Top Songs of 1997


Rank All Time Rank Artist Song Genres
1
59
The Verve Bitter Sweet Symphony Britpop, Chamber Pop
2
67
Radiohead Paranoid Android Alternative Rock, Art Rock
3
167
Blur Song 2 Alternative Rock
4
355
Daft Punk Around the World French House
5
522
Radiohead Karma Police Alternative Rock
6
523
Foo Fighters Everlong Post-Grunge
7
657
The Chemical Brothers Block Rockin' Beats Big Beat
8
962
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Into My Arms Singer/Songwriter
9
976
Green Day Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) Acoustic Rock, Pop Rock
10
1006
Radiohead No Surprises Alternative Rock, Art Rock
11
1121
The Beta Band Dry the Rain Indie Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
12
1202
The Notorious B.I.G. Hypnotize East Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap, Pop Rap
13
1254
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly) Hip Hop
14
1327
Elliott Smith Between the Bars Indie Folk, Singer/Songwriter
15
1332
The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Ma$e & Puff Daddy Mo Money Mo Problems East Coast Hip Hop
16
1344
Bob Dylan Not Dark Yet Americana, Singer/Songwriter
17
1360
Radiohead Let Down Alternative Rock, Art Rock
18
1367
Yo La Tengo Autumn Sweater Dream Pop, Indie Pop
19
1391
Natalie Imbruglia Torn Pop Rock
20
1542
The Prodigy Smack My Bitch Up Big Beat
21
1564
White Town Your Woman Alternative Dance, Downtempo, Indietronica
22
1646
Elliott Smith Miss Misery Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
23
1655
The Verve The Drugs Don't Work Britpop
24
1659
Robbie Williams Angels Adult Contemporary
25
1735
Spiritualized Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
26
1814
Björk Jóga Art Pop, Electronic
27
1838
Blur Beetlebum Britpop
28
1890
Roni Size / Reprazent Brown Paper Bag Jazzstep
29
2121
Aphex Twin Come to Daddy Drill and Bass
30
2130
Hanson Mmmbop Teen Pop
31
2142
Air Le Soleil est près de moi Downtempo
32
2248
Belle and Sebastian Lazy Line Painter Jane Chamber Pop
33
2369
Björk Bachelorette Art Pop, Downtempo
34
2376
Primal Scream Kowalski Alternative Dance, Industrial Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
35
2517
Chumbawamba Tubthumping Pop Rock
36
2538
Foo Fighters Monkey Wrench Post-Grunge
37
2550
Janet Jackson Got 'Til It's Gone Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul, Trip Hop
38
2575
Bran Van 3000 Drinking in L.A. Alternative Dance, Trip Hop
39
2737
Shania Twain You're Still the One Adult Contemporary, Country Pop
40
2903
Sleater-Kinney Dig Me Out Indie Rock, Punk Rock
41
2972
Third Eye Blind Semi-Charmed Life Alternative Rock, Power Pop
42
2975
Foo Fighters My Hero Post-Grunge
43
3010
The Chemical Brothers The Private Psychedelic Reel Big Beat, Neo-Psychedelia
44
3013
Buena Vista Social Club Chan Chan Son Cubano
45
3055
Céline Dion My Heart Will Go On Adult Contemporary, Film Soundtrack
46
3062
Radiohead Exit Music (For a Film) Art Rock
47
3106
Busta Rhymes Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
48
3244
The Dandy Warhols Not If You Were the Last Junkie on Earth Alternative Rock
49
3245
Erykah Badu Tyrone Neo-Soul
50
3423
Jurassic 5 Concrete Schoolyard West Coast Hip Hop
51
3455
All Saints Never Ever Pop Soul
52
3491
Ben Folds Five Brick Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
53
3500
Molotov Gimme Tha Power Latin Alternative, Rap Rock
54
3564
Andrés Calamaro Flaca Chamber Pop, Pop Rock
55
3715
Sarah McLachlan Building a Mystery Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
56
3818
Marcy Playground Sex and Candy Alternative Rock
57
3830
Puff Daddy feat. The Lox, Lil' Kim & The Notorious B.I.G. It's All About the Benjamins East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
