Top Songs of 1997 (Using Top 20 Points)

[DuckHead]

Radio & Records Top 20 Top Songs of 1997

This chart is made using Top 20 inverse points. A song's entire chart run is used, and the song is placed in the year that it peaked.

Tiebreakers:

1. Most Weeks at # 1
2. Most Weeks in Top 2
3. Most Weeks in Top 3
4. Most Weeks in Top 4
5. Etc.

(Points/Weeks/Peak)

The Top 50 Songs of 1997

1. You Were Meant For Me- Jewel (390/27/1)
2. Semi-Charmed Life- Third Eye Blind (357/29/1)
3. Lovefool- Cardigans (355/22/1)
4. Fly- Sugar Ray (343/23/1)
5. Show Me Love- Robyn (314/23/3)
6. Quit Playin' Games (With My Heart)- Backstreet Boys (311/22/2)
7. One Headlight- Wallflowers (305/25/2)
8. I Want You- Savage Garden (301/22/1)
9. Foolish Games- Jewel (297/21/1)
10. Push- Matchbox 20 (286/21/2)
11. Tubthumping- Chumbawamba (282/18/1)
12. Un-Break My Heart- Toni Braxton (270/20/2)
13. How Bizarre- OMC (269/22/2)
14. MMMBop- Hanson (268/17/1)
15. Do You Know (What It Takes)- Robyn (263/22/2)
16. Sunny Came Home- Shawn Colvin (247/21/2)
17. All For You- Sister Hazel (234/25/7)
18. Bitch- Meredith Brooks (224/18/1)
19. Say You'll Be There- Spice Girls (213/16/2)
20. Wannabe- Spice Girls (211/17/4)
21. 2 Become 1- Spice Girls (203/15/3)
22. You Make Me Wanna...- Usher (200/20/7)
23. Return Of The Mack- Mark Morrison (199/18/4)
24. How Do I Live- LeAnn Rimes (198/16/4)
25. Everyday Is A Winding Road- Sheryl Crow (196/17/4)
26. I Don't Want To Wait- Paula Cole (195/20/5)
27. Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?- Paula Cole (187/18/4)
28. For You I Will- Monica (169/16/5)
29. Barely Breathing- Duncan Sheik (168/21/8)
30. Ooh Aah...Just A Little Bit- Gina G. (164/17/5)
31. Men In Black- Will Smith (154/14/5)
32. Your Woman- White Town (143/14/5)
33. A Long December- Counting Crows (142/14/7)
34. The Freshmen- Verve Pipe (138/14/5)
35. If You Could Only See- Tonic (127/19/10)
36. All Cried Out- Allure (123/13/7)
37. Hard To Say I'm Sorry- Az Yet (113/14/10)
38. All By Myself- Celine Dion (107/11/7)
39. I Do- Lisa Loeb (107/12/10)
40. I Believe I Can Fly- R. Kelly (106/13/8)
41. 4 Seasons Of Loneliness- Boyz II Men (100/11/7)
42. Where's The Love?- Hanson (90/8/6)
43. Don't Cry For Me Argentina- Madonna (88/8/7)
44. Nobody- Keith Sweat f/ Athena Cage (79/11/11)
45. Everytime I Close My Eyes- Babyface (77/13/11)
46. Honey- Mariah Carey (74/9/10)
47. Invisible Man- 98 Degrees (72/11/10)
48. Building A Mystery- Sarah McLachlan (52/8/12)
49. No Diggity- Blackstreet (52/11/12)
50. A Change Would Do You Good- Sheryl Crow (51/8/12)

The Complete Chart

51. I'll Be Missing You- Puff Daddy f/ Faith Evans (50/10/13)
52. Butterfly- Mariah Carey (37/6/12)
53. The Difference- Wallflowers (34/7/14)
54. Secret Garden- Bruce Springsteen (30/7/14)
55. Breaking All The Rules- She Moves (29/7/15)
56. Butterfly Kisses- Bob Carlisle (25/5/15)
57. I'm Still In Love With You- New Edition (21/7/16)
58. The Holy River- Prince (19/4/15)
59. Staring At The Sun- U2 (18/6/16)
60. The Impression That I Get- Mighty Mighty Bosstones (15/6/16)
61. I Will Come To You- Hanson (15/7/17)
62. Whatever- En Vogue (14/4/16)
63. Criminal- Fiona Apple (14/5/17)
64. Without Love- Donna Lewis (13/4/17)
65. On My Own- Peach Union (13/5/17)
66. Don't Leave Me- Blackstreet (13/7/18)
67. One More Try- Real McCoy (10/4/17)
68. Please Don't Go- No Mercy (9/4/18)
69. Legend Of A Cowgirl- Imani Coppola (8/4/17)
70. More Than This- 10,000 Maniacs (8/4/18)
71. Crash Into Me- Dave Matthews Band (7/2/16)
72. Gotham City- R. Kelly (6/3/18)
73A. Coco Jamboo- Mr. President (3/2/19)
73B. Elegantly Wasted- INXS (3/2/19)
73C. When You're Gone- Cranberries (3/2/19)
76A. I Wanna Be There- Blessid Union Of Souls (2/1/19)
76B. It's Alright, It's OK- Leah Andreone (2/1/19)

[Keith3000]

The year of the pop explosion---imagine, only 2 rap songs in the whole chart. Interesting how all three Spice Girls songs are together in the listings.

Some great alternative tracks though..."Semi-Charmed Life", "One Headlight", "If You Could Only See", "Push", "Crash Into Me"...good year!

[fudb]

THE CRANBERRIES ROCK!!!!
CHECK OUT THEIR GREATEST HIT ALBUM : STARS THE BEST OF THE CRENBERRIES!
IT SIMPLY ROCKS!

[Ragin]

This is a great year for pop music in my opinion. This was sort of my return to really keeping track of music, and I like MOST of the songs in the top 50.

[Love Plastic Love]

I like a lot of those songs, even if some of them were songs I would only like for a short time period. Pretty good time for music :)

[Hervard]

The top portion of the chart was not too far from what it was on the actual R&R chart.

I also find it interesting how the Spice Girls are listed back to back to back on the chart. And I also like the fact that "Say You'll Be There" is the highest of the three.
I remember on the Rick Dees chart, that song, as well as either "2 Become 1" and "Wannabe" were listed back to back and he segued one into the other on his year end show. I thought that was neat.

[FreakyFlyBry]

ulij20 said:

The top portion of the chart was not too far from what it was on the actual R&R chart.

I also find it interesting how the Spice Girls are listed back to back to back on the chart. And I also like the fact that "Say You'll Be There" is the highest of the three.
I remember on the Rick Dees chart, that song, as well as either "2 Become 1" and "Wannabe" were listed back to back and he segued one into the other on his year end show. I thought that was neat.

It was "Wannabe" that was back to back with "Say You'll Be There".

[Devil Marlena Nylund]

fudb said:

THE CRANBERRIES ROCK!!!!
CHECK OUT THEIR GREATEST HIT ALBUM : STARS THE BEST OF THE CRENBERRIES!
IT SIMPLY ROCKS!

I have their first four albums but during the 'Bury The Hatchet' days, I kinda lost interest. I'd like to pick up their fifth one at some point though. 'Analyse' was a good song. What else, besides 'Stars' is new on the Greatest Hits CD? 'Stars' was alright.

[Hervard]

FreakyFlyBry said:

It was "Wannabe" that was back to back with "Say You'll Be There".

Duh, how could I be so dumb! "Wannabe" is the only song that could be segued into "Say You'll Be There". "2 Become 1" is a slow song.