#1 Song In 1997 < TRUSTED × TUTORIAL >

In this context, the success of the two elegies stands out even more. Perhaps the reason these songs of loss resonated so deeply is that they provided the only allowable depth in a culture otherwise obsessed with superficiality and bubblegum pop. Or perhaps they were the canaries in the coal mine, signaling the end of an era of innocence before the turbulence of the new millennium.

According to Billboard (which weights airplay + sales over the full calendar year): #1 song in 1997

To determine the number one song of 1997, one must first decide how to measure such a thing. In the United States, the year ended with the inescapable groove of "Something About the Way You Look Tonight"/"Candle in the Wind 1997" by Elton John. In the United Kingdom, the charts were dominated by the ominous, pulsing bass of "I'll Be Missing You" by Puff Daddy and Faith Evans. Though stylistically universes apart—one a somber orchestral ballad, the other a sampling-heavy hip-hop elegy—both tracks shared a singular, defining DNA: they were monuments to grief. In this context, the success of the two

Achieved #2 on the year-end chart without hitting #1 weekly. According to Billboard (which weights airplay + sales

A 1996 holdover that dominated early 1997.