58
3881
The Dismemberment Plan The Ice of Boston Indie Rock
59
3900
Oasis D'You Know What I Mean? Britpop, Neo-Psychedelia
60
3924
Jeff Mills The Bells Detroit Techno
61
4027
I-F Space Invaders Are Smoking Grass Electro, Electroclash
62
4085
Wyclef Jean Gone Till November Neo-Soul, Pop Rap
63
4272
Smash Mouth Walkin' on the Sun Pop Rock
64
4282
Pulp Help the Aged Art Rock, Britpop
65
4369
Sleater-Kinney One More Hour Indie Rock, Punk Rock
66
4443
Wu-Tang Clan Triumph Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
67
4490
Portishead All Mine Acid Jazz, Trip Hop
68
4495
Propellerheads Feat. Shirley Bassey History Repeating Big Beat
69
4515
Sixpence None the Richer Kiss Me Pop Rock
70
4542
Oasis Stand by Me Britpop
71
4605
Pavement Shady Lane Indie Rock
72
4786
Depeche Mode It's No Good Alternative Dance, Synthpop
73
4832
Roy Davis Jr. Gabriel Garage House, UK Garage
74
4960
Usher You Make Me Wanna… Contemporary R&B
75
5039
Nine Inch Nails The Perfect Drug Electronic, Industrial Rock
76
5140
Deftones My Own Summer (Shove It) Nu Metal
77
5224
Grandaddy A.M. 180 Indie Pop, Indie Rock, Indietronica
78
5473
Erykah Badu Otherside of the Game Neo-Soul
79
5513
Elliott Smith Ballad of Big Nothing Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
80
5615
Janet Jackson Together Again Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop, Garage House
81
5633
Meredith Brooks Bitch Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
82
5646
The Mighty Mighty Bosstones The Impression That I Get Ska Punk
83
5687
Blink-182 Dammit Pop Punk, Skate Punk
84
5833
Backstreet Boys Everybody (Backstreet's Back) Boy Band
85
5863
U2 Discothèque Alternative Dance
86
5880
Puff Daddy feat. 112 & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
87
5918
U2 Staring at the Sun Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
88
5963
Bob Dylan Love Sick Blues Rock, Singer/Songwriter
89
6000
Ultra Nate Free Dance-Pop, Garage House
90
6002
Alejandro Sanz Corazón partío Latin Pop
91
6008
Stereolab Miss Modular Art Pop, Indietronica
92
6040
Massive Attack Risingson Trip Hop, UK Hip Hop
93
6061
Julieta Venegas De mis pasos Alternative Rock, Latin Alternative
94
6110
DJ Shadow High Noon Breakbeat, Instrumental Hip Hop, Turntablism
95
6183
David Bowie I'm Afraid of Americans Alternative Rock, Industrial Rock
96
6199
Pavement Stereo Indie Rock
97
6335
Rammstein Du hast Neue Deutsche Härte
98
6498
Mariah Carey Honey Contemporary R&B, Pop
99
6586
Shania Twain That Don't Impress Me Much Country Pop, Dance-Pop
100
6778
Control Machete ¿Comprendes Mendes? Latin Rap
101
6804
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott Sock It 2 Me Pop Rap
102
6813
Rachid Taha Ya Rayah Algerian Chaabi
103
6843
Étienne de Crécy Prix Choc Deep House, French House
104
6889
Lambchop Your Fucking Sunny Day Americana, Chamber Pop
105
6923
Elliott Smith Say Yes Indie Folk, Indie Pop, Singer/Songwriter
106
6951
Eagle-Eye Cherry Save Tonight Pop Rock
107
6987
Rascalz Northern Touch Hip Hop
108
7120
Ma$e feat. Kelly Price Feel So Good East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
109
7201
Shania Twain Man! I Feel Like a Woman! Country Pop
110
7302
Aqua Barbie Girl Bubblegum Dance, Europop
111
7324
Bob Dylan Highlands Americana, Singer/Songwriter
112
7375
Bentley Rhythm Ace Bentley's Gonna Sort You Out Big Beat
113
7639
The Divine Comedy Everybody Knows (Except You) Chamber Pop
114
7654
Next Too Close Contemporary R&B
115
7662
Monaco What Do You Want from Me? Alternative Dance
116
7720
Yo La Tengo Sugarcube Indie Rock, Noise Pop
117
7856
Refugee Camp Allstars Feat. Lauryn Hill The Sweetest Thing Neo-Soul
118
7874
Alabama 3 feat. The Street Angels Choir N.Y.C. Woke Up This Morning (Chosen One Mix) Baggy / Madchester
