German Singles Charts 1997 (All songs)

All songs entrying in the german singles charts from January to December 1997, with peak and weeks on chart information (About 540 songs).
Missing (non available on YT) :
Together - Be with you (Entry : 15 Sep, Peak : 95, Weeks : 2)
Gil - Round n round (Entry : 01 dec, Peak : 29, Weeks : 11)

[@fanstastic83]

I miss 1997 😢

[@yannhollister9091]

1997 was peak of Trance music, rediscovered lots of them with this compilation. Great job !

[@fanstastic83]

Energy 52 ❤

[@papertoyss]

With these lists Im recovering music Ive lost years ago. Thanx!

[@tangerine825]

DJ BoBo ;-) Thanks francis pelletier !

[@darcy_taylor3103]

''Respect Yourself'' 0:06

[@ToyTiger666]

Great stuff! Formidable! Magnifique! 🙏🌈❤️✨️

[@dietmarthies4261]

Great work as always, and a whole lot of work, when I see the duration of this video! 54 minutes, and so many songs only lasted for 1 week in the charts! Thank you very much for this, Francis!

[@michaelnrw7035]

Vielen Dank für die viele Mühe bei der zusammenstellung eines jeden Jahres .Das macht immer wieder Spass zu sehen welche Lieder in diesen Jahr zu hören waren und auch wieder vrgessen sind.. Many many thanks .. Freu mich schon auf 1998 !!!!

[@nickname6279]

Was heute der Aggro-Rap ist, war damals der Eurodance. Von 50 Liedern 45 unterstes Mittelmaß. Der Rest der Charts bestand wie heute auch aus Covern und drei bis sieben Schlagern. Da erinnert man sich doch gerne 👍👍👍

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

Haha. Man muss erstmal sagen, dass Charts damals pre-Internet und pre-KZbin eine der wenigen Möglichkeiten waren, an Musik zu kommen. Ich bin halt mit dieser Zeit aufgewachsen, dafür sind mir die Charts ab 2009 oder so sehr fremd. Zum Glück kennt man normalerweise nur die größeren Hits der Jahre und nicht jeden einzelnen belanglosen Einsteiger. Du hast Recht. Seltsamerweise bewahrheitet sich immer wieder die viel zitierte "90 % von allem ist Mist" Regel. Oder nicht gut genug. Was ja egal ist ob es ein unterer Mittelmaß Song ist oder noch schlechter. Hört man eh nicht an. Die wenigsten Tracks eines Genres schaffen es aus der Formel etwas gutes rauszuholen. Dann kommen zig Möchtegern Producer und scheitern einfach gnadenlos. Schon krass, wie sehr man die Vergangenheit verzerren kann, wenn man sich nur an die Hits erinnert und den Rest ausblendet.

[@janihorkko9720]

Nice compilations😀

[@helmutpeterplossl6825]

Du bist echt Klasse, Francis😘😘👌👌

[@robertanthonyfairweather3416]

FUN FACT: PRISONER OF THE PAST's setting bears a striking resemblance to that of YOU'LL BE IN MY HEART

[@somerandomguy_music]

Thank you so much Francis for another great German Singles Chart video! 😃👋👌The following songs are the most underrated ones IMO and should have been bigger hits: Republica - Ready to Go & Drop Dead Gorgeous (at least both went top 20 in the UK), X-Perience - Magic Fields (I prefer it to their big hit 'A Neverending Dream'), Soraya - Suddenly & Stay Awhile (I guess people bought the album instead which went top 10), Depeche Mode - Home (they had so many German top 5 & top 10 hits yet this great song only peaked at no.11), Texas - Black Eyed Boy (top 5 in the UK though) and Coleske - Take Me Where the Sun Is Shining (great song from South Africa).

[@javiiwilliams851]

Good German chart!!! Many of those One hit Wonders deserved more recognition in their other songs.

[@marklineham2533]

Wow - what a lot of work this must have been! Excellent, many thanks!!!

[@chrisdylan2886]

Depeche Mode : Home 😍

[@redbaron4600]

Merci beaucoup Francis.

