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THE ARC WEEKLY TOP 40 ARCHIVES:

TOP POP SONGS OF 1996: 101+
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101 Let's Make A Night To Remember Bryan Adams   12 10
102 Kissin' You Total   12 10
103 Too Much Dave Matthews Band Dave Matthews Band - Too Much (Single) 15 9
104 Chains Tina Arena   12 9
105 Bohemian Rhapsody The Braids   12 9
106 Blessed Elton John   15 8
107 All The Things (Your Man Won't Do) Joe   14 9
108 Doin It LL Cool J   16 9
109 At Night I Pray Wild Orchid   14 9
110 So Much To Say Dave Matthews Band Dave Matthews Band - So Much To Say (Single) 15 9
111 All Along Blessid Union Of Souls   14 8
112 Only Love (The Ballad Of Sleeping Beauty) Sophie B. Hawkins   14 8
113 Lucky Love Ace Of Base   16 8
114 Too Hot Coolio   12 8
115 Like A Woman Tony Rich Project   16 8
116 Get Together Big Mountain   19 8
117 No One Else Total   22 10
118 The Only Thing That Looks Good On Me Is You Bryan Adams   15 7
119 When Love And Hate Collide Def Leppard   17 7
120 In The Meantime Spacehog   23 5
121 Keep On, Keepin' On MC Lyte featuring Xscape   13 8
122 Touch Me, Tease Me Case featuring Foxy Brown   16 8
123 Why I Love You So Much Monica   15 8
124 Back To The World Tevin Campbell   15 7
125 Missing You Brandy, Tamia, Gladys
Knight & Chaka Khan		   16 7
126 Promises Broken Soul Asylum   19 7
127 I Got ID

from the EP Merkinball
ARC chart run: 28 - 22 - 20 - 16 - 18 - 27 - 32 - off		 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam - "I Got ID" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 16 7
128 Twenty Foreplay

from the LP Design Of A Decade 1986-96
ARC chart run: 38 - 32 - 27 - 24 - 18 - 16 - 26 - off		 Janet Jackson Janet Jackson - "Twenty Foreplay" (Single)
Amazon.mp3		 16 7
129 Tonight, Tonight Smashing Pumpkins   21 7
130 Someday All-4-One   16 7
131 Love Don't Live Here Anymore

from the LP Something To Remember
ARC chart run: 38 - 31 - 25 - 20 - 18 - 27 - off		 Madonna Madonna - "Love Don't Live Here Anymore" (Single) 18 6
132 Use Your Heart SWV   21 8
133 Oh Virginia Blessid Union Of Souls   18 7
134 Soon As I Get Home Faith Evans   23 7
135 Dance Into The Light Phil Collins   17 6
136 That Thing You Do! The Wonders   21 7
137 If I Ruled The World Nas   22 6
138 Woo-Hah! Got You All In Check Busta Rhymes   19 7
139 Cumbersome Seven Mary Three   24 6
140 I Will Survive Chantay Savage   23 6
141 Free As A Bird

from the LP Anthology 1
ARC chart run: 37 - 32 - 23 - 21 - 34 - 37 - off 		Beatles The Beatles - "Free As A Bird" (Single) 21 6
142 Wrong

from the LP Walking Wounded
ARC chart run: 37 - 32 - 28 - 25 - 23 - 33 - off 		Everything But The Girl Everything But The Girl - "Wrong" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 23 6
143 Earth Song Michael Jackson Michael Jackson - Earth Song (Single) 26 6
144 You Can Make History (Young Again) Elton John   22 6
145 Angeline Is Coming Home The Badlees   21 6
146 Angels Of The Silences Counting Crows   22 6
147 Peaches The Presidents Of The USA   27 5
148 Why Does It Hurt So Bad

from the Waiting To Exhale soundtrack
ARC chart run: 37 - 32 - 28 - 25 - 21 - off		 Whitney Houston Whitney Houston - "Why Does It Hurt So Bad" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 21 5
149 Fu-Gee-La

from the LP The Score
ARC chart run: 40 - 37 - 34 - 32 - 31 - 29 - off		 Fugees Fugees - "Fu-Gee-La" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 29 6
150 What Kind Of Man Would I Be Mint Condition   24 7
151 We Got It Immature (featuring Smooth)   30 5
152 E-Bow The Letter R.E.M.   20 6
153 Down 311   28 5
154 No Woman, No Cry

from the LP The Score
ARC chart run: 36 - 32 - 27 - 23 - 28 - off		 Fugees Fugees - "No Woman No Cry" (Single) 23 5
155 It's All The Way Live (Now) Coolio   24 5
156 I Like Montell Jordan
featuring Slick Rick		   22 5
157 The Things That You Do Gina Thompson   29 5
158 Don't Wanna Lose You