119
7891
Master P feat. Fiend, Silkk the Shocker, Mia X and Mystikal Make 'Em Say Uhh! Southern Hip Hop
120
7919
Louise Attaque Je t'emmene au vent Chanson alternative, Folk Punk
121
7929
Embrace All You Good Good People Britpop
122
7969
Kool Keith Sex Style East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
123
8016
Loreena McKennitt The Mummers' Dance Celtic Folk Music, Celtic New Age, Contemporary Folk
124
8017
Spiritualized Broken Heart Chamber Pop, Dream Pop, Neo-Psychedelia
125
8074
Missy Misdemeanor Elliott feat. 702 and Magoo Beep Me 911 Contemporary R&B, Pop Rap
126
8161
The Wannadies Hit Alternative Rock, Power Pop
127
8238
Groove Armada At the River Downtempo
128
8283
Double 99 Rip Groove Speed Garage
129
8284
Beck Deadweight Indie Pop
130
8316
Tindersticks Rented Rooms Chamber Pop
131
8379
Blue Boy Remember Me House, Trip Hop
132
8386
Radiohead Airbag Alternative Rock, Art Rock
133
8436
Spiritualized I Think I'm in Love Neo-Psychedelia, Space Rock
134
8449
Depeche Mode Home Downtempo
135
8508
Teenage Fanclub Ain't That Enough Jangle Pop, Power Pop
136
8627
Supergrass Richard III Britpop, Power Pop
137
8887
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds (Are You) The One That I've Been Waiting For? Piano Rock, Singer/Songwriter
138
8928
Spiritualized Electricity Garage Rock, Neo-Psychedelia
139
8938
Masters At Work presents India To Be in Love Funky House
140
8970
Belle and Sebastian Le Pastie de la Bourgeoisie Indie Pop, Jangle Pop
141
9026
Erykah Badu Appletree Neo-Soul
142
9062
The Offspring Gone Away Alternative Rock
143
9079
Modest Mouse Trailer Trash Midwest Emo
144
9150
Spice Girls Spice Up Your Life Dance-Pop, Teen Pop
145
9245
Mogwai Mogwai Fear Satan Post-Rock
146
9382
The Charlatans North Country Boy Britpop
147
9454
Sarah McLachlan Sweet Surrender Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
148
9489
LL Cool J feat. Method Man, Redman, Canibus and DMX 4,3,2,1 East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
149
9525
Eminem Just the Two of Us/'97 Bonnie & Clyde Boom Bap
150
9573
Björk Hunter Art Pop, Electronic
151
9702
Molotov Voto Latino Latin Alternative, Rap Rock
152
9735
Everclear Everything to Everyone Alternative Rock
153
9837
Jebediah Leaving Home Alternative Rock, Power Pop
154
9917
Stereophonics Local Boy in the Photograph Britpop, Power Pop
155
9936
KRS-One Feat. Keva Step into a World (Rapture's Delight) Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop

Songs "bubbling under" the all-time top 10,000:
Gang Starr You Know My Steez Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
1000 Clowns Not the Greatest Rapper Pop Rap
Tarkan Simarik Dance-Pop, Turkish Pop
Lil' Kim feat. Lil' Cease & The Notorious B.I.G. Crush on You (Remix) East Coast Hip Hop, Pop Rap
The Verve Lucky Man Britpop
Florent Pagny Savoir aimer French Pop
Molotov Puto Rap Rock
Prefab Sprout Electric Guitars Sophisti-Pop
Bob Dylan Make You Feel My Love Singer/Songwriter
Mansun Wide Open Space Britpop
Deftones Be Quiet and Drive (Far Away) Alternative Metal
Silverchair Freak Grunge, Hard Rock
Lo Fidelity Allstars Disco Machine Gun Big Beat, Neo-Psychedelia
Primal Scream If They Move, Kill 'Em Alternative Dance
Barenaked Ladies Brian Wilson Acoustic Rock, Jangle Pop
Julien Baer Le Monde S'Écroule Nouvelle chanson française
Embrace Fireworks Britpop
Regurgitator ! (The Song Formerly Known As) Synth Funk
IAM Demain c'est loin Boom Bap, Conscious Hip Hop, French Hip Hop
Aerosmith Pink Pop Rock
The Crystal Method Busy Child Big Beat
U2 Please Alternative Rock, Pop Rock
Savage Garden Truly Madly Deeply Adult Contemporary
Depeche Mode Barrel of a Gun Industrial Rock, Synthpop
Maurizio M7 Dub Techno