[@DodgerOfZion]

1997. The year I was introduced to both Rammstein and Hanson. What a Hell of a dichotomy.

[@blzsaid4866]

Best Time best music

[@Glamking1]

Wham!’s “Last Christmas” was the first to enter twice on two occasions in the first week of the year and the second week of December this year in 1997 and it has charted ever since in Germany deciding to reach the top spot over two years ago on the final chart of the year in 2021 by kicking out a Christmas classic from Mariah Carey. Despite it originally reached number seven in 1984.

[@danmccarthy4700]

There are songs that didn't make it higher than 80 but still spent more time on the chart than other songs that reached the top 20.

[@Domisimi]

Depeche Mode, Petshop Boys und And One ❤

[@ImanMohammadpor]

Thanks for post 💜💜💜💜💚💚💚💚❤❤❤❤

[@dee74raz]

Third Eye Blind’s song is such a classic 😊

[@eichhornchen3096]

Thanks for the upload! I think M People with "Fantasy Island" is missing, it entered the chart on December 8.

[@aleksandr3062]

3:04 Mamma Mia! How could I forget this one!

[@zhabkin]

Great! Waiting for 1998 german singles.

[@jameshunter7303]

Two things I noticed, so many covers, and the “Faithless” sound from 95/96 (“I can’t get no sleep” etc”) had become very popular edit - and OMC just couldn’t get that follow-up hit!

[@zhabkin]

It was a typical pizzacato sound )

[@childrey14]

The year I first moved to Germany.

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

Can someone explain to me what happened between 1997 and 1999? I 1997, you have these cheap pizzicato tracks and Eurodance like Captain Jack that sounds so dated compared to what Dance Music could do in 1999. It seems that I only got the top of the ice berg from 1997, while I know a lot more from 1999.

[@tonybenlozz2907]

There was a huge jump in quality terms between '97 and '99. Not only music envolved faster at the time, video productions and fashion trendy too. Nowadays a decade does not make much of a difference. Compare 93 with 03 and 2013 with 2023 and you'll see.

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

@@tonybenlozz2907 Yeah, I dared to send a mail to my favourite music podcast asking that exact question! They answered me that there indeed as you correctly say was a huge leap in production quality. PCs got not only better but they became affordable and therefor the music producing software was easier to purchase. I'll always remember the Trance legend M.I.K.E. aka Push / Plastic Boy saying that he had to produce his music on more or less one session on a day because it wasn't possible to save stuff. That changed in the end of the 1990s. But yeah, I'm listening to 80s charts at the moment. Synths got a lot better in the second half of the 90s for different reasons. I mean, it has been almost 20 years since the synthesizer hit the mainstream charts and everybody was using them. There had to be constant improvement and there was a demand. Then you had the chance to use more audio tracks and therefor the music got a lot richer in sounds. It's a really fascinating development. To me it's always a mixture of funny and weird when these music producer guys say on their podcast that "tunes from the late 90s sound so dated or cheap" because they have very good ears when it comes to production quality and mastering. To me I do not care too much about that.

[@robertanthonyfairweather3416]

WE TRYING TO STAY ALIVE = STAYING ALIVE

[@robertanthonyfairweather3416]

ZEIT ZU GEH'N = TIME TO SAY GOODBYE

[@ImanMohammadpor]

Ilove you my frend for post😗😗😗😗😗💛💛💛💛💛💛💚💚💚💚💚💚💚❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@linexi]

cool video :)

[@chris98f50]

Bitter Sweet Symphony only reached #37 in Germany? I’m very surprised

[@mumumeme8496]

I got real popular in 98 though and it played every day on mtv and viva

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

Though I'm not a music expert, I've been listening a lot to music for over 25 years now. With so many songs to me it's super obvious how clean, boring, bland, radio friendly they were produced. There's no edge, no depth, no surprises, just the simplest lyrics you can think of and the most generic sounds. All those who say the charts aka commercial music was better back in the 1990s, I don't really think so. There was really good stuff and then there was a lot of trash that's mostly forgotten. I'm heavily biased. I'd really like to check out later editions from 2010 onward if I can find even 20 songs I like from all the new entries.

