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

Polyester Bride
Liz Phair
From the album: Whitechocolatespaceegg
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
11
Number
2

Freak Magnet
Violent Femmes
Peak
1 (for 2 weeks)
Weeks
18
Number
3

Crown
The Connells
From the album: Still Life
Peak
3
Weeks
19
Number
4

El President
Drugstore
From the album: The Best Of Drugstore
Peak
4
Weeks
10
Number
5

Could Have Been Friends
This Perfect Day
Peak
1 (for 3 weeks)
Weeks
21
Number
6

Sherry Fraser
Marcy Playground
From the album: Marcy Playground
Peak
6
Weeks
20
Number
7

It's Alright, Baby
Komeda
Peak
7
Weeks
15
Number
8

Goner W/ Souvenir
Richard Buckner
Peak
8
Weeks
10
Number
9

Poets
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Phantom Power
Peak
9
Weeks
16
Number
10 Up by 2

First Lady Of Delaware
The Seymores
Peak
10
Weeks
10
Number
11 Down by 1

Hooch
Everything
From the album: Super Natural
Peak
2
Weeks
22
Number
12 Up by 15

Yoo Hoo
Imperial Teen
From the album: What Is Not to Love
Peak
12
Weeks
3
Number
13

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

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

Push the Button
Money Mark
Peak
15
Weeks
11
Number
16 Up by 6

Circles
Soul Coughing
From the album: El Oso
Peak
16
Weeks
6
Number
17 Down by 6

Medicine
Guster
From the album: Goldfly
Peak
3
Weeks
24
Number
18

One Week
Barenaked Ladies
From the album: Stunt, Disc One 1991-2001: All Their Greatest Hits
Peak
18
Weeks
17
Number
19

The Rockafeller Skank
Fatboy Slim
From the album: You've Come a Long Way, Baby
Peak
19
Weeks
11
Number
20

She Will Have Her Way
Neil Finn
Peak
20
Weeks
13
Number
21

Stitches
Orgy
From the album: Candyass
Peak
21
Weeks
9
Number
22 Up by 1

Break It Up
Rocket from the Crypt
Peak
22
Weeks
10
Number
23 Up by 1

Fly Away
Lenny Kravitz
From the album: 5
Peak
23
Weeks
8
Number
24 Up by 1

My Favorite Mistake
Sheryl Crow
From the album: The Globe Sessions
Peak
24
Weeks
7
Number
25 Up by 1

Got You (Where I Want You)
The Flys
Peak
25
Weeks
6
Number
26 Down by 10

California
Semisonic
From the album: Feeling Strangely Fine
Peak
8
Weeks
23
Number
27 Down by 10

Thirteen
Garbage
From the album: Version 2.0
Peak
13
Weeks
17
Number
28 Up by 1

Waltz #2 (XO)
Elliott Smith
From the album: XO
Peak
28
Weeks
5
Number
29 Up by 2

The Power of Good-Bye
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
29
Weeks
4
Number
30 Up by 5

Sonic Bloom
Tripping Daisy
From the album: Jesus Hits Like the Atom Bomb
Peak
30
Weeks
2
Number
31 Down by 3

Ray of Light
Madonna
From the album: Ray of Light
Peak
1 (for 4 weeks)
Weeks
22
Number
32 Up by 1

Never There
Cake
From the album: Prolonging the Magic
Peak
32
Weeks
4
Number
33 Up by 3

Last Stop: This Town
Eels
From the album: Electro-Shock Blues
Peak
33
Weeks
3
Number
34 Down by 2

Save Tonight
Eagle-Eye Cherry
From the album: Desireless
Peak
32
Weeks
12
Number
35 Debut

Thank U
Alanis Morissette
From the album: Supposed Former Infatuation Junkie
Peak
35
Weeks
1
Number
36 Down by 2

Hand In Your Head
Money Mark
Peak
21
Weeks
16
Number
37 Debut

The Boy with the Arab Strap
Belle and Sebastian
From the album: The Boy With the Arab Strap
Peak
37
Weeks
1
Number
38 Debut

Club Montepulciano
Hooverphonic
Peak
38
Weeks
1
Number
39 Debut

Fireworks
The Tragically Hip
From the album: Phantom Power
Peak
39
Weeks
1
Number
40 Down by 10

Cigarettes and Alcohol
Rod Stewart
Peak
10
Weeks
21

Dropouts

Number
37 Dropout

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

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

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

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

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Date

October 10, 1998

Songs

40

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1 1 Liz Phair – “Polyester Bride” 1(×2) 11

2 2 Violent Femmes – “Freak Magnet” 1(×2) 18

3 3 The Connells – “Crown” 3 19

4 4 Drugstore – “El President” 4 10

5 5 This Perfect Day – “Could Have Been Friends” 1(×3) 21

6 6 Marcy Playground – “Sherry Fraser” 6 20

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

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

9 9 The Tragically Hip – “Poets” 9 16

12 10 The Seymores – “First Lady Of Delaware” 10 10

10 11 Everything – “Hooch” 2 22

27 12 Imperial Teen – “Yoo Hoo” 12 3

13 13 Madonna – “Candy Perfume Girl” 13 14

14 14 The Brian Jonestown Massacre – “Wasting Away” 14 15

15 15 Money Mark – “Push the Button” 15 11

22 16 Soul Coughing – “Circles” 16 6

11 17 Guster – “Medicine” 3 24

18 18 Barenaked Ladies – “One Week” 18 17

19 19 Fatboy Slim – “The Rockafeller Skank” 19 11

20 20 Neil Finn – “She Will Have Her Way” 20 13

21 21 Orgy – “Stitches” 21 9

23 22 Rocket from the Crypt – “Break It Up” 22 10

24 23 Lenny Kravitz – “Fly Away” 23 8

25 24 Sheryl Crow – “My Favorite Mistake” 24 7

26 25 The Flys – “Got You (Where I Want You)” 25 6

16 26 Semisonic – “California” 8 23

17 27 Garbage – “Thirteen” 13 17

29 28 Elliott Smith – “Waltz #2 (XO)” 28 5

31 29 Madonna – “The Power of Good-Bye” 29 4

35 30 Tripping Daisy – “Sonic Bloom” 30 2

28 31 Madonna – “Ray of Light” 1(×4) 22

33 32 Cake – “Never There” 32 4

36 33 Eels – “Last Stop: This Town” 33 3

32 34 Eagle-Eye Cherry – “Save Tonight” 32 12

NE 35 Alanis Morissette – “Thank U” 35 1

34 36 Money Mark – “Hand In Your Head” 21 16

NE 37 Belle and Sebastian – “The Boy with the Arab Strap” 37 1

NE 38 Hooverphonic – “Club Montepulciano” 38 1

NE 39 The Tragically Hip – “Fireworks” 39 1

30 40 Rod Stewart – “Cigarettes and Alcohol” 10 21

DROPOUTS:

37 -- Eve 6 – “Inside Out” 1(×1) 27

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

39 -- Fastball – “Fire Escape” 36 6

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

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