List of Radio & Records number-one adult alternative singles of the 1990s

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Adult Alternative Songs, also known as Triple A, is a record chart that ranks the most-played songs on American adult album alternative radio stations. Formulated based on each song's weekly total plays, the chart was introduced in the January 20, 1996 issue of Radio & Records magazine.^[1][2] Adult Alternative Songs, along with other Radio & Records airplay charts, was initially compiled using radio airplay data from Mediabase.^[3] In August 2006, Radio & Records was acquired by The Nielsen Company – then known as VNU Media – parent company of rival publication Billboard.^[4] Following the purchase, Nielsen Broadcast Data Systems replaced Mediabase in monitoring airplay for charts, beginning with the issue dated August 11, 2006.^[5][6] Billboard themselves introduced the chart in their July 5, 2008 issue, appropriating the same Nielsen data,^[2] and became its sole publisher after Radio & Records ceased publication in June 2009.^[7]

The Billboard website currently lists Adult Alternative Songs charts dating back to January 1996.^[8] These charts are based on data from a Triple A chart that had previously been published in the Billboard-owned Airplay Monitor magazine from that date until the acquisition of Radio & Records, and which had used Nielsen data that was largely similar to the Mediabase data used in the Radio & Records chart.

Number-one singles[]

Key

– Radio & Records year-end number-one single

↑ – Return of a single to number one

Single	Artist	Reached number one	Weeks at number one
"The World I Know"[9]	Collective Soul	January 20, 1996	1
"Waiting for Tonight"[10]	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	January 27, 1996	1
"The World I Know" ↑[11]	Collective Soul	February 3, 1996	3
"Follow You Down"[12]	Gin Blossoms	February 24, 1996	5
"Everything Falls Apart"[13]	Dog's Eye View	March 30, 1996	4
"Old Man & Me (When I Get to Heaven)"[14]	Hootie & the Blowfish	April 27, 1996	9
"Too Much"[15]	Dave Matthews Band	June 29, 1996	1
"Who Will Save Your Soul"[16]	Jewel	July 6, 1996	1
"Change the World"[17]	Eric Clapton	July 13, 1996	1
"Lack of Water"[18]	The Why Store	July 20, 1996	1
"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"[19]	Primitive Radio Gods	July 27, 1996	5
"Walls"[20]	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	August 31, 1996	2
"Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First)"[21]	John Mellencamp	September 14, 1996	6
"If It Makes You Happy"[22]	Sheryl Crow	October 26, 1996	1
"Barely Breathing"[23]	Duncan Sheik	November 2, 1996	1
"Bittersweet Me"[24]	R.E.M.	November 9, 1996	4
"One Headlight"[25]	The Wallflowers	December 7, 1996	8
"A Long December"[26]	Counting Crows	February 1, 1997	2
"One Headlight" ↑[27][28]	The Wallflowers	February 15, 1997	6
"Staring at the Sun"[29]	U2	March 29, 1997	7
"The Freshmen"[30]	The Verve Pipe	May 17, 1997	5
"Four Leaf Clover"[31]	Abra Moore	June 21, 1997	1
"A Change Would Do You Good"[32]	Sheryl Crow	June 28, 1997	6
"Building a Mystery"[33]	Sarah McLachlan	August 9, 1997	10
"Most Precarious"[34]	Blues Traveler	October 18, 1997	6
"3 AM"[35]	Matchbox 20	November 29, 1997	13
"The Mummers' Dance"[36]	Loreena McKennitt	February 28, 1998	1
"3 AM" ↑[37]	Matchbox 20	March 7, 1998	1
"My Father's Eyes"[38]	Eric Clapton	March 14, 1998	7
"Don't Drink the Water"[39]	Dave Matthews Band	May 2, 1998	1
"One Belief Away"[40]	Bonnie Raitt	May 9, 1998	1
"The Way"[41]	Fastball	May 16, 1998	3
"Kind & Generous"[42]	Natalie Merchant	June 6, 1998	7
"Stay (Wasting Time)"[43]	Dave Matthews Band	July 25, 1998	7
"Save Tonight"[44]	Eagle-Eye Cherry	September 12, 1998	2
"Please"[45]	Chris Isaak	September 26, 1998	2
"My Favorite Mistake"[46]	Sheryl Crow	October 10, 1998	4
"Lullaby"[47]	Shawn Mullins	November 7, 1998	3
"My Favorite Mistake" ↑[48]	Sheryl Crow	November 28, 1998	1
"Daysleeper"[49]	R.E.M.	December 5, 1998	2
"Slide"[50]	Goo Goo Dolls	December 19, 1998	6
"You Get What You Give"[51]	New Radicals	January 30, 1999	6
"Slide" ↑[52]	Goo Goo Dolls	March 13, 1999	1
"Every Morning"[53]	Sugar Ray	March 20, 1999	1
"Run"[54]	Collective Soul	March 27, 1999	3
"I'm Not Running Anymore"[55]	John Mellencamp	April 17, 1999	1
"Run" ↑[56]	Collective Soul	April 24, 1999	2
"Anything but Down"[57]	Sheryl Crow	May 8, 1999	5
"Room at the Top"[58]	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	June 12, 1999	4
"Smooth"[59][60]	Santana feat. Rob Thomas	July 10, 1999	13
"Angels Would Fall"[61]	Melissa Etheridge	October 9, 1999	3
"Hanginaround"[62]	Counting Crows	October 30, 1999	8
"The Great Beyond"[63]	R.E.M.	December 25, 1999	8

References[]

External links[]

• Adult Alternative Songs at Billboard