RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (DUCKHEAD/popradiotop20.com) TOP POP SINGLES OF 1997*

RADIO AND RECORDS (USA) MAGAZINE'S (DUCKHEAD/popradiotop20.com) TOP POP SINGLES OF 1997*
No.-Song-Artist-Peak Month
  1 YOU WERE MEANT FOR ME-JEWEL-MARCH
  2 SEMI-CHARMED LIFE-THIRD EYE BLIND-August
  3 LOVEFOOL-THE CARDIGANS-February
  4 FLY-SUGAR RAY & SUPER CAT-October
  5 SHOW ME LOVE-ROBYN-November
  6 QUIT PLAYING GAMES-BACKSTREET BOYS-September
  7 ONE HEADLIGHT-WALLFLOWERS-May
  8 I WANT YOU-Savage Garden-June
  9 FOOLISH GAMES-Jewel-September
 10 PUSH-Matchbox 20-October
 11 Tubthumping-Chumbawamba-November
 12 Un-Break My Heart-Toni Braxton-January
 13 How Bizarre-OMC-July
 14 MmmBop-Hanson-May
 15 Do You Know (What It Takes)-Robyn-July
 16 Sunny Came Home-Shawn Colvin-July
 17 All For You-Sister Hazel-August
 18 Bitch-Meredith Brooks-July
 19 Say You'll Be There-Spice Girls-May
 20 Wannabe-Spice Girls-March
 21 2 Become 1-Spice Girls-August
 22 You Make Me Wanna...-Usher-December
 23 Return Of The Mack-Mark Morrison-June
 24 How Do I Live-LeAnn Rimes-October
 25 Everyday Is A Winding Road-Sheryl Crow-April
 26 I Don't Want To Wait-Paula Cole-December
 27 Where Have All The Cowboys Gone?-Paula Cole-May
 28 For You I Will-Monica-May
 29 Barely Breathing-Duncan Sheik-March
 30 Ooh Aah... Just A Little Bit-Gina G-January
 31 Men In Black-Will Smith-August
 32 Your Woman-White Town-June
 33 A Long December-Counting Crows-March 
 34 The Freshmen-The Verve Pipe-July
 35 If You Could Only See-Tonic-October
 36 All Cried Out-Allure f. 112-December
 37 Hard To Say I'm Sorry-Az Yet & Peter Cetera-June 
 38 All By Myself-Celine Dion-March
 39 I Do-Lisa Loeb-December
 40 I Believe I Can Fly-R. Kelly-January
 41 4 Seasons Of Loneliness-Boyz II Men-October
 42 Where's The Love-Hanson-August
 43 Don't Cry For Me Argentina-Madonna-February
 44 Nobody-Keith Sweat & Athena Cage-February 
 45 Every Time I Close My Eyes-Babyface-April
 46 Honey-Mariah Carey-September
 47 Invisible Man-98 degrees-October
 48 Building A Mystery-Sarah McLachlan-October
 49 No Diggity-Blackstreet & Dr. Dre-January
 50 A Change Would Do You Good-Sheryl Crow-July 
 51 I'll Be Missing You-Puff Daddy,Faith Evans & 112-August
 52 Butterfly-Mariah Carey-November
 53 The Difference-The Wallflowers-August
 54 Secret Garden-Bruce Springsteen-April
 55 Breaking All The Rules-She Moves-December
 56 Butterfly Kisses-Bob Carlisle-June
 57 I'm Still In Love With You-New Edition-January
 58 The Holy River-Prince-February
 59 Staring At The Sun-U2-May
 60 The Impression That I Get-Mighty Mighty Bosstones-October
 61 I Will Come To You-Hanson-December
 62 Whatever-En Vogue-August
 63 Criminal-Fiona Apple-December
 64 Without Love-Donna Lewis-March
 65 On My Own-Peach Union-November
 66 Don't Leave Me-Blackstreet-May
 67 One More Time-Real McCoy-April
 68 Please Don't Go-No Mercy-May
 69 Legend Of A Cowgirl-Imani Coppola-November
 70 More Than This-10,000 Maniacs-August
 71 Crash Into Me-Dave Matthews Band-August
 72 Gotham City-R.Kelly-August
 73A Coco Jamboo-Mr.President-December
 73B Elegantly Wasted-INXS-May
 73C When You're Gone-Cranberries-January  
 76A I Wanna Be There-Blessid Union Of Souls-May
 76B It's Alright,It's OK-Leah Andreone-March

* Here is how Duckhead calculated this chart from Radio and Record charts.

Points
Points for the yearly charts are calculated using inverse points from the weekly charts.
Each week, the # 1 song gets 20 points, the # 2 song gets 19 points, # 3 gets 18, and so on.
The # 20 song gets 1 point.
Each song's points are added up for each week to reach the total.
A song's entire chart run will be used for the yearly chart.
Songs appear on the yearly chart corresponding to the year they peak on the weekly charts.
Tie-Breakers
For songs that tie in points on the yearly charts, the following tie-breakers are used:
1. Most weeks at # 1
2. Most weeks at # 2
3. Most weeks at # 3
4. Most weeks at # 4
5. Etc.
If songs remain tied after all 20 tie-breakers, then they will be listed as tied on the yearly chart.
Tied songs appear in alphabetical order, and are marked by letters, for example: 94A and 94B.