NME: Singles of the Week 1996

A snapshot of New Musical Express’s editorial taste during 1996, when Britpop, trip-hop, and UK garage were reshaping the charts. This compilation gathers the weekly singles the magazine championed across twelve months—a document of what mattered to NME’s critics when Oasis dominated headlines and electronic music was infiltrating the mainstream. Essential for understanding how the UK music press filtered the year’s output.