List of Billboard Hot 100 top-ten singles in 1997

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This is a list of singles that charted in the top ten of the Billboard Hot 100 during 1997. During this year, "How Do I Live" by LeAnn Rimes became the longest-running top-ten single, breaking a record for 32 weeks (a record that went unmatched for over nineteen years).

Puff Daddy and Mase each had four top-ten hits in 1997, tying them for the most top-ten hits during the year.

Top-ten singles[]

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List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles which peaked in 1997
Top ten
entry date
Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in
top ten
Singles from 1996
November 30 "Don't Let Go (Love)" En Vogue 2 January 18 17
"I'm Still In Love With You" New Edition 7 January 11 11
December 28 "I Believe in You and Me" Up-arrow Whitney Houston 4 February 1 9
Singles from 1997
January 18 "Fly Like an Eagle" Seal 10 January 18 1
January 25 "If It Makes You Happy" Sheryl Crow 10 January 25 1
February 1 "Wannabe" Spice Girls 1 February 22 15
"You Were Meant for Me" Jewel 2 April 19 19
February 8 "Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" Puff Daddy featuring Mase 1 March 22 16
February 15 "Every Time I Close My Eyes" Babyface featuring Mariah Carey and Kenny G 6 March 22 9
February 22 "In My Bed" Dru Hill 4 March 29 9
"Discothèque" Up-arrow U2 10 February 22 1
March 1 "Don't Cry for Me Argentina" Madonna 8 March 1 3
March 15 "For You I Will" Up-arrow Monica 4 April 19 12
March 22 "Get It Together" 702 10 March 22 1
March 29 "All By Myself" Up-arrow Céline Dion 4 April 5 5
"I'll Be" Foxy Brown featuring Jay-Z 7 April 12 4
April 12 "I Want You" Savage Garden 4 May 10 8
April 26 "Hypnotize" Up-arrow The Notorious B.I.G 1 May 3 8
"Return of the Mack" Mark Morrison 2 June 7 15
"Hard to Say I'm Sorry" Az Yet featuring Peter Cetera 8 May 3 5
"Where Have All the Cowboys Gone?" Paula Cole 8 May 10 6
May 3 "My Baby Daddy" B-Rock & the Bizz 10 May 3 1
May 10 "MMMBop" Hanson 1 May 24 12
May 17 "I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face)" Rome 6 June 7 9
May 24 "Say You'll Be There" Up-arrow Spice Girls 3 May 31 9
May 31 "The Freshmen" The Verve Pipe 5 June 7 6
June 7 "G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T" Changing Faces 8 June 7 5
"It's Your Love" Tim McGraw and Faith Hill 7 July 19 6
June 14 "I'll Be Missing You" Up-arrow Puff Daddy featuring Faith Evans and 112 1 June 14 17
"Bitch" Meredith Brooks 2 July 12 11
June 21 "Look Into My Eyes" Up-arrow Bone Thugs-n-Harmony 4 June 21 7
July 12 "Sunny Came Home" Up-arrow Shawn Colvin 7 July 26 6
"Do You Know (What It Takes)" Robyn 7 August 2 8
"Quit Playing Games (with My Heart)" Backstreet Boys 2 September 6 18
July 26 "Semi-Charmed Life" Third Eye Blind 4 August 9 14
"Gotham City" R. Kelly 9 August 2 2
August 2 "Mo Money Mo Problems" Up-arrow The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase 1 August 30 12
August 9 "How Do I Live" LeAnn Rimes 2 December 13 32
"Not Tonight" Lil' Kim featuring Da Brat, Missy Elliott, Angie Martinez, and Left Eye 6 August 9 5
"Never Make a Promise" Up-arrow Dru Hill 7 August 23 6
August 16 "2 Become 1" Up-arrow Spice Girls 4 September 6 9
September 6 "You Make Me Wanna..." Usher 2 October 25 23
"Barbie Girl" Up-arrow Aqua 7 September 6 3
September 13 "Honey" Up-arrow Mariah Carey 1 September 13 8
September 20 "Foolish Games" Jewel 7 November 1 9
September 27 "4 Seasons of Loneliness" Up-arrow Boyz II Men 1 October 4 10
October 11 "Candle in the Wind 1997" /
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight" Up-arrow
Elton John 1 October 11 17
October 18 "All Cried Out" Allure featuring 112 4 November 22 8
October 25 "My Love Is the Shhh!" Somethin' for the People featuring Trina & Tamara 4 November 29 10
November 1 "Tubthumping" Chumbawamba 6 November 29 12
November 8 "The One I Gave My Heart To" Aaliyah 9 November 15 3
November 15 "My Body" LSG 4 December 6 11
November 22 "Feel So Good" Mase 5 December 13 9
November 29 "Show Me Love" Robyn 7 November 29 10
December 6 "I Will Come to You" Hanson 9 December 13 2

1996 peaks[]

List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1997 which peaked in 1996
Top ten
entry date
Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in
top ten
June 29 "Macarena (Bayside Boys Remix)" Los Del Rio 1 August 3 23
September 14 "It's All Coming Back to Me Now" Céline Dion 2 October 26 19
October 12 "Last Night" Az Yet 9 October 19 4
October 19 "No Diggity" Blackstreet featuring Dr. Dre 1 November 9 18
October 26 "Mouth" Merril Bainbridge 4 November 23 15
November 2 "Un-Break My Heart" Toni Braxton 1 December 7 25
November 9 "Nobody" Keith Sweat featuring Athena Cage 3 December 7 18
December 7 "I Finally Found Someone" Barbra Streisand and Bryan Adams 8 December 7 5
December 21 "I Believe I Can Fly" R. Kelly 2 December 21 16

1998 peaks[]

List of Billboard Hot 100 top ten singles in 1997 which peaked in 1998
Top ten
entry date
Single Artist(s) Peak Peak date Weeks in
top ten
December 13 "Been Around the World" / "It's All About the Benjamins" Puff Daddy featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase 2 January 3 12
December 20 "Together Again" Up-arrow Janet Jackson 1 January 31 14
December 27 "Truly Madly Deeply" Savage Garden 1 January 17 26

See also[]

References[]

General sources[]

  • Whitburn, Joel (2012). Pop Annual, 1955–2011 (8th ed.). Record Research Inc. ISBN 0-89820-194-2.
  • Joel Whitburn Presents the Billboard Hot 100 Charts: The Nineties (ISBN 0-89820-137-3)
  • Additional information obtained can be verified within Billboard's online archive services and print editions of the magazine.
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