Weekly Rock Top 30 for August 24, 1996 |
| LW | TW | peaks: |
rock | pop |
| 1 | 1 | Who You Are | ▲ |
| Pearl Jam |
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| 5 | 2 | Down | 1 | 23 |
| 311 |
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| 6 | 3 | Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand | 1 | 4 |
| Primitive Radio Gods |
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| 7 | 4 | 6th Avenue Heartache | ▲ | 6 |
| The Wallflowers |
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| 2 | 5 | Burden In My Hand | 1 | 20 |
| Soundgarden |
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| 12 | 6 | Angry Johnny | 1 |
| Poe |
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| 8 | 7 | King Of New Orleans | 2 |
| Better Than Ezra |
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| 3 | 8 | All I Know | 3 |
| Screaming Trees |
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| 4 | 9 | Stupid Girl | 1 | 15 |
| Garbage |
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| 14 | 10 | Over Now | 8 |
| Alice In Chains |
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| 20 | 11 | Novocaine For The Soul | 1 | 24 |
| Eels |
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| 16 | 12 | But Anyway | ▲ | 24 |
| Blues Traveler |
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| 11 | 13 | So Much To Say | 10 | 18 |
| Dave Matthews Band |
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| 10 | 14 | Popular | 6 | 12 |
| Nada Surf |
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| 19 | 15 | Ready To Go | 6 |
| Republica |
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| 9 | 16 | Pepper | 1 | 13 |
| Butthole Surfers |
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| - | 17 | E-Bow The Letter | 2 |
| R.E.M. |
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| 22 | 18 | Shame | 10 |
| Stabbing Westward |
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| 13 | 19 | Where It's At | 5 | 19 |
| Beck |
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| 21 | 20 | Walls | ▲ |
| Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers |
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| 26 | 21 | Lack Of Water | ▲ |
| The Why Store |
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| 29 | 22 | Open Up Your Eyes | 5 |
| Tonic |
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| 27 | 23 | Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) | 21 | 4 |
| John Mellencamp |
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| 25 | 24 | Gold Dust Woman | 20 |
| Hole |
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| 18 | 25 | Good Friday | 12 |
| The Black Crowes |
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| - | 26 | One More Astronaut | 18 |
| I Mother Earth |
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| - | 27 | The One | 22 |
| Tracy Bonham |
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| - | 28 | What I Got | 1 | 12 |
| Sublime |
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| 15 | 29 | Until It Sleeps | 1 |
| Metallica |
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| 28 | 30 | Big Chair | 27 |
| Reacharound |
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