RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (DUCKHEAD/popradiotop20.com) TOP POP SINGLES OF 1996*

No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month
 1 DON'T SPEAK-NO DOUBT-DECEMBER
 2 I LOVE YOU ALWAYS FOREVER-DONNA LEWIS-September
 3 GIVE ME ONE REASON-TRACY CHAPMAN-June 
 4 YOU LEARN-ALANIS MORISSETTE-July
 5 MISSING-EVERYTHING BUT THE GIRL-February
 6 NOBODY KNOWS-TONY RICH PROJECT-March
 7 DON'T LET GO (LOVE)-EN VOGUE-December 
 8 IRONIC-Alanis Morissette-March
 9 BECAUSE YOU LOVED ME-Celine Dion-April 
10 MOUTH-Merril Bainbridge-November
11 It's All Coming Back To Me Now-Celine Dion-October
12 Always Be My Baby-Mariah Carey-May 
13 Head Over Feet-Alanis Morissette-November 
14 Change The World-Eric Clapton-September
15 Killing Me Softly-Fugees & Lauryn Hill-June 
16 Who Will Save Your Soul-Jewel-August
17 Counting Blue Cars-Dishwalla-September
18 Where Do You Go-No Mercy-October 
19 Twisted-Keith Sweat-November 
20 If It Makes You Happy-Sheryl Crow-December 
21 One Of Us-Joan Osborne-February
22 Follow You Down-Gin Blossoms-April 
23 You're Makin' Me High-Toni Braxton-August
24 Wonder-Natalie Merchant-March
25 Time-Hootie & The Blowfish-January
26 Sweet Dreams-La Bouche-June 
27 Be My Lover-La Bouche-March 
28 The Earth,The Sun,The Rain-Color Me Badd-July
29 Old Man & Me (When I Get To Heaven)-Hootie & The Blowfish-May
30 The World I Know-Collective Soul-April
31 Everything Falls Apart-Dog's Eye View-May
32 Jealousy-Natalie Merchant-July
33 C'Mon N' Ride It (The Train)-Quad City DJ's-October  
34 Closer To Free-BoDeans-April 
35 Exhale (Shoop Shoop)-Whitney Houston-January
36 Insensitive-Jann Arden-July
37 When You Love A Woman-Journey-November
38 Macarena (Bayside Boys Mix)-Los Del Rio-July
39 Hook-Blues Traveler-March
40 Standing Outside A Broken Phone Booth With Money In My Hand-Primitive Radio Gods-September
41 Forever-Mariah Carey-August
42 Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)-John Mellencamp-October 
43 1979-The Smashing Pumpkins-April
44 Wonderwall-Oasis-March 
45 Sittin' Up In My Room-Brandy-April
46 Tucker's Town-Hootie & The Blowfish-August
47 Fly Like An Eagle-Seal-November 
48 Don't Cry-Seal-January
49 Champagne Supernova-Oasis-July
50 Spiderwebs-No Doubt-October 
51 This Is Your Night-Amber-December
52 Big Me-Foo Fighters-May
53 Fastlove-George Michael-May
54 Just Between You And Me-DC Talk-November
55 I Want To Come Over-Melissa Etheridge-March
56 Theme From Mission: Impossible-Adam Clayton & Larry Mullen-June 
57 Get Together-Big Mountain-January 
58 Free To Decide-The Cranberries-September
59 Chains-Tina Arena-May
60 The Grease Megamix-John Travolta & Olivia Newton-John-December
61 That Girl-Maxi Priest & Shaggy-September
62 Fallin' In Love-La Bouche-November 
63 My Boo-Ghost Town DJs-October
64 Children-Robert Miles-July
65 Betcha By Golly Wow-Prince-December 
66 Birmingham-Amanda Marshall-April
67 Lucky Love-Ace Of Base-April
68 I Can't Sleep Baby (If I)-R.Kelly-August
69 Oh Virginia-Blessid Union Of Souls-February
70 Nowhere To Go-Melissa Etheridge-October
71 Jesus To A Child-George Michael-February
72 Angeline Is Coming Home-Badlees-May
73 Only Love (The Ballad Of Sleeping Beauty)-Sophie B.hawkins-April
74 Flood-Jars Of Clay-July
75 Tha Crossroads-Bone Thugs-n-Harmony-June
76 Your Loving Arms-Billie Ray Martin-June
77A All Along-Blessid Union Of Souls-July
77B Anything-3T-February
77C Let's Make A Night To Remember-Bryan Adams-October
77D Tell Me-Groove Theory-February

* Here is how Duckhead calculated this chart from Radio and Record charts.

Points
Points for the yearly charts are calculated using inverse points from the weekly charts.
Each week, the # 1 song gets 20 points, the # 2 song gets 19 points, # 3 gets 18, and so on.
The # 20 song gets 1 point.
Each song's points are added up for each week to reach the total.
A song's entire chart run will be used for the yearly chart.
Songs appear on the yearly chart corresponding to the year they peak on the weekly charts.
Tie-Breakers
For songs that tie in points on the yearly charts, the following tie-breakers are used:
1. Most weeks at # 1
2. Most weeks at # 2
3. Most weeks at # 3
4. Most weeks at # 4
5. Etc.
If songs remain tied after all 20 tie-breakers, then they will be listed as tied on the yearly chart.
Tied songs appear in alphabetical order, and are marked by letters, for example: 94A and 94B.