brown #
= weekly rock chart peak
blue #
= pop chart peak
| 1 | Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand | 1 | 4 | Jul 1996 |  |
| Primitive Radio Gods |
| 2 | 1979 | 1 | 3 | Dec 1995 | |
| The Smashing Pumpkins |
| 3 | Pepper | 1 | 13 | Jun 1996 | |
| Butthole Surfers |
| 4 | Trippin' On A Hole In A Paper Heart | 1 | 22 | Jun 1996 | |
| Stone Temple Pilots |
| 5 | In The Meantime | 1 | 11 | Feb 1996 | |
| Spacehog |
| 6 | Down | 1 | 23 | Aug 1996 | |
| 311 |
| 7 | The World I Know | 1 | 7 | Jan 1996 | |
| Collective Soul |
| 8 | Ironic | 1 | 1 | Mar 1996 | |
| Alanis Morissette |
| 9 | Blow Up The Outside World | 1 | Dec 1996 | |
| Soundgarden |
| 10 | Santa Monica (Watch The World Die) | 1 | 14 | Feb 1996 | |
| Everclear |
| 11 | Swallowed | 1 | 20 | Nov 1996 | |
| Bush |
| 12 | What I Got | 1 | 12 | Oct 1996 | |
| Sublime |
| 13 | Lady Picture Show | 1 | 21 | Dec 1996 | |
| Stone Temple Pilots |
| 14 | Novocaine For The Soul | 1 | 24 | Sep 1996 | |
| Eels |
| 15 | Wonderwall | 1 | 2 | Jan 1996 | |
| Oasis |
| 16 | Burden In My Hand | 1 | 20 | Aug 1996 | |
| Soundgarden |
| 17 | Machinehead | 1 | 16 | Apr 1996 | |
| Bush |
| 18 | Big Me | 1 | 3 | Mar 1996 | |
| Foo Fighters |
| 19 | Stupid Girl | 1 | 15 | Aug 1996 | |
| Garbage |
| 20 | Until It Sleeps | 1 | Jun 1996 | |
| Metallica |
| 21 | Hero Of The Day | 1 | Oct 1996 | |
| Metallica |
| 22 | Big Bang Baby | 1 | 14 | Mar 1996 | |
| Stone Temple Pilots |
| 23 | Counting Blue Cars | 1 | 2 | May 1996 | |
| Dishwalla |
| 24 | Brain Stew/Jaded | 1 | 17 | Feb 1996 | |
| Green Day |
| 25 | Heaven Beside You | 1 | 26 | Feb 1996 | |
| Alice In Chains |