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Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996

The year-end countdown for 1996 from Radio & Records in United States (national airplay chart) ranks 96 songs, with “Counting Blue Cars” by Dishwalla at number one. The list features 70 different artists; The Smashing Pumpkins has the most entries with four songs.

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1 Counting Blue Cars Dishwalla 36 #1
2 Pepper Butthole Surfers 76 #1
3 Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart Stone Temple Pilots 50 #1
4 Spiderwebs No Doubt 56 #3
5 Machinehead Bush 78 #1
6 Down 311 71 #1
7 In The Meantime Spacehog 60 #7
8 Stupid Girl Garbage 54 #4
9 Santa Monica Everclear 90 #3
10 Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth With Money in My Hand Primitive Radio Gods 44 #8
11 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham 26 #11
12 Burden in My Hand Soundgarden 55 #4
13 Tonight, Tonight The Smashing Pumpkins 98 #4
14 Big Me Foo Fighters 48 #14
15 Champagne Supernova Oasis 91 #11
16 What I Got Sublime 106 #1
17 Novocaine for the Soul The Eels 39 #16
18 1979 The Smashing Pumpkins 115 #2
19 Where It's At Beck 85 #2
20 Ironic Alanis Morissette 35 #20
21 Brain Stew Green Day 61 #8
22 Salvation The Cranberries 31 #22
23 Here in Your Bedroom Goldfinger 41 #12
24 Photograph The Verve Pipe 23 #24
25 Big Bang Baby Stone Temple Pilots 44 #12
26 Wonderwall Oasis 142 #1
27 Angry Johnny Poe 31 #11
28 Pretty Noose Soundgarden 28 #6
29 Just A Girl No Doubt 78 #2
30 Banditos The Refreshments 30 #30
31 Too Much Dave Matthews Band 31 #7
32 Sister The Nixons 10 #32
33 Tahitian Moon Porno for Pyros 15 #9
34 I Was Wrong Social Distortion 36 #29
35 6th Avenue Heartache The Wallflowers 26 #18
36 King of New Orleans Better Than Ezra 13 #36
37 What Do I Have To Do? Stabbing Westward 28 #9
38 Ready To Go Republica 40 #26
39 Flood Jars of Clay 25 #36
40 Who Will Save Your Soul Jewel 20 #18
41 Heaven Beside You Alice In Chains 56 #39
42 Only Happy When It Rains Garbage 69 #9
43 You Learn Alanis Morissette 20 #7
44 Zero The Smashing Pumpkins 49 #3
45 Aeroplane Red Hot Chili Peppers 45 #28
46 Guilty Gravity Kills 20 #5
47 The Distance Cake 91 #1
48 If It Makes You Happy Sheryl Crow 25 #40
49 Follow You Down Gin Blossoms 4 #49
50 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three 59 #15
51 Naked Goo Goo Dolls 14 #41
52 Bound for the Floor Local H 59 #10
53 Don't Look Back in Anger Oasis 74 #1
54 Muzzle The Smashing Pumpkins 17 #20
55 Glycerine Bush 118 #1
56 All I Know Screaming Trees 24 #5
57 Natural One Folk Implosion 58 #15
58 Shame Stabbing Westward 10 #30
59 Free To Decide The Cranberries 14 #35
60 Popular Nada Surf 29 #36
61 Who You Are Pearl Jam 23 #50
62 Inside Patti Rothberg 4 #52
63 Sucked Out Superdrag 20 #29
64 Angels of the Silences Counting Crows 14 #55
65 Swallowed Bush 42 #16
66 Don't Speak No Doubt 58 #3
67 The World I Know Collective Soul 38 #14
68 Bulls on Parade Rage Against the Machine 70 #5
69 Peaches The Presidents of the United States of America 35 #26
70 Scooby Snacks Fun Lovin' Criminals 24 #14
71 So Much To Say Dave Matthews Band 33 #13
72 Bittersweet Me R.E.M. 8 #47
73 Everything Falls Apart Dog's Eye View 5 #73
74 I Got Id Pearl Jam 28 #20
75 Heartspark Dollar Sign Everclear 16 #11
76 Hail Hail Pearl Jam 16 #26
77 But Anyway Blues Traveler 24 #44
78 All Mixed Up 311 64 #10
79 E-Bow the Letter R.E.M. 8 #71
80 Caught A Lite Sneeze Tori Amos 22 #41
81 Mint Car The Cure 15 #24
82 Possum Kingdom Toadies 69 #4
83 Over Now Alice In Chains 24 #28
84 Whoever You Are Geggy Tah 33 #20
85 Sweet Lover Hangover Love and Rockets 16 #72
86 Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) Sponge 9 #67
87 Lady Picture Show Stone Temple Pilots 35 #36
88 A Common Disaster Cowboy Junkies 6 #75
89 Devil's Haircut Beck 59 #29
90 Blow Up the Outside World Soundgarden 34 #34
91 Long Way Down Goo Goo Dolls 4 #91
92 If I Could Talk I'd Tell You The Lemonheads 13 #23
93 Ladykillers Lush 20 #21
94 Aneurysm Nirvana 29 #12
95 Love Untold Paul Westerberg 3 #95
96 Open Up Your Eyes Tonic 9 #43

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Radio & Records Top 96 Songs of 1996 was broadcast by Radio & Records (United States (national airplay chart)). Positions are shown exactly as the station ranked them; artist and song names have been standardized so that every entry links to that song’s complete chart history across all stations. It counts toward the Alternative & Modern Rock rankings.

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