This is a list of the German Media Control Top100 Singles Chart number-ones of 1996.
Number-one hits by week +KeyIndicates best-performing single and album of 1996 + Issue date Song Artist Ref. Album Artist Ref. 1 January colspan="6" 8 January "Earth Song" Michael Jackson Made In Heaven Queen 15 January 22 January "Gangsta's Paradise" Coolio featuring L.V. 29 January 5 February "Missing (Todd Terry Remix)" Everything but the Girl 12 February Opium fürs Volk Die Toten Hosen 19 February "Spaceman" Babylon Zoo 26 February "Lemon Tree" Fools Garden 4 March 11 March Dish of the Day Fool's Garden 18 March Sechsundneunzig Peter Maffay 25 March "Children" Robert Miles 1 April 8 April Greatest Hits Take That 15 April 22 April 29 April 6 May 13 May "They Don't Care About Us" Michael Jackson 20 May Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys 27 May 3 June "Macarena" Los del Rio Dove c'è musica Eros Ramazotti 10 June 17 June Load Metallica 24 June 1 July "Killing Me Softly" The Fugees 8 July 15 July The Score The Fugees 22 July 29 July 5 August 12 August 19 August 26 August "I Can't Help Myself" The Kelly Family 2 September "Killing Me Softly" The Fugees Live - Die Zweite Pur 9 September "I Can't Help Myself" The Kelly Family 16 September "Wannabe" Spice Girls 23 September 30 September 7 October New Adventures in Hi-Fi R.E.M. 14 October "Zehn kleine Jägermeister" Die Toten Hosen 21 October Alles Wolfgang Petry 28 October Dance Into the Light Phil Collins 4 November 11 November "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" Backstreet Boys Almost Heaven The Kelly Family 18 November 25 November 2 December 9 December "Verpiss' dich" Tic Tac Toe 16 December "Time to Say Goodbye" Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman 23 December Bocelli Andrea Bocelli 30 December colspan="6"
See also List of number-one hits (Germany)
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References
External links German Singles Chart archives from 1956 Media Control Chart Archives from 1960