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Encyclopedia > 1997 in British music
1990s in music in the UK
List of number one singles
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This is a summary of 1997 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. (Redirected from 1990s in music) 1990 in music International trends Barbadian artists like Gabby, Spice and Square One bring a new sound to Trinidadian soca Mari Boines Gula Gula, and its titular hit single, bring Sami joik-based folk to popular attention Paradise Lost emerges at the forefront of... This is a list of the number one singles on the UK Singles Chart, during the 1990s. ... 1991 The Simpsons reached number 1 with Do The Bartman in January 1991, even though the actual series wasnt to premiere on UK Terrestrial TV until 1996 Enigma - Sadness Part 1 January 13 for 1 week Queen - Innuendo January 20 for 1 week The KLF featuring Children of The... This is a summary of 1998 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... This is a summary of 2000 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year. ... See also: 1996 in music, other events of 1997, 1998 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music Events January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic...

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Summary

Sales wise, a very good year for singles. A total of five singles released this year went on to become million sellers, including Elton John's 'Candle in the Wind', a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales. This song remains the UK's biggest selling single in history, selling 4.86 million copies. Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, KBE (born March 25, 1947) is a highly successful British pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. ... Candle in the Wind is a song with music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. ... Diana, Princess of Wales (Diana Frances Mountbatten-Windsor, née Spencer) was the first wife of HRH The Prince Charles, Prince of Wales. ...


Charts

Singles

Issue Date Song Title Artist Sales
5 January Spice Girls 2 Become 1 95,000
12 January Tori Amos Professional Widow (Armand van Helden remix) 80,000
19 January White Town Your Woman 119,500
26 January Blur Beetlebum 120,000
2 February LL Cool J Ain't Nobody 80,000
9 February U2 Discothèque 125,000
16 February No Doubt Don't Speak 195,000
23 February No Doubt Don't Speak 140,000
2 March No Doubt Don't Speak 100,000
9 March Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are 248,000
16 March Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are 152,000
23 March Spice Girls Who Do You Think You Are 85,000
30 March The Chemical Brothers Block Rockin' Beats 84,700
6 April R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly 51,000
13 April R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly 76,000
20 April R. Kelly I Believe I Can Fly 87,000
27 April Michael Jackson Blood On The Dance Floor 85,000
4 May Gary Barlow Love Won't Wait 92,000
11 May Olive You're Not Alone 75,000
18 May Olive You're Not Alone 74,000
25 May Eternal featuring Bebe Winans I Wanna Be The Only One 150,000
1 June Hanson Mmmbop 260,000
8 June Hanson Mmmbop 120,000
15 June Hanson Mmmbop 86,000
22 June Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 109,000
29 June Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 156,000
6 July Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 167,000
13 July Oasis D'You Know What I Mean 377,000
20 July Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 124,000
27 July Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 127,000
3 August Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 100,000
10 August Will Smith Men In Black 182,000
17 August Will Smith Men In Black 133,000
24 August Will Smith Men In Black 122,000
31 August Will Smith Men In Black 105,000
7 September The Verve The Drugs Don't Work 105,000
14 September Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight 658,000
21 September Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight 1,547,000
28 September Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight 1,067,000
5 October Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight 572,000
12 October Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 / Something About The Way You Look Tonight 274,000
19 October Spice Girls Spice Up Your Life 321,000
26 October Aqua Barbie Girl 190,000
2 November Aqua Barbie Girl 239,000
9 November Aqua Barbie Girl 190,000
16 November Aqua Barbie Girl 165,000
23 November Various Artists Perfect Day 385,000
30 November Various Artists Perfect Day 275,000
7 December Teletubbies Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh' 317,000
14 December Teletubbies Teletubbies Say 'Eh-Oh' 230,000
21 December Spice Girls Too Much 252,000
28 December Spice Girls Too Much 218,000

