Weekly Rock Top 30 for August 3, 1996 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 4 | 1 | Burden In My Hand | ▲ | 20 |
| Soundgarden |
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| 2 | 2 | Stupid Girl | 1 | 15 |
| Garbage |
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| 1 | 3 | Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand | 1 | 4 |
| Primitive Radio Gods |
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| 9 | 4 | All I Know | 3 |
| Screaming Trees |
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| 7 | 5 | Pepper | 1 | 13 |
| Butthole Surfers |
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| 5 | 6 | Where It's At | 5 | 19 |
| Beck |
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| 3 | 7 | Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart | 1 | 22 |
| Stone Temple Pilots |
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| 6 | 8 | Popular | 6 | 12 |
| Nada Surf |
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| 25 | 9 | Who You Are | 1 |
| Pearl Jam |
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| 8 | 10 | Tonight, Tonight | 3 | 17 |
| The Smashing Pumpkins |
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| 12 | 11 | Down | 1 | 23 |
| 311 |
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| 17 | 12 | Sucked Out | ▲ |
| Superdrag |
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| 11 | 13 | Until It Sleeps | 1 |
| Metallica |
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| 19 | 14 | 6th Avenue Heartache | 4 | 6 |
| The Wallflowers |
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| 14 | 15 | Free To Decide | 9 | 17 |
| The Cranberries |
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| 13 | 16 | Long Way Down | 13 |
| Goo Goo Dolls |
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| 15 | 17 | Good Friday | 12 |
| The Black Crowes |
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| 10 | 18 | Wax Ecstatic (To Sell Angelina) | 10 |
| Sponge |
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| 20 | 19 | But Anyway | 12 | 24 |
| Blues Traveler |
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| 28 | 20 | Gold Dust Woman | ▲ |
| Hole |
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| 23 | 21 | Skin & Bones | ▲ |
| The Hazies |
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| - | 22 | King Of New Orleans | 2 |
| Better Than Ezra |
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| 26 | 23 | So Much To Say | 10 | 18 |
| Dave Matthews Band |
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| 29 | 24 | Angry Johnny | 1 |
| Poe |
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| 27 | 25 | Lack Of Water | 21 |
| The Why Store |
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| 24 | 26 | Shame | 10 |
| Stabbing Westward |
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| - | 27 | Over Now | 8 |
| Alice In Chains |
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| - | 28 | Ain't My Bitch | 26 |
| Metallica |
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| 21 | 29 | Who Will Save Your Soul | 21 | 4 |
| Jewel |
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| 30 | 30 | Counting Blue Cars | 1 | 2 |
| Dishwalla |
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