1997 rock radio charts

Every number one and the biggest songs on our Alternative and Mainstream rock charts in 1997: 13 number ones on the Alternative chart and 8 number ones on the Mainstream chart.

Alternative rock, 1997

Number ones

Song	Artist	Weeks at #1	First week at #1
Swallowed	Bush	3	Jan 6, 1997
Thirty-Three	The Smashing Pumpkins	1	Jan 27, 1997
Discotheque	U2	4	Feb 3, 1997
Lakini's Juice	Live	1	Mar 3, 1997
One Headlight	The Wallflowers	6	Mar 10, 1997
Staring At The Sun	U2	1	Apr 21, 1997
The Freshmen	The Verve Pipe	4	Apr 28, 1997
Semi-Charmed Life	Third Eye Blind	8	May 26, 1997
The Impression That I Get	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	2	Jun 30, 1997
Push	matchbox 20	3	Aug 4, 1997
Walkin' On The Sun	Smash Mouth	10	Aug 25, 1997
Tubthumping	Chumbawamba	7	Nov 3, 1997
Everything To Everyone	Everclear	2	Dec 22, 1997

Biggest songs of 1997

Ranked by points across the year’s charts: 25 points for a week at #1, down to 1 point for #25.

#	Song	Artist	Peak	Weeks
1	Semi-Charmed Life	Third Eye Blind	#1	31
2	The Impression That I Get	The Mighty Mighty Bosstones	#1	28
3	Walkin' On The Sun	Smash Mouth	#1	24
4	The Freshmen	The Verve Pipe	#1	25
5	Santeria	Sublime	#2	25
6	Everlong	Foo Fighters	#2	21
7	One Headlight	The Wallflowers	#1	23
8	Push	matchbox 20	#1	24
9	Wrong Way	Sublime	#2	24
10	Fly	Sugar Ray	#3	25
11	Song 2	Blur	#3	24
12	Tubthumping	Chumbawamba	#1	15
13	Lakini's Juice	Live	#1	15
14	Turn My Head	Live	#2	18
15	Everything To Everyone	Everclear	#1	15
16	Staring At The Sun	U2	#1	15
17	A Long December	Counting Crows	#4	16
18	Volcano Girls	Veruca Salt	#9	24
19	Thirty-Three	The Smashing Pumpkins	#1	15
20	Hitchin' A Ride	Green Day	#4	16
21	If You Could Only See	Tonic	#5	22
22	Greedy Fly	Bush	#3	18
23	The Difference	The Wallflowers	#4	16
24	Gone Away	The Offspring	#5	17
25	All Mixed Up	311	#3	16

Mainstream rock, 1997

Number ones

Song	Artist	Weeks at #1	First week at #1
Blow Up The Outside World	Soundgarden	3	Jan 6, 1997
Lady Picture Show	Stone Temple Pilots	1	Jan 20, 1997
One Headlight	The Wallflowers	8	Feb 3, 1997
Precious Declaration	Collective Soul	7	Mar 31, 1997
Gone Away	The Offspring	5	May 19, 1997
Little White Lie	Sammy Hagar	3	Jun 16, 1997
Listen	Collective Soul	9	Jul 14, 1997
Touch, Peel And Stand	Days Of The New	16	Sep 15, 1997

Biggest songs of 1997

Ranked by points across the year’s charts: 25 points for a week at #1, down to 1 point for #25.

#	Song	Artist	Peak	Weeks
1	Push	matchbox 20	#3	33
2	Gone Away	The Offspring	#1	34
3	If You Could Only See	Tonic	#3	35
4	One Headlight	The Wallflowers	#1	24
5	Touch, Peel And Stand	Days Of The New	#1	22
6	Precious Declaration	Collective Soul	#1	26
7	Listen	Collective Soul	#1	22
8	Lakini's Juice	Live	#2	21
9	The Difference	The Wallflowers	#2	20
10	Everlong	Foo Fighters	#3	19
11	My Own Prison	Creed	#2	18
12	King Nothing	Metallica	#7	26
13	Staring At The Sun	U2	#2	16
14	Greedy Fly	Bush	#5	21
15	Blow Up The Outside World	Soundgarden	#1	15
16	Sign Of The Times	Queensryche	#3	15
17	The Freshmen	The Verve Pipe	#6	19
18	Little White Lie	Sammy Hagar	#1	14
19	Abuse Me	Silverchair	#3	15
20	Turn My Head	Live	#2	15
21	Volcano Girls	Veruca Salt	#7	22
22	Bleeding Me	Metallica	#6	21
23	Carolina Blues	Blues Traveler	#3	15
24	Falling In Love (Is Hard On The Knees)	Aerosmith	#4	14
25	I Choose	The Offspring	#4	19

Week by week

Each week’s #1 song. Click one to open that week’s full top 25.

Week	Alternative #1	Mainstream #1
Jan 6, 1997	SwallowedBush	Blow Up The Outside WorldSoundgarden
Jan 13, 1997	SwallowedBush	Blow Up The Outside WorldSoundgarden
Jan 20, 1997	SwallowedBush	Lady Picture ShowStone Temple Pilots
Jan 27, 1997	Thirty-ThreeThe Smashing Pumpkins	Blow Up The Outside WorldSoundgarden
Feb 3, 1997	DiscothequeU2	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Feb 10, 1997	DiscothequeU2	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Feb 17, 1997	DiscothequeU2	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Feb 24, 1997	DiscothequeU2	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Mar 3, 1997	Lakini's JuiceLive	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Mar 10, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Mar 17, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Mar 24, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers
Mar 31, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
Apr 7, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
Apr 14, 1997	One HeadlightThe Wallflowers	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
Apr 21, 1997	Staring At The SunU2	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
Apr 28, 1997	The FreshmenThe Verve Pipe	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
May 5, 1997	The FreshmenThe Verve Pipe	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
May 12, 1997	The FreshmenThe Verve Pipe	Precious DeclarationCollective Soul
May 19, 1997	The FreshmenThe Verve Pipe	Gone AwayThe Offspring
May 26, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Gone AwayThe Offspring
Jun 2, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Gone AwayThe Offspring
Jun 9, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Gone AwayThe Offspring
Jun 16, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Little White LieSammy Hagar
Jun 23, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Little White LieSammy Hagar
Jun 30, 1997	The Impression That I GetThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones	Gone AwayThe Offspring
Jul 7, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	Little White LieSammy Hagar
Jul 14, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	ListenCollective Soul
Jul 21, 1997	Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind	ListenCollective Soul
Jul 28, 1997	The Impression That I GetThe Mighty Mighty Bosstones	ListenCollective Soul
Aug 4, 1997	Pushmatchbox 20	ListenCollective Soul
Aug 11, 1997	Pushmatchbox 20	ListenCollective Soul
Aug 18, 1997	Pushmatchbox 20	ListenCollective Soul
Aug 25, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	ListenCollective Soul
Sep 1, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	ListenCollective Soul
Sep 8, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	ListenCollective Soul
Sep 15, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Sep 22, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Sep 29, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Oct 6, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Oct 13, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Oct 20, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Oct 27, 1997	Walkin' On The SunSmash Mouth	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Nov 3, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Nov 10, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Nov 17, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Nov 24, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Dec 1, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Dec 8, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Dec 15, 1997	TubthumpingChumbawamba	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Dec 22, 1997	Everything To EveryoneEverclear	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New
Dec 29, 1997	Everything To EveryoneEverclear	Touch, Peel And StandDays Of The New