January 5 is the 5th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Victoria, Emma, Mel B, Geri, Mel C; The Spice Girls at the MTV Europe Video Awards 1997 The Spice Girls were a British vocal girl band. ... 2 Become 1 was the third single the Spice Girls released and was taken from their debut album, Spice. ... January 12 is the 12th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Tori Amos Tori Amos (born Myra Ellen Amos on August 22, 1963) is an American singer, pianist and songwriter. ... Professional Widow is a song written by American-born singer and songwriter Tori Amos. ... Entra mi casa. ... January 19 is the 19th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... White Town is a techno-pop act (actually only one man, Jyoti Mishra, born in Rourkela, India, on July 30, 1966; Mishra has lived in England since the age of three), often regarded as a one-hit wonder for its 1997 song Your Woman. This single was often known not... January 26 is the 26th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Cover of Blur: The Best Of - Clockwise from top left: Coxon, James, Rowntree, Albarn Blur is the name of a British rock band. ... Beetlebum is a song by the band Blur. ... February 2 is the 33rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... LL Cool J James Todd Smith (born January 14, 1968) is an American hip hop artist better known by his stage name, LL Cool J (an abbreviation of Ladies Love Cool James). He is best known for romantic ballads like I Need Love as well as hardcore rap like I... February 9 is the 40th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... U2 (L to R): The Edge, Bono, Adam Clayton, Larry Mullen U2 is an Irish rock band featuring Bono (Paul David Hewson) on vocals and guitar, The Edge (David Howell Evans) on guitar and pianos, vocals, and bass, Adam Clayton on bass and guitar, and Larry Mullen on drums. ... February 16 is the 47th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... No Doubt No Doubt is an American alternative rock group whose music was initially influenced heavily by ska, punk and New Wave. ... Dont Speak is a popular ballad and love song by California ska band No Doubt. ... February 23 is the 54th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... March 2 is the 61st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (62nd in leap years). ... March 9 is the 68th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (69th in Leap years). ... Victoria, Emma, Mel B, Geri, Mel C; The Spice Girls at the MTV Europe Video Awards 1997 The Spice Girls were a British vocal girl band. ... Who Do You Think You Are is a pop song whose music video was produced to co-incide with Comic Relief 1997, a six-minute video version starring Dawn French and the Sugar Lumps (French and Saunders, Lulu, Llewella Gideon and Kathy Burke), which is a comedy send-up of... March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... March 23 is the 82nd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (83rd in Leap years). ... March 30 is the 89th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (90th in Leap years). ... The cover of the Hey Boy, Hey Girl single The Chemical Brothers are an English electronic music duo, comprising Tom Rowlands and Ed Simons. ... April 6 is the 96th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (97th in leap years). ... R. Kelly R. Kelly (born Robert Sylvester Kelly on January 8, 1967 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American R&B and soul singer, songwriter and record producer who found international acclaim in the 1990s for his diverse talents as a singer, songwriter, producer, multi-instrumentalist and musician. ... April 13 is the 103rd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (104th in leap years). ... April 20 is the 110th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (111th in leap years). ... April 27 is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 248 days remaining. ... Michael Jackson and Jane Fonda in 1984. ... May 4 is the 124th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (125th in leap years). ... Gary Barlow (born January 20, 1971 in Frodsham, Cheshire) is a British singer and songwriter, best known as the ex-leader of the successful boy band, Take That. ... May 11 is the 131st day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (132nd in leap years). ... Olive are an electronic music group from the United Kingdom, usually associated with the trip-hop style. ... May 18 is the 138th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (139th in leap years). ... May 25 is the 145th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (146th in leap years). ... Eternal was a London-based 90s R&B girl group that found fame in 1993 and went on to become one of the UKs most successful girl groups of all time, achieving both domestic and global success. ... June 1 is the 152nd day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (153rd in leap years), with 213 days remaining. ... This article needs to be wikified. ... MMMBop is both a song and an album by Hanson. ... June 8 is the 159th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (160th in leap years), with 206 days remaining. ... June 15 is the 166th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (167th in leap years), with 199 days remaining. ... June 22 is the 173rd day of the year (174th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 192 days remaining. ... Sean John Combs (born November 4, 1969 aka P. Diddy, Puff Daddy, Sean Puffy Combs) is an American record producer and CEO and founder of Bad Boy Entertainment, one of the driving forces in hip hop in the mid to late 1990s. ... Faith Evans Faith Evans (born Faith Renee Evans, June 10, 1973 in Lakeland, Florida but grew up in Newark, New Jersey) is an American R&B singer-songwriter who rose to fame even while under the shadows of her famous late husband, rap icon The Notorious B.I.G.. Biography... Ill Be Missing You (or Ill Be Missin You) is a song in memory of The Notorious B.I.G. who was murdered not long before the song was released in 1997. ... June 29 is the 180th day of the year (181st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 185 days remaining. ... July 6 is the 187th day of the year (188th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 178 days remaining. ... July 13th is the 194th day (195th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 171 days remaining. ... Oasis as of 2005, left to right:Andy Bell, Noel Gallagher, Liam Gallagher and Gem Archer Oasis are a best-selling rock and roll Britpop band, originally from Manchester, England. ... DYou Know What I Mean is a song by British rock band Oasis. ... July 20 is the 201st day (202nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 164 days remaining. ... July 27 is the 208th day (209th in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 157 days remaining. ... August 3 is the 215th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (216th in leap years), with 150 days remaining. ... August 10 is the 222nd day of the year (223rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Will Smith For the geologist who invented fossil correlation, see William Smith. ... August 17 is the 229th day of the year (230th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... August 24 is the 236th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (237th in leap years), with 129 days remaining. ... August 31 is the 243rd day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (244th in leap years), with 122 days remaining, as the final day of August. ... September 7 is the 250th day of the year (251st in leap years). ... From left: Peter Salisbury, Simon Jones, Richard Ashcroft, Nick McCabe, Simon Tong The Verve were a British rock and roll band of the 1990s, originally formed in Wigan, England in 1989 by vocalist Richard Ashcroft, guitarist Nick McCabe, bassist Simon Jones and drummer Peter Salisbury. ... September 14 is the 257th day of the year (258th in leap years). ... Elton John Sir Elton Hercules John, KBE (born March 25, 1947) is a highly successful British pop singer, pianist, and songwriter. ... Candle in the Wind is a song with music by Elton John and lyrics by Bernie Taupin. ... September 21 is the 264th day of the year (265th in leap years). ... September 28 is the 271st day of the year (272nd in leap years). ... October 5 is the 278th day of the year (279th in Leap years). ... October 12 is the 285th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (286th in leap years). ... October 19 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Spice Up Your Life is a song released by the Spice Girls. ... October 26 is the 299th day of the year (300th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 66 days remaining. ... Aqua was a Scandinavian pop-dance band which consisted of Lene Grawford Nystrøm (born 2 October 1973, Tønsberg, Norway), René Dif (born 17 October 1967, Copenhagen, Denmark), Claus Norréen (born 5 June 1970, Charlottenlund, Denmark) and Søren Rasted (born 13 June 1969, Blovstrød, Denmark). ... Barbie Girl is a song by the group Aqua, who released it in 1997 as a single and included it on the album Aquarium. ... November 2 is the 306th day of the year (307th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 59 days remaining. ... November 9 is the 313th day of the year (314th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 52 days remaining. ... November 16 is the 320th day of the year (321st in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 45 days remaining. ... November 23 is the 327th day of the year (328th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 38 days remaining. ... The term Various Artists is used in the record industry when numerous singers and musicians collaborate on a song or collection of songs. ... Perfect Day is a song written by Lou Reed in 1972, made famous in the 1990s through featuring in the film Trainspotting (1996), and after its release as a charity single in 1997. ... November 30 is the 334th day (335th on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar, with 31 days remaining, as the final day of November. ... December 7 is the 341st day (342nd on leap years) of the year in the Gregorian calendar. ... toys made to Teletubbies images Teletubbies is a BBC childrens television series aimed particularly at babies and pre-school toddlers, produced from 1997 to 2001 by Ragdoll Productions. ... December 14 is the 348th day of the year (349th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... December 21 is the 355th day of the year (356th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar. ... Too Much was the Spice Girls sixth single release in the United Kingdom (fifth in the U.S.) and the second release from their second album, Spiceworld. ... December 28 is the 362nd day of the year (363rd in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 3 days remaining. ...

