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

Flagpole Sitta
Harvey Danger
From the album: Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
2

Inside Out
Eve 6
From the album: Eve 6
Peak
2
Weeks
20
Number
3

Medicine
Guster
From the album: Goldfly
Peak
3
Weeks
16
Number
4

Could Have Been Friends
This Perfect Day
Peak
4
Weeks
13
Number
5 Up by 1

Hooch
Everything
From the album: Super Natural
Peak
5
Weeks
14
Number
6 Down by 1

Jumper
Third Eye Blind
From the album: Third Eye Blind
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
7 Up by 2

Freak Magnet
Violent Femmes
Peak
7
Weeks
10
Number
8

California
Semisonic
From the album: Feeling Strangely Fine
Peak
8
Weeks
15
Number
9 Down by 2

Ray of Light
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
14
Number
10

Cigarettes and Alcohol
Rod Stewart
Peak
10
Weeks
13
Number
11

Sherry Fraser
Marcy Playground
From the album: Marcy Playground
Peak
11
Weeks
12
Number
12

Crown
The Connells
From the album: Still Life
Peak
12
Weeks
11
Number
13 Up by 1

Thirteen
Garbage
From the album: Version 2.0
Peak
13
Weeks
9
Number
14 Up by 1

Poets
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Phantom Power
Peak
14
Weeks
8
Number
15 Up by 2

It's Alright, Baby
Komeda
Peak
15
Weeks
7
Number
16

Truly Truly
Grant Lee Buffalo
Peak
16
Weeks
11
Number
17 Down by 4

Mr. Whisper
Pee Shy
Peak
2
Weeks
22
Number
18 Up by 1

I Think I'm Paranoid
Garbage
From the album: Version 2.0
Peak
18
Weeks
7
Number
19 Up by 4

Candy Perfume Girl
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
19
Weeks
6
Number
20 Up by 1

One Week
Barenaked Ladies
From the album: Stunt, Disc One 1991-2001: All Their Greatest Hits
Peak
20
Weeks
9
Number
21 Up by 3

Hand In Your Head
Money Mark
Peak
21
Weeks
8
Number
22

Airport Song
Guster
From the album: Goldfly
Peak
22
Weeks
18
Number
23 Up by 2

Wasting Away
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Peak
23
Weeks
7
Number
24 Up by 4

Polyester Bride
Liz Phair
From the album: Whitechocolatespaceegg
Peak
24
Weeks
3
Number
25 Down by 7

Saint Joe on the School Bus
Marcy Playground
From the album: Marcy Playground
Peak
6
Weeks
20
Number
26 Up by 1

She Will Have Her Way
Neil Finn
Peak
26
Weeks
5
Number
27 Down by 7

Closing Time
Semisonic
From the album: Feeling Strangely Fine
Peak
6
Weeks
24
Number
28 Up by 4

The Rockafeller Skank
Fatboy Slim
From the album: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Peak
28
Weeks
3
Number
29 Up by 5

El President
Drugstore
From the album: The Best Of Drugstore
Peak
29
Weeks
2
Number
30 Down by 4

King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1
Neutral Milk Hotel
From the album: In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Peak
10
Weeks
22
Number
31 Down by 2

Heroes
The Wallflowers
From the album: Godzilla: The Album
Peak
14
Weeks
16
Number
32 Up by 4

Push the Button
Money Mark
Peak
32
Weeks
3
Number
33

Space Lord
Monster Magnet
Peak
33
Weeks
10
Number
34 Up by 5

Goner W/ Souvenir
Richard Buckner
Peak
34
Weeks
2
Number
35

Save Tonight
Eagle-Eye Cherry
From the album: Desireless
Peak
35
Weeks
4
Number
36 Up by 4

First Lady Of Delaware
The Seymores
Peak
36
Weeks
2
Number
37

Hey Now Now
Swirl 360
Peak
37
Weeks
4
Number
38

Break It Up
Rocket from the Crypt
Peak
38
Weeks
2
Number
39 Down by 9

Palo Alto
Radiohead
From the album: OK COMPUTER OKNOTOK 1997 2017
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
23
Number
40 Debut

Stitches
Orgy
From the album: Candyass
Peak
40
Weeks
1

Dropouts

Number
31 Dropout

The Way
Fastball
From the album: All The Pain Money Can Buy
Peak
17
Weeks
25

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Date

August 15, 1998

Songs

40

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1 1 Harvey Danger – “Flagpole Sitta” 1(×3) 21

2 2 Eve 6 – “Inside Out” 2 20

3 3 Guster – “Medicine” 3 16

4 4 This Perfect Day – “Could Have Been Friends” 4 13

6 5 Everything – “Hooch” 5 14

5 6 Third Eye Blind – “Jumper” 1(×4) 21

9 7 Violent Femmes – “Freak Magnet” 7 10

8 8 Semisonic – “California” 8 15

7 9 Madonna – “Ray of Light” 1(×4) 14

10 10 Rod Stewart – “Cigarettes and Alcohol” 10 13

11 11 Marcy Playground – “Sherry Fraser” 11 12

12 12 The Connells – “Crown” 12 11

14 13 Garbage – “Thirteen” 13 9

15 14 The Tragically Hip – “Poets” 14 8

17 15 Komeda – “It's Alright, Baby” 15 7

16 16 Grant Lee Buffalo – “Truly Truly” 16 11

13 17 Pee Shy – “Mr. Whisper” 2 22

19 18 Garbage – “I Think I'm Paranoid” 18 7

23 19 Madonna – “Candy Perfume Girl” 19 6

21 20 Barenaked Ladies – “One Week” 20 9

24 21 Money Mark – “Hand In Your Head” 21 8

22 22 Guster – “Airport Song” 22 18

25 23 The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Wasting Away” 23 7

28 24 Liz Phair – “Polyester Bride” 24 3

18 25 Marcy Playground – “Saint Joe on the School Bus” 6 20

27 26 Neil Finn – “She Will Have Her Way” 26 5

20 27 Semisonic – “Closing Time” 6 24

32 28 Fatboy Slim – “The Rockafeller Skank” 28 3

34 29 Drugstore – “El President” 29 2

26 30 Neutral Milk Hotel – “King Of Carrot Flowers Pt. 1” 10 22

29 31 The Wallflowers – “Heroes” 14 16

36 32 Money Mark – “Push the Button” 32 3

33 33 Monster Magnet – “Space Lord” 33 10

39 34 Richard Buckner – “Goner W/ Souvenir” 34 2

35 35 Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight” 35 4

40 36 The Seymores – “First Lady Of Delaware” 36 2

37 37 Swirl 360 – “Hey Now Now” 37 4

38 38 Rocket from the Crypt – “Break It Up” 38 2

30 39 Radiohead – “Palo Alto ” 1(×3) 23

NE 40 Orgy – “Stitches” 40 1

DROPOUTS:

31 -- Fastball – “The Way” 17 25

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