1997
🎂 What music raised you?
Drop your birthday and we'll rewind to your golden era — the years the songs imprinted for life.
🔙 Backtrack — 1997
The world around the music — what was on screen, and what was on the shelf.
🎬 Set the scene
Somewhere in 1997, Spider-Man was on, a Fruit by the Foot was open, and somebody was about to wait for the modem to finish screaming.
🎬 At the movies
📼 Saturday cartoons
- Doug👕 tee →
- Rugrats👕 tee →
- The Ren & Stimpy Show
- X-Men👕 tee →
- Batman: The Animated Series👕 tee →
- Animaniacs👕 tee →
- Rocko's Modern Life
- Aaahh!!! Real Monsters
- Spider-Man👕 tee →
- Hey Arnold!
Billboard Year-End Hot 100
📊 Full chart →- 1
Something About the Way You Look TonightElton John, Anne Dudley & Orchestra - 3
I'll Be Missing You (feat. Faith Evans, 112)Puff Daddy & Faith Evans - 4
Un-Break My HeartToni Braxton - 5
Can't Nobody Hold Me Down (feat. Mase)Puff Daddy - 7
Don't Let Go (Love)En Vogue - 8
Return of the MackMark Morrison - 9
How Do I LiveLeAnn Rimes - 10
WannabeSpice Girls - 11
Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)Backstreet Boys - 12
MMMBopHanson - 13
For You I WillMonica - 14
You Make Me Wanna...USHER - 15
BitchMeredith Brooks - 16
Nobody (feat. Athena Cage)Keith Sweat - 17
Semi-Charmed LifeThird Eye Blind - 18
Barely BreathingDuncan Sheik - 19
Hard to Say I'm Sorry (feat. Peter Cetera)Az Yet - 20
Mo Money Mo Problems (feat. Puff Daddy & Mase)The Notorious B.I.G. - 21
The FreshmenThe Verve Pipe - 22
I Want YouSavage Garden - 23
No Diggity (feat. Dr. Dre & Queen Pen)Blackstreet - 24
I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face)Rome - 25HypnotizeThe Notorious B.I.G.
- 26
Every Time I Close My EyesBabyface, Mariah Carey, Kenny G & Sheila E. - 27
In My BedDru Hill
More from 1997
🎤 Big in 1997
🎚️ 1997 genres
🎛️ Behind the boards & the pen — 1997
The hands behind 1997 — the producers and songwriters who actually shaped that year's records. Gil Norton was on 3 of them.
🎬 Movies of 1997
All soundtracks →The soundtracks that scored 1997 — every song and where it played.
▶Men in Black
1997 · 1 track
♪ Men in Black
▶Titanic
1997 · 1 track
♪ My Heart Will Go On
▶My Best Friend's Wedding
1997 · 1 track
♪ I Say a Little Prayer
▶Boogie Nights
1997 · 4 tracks
♪ Best of My Love
Grosse Pointe Blank
1997 · 4 tracks
♪ Blister In The Sun
▶Con Air
1997 · 1 track
♪ How Do I Live
Romy and Michele's High School Reunion
1997 · 1 track
♪ Time After Time
🎚️ Related vibes
All themes →Themed rooms that lean on the sound of 1997.
What does 1997 remind you of?
The drive, the dance, the heartbreak, the summer. Add a memory of 1997.
Community Memories
How well do you remember 1997?
7 quick questions — the songs, the artists, the year. No cheating. 😏
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🎵 1997 albums on vinyl
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