matthew Sweet – “Dark Secret” 2 16

3 3 The Low & Sweet Orchestra – “Sometimes The Truth Is All You Get” 3 15

5 4 Cake – “The Distance” 4 11

4 5 Sheryl Crow – “If It Makes You Happy” 1(×3) 16

7 6 Ashley MacIsaac – “Sleepy Maggie” 6 13

6 7 Eels – “Novocaine For The Soul” 3 19

8 8 Beck – “Devils Haircut” 8 12

9 9 The Virgin-Whore Complex – “Four-Alarm Fire (In Lovers' Lane)” 5 19

11 10 The Posies – “Daily Mutilation” 10 10

15 11 Luscious Jackson – “Naked Eye” 11 9

13 12 Wild Colonials – “This Misery” 12 14

10 13 The Tragically Hip – “Ahead By A Century” 10 21

14 14 Merril Bainbridge – “Mouth” 14 13

12 15 Imperial Teen – “You're One” 1(×3) 23

16 16 Geggy Tah – “Whoever You Are” 16 17

17 17 Local H – “Bound For The Floor” 17 14

18 18 The Tragically Hip – “Don't Wake Daddy” 18 11

19 19 Stone Temple Pilots – “Lady Picture Show” 19 10

20 20 Semisonic – “Falling” 20 7

22 21 Sam Phillips – “Faster Pussycat to the Library!” 21 4

21 22 R.E.M. – “E-Bow The Letter” 19 17

24 23 Alanis Morissette – “Head Over Feet” 23 9

26 24 Bush – “Swallowed” 24 5

29 25 Garbage – “#1 Crush (Nellee Hooper Remix)” 25 3

27 26 Red Hot Chili Peppers – “Love Rollercoaster” 26 4

33 27 The Posies – “Ontario” 27 3

23 28 The Posies – “Throwaway” 4 24

36 29 Fountains of Wayne – “Radiation Vibe” 29 3

31 30 R.E.M. – “Bittersweet Me” 30 8

39 31 The Cardigans – “Lovefool” 31 2

40 32 Counting Crows – “A Long December” 32 2

34 33 The Heads ft. Johnette Napolitano – “Damage I've Done” 33 6

25 34 Nada Surf – “Popular” 1(×1) 24

35 35 John Mellencamp – “Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)” 35 6

37 36 Dave Matthews Band – “Crash into Me” 36 3

28 37 Soul Coughing – “Soundtrack to Mary” 21 18

30 38 Reacharound – “Big Chair” 23 20

32 39 Donna Lewis – “I Love You Always Forever” 28 18

NE 40 Bloodhound Gang – “Fire Water Burn” 40 1

DROPOUTS:

38 -- Weezer – “El Scorcho” 34 6

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