List of number one hits in Germany (1996)

This list contains all number one hits in Germany in 1996. This year there were 15 number one singles and albums each.

The single and album charts were compiled weekly by Media Control . They took into account the Monday through Saturday sales of one week. The official publication date was the Monday ten days after the end of the evaluation period.

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Singles

← 1995 ←	List of number one hits in Germany			1997 →
Period Where. total Interpreter Title Author (s) Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , author [s], additional information) December 11, 1995 - January 21, 1996 6 weeks 6th Michael Jackson Earth Song Michael Joe Jackson - January 22, 1996 - February 4, 1996 2 weeks (8 in total) 8th Coolio feat. LV Gangsta's Paradise Stevie Wonder , Artis L. Ivey Jr., Douglas B. Rasheed, Larry James Sanders - February 5, 1996 - February 18, 1996 2 weeks 2 Everything but the girl Missing (Todd Terry Remix) Ben Watt, Tracey Anne Thorn - February 19, 1996 - February 25, 1996 1 week 1 Babylon Zoo Spaceman Jasbinder Singh man - February 26, 1996 - March 24, 1996 4 weeks 4th Fools Garden Lemon Tree Volker Hinkel, Peter Freudenthaler - March 25, 1996 - May 12, 1996 7 weeks 7th Robert Miles Children Roberto Concina - May 13, 1996 - June 2, 1996 3 weeks 3 Michael Jackson They Don't Care About Us Michael Joe Jackson - June 3, 1996 - June 30, 1996 4 weeks 4th Los del Río Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix) Antonio Romero Monge, Rafael Ruiz Perdigones - July 1, 1996 - August 25, 1996 8 weeks (9 in total) 9 The Fugees Killing Me Softly Music: Charles Fox ; Text: Norman Gimbel - August 26, 1996 - September 1, 1996 1 week (total 2) 2 The Kelly Family I Can't Help Myself (I Love You, I Want You) Kelly Family - September 2, 1996 - September 8, 1996 1 week (9 in total) 9 The Fugees Killing Me Softly Music: Charles Fox; Text: Norman Gimbel - September 9, 1996 - September 15, 1996 1 week (total 2) 2 The Kelly Family I Can't Help Myself (I Love You, I Want You) Kelly Family - September 16, 1996 - October 13, 1996 4 weeks 4th Spice Girls Wannabe Matthew Paul Rowbottom, Richard Frederick Stannard, Melanie Janine Brown , Victoria Caroline Beckham , Geraldine Estelle Halliwell , Emma Lee Bunton , Melanie Jayne Chisholm - October 14, 1996 - November 10, 1996 4 weeks 4th The dead pants Ten little Jägermeister Music: Wolfgang Rohde ; Text: Andreas Frege , Hanns Christian Müller - November 11, 1996 - December 8, 1996 4 weeks 4th Backstreet Boys Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) Martin Karl Sandberg , Herbert St. Clair Crichlow - December 9, 1996 - December 15, 1996 1 week 1 Tic Tac Toe Piss off music: Thorsten Börger; Text: Thorsten Börger, Claudia Alexandra Wohlfromm, Liane Wiegelmann - December 16, 1996 - March 16, 1997 13 weeks 13 Sarah Brightman & Andrea Bocelli Time to Say Goodbye (Con te partiró) Music: Francesco Sartori; Text: Lucio Quarantotto -
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Albums

← 1995 ←	List of number one albums in Germany			1997 →
Period Where. total Interpreter title Additional Information (Period, weeks in first place, artist, title , additional information) December 11, 1995 - February 11, 1996 9 weeks (total 11) 11 Queen Made in Heaven - February 12, 1996 - March 10, 1996 4 weeks 4th The dead pants Opium for the people - March 11, 1996 - March 17, 1996 1 week 1 Fools Garden Dish of the Day - March 18, 1996 - April 7, 1996 3 weeks 3 Peter Maffay Maffay 96 - April 8, 1996 - May 19, 1996 6 weeks 6th Take that Greatest hits - May 20, 1996 - June 2, 1996 2 weeks 2 Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys - June 3, 1996 - June 16, 1996 2 weeks 2 Eros Ramazzotti Dove c'è musica - June 17, 1996 - July 14, 1996 4 weeks 4th Metallica Load - July 15, 1996 - September 1, 1996 7 weeks 7th The Fugees The Score - September 2, 1996 - October 6, 1996 5 weeks 5 Pure Live - the second - October 7, 1996 - October 20, 1996 2 weeks 2 SEM New Adventures in Hi-Fi - October 21, 1996 - October 27, 1996 1 week 1 Wolfgang Petry Everything - October 28, 1996 - November 10, 1996 2 weeks 2 Phil Collins Dance into the Light - November 11, 1996 - December 22, 1996 6 weeks 6th The Kelly Family Almost Heaven - December 23, 1996 - March 16, 1997 12 weeks (17 in total) 17th Andrea Bocelli Bocelli -
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Annual hit parades

← 1995 ←	List of number one hits in Germany			1997 →
Singles position# Albums Killing Me Softly The Fugees Music: Charles Fox ; Text: Norman Gimbel 1 The Score The Fugees Children Robert Miles Roberto Concina 2 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix) Los del Río Antonio Romero Monge, Rafael Ruiz Perdigones 3 Dove c'è musica Eros Ramazzotti Insomnia Faithless Rollo Armstrong , Ayalah Bentovim , Maxwell Alexander Fraser 4th Opium for the people Die Toten Hosen Lemon Tree Fools Garden Volker Hinkel, Peter Freudenthaler 5 Backstreet Boys Backstreet Boys I Can't Help Myself (I Love You, I Want You) Kelly Family Kelly Family 6th Load Metallica They Don't Care About Us Michael Jackson Michael Joe Jackson 7th Falling into You Celine Dion Coco Jamboo Mr. President Music: Rainer Gaffrey, Kai Matthiesen ; Text: Rainer Gaffrey, Delroy Rennalls 8th Pur live - the second pur Where Do You Go No Mercy Music: Franz Reuther ; Text: Franz Reuther, Peter Bischof-Fallenstein 9 Made in Heaven Queen Wannabe Spice Girls Matthew Paul Rowbottom, Richard Frederick Stannard, Melanie Janine Brown , Victoria Caroline Beckham , Geraldine Estelle Halliwell , Emma Lee Bunton , Melanie Jayne Chisholm 10 Pure adventure land
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See also: Number One Hits 1996 in Australia , Belgium , Denmark , Finland , France , Ireland , Italy , Japan , Canada , New Zealand , the Netherlands , Norway , Austria , Sweden , Switzerland , Spain , Hungary , the United States and in the UK .