List of number-one singles of 1996 (Canada)
Columns: Volume:Issue | Issue date | Weeks on numbe one | Song | Artist(s)
62:21-22 | 8 January - 15 January | 2 | " Exhale (Shoop Shoop) " | Whitney Houston | 62:23-24 | 22 January - 29 January | 2 | " One Sweet Day " | Mariah Carey | 62:25 | 5 February | 1 | " One of Us " | Joan Osborne | 62:26 | 12 February | 1 | " Time " | Hootie & the Blowfish | 63:1-3 | 19 February - 4 March | 3 | " Missing " | Everything but the Girl | 63:4 | 11 March | 1 | " The World I Know " | Collective Soul | 63:5 | 18 March | 1 | " I Want to Come Over " | Melissa Etheridge | 63:6 | 25 March | 1 | " Follow You Down " | Gin Blossoms | 63:7-12 | 1 April - 6 May | 6 | " Ironic " | Alanis Morissette | 63:13 | 13 May | 1 | " Closer to Free " | Bodeans | 63:14 | 20 May | 1 | " Always Be My Baby " | Mariah Carey | 63:15-17 | 27 May - 10 June | 3 | " Old Man and Me " | Hootie & the Blowfish | 63:18 | 17 June | 1 | " Give Me One Reason " | Tracy Chapman | 63:19 | 24 June | 1 | " Ahead by a Century " | The Tragically Hip | 63:20 | 1 July | 1 | " You Learn " | Alanis Morissette | 63:21 | 8 July | 1 | " Ahead by a Century " (re-entry) | The Tragically Hip | 63:22 | 15 July | 1 | " The Only Thing That Looks Good on Me Is You " | Bryan Adams | 63:23-24 | 22 July - 29 July | 2 | " You Learn " (re-entry) | Alanis Morissette | 63:25-26, 64:1-3 | 5 August - 2 September | 5 | " Change the World " | Eric Clapton | 64:4-8 | 9 September - 7 October | 5 | " Key West Intermezzo (I Saw You First) " | John Mellencamp | 64:9-10 | 14 October - 21 October | 2 | " Let's Make a Night to Remember " | Bryan Adams | 64:11-12 | 28 October - 4 November | 2 | " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " | Celine Dion | 64:13 | 11 November | 1 | " If It Makes You Happy " | Sheryl Crow | 64:14-18 | 18 November - 6 January 1997 ¶ | 8 ¶ | " Head Over Feet " | Alanis Morissette