1996
- January 6 - Seven Mary Three - "Cumbersome" - 4 weeks
- February 3 - Collective Soul - "The World I Know" - 4 weeks
- March 2 - The Smashing Pumpkins - "1979" - 2 weeks
- March 16 - Everclear - "Santa Monica" - 3 weeks
- April 6 - Spacehog - "In the Meantime" - 4 weeks
- May 4 - Stone Temple Pilots - "Big Bang Baby" - 1 week
- May 11 - Collective Soul - "Where the River Flows" - 2 weeks
- May 25 - Van Halen - "Humans Being" - 2 weeks
- June 8 - Metallica - "Until It Sleeps" - 8 weeks ↓↑
- July 27 - Stone Temple Pilots - "Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart" - 4 weeks ↓↑
- August 31 - Soundgarden - "Burden in My Hand" - 5 weeks
- October 5 - Rush - "Test for Echo" - 3 weeks
- October 26 - Van Halen - "Me Wise Magic" - 6 weeks
- December 7 - Metallica - "Hero of the Day" - 3 weeks
- December 28 - Soundgarden - "Blow Up the Outside World" - 4 weeks ↓↑
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