Albums

Issue Date Album Title Artist
5 January Spice Spice Girls
12 January Spice Spice Girls
19 January Spice Spice Girls
26 January Evita (OST) Madonna & Various Artists
2 February Glow Reef
9 February White On Blonde Texas
16 February Blur Blur
23 February Attack of the Grey Lantern Mansun
2 March Spice Spice Girls
9 March Pop U2
16 March Spice Spice Girls
23 March Spice Spice Girls
30 March Spice Spice Girls
6 April Spice Spice Girls
13 April Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers
20 April Ultra Depeche Mode
27 April Tellin' Stories The Cbarlatans
4 May Tellin' Stories The Charlatans
11 May Spice Spice Girls
18 May Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix) Michael Jackson
25 May Blood on the Dance Floor (HIStory in the Mix) Michael Jackson
1 June Open Road Gary Barlow
8 June Wu-Tang Forever Wu-Tang Clan
15 June Middle of Nowhere Hanson
22 June OK Computer Radiohead
29 June OK Computer Radiohead
6 July The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
13 July The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
20 July The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
27 July The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
3 August The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
10 August The Fat of the Land The Prodigy
17 August White On Blonde Texas
24 August Be Here Now Oasis
31 August Be Here Now Oasis
7 September Be Here Now Oasis
14 September Be Here Now Oasis
21 September Marchin' Already Ocean Colour Scene
28 September Be Here Now Oasis
5 October Urban Hymns The Verve
12 October Urban Hymns The Verve
19 October Urban Hymns The Verve
26 October Urban Hymns The Verve
2 November Urban Hymns The Verve
9 November Spiceworld Spice Girls
16 November Spiceworld Spice Girls
23 November Let's Talk about Love Céline Dion
30 November Let's Talk about Love Céline Dion
7 December Spiceworld Spice Girls
14 December Let's Talk about Love Céline Dion
21 December Let's Talk about Love Céline Dion
28 December Urban Hymns The Verve

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This is a summary of 1997 in music in the United Kingdom, including the official charts from that year.
In August this year, Diana, Princess of Wales was killed in a car crash.
At her funeral, he played a rewritten version of "Candle in the Wind" known as "Candle in the Wind 1997", a song originally written about Marilyn Monroe (made #11 in 1974, with a live version reaching #5 in 1988).
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