[@some.random.baldie2111]

1997....a very strong year musically. 'Macarena Christmas' as pointless as an appendix. What possessed them to release this? I naively thought 'Pony' was about a horse lol. Definitely the period of bubblegum pop (a twinky version of Justin Timberlake) r&b and dance music. I'm glad Germany's boring Eurovision entry by Bianca Shomburg got rejected by the record buying public. Ironically Michelle was in the same qualifier and beaten by Bianca but with a different song than on here. On the subject of Eurovision, our last winner 'Love Shine A Light' beat the local entry! 26 years since our last winner. Those R Kelly songs have different meanings and are tainted now. Steel Pulse are from the area of Birmingham, UK I am from (Handsworth). Two very hot guys in that Charley Theo dance cover of 'Just Can't Get Enough' 😋 RIP Aaron Carter. Shame he had problems with addiction in his troubled life. Remember taking the Mickey out of 'Crazy Little Party Girl' by teasing a girl in my class calling her bag 'Crazy Little Party Bag' 😂 I had a Tamagotchi...mine always died or looked like gremlins lol 🤣 Jimmy Ray, I found him very hot at the time. My sister got told off for staying up late (she was 10/11 then) for watching the 'Smack My Bitch Up' video! It's bad, but not as bad as the videos of now. Many amazing songs here. My big favourites are 'Hedonism' by Skunk Anansie, 'Together Again' by Janet Jackson, 'Love (Don't Let Go)' by En Vogue 'Where Have All The Cowboys Gone' by Paula Cole and 'Warum?' by Tic Tac Toe. Thanks so much Francis. Great work 👍

[@paulmyers5017]

Désolé de politiser ta chaîne Francis, mais je me demande réellement s'il existe une relation inversement proportionnelle entre approbation de l'UE et connaissance en charts européens. Car ici je connais plein de titres qui n'ont pas "charté" en France. Et pourtant je déteste Ursula. Comme quoi !

[@fanstastic83]

P.S I love Tic Tac Toe ❤

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

Pizzicato dance. Sash!, Future Breeze, Gorgeous, DJ Quicksilver, Brooklyn Bounce, Three 'N One, Celvin Rotane, DJ Red 5, even Energy 52's Café del Mar... Hypertrophy, Disco Citizens, Porn Kings, Beam & Yanou, ... I like some of these tunes but most aren't really good...I only listen to the ones I like from time to time but after hearding that same sound so much I start to hate it.^^

[@thomask1818]

Hello Francis, I compiled a list that should contain all german Chart entries from 1973 to 1976. Are you interested?

[@thomask1818]

@@Asukenick you may have read my Posting that I compiled that list? It was about two weeks work.

[@patrickmeisinger825]

Es ist schrecklich - etwa die Hälfte der Songs ist gecovert - und das leider schlecht - keine eigen Ideen und vom Rest sind leider etwa 80% zu vergessen - nicht nur 1997, sondern eigentlich die ganze 90er. Trotzdem: Super Job, Francis! Für die Musik kannst du nichts!

[@mumumeme8496]

ja das is heute auch so

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

Jein! 😉 Diese 500+ symbolisieren ja nur die Spitze des kommerziellen Eisbergs. Mich würde interessieren, wie viele der Songs man überhaupt abgesehen vom persönlichen Gefallen überhaupt ernst nehmen kann. Es gab auch genügend Veröffentlichungen abseits der Charts bzw. der Single-Charts, die von den 1990ern wirken aufgrund der noch nicht ausgereiften Produktionsqualitäten schon sehr wie ein Kindergeburtstag.

[@ruedili68]

Here is Gil's Track kzbin.info/www/bejne/o17HpYyXlM-Yjpo

[@karlranseier1961]

Thanks for your work. Maybe it would have been better to just take the top 50. Everything in the charts was unbelievable back then. The quality has dropped significantly compared to the 70s and 80s. So many bad cover versions.

[@kgtuuhffmkk8907]

1997. I got divorced for the first time....

[@wesleyvalk9129]

Let a boy cry, lol germany shame on you!

[@SavedByGrace_CitizenEmperorユウ]

"Sie ist meine Schwester und trägt ein Messer. Sie sagt, in der Schule sei so was besser." 😂😂😂 Wow, we peinlich ist das denn? Wenn man ein ernsters Thema so lächerlich verpackt wird auch schnell klar, dass Musik grundsätzlich Unterhaltung ist und ernste Themen nur die wenigsten gut verpacken können. Dazu wird der Song in einen schlechten Pop Rap EuroRap Sound verpackt, der super generisch klingt, genauso wie Down Low und Konsorten. Selten so etwas peinlich gehört.