List of RPM number-one alternative rock singles

This is a list of RPM magazine's Rock/Alternative number-one singles of its entire publication from June 11, 1995, to November 6, 2000. There are also some records listed.

Records

Consecutive weeks at #1 The Tragically Hip – "Poets" (12) Marcy Playground – "Sex and Candy (7) Filter – "Take a Picture" (7) U2 – "Beautiful Day" (7) The Wallflowers – "Heroes" (6) The Tea Party – "Heaven Coming Down" (6) Foo Fighters – "Learn to Fly" (6) Red Hot Chili Peppers – "Otherside" (6) Non-consecutive weeks at #1 3 Doors Down – "Kryptonite" (10) Marcy Playground – "Sex and Candy" (8) Filter – "Take a Picture" (8) Foo Fighters – "Learn to Fly" (7) Soundgarden – "Pretty Noose" (6) Days of the New – "Enemy" (6) Smash Mouth – "Walkin' on the Sun" (5)

Most songs to reach #1 The Smashing Pumpkins (5) Red Hot Chili Peppers (5) U2 (5) Green Day (4) Oasis (4) Bush (3) Pearl Jam (3) Everclear (3) Cumulative weeks at #1 Red Hot Chili Peppers (20) U2 (18) Tragically Hip (13) Smashing Pumpkins (10) Soundgarden (9)

• Additionally, "Anybody Seen My Baby?" by The Rolling Stones is the only song to ever have debuted at the top spot.