Michael Jackson Blood on the Dancefloor Contemporary R&B, Dance-Pop
Erykah Badu Next Lifetime Contemporary R&B, Neo-Soul
Darcy Clay Jesus I Was Evil Lo-Fi / Slacker Rock
Alex Gopher Gordini Mix Electronic
Lord Tariq & Peter Gunz Deja Vu (Uptown Baby) East Coast Hip Hop
Green Day Hitchin' a Ride Alternative Rock, Punk Rock
Radiohead Subterranean Homesick Alien Alternative Rock, Art Rock
The Notorious B.I.G. Ten Crack Commandments Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop, Gangsta Rap
Roni Size / Reprazent Share the Fall Drum and Bass
Super Furry Animals Demons Britpop, Neo-Psychedelia
Papa Wemba Mama Soukous
Prefab Sprout A Prisoner of the Past Brill Building, Sophisti-Pop
Busta Rhymes Dangerous East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
Timbaland and Magoo Up Jumps da Boogie Pop Rap
Daft Punk Revolution 909 French House
DJ Sneak You Can't Hide from Your Bud Funky House
Sugar Ray Fly Pop Reggae, Pop Rock
Photek Ni-Ten-Ichi-Ryu Drum and Bass
Spiritualized Come Together Neo-Psychedelia
The Pastels Unfair Kind of Fame C86
The Beatnuts feat. Big Punisher & Cuban Link Off the Books Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
Travis All I Want to Do Is Rock Britpop
Veruca Salt Volcano Girls Alternative Rock, Hard Rock
Wynton Marsalis Work Song (Blood on the Fields) Post-Bop
Ben Folds Five Battle of Who Could Care Less Piano Rock
B-Rock & The Bizz MyBabyDaddy Pop Rap, Southern Hip Hop
Mogwai Like Herod Noise Rock, Post-Rock
Finley Quaye Even After All Downtempo, Soul
The Rolling Stones Anybody Seen My Baby? Pop Rock
bob hund Ett fall och en lösning Indie Rock
Moodymann Dem Young Sconies Acid House, Deep House
Steve Earle Ft. Worth Blues Alt-Country, Americana, Country Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Sleater-Kinney Little Babies Indie Rock, Punk Rock
David Thomas & Two Pale Boys Surfer Girl/Around the Fire Art Rock
Cornelius Star Fruits Surf Rider Shibuya-kei
Supergrass Late in the Day Britpop, Power Pop
Kent Om du var här/If You Were Here Alternative Rock
David Bowie Little Wonder Alternative Rock, Drum and Bass, Industrial Rock
Echo and the Bunnymen Nothing Lasts Forever Alternative Rock
Reflection Eternal feat. Mos Def & Mr. Man Fortified Live Conscious Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop
Rialto Monday Morning 5:19 Britpop, Chamber Pop
James Tomorrow Indie Rock
Green Velvet Answering Machine Techno
Propellerheads Spybreak! Big Beat
Goldie Feat. KRS-One Digital Drum and Bass, Hip Hop
Mos Def Universal Magnetic Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
Afterhours Male de miele Alternative Rock
Fugees Rumble in the Jungle East Coast Hip Hop
The Firm Phone Tap Boom Bap, East Coast Hip Hop
Propellerheads / David Arnold On Her Majesty's Secret Service Big Beat
Run-D.M.C. vs. Jason Nevins It's Like That Hip House
Sarah McLachlan Adia Adult Contemporary, Folk Pop, Singer/Songwriter
Arab Strap Girls of Summer Indie Pop, Slowcore
Stereophonics Traffic Britpop
Primal Scream Star Neo-Psychedelia, Trip Hop
Mike Ladd Padded Walls Abstract Hip Hop, East Coast Hip Hop, Spoken Word
Supergrass Sun Hits the Sky Britpop, Power Pop
Les Rythmes Digitales Jacques Your Body (Make Me Sweat) French House
Bic Runga Sway Pop Rock, Singer/Songwriter
Ween The Mollusk Art Rock, Psychedelic Folk, Psychedelic Pop
Ash A Life Less Ordinary Britpop, Film Soundtrack, Power Pop
Dem 2 Destiny UK Garage
Teenage Fanclub I Don't Want Control of You Power Pop
Grandaddy Summer Here Kids Indie Pop, Indie Rock
Busta Rhymes Turn it Up East Coast Hip Hop, Hardcore Hip Hop
Jungle Brothers Jungle Brother East Coast Hip Hop, Jump-Up
The Charlatans How High Britpop
4 Hero Loveless Jazzstep
Nalin & Kane Beachball Ibiza Trance, Progressive House