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

Polyester Bride
Liz Phair
From the album: Whitechocolatespaceegg
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
10
Number
2 Down by 1

Freak Magnet
Violent Femmes
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
17
Number
3

Crown
The Connells
From the album: Still Life
Peak
3
Weeks
18
Number
4 Up by 1

El President
Drugstore
From the album: The Best Of Drugstore
Peak
4
Weeks
9
Number
5 Down by 1

Could Have Been Friends
This Perfect Day
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
20
Number
6

Sherry Fraser
Marcy Playground
From the album: Marcy Playground
Peak
6
Weeks
19
Number
7

It's Alright, Baby
Komeda
Peak
7
Weeks
14
Number
8 Up by 2

Goner W/ Souvenir
Richard Buckner
Peak
8
Weeks
9
Number
9

Poets
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Phantom Power
Peak
9
Weeks
15
Number
10 Down by 2

Hooch
Everything
From the album: Super Natural
Peak
2
Weeks
21
Number
11

Medicine
Guster
From the album: Goldfly
Peak
3
Weeks
23
Number
12 Up by 5

First Lady Of Delaware
The Seymores
Peak
12
Weeks
9
Number
13

Candy Perfume Girl
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
13
Weeks
13
Number
14

Wasting Away
The Brian Jonestown Massacre
Peak
14
Weeks
14
Number
15

Push the Button
Money Mark
Peak
15
Weeks
10
Number
16 Down by 4

California
Semisonic
From the album: Feeling Strangely Fine
Peak
8
Weeks
22
Number
17 Down by 1

Thirteen
Garbage
From the album: Version 2.0
Peak
13
Weeks
16
Number
18

One Week
Barenaked Ladies
From the album: Stunt, Disc One 1991-2001: All Their Greatest Hits
Peak
18
Weeks
16
Number
19

The Rockafeller Skank
Fatboy Slim
From the album: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Peak
19
Weeks
10
Number
20

She Will Have Her Way
Neil Finn
Peak
20
Weeks
12
Number
21 Up by 1

Stitches
Orgy
From the album: Candyass
Peak
21
Weeks
8
Number
22 Up by 2

Circles
Soul Coughing
From the album: El Oso
Peak
22
Weeks
5
Number
23

Break It Up
Rocket from the Crypt
Peak
23
Weeks
9
Number
24 Up by 1

Fly Away
Lenny Kravitz
From the album: 5
Peak
24
Weeks
7
Number
25 Up by 4

My Favorite Mistake
Sheryl Crow
From the album: The Globe Sessions
Peak
25
Weeks
6
Number
26 Up by 5

Got You (Where I Want You)
The Flys
Peak
26
Weeks
5
Number
27 Up by 6

Yoo Hoo
Imperial Teen
From the album: What Is Not to Love
Peak
27
Weeks
2
Number
28 Down by 2

Ray of Light
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
29 Up by 5

Waltz #2 (XO)
Elliott Smith
From the album: XO
Peak
29
Weeks
4
Number
30 Down by 9

Cigarettes and Alcohol
Rod Stewart
Peak
10
Weeks
20
Number
31 Up by 4

The Power of Good-Bye
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
31
Weeks
3
Number
32

Save Tonight
Eagle-Eye Cherry
From the album: Desireless
Peak
32
Weeks
11
Number
33 Up by 3

Never There
Cake
From the album: Prolonging the Magic
Peak
33
Weeks
3
Number
34 Down by 4

Hand In Your Head
Money Mark
Peak
21
Weeks
15
Number
35 Debut

Sonic Bloom
Tripping Daisy
From the album: Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
Peak
35
Weeks
1
Number
36 Up by 4

Last Stop: This Town
Eels
From the album: Electro-Shock Blues
Peak
36
Weeks
2
Number
37 Down by 10

Inside Out
Eve 6
From the album: Eve 6
Peak
1 (for 1 weeks)
Weeks
27
Number
38 Down by 10

Flagpole Sitta
Harvey Danger
From the album: Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone?
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
28
Number
39 Down by 2

Fire Escape
Fastball
From the album: All The Pain Money Can Buy
Peak
36
Weeks
6
Number
40 Down by 2

I Think I'm Paranoid
Garbage
From the album: Version 2.0
Peak
17
Weeks
14

Dropouts

Number
39 Dropout

Truly Truly
Grant Lee Buffalo
Peak
16
Weeks
17

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Date

October 3, 1998

Songs

40

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2 1 Liz Phair – “Polyester Bride” 1(×1) 10

1 2 Violent Femmes – “Freak Magnet” 1(×2) 17

3 3 The Connells – “Crown” 3 18

5 4 Drugstore – “El President” 4 9

4 5 This Perfect Day – “Could Have Been Friends” 1(×3) 20

6 6 Marcy Playground – “Sherry Fraser” 6 19

7 7 Komeda – “It's Alright, Baby” 7 14

10 8 Richard Buckner – “Goner W/ Souvenir” 8 9

9 9 The Tragically Hip – “Poets” 9 15

8 10 Everything – “Hooch” 2 21

11 11 Guster – “Medicine” 3 23

17 12 The Seymores – “First Lady Of Delaware” 12 9

13 13 Madonna – “Candy Perfume Girl” 13 13

14 14 The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Wasting Away” 14 14

15 15 Money Mark – “Push the Button” 15 10

12 16 Semisonic – “California” 8 22

16 17 Garbage – “Thirteen” 13 16

18 18 Barenaked Ladies – “One Week” 18 16

19 19 Fatboy Slim – “The Rockafeller Skank” 19 10

20 20 Neil Finn – “She Will Have Her Way” 20 12

22 21 Orgy – “Stitches” 21 8

24 22 Soul Coughing – “Circles” 22 5

23 23 Rocket from the Crypt – “Break It Up” 23 9

25 24 Lenny Kravitz – “Fly Away” 24 7

29 25 Sheryl Crow – “My Favorite Mistake” 25 6

31 26 The Flys – “Got You (Where I Want You)” 26 5

33 27 Imperial Teen – “Yoo Hoo” 27 2

26 28 Madonna – “Ray of Light” 1(×4) 21

34 29 Elliott Smith – “Waltz #2 (XO)” 29 4

21 30 Rod Stewart – “Cigarettes and Alcohol” 10 20

35 31 Madonna – “The Power of Good-Bye” 31 3

32 32 Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight” 32 11

36 33 Cake – “Never There” 33 3

30 34 Money Mark – “Hand In Your Head” 21 15

NE 35 Tripping Daisy – “Sonic Bloom” 35 1

40 36 Eels – “Last Stop: This Town” 36 2

27 37 Eve 6 – “Inside Out” 1(×1) 27

28 38 Harvey Danger – “Flagpole Sitta” 1(×3) 28

37 39 Fastball – “Fire Escape” 36 6

38 40 Garbage – “I Think I'm Paranoid” 17 14

DROPOUTS:

39 -- Grant Lee Buffalo – “Truly Truly” 16 17

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