Chart history

Issue date	Song	Artist	Weeks at No. 1	Ref(s)
June 11, 1995	"More Human than Human"	White Zombie	1	[1]
June 19, 1995	"Misery"	Soul Asylum	3	[2]
July 10, 1995	"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me, Kill Me"	U2	2	[3]
July 24, 1995	"This Is a Call"	Foo Fighters	4	[4]
August 21, 1995	"Tomorrow"	Silverchair	3	[5]
September 11, 1995	"J.A.R."	Green Day	1	[6]
September 18, 1995	"Comedown"	Bushx	2	[7]
October 2, 1995	"Lump"	The Presidents of the United States of America	1	[8]
October 9, 1995	"Name"	Goo Goo Dolls	1	[9]
October 16, 1995	"Geek Stink Breath"	Green Day	3	[10]
November 6, 1995	"Bullet with Butterfly Wings"	The Smashing Pumpkins	4	[11]
December 4, 1995	"My Friends"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	3	[12]
January 8, 1996	"One of Us"	Joan Osborne	1	[13]
January 15, 1996	"Wonderwall"	Oasis	2	[14]
January 29, 1996	"Brain Stew"	Green Day	3	[15]
February 19, 1996	"1979"	The Smashing Pumpkins	1	[16]
February 26, 1996	"Peaches"	The Presidents of the United States of America	3	[17]
March 18, 1996	"Ironic"	Alanis Morissette	1	[18]
March 25, 1996	"Zero"	The Smashing Pumpkins	1	[19]
April 1, 1996	"Aeroplane"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	1	[20]
April 8, 1996	"Big Bang Baby"	Stone Temple Pilots	2	[21]
April 22, 1996	"Champagne Supernova"	Oasis	1	[22]
April 29, 1996	"Big Bang Baby"	Stone Temple Pilots	1	[21]
May 6, 1996	"Champagne Supernova"	Oasis	1	[22]
May 13, 1996	"Machinehead"	Bushx	1	[23]
May 20, 1996	"Ahead by a Century"	The Tragically Hip	1	[24]
May 27, 1996	"Pretty Noose"	Soundgarden	3	[25]
June 17, 1996	"One More Astronaut"	I Mother Earth	1	[26]
June 24, 1996	"Pretty Noose"	Soundgarden	3	[25]
July 15, 1996	"Trippin' on a Hole in a Paper Heart"	Stone Temple Pilots	4	[27]
August 12, 1996	"Burden in My Hand"	Soundgarden	3	[28]
September 2, 1996	"Who You Are"	Pearl Jam	2	[29]
September 16, 1996	"Standing Outside a Broken Phone Booth with Money in My Hand"	Primitive Radio Gods	1	[30]
September 23, 1996	"E-Bow the Letter"	R.E.M.	1	[31]
September 30, 1996	"If It Makes You Happy"	Sheryl Crow	1	[32]
October 7, 1996	"Novocaine for the Soul"	Eels	2	[33]
October 21, 1996	"Muzzle"	The Smashing Pumpkins	2	[34]
November 4, 1996	"Aneurysm"	Nirvana	3	[35]
November 25, 1996	"Stinkfist"	Tool	1	[36]
December 2, 1996	"Swallowed"	Bushx	4	[37]
January 20, 1997	"#1 Crush"	Garbage	2	[38]
February 3, 1997	"Discothèque"	U2	5	[39]
March 10, 1997	"Lakini's Juice"	Live	2	[40]
March 24, 1997	"Abuse Me"	Silverchair	2	[41]
April 7, 1997	"Precious Declaration"	Collective Soul	2	[42]
April 21, 1997	"The New Pollution"	Beck	1	[43]
April 28, 1997	"Staring at the Sun"	U2	3	[44]
May 19, 1997	"The Impression That I Get"	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	2	[45]
June 2, 1997	"Song 2"	Blur	4	[46]
June 30, 1997	"The End Is the Beginning Is the End"	The Smashing Pumpkins	2	[47]
July 14, 1997	"If You Could Only See"	Tonic	1	[48]
July 21, 1997	"The Difference"	The Wallflowers	2	[49]
August 4, 1997	"Last Night on Earth"	U2	1	[50]
August 11, 1997	"Building a Mystery"	Sarah McLachlan	1	[51]
August 18, 1997	"Fly"	Sugar Ray	1	[52]
August 25, 1997	"D'You Know What I Mean?"	Oasis	1	[53]
September 1, 1997	"Fly"	Sugar Ray	1	[52]
September 8, 1997	"D'You Know What I Mean?"	Oasis	1	[53]
September 15, 1997	"Anybody Seen My Baby?"	The Rolling Stones	2	[54]
September 29, 1997	"Walkin' on the Sun"	Smash Mouth	1	[55]
October 6, 1997	"Hitchin' a Ride"	Green Day	1	[56]
October 13, 1997	"Don't Go Away"	Oasis	1	[57]
October 20, 1997	"Walkin' on the Sun"	Smash Mouth	4	[55]
November 17, 1997	"Tubthumping"	Chumbawamba	2	[58]
December 1, 1997	"Everything to Everyone"	Everclear	3	[59]
January 12, 1998	"3 A.M."	Matchbox Twenty	2	[60]
January 26, 1998	"Bitter Sweet Symphony"	The Verve	2	[61]
February 9, 1998	"3 A.M."	Matchbox Twenty	1	[60]
February 16, 1998	"Given to Fly"	Pearl Jam	1	[62]
February 23, 1998	"Sex and Candy"	Marcy Playground	7	[63]
April 13, 1998	"I Will Buy You a New Life"	Everclear	1	[64]
April 20, 1998	"Sex and Candy"	Marcy Playground	1	[63]
April 27, 1998	"The Way"	Fastball	4	[65]
May 25, 1998	"Wishlist"	Pearl Jam	1	[66]
June 1, 1998	"Heroes"	The Wallflowers	6	[67]
July 13, 1998	"Poets"	The Tragically Hip	12	[68]
October 5, 1998	"The Scene"	Big Sugar	1	[69]
October 12, 1998	"Got the Life"	Korn	1	[70]
October 19, 1998	"Celebrity Skin"	Hole	2	[71]
November 2, 1998	"Got the Life"	Korn	1	[70]
November 9, 1998	"Dragula"	Rob Zombie	1	[72]
November 16, 1998	"Do You Want to Get Heavy"	Jon Spencer Blues Explosion	5	[73]
Dec 15, 1998-Apr 11, 1999	No charts	No charts		[74]
April 12, 1999	"Free Girl Now"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	1	[75]
April 19, 1999	"Heavy"	Collective Soul	2	[76]
May 3, 1999	"Free Girl Now"	Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers	1	[77]
May 10, 1999	"Mas Tequila"	Sammy Hagar	2	[78]
May 24, 1999	"Lit Up"	Buckcherry	3	[79]
June 14, 1999	"Heaven Coming Down"	The Tea Party	6	[80]
July 26, 1999	"Scar Tissue"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	[81]
August 30, 1999	"Smooth"	Santana featuring Rob Thomas	2	[82]
September 13, 1999	"One Man Army"	Our Lady Peace	1	[83]
September 20, 1999	"Enemy"	Days of the New	4	[84]
October 18, 1999	"One Man Army"	Our Lady Peace	1	[83]
October 25, 1999	"Enemy"	Days of the New	1	[84]
November 1, 1999	"The Dolphin's Cry"	Live	1	[85]
November 8, 1999	"Enemy"	Days of the New	1	[84]
November 15, 1999	"Learn to Fly"	Foo Fighters	6	[86]
January 10, 2000	"Take a Picture"	Filter	1	[87]
January 17, 2000	"Learn to Fly"	Foo Fighters	1	[86]
January 24, 2000	"Take a Picture"	Filter	7	[87]
March 13, 2000	"Load Me Up"	Matthew Good Band	1	[88]
March 20, 2000	"Otherside"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	6	[89]
May 1, 2000	"Everything You Want"	Vertical Horizon	1	[90]
May 8, 2000	"Kryptonite"	3 Doors Down	5	[91]
June 12, 2000	"Bent"	Matchbox Twenty	2	[92]
June 26, 2000	"Kryptonite"	3 Doors Down	5	[91]
July 31, 2000	"With Arms Wide Open"	Creed	1	[93]
August 7, 2000	"Wonderful"	Everclear	2	[94]
August 21, 2000	"Californication"	Red Hot Chili Peppers	5	[95]
September 25, 2000	"Beautiful Day"	U2	7	[96]

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• List of RPM number-one alternative rock singles of 1995
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