Billboard AC Chart Flashback: April 13, 1996

[johnm1120]

April 13, 1996

TW LW 2W Artist - Title (Final Peak)

01 01 01 Celine Dion - Because You Loved Me (From "Up Close & Personal") (1)
02 02 02 Mariah Carey & Boyz II Men - One Sweet Day (1)
03 03 03 Rod Stewart - So Far Away (2)
04 08 09 Seal - Don't Cry (4)
05 04 04 Elton John - Blessed (2)
06 06 06 The Tony Rich Project - Nobody Knows (2)
07 05 05 Take That - Back For Good (2)
08 09 17 Mariah Carey - Always Be My Baby (2)
09 07 10 Whitney Houston & CeCe Winans - Count on Me (From "Waiting to Exhale") (4)
10 18 22 Lionel Richie - Don't Wanna Lose You (5)

11 10 08 Madonna - You'll See (5)
12 12 15 Sophie B Hawkins - As I Lay Me Down (1)
13 14 13 Everything But the Girl - Missing (6)
14 13 16 Peter Cetera - Faithfully (13)
15 11 12 Seal - Kiss From a Rose (From "Batman Forever") (1)
16 15 14 Whitney Houston - Exhale (Shoop Shoop) (From "Waiting to Exhale) (5)
17 16 07 Phil Collins - Somewhere (7)
18 17 11 George Michael - Jesus To a Child (5)
19 20 21 Mary Chapin Carpenter - Grow Old With You (17)
20 19 18 Hootie & The Blowfish - Only Wanna Be With You (3)

21 21 19 Hootie & The Blowfish - Time (4)
22 22 23 Sophie B Hawkins - Only Love (The Ballad of Sleeping Beauty) (22)
23 24 26 Jann Arden - Insensitive (From "Bed of Roses") (4)
24 23 20 Selena - Dreaming of You (9)
25 25 24 Jim Brickman - By Heart (16)
26 29 ** Tina Arena - Chains (17)
27 28 27 Natalie Merchant - Wonder (18)
28 27 25 Michael Bolton - A Love So Beautiful (13)
29 DEBUT Gloria Estefan - Reach (5)
30 26 28 Amy Grant - The Things We Do For Love (24)


15 years ago this week, Celine Dion was in the middle of a record setting #1 run, while tributes and cover songs were everywhere including tributes from Rod Stewart (Carole King), Phil Collins (Westside Story) and Mary Chapin Carpenter (John Lennon). The Atlanta Olympic Games were being prepared and Gloria Estefan's theme from the games begins its run.

Another record run (at the time) taking place was Sophie B Hawkins, who was in the middle of a 67-week run on the chart. (The record would be broken by Eric Clapton the following year).

Of the songs in the top 10, Lionel Richie had the shortest run lasting 24 weeks. 5 songs on this week's chart lasted more than a year.

[Verisimilitude]

The most nostalgic period of the '90s. Great to see Madonna, Selena, Sophie B. Hawkins, and Mariah and Celine owning.

[esoteric76]

Was just listening to Seal's "Don't Cry" the other day. His work with Trevor Horn is just magical.

I was LIVING for that Peter Cetera "Faithfully" track. Still play that one a bunch, it's such an underrated gem, and it would mashup perfectly with Tom Petty's "Free Fallin'" :)

Nice to see Tina Arena here, even though her chart success in the US was criminally brief.

That Michael Bolton track was bottom-of-the-barrel for him.

Love Madonna's "You'll See." Epic.

Thanks for posting!