from the LP Louder Than Words
ARC chart run: 34 - 27 - 22 - 21 - off		 Lionel Richie Lionel Richie - "Don't Wanna Lose You" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 21 4
159 Get On Up Jodeci   25 4
160 Scary Kisses Voices Of The Beehive   24 4
161 Waiting For Wednesday Lisa Loeb Lisa Loeb & Nine Stories - "Waiting For Wednesday" (Single) 21 4
162 You Monifah   29 5
163 Ascension (Don't Ever Wonder) Maxwell   24 4
164 Mother Mother Tracy Bonham   34 3
165 5 O'clock Nonchalant   25 5
166 Where Do We Go From Here Deborah Cox   31 4
167 Machinehead Bush   29 5
168 Let's Play House Tha Dogg Pound
featuring Michel'le		   31 3
169 They Don't Care About Us Michael Jackson Michael Jackson - They Don't Care About Us (Single) 30 3
170 As Long As It Matters Gin Blossoms   30 4
171 Days Of Our Livez Bone Thugs-N-Harmony Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - "Days Of Our Livez" (Single) 25 4
172 Gold

from the LP The Gold Experience
ARC chart run: 35 - 27 - 26 - 38 - off		 Prince Prince - "Gold" (Single) 26 4
173 Falling Montell Jordan   29 3
174 Pepper Butthole Surfers   32 3
175 One By One Cher   34 2
176 Sister The Nixons   33 4
177 You Still Touch Me Sting   30 3
178 Street Dreams Nas   31 3
179 Never Leave Me Alone Nate Dogg featuring
Snoop Doggy Dogg		   28 4
180 If We Fall In Love Tonight Rod Stewart   30 3
181 Beyond The Invisible Enigma   31 3
182 Ready To Go Republica   28 4
183 Santa Monica (Watching The World Die) Everclear   32 2
184 Novocaine For The Soul The Eels   31 3
185 Swallowed Bush   34 2
186 Renee Lost Boyz   31 4
187 Who You Are

from the LP No Code
ARC chart run: 37 - 35 - 32 - off		 Pearl Jam Pearl Jam - "Who You Are" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 32 3
188 Hay Crucial Conflict   28 4
189 What's Love Got To Do With It Warren G.
featuring Adina Howard		   31 4
190 Tell Me Dru Hill   33 3
191 Only You 112 featuring
The Notorious B.I.G.		   29 4
192 Celebration Fun Factory   34 3
193 Bow Down Westside Connection   34 3
194 Rosealia Better Than Ezra   29 3
195 Visions Of A Sunset Shawn Stockman   30 2
196 All I Want Susanna Hoffs   32 3
197 What I Got Sublime   36 3
198 Inside Patti Rothberg   32 3
199 Where Do We Go From Here Vanessa Williams   36 2
200 Tres Delinquents Delinquent Habits   35 2
201 Sittin' On Top Of The World Da Brat   36 2
202 One And One Robert Miles   33 2
203 Halo Deep Blue Something   35 2
204 The 13th The Cure   35 2
205 Until It Sleeps Metallica   32 3
206 I Remember

from the LP The Remix Collection
ARC chart run: 39 - off		 Boyz II Men Boyz II Men - "I Remember" (Single) 39 1
207 Don't Look Back In Anger Oasis   39 1
208 Real Love

from the LP Anthology 2
ARC chart run: 38 - 34 - 30 - off		 Beatles   30 3
209 Touch Myself T-Boz   38 2
210 Big Bang Baby Stone Temple Pilots   36 2
211 Please Don't Go Immature   34 3
212 Get Money The Junior M.A.F.I.A.
featuring The Notorious B.I.G. 		  34 2
213 Satellite Dave Matthews Band   ** **
214 Ain't Never Gonna Give You Up Paula Abdul   37 2
215 Sexual Healing Max-A-Million   38 1
216 Po Pimp Do Or Die (featuring Twista)   38 2
217 Do You Want To Xscape   ** **
218 Brain Stew

from the LP Insomniac
ARC chart run: 38 - off		 Green Day Green Day - "Brain Stew" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 38 1
219 Waiting For Tonight Tom Petty &
The Heartbreakers		   37 2
220 A Thin Line Between Love And Hate H-Town   37 2
221 Blue LeAnn Rimes   36 2
222 The Child (Inside) Qkumba Zoo   35 2
223 Slow Jams Quincy Jones
featuring Babyface		   ** **
224 Your Secret Love Luther Vandross   ** **
225 Elevators (Me & You)

from the LP ATLiens
ARC chart run: 37 - off		 Outkast Outkast - "Elevators (Me & You)" (Single)
iTunes
Amazon.mp3		 37 1
226 I'm So Happy I Can't Stop Crying Sting   40 1
227 Don't Go Away Fun Factory   39 1



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