List of Billboard Hot 100 number ones of 1997

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Elton John earned his latest Hot 100 number-one single with "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which stayed at the top position for 12 straight weeks Elton John in 1980s.jpg
Elton John earned his latest Hot 100 number-one single with "Candle in the Wind 1997" / "Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which stayed at the top position for 12 straight weeks

The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Published by Billboard magazine, the data are compiled by Nielsen SoundScan based collectively on each single's weekly physical sales and airplay. There were ten singles that peaked atop the charts, but if "Un-Break My Heart" is excluded from the count (for the song started its peak in the previous year), the total would be nine. The longest running number-one single of 1997 is "Candle in the Wind 1997"/"Something About the Way You Look Tonight", which logged 14 weeks at the top of the Billboard Hot 100. Two of those weeks were logged in 1998 while the remaining 12 were attained in 1997.

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With "Honey" becoming her 12th #1 single, Mariah Carey broke the record for most #1 songs by a female artist, surpassing Madonna and Whitney Houston with 11 each.

That year, 7 acts earned their first number one song, such as Spice Girls, Puff Daddy, Mase, The Notorious B.I.G., Hanson, Faith Evans, and 112. The Notorious B.I.G. became the fifth artist to hit number one posthumously, after his death in March 1997. Puff Daddy, Mase, and The Notorious B.I.G. were the only artists to hit number one more than once, with Puff Daddy hitting the most with three, while Mase and The Notorious B.I.G. hit twice.

Chart history

Key
†Indicates best-performing single of 1997
No.Issue dateSongArtist(s)Ref.
812January 4"Un-Break My Heart" Toni Braxton [1]
January 11 [2]
January 18 [3]
January 25 [4]
February 1 [5]
February 8 [6]
February 15 [7]
813February 22"Wannabe" Spice Girls [8]
March 1 [9]
March 8 [10]
March 15 [11]
814March 22"Can't Nobody Hold Me Down" Puff Daddy featuring Mase [12]
March 29 [13]
April 5 [14]
April 12 [15]
April 19 [16]
April 26 [17]
815May 3"Hypnotize" The Notorious B.I.G. [18]
May 10 [19]
May 17 [20]
816May 24"MMMBop" Hanson [21]
May 31 [22]
June 7 [23]
817June 14"I'll Be Missing You"Puff Daddy and Faith Evans featuring 112 [24]
June 21 [25]
June 28 [26]
July 5 [27]
July 12 [28]
July 19 [29]
July 26 [30]
August 2 [31]
August 9 [32]
August 16 [33]
August 23 [34]
818August 30"Mo Money Mo Problems"The Notorious B.I.G. featuring Puff Daddy and Mase [35]
September 6 [36]
819September 13"Honey" Mariah Carey [37]
September 20 [38]
September 27 [39]
820October 4"4 Seasons of Loneliness" Boyz II Men [40]
821October 11"Candle in the Wind 1997" /
"Something About the Way You Look Tonight"†		 Elton John [41]
October 18 [42]
October 25 [43]
November 1 [44]
November 8 [45]
November 15 [46]
November 22 [47]
November 29 [48]
December 6 [49]
December 13 [50]
December 20 [51]
December 27 [52]

Number-one artists

List of number-one artists by total weeks at number one
PositionArtistWeeks at No. 1
1Puff Daddy19
2Elton John12
3Faith Evans11
112
5Mase8
6Toni Braxton7
7The Notorious B.I.G.5
8Spice Girls4
9Hanson3
Mariah Carey
11Boyz II Men1

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