THE MAJOR'S MASSIVE MEMORIES

A VAST COLLECTION OF CLASSIC HIT SONGS REPRESENTING 21 YEARS OF GREAT MEMORIES FOR MAJOR HITWAVES

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PK	WKS	PTS	YRS	SONG TITLE & COMMENTS	ARTIST / SITE
1	18	322	1997	Barbie Girl Long before it entered either the U.S. or U.K. pop charts it was already a runaway summer MASSIVESMASH here on our chart. It debuted straight-in at # 1 during the first weekend of July 1997, and it stayed on our chart for 18 weeks in a row into November. It eventually hit # 7 nationally on the U.S. pop chart, and # 1 for nearly a month in November in the U.K.	Aqua
1	30	762	1997	Call Me This was the # 1 song overall of 1997. It spent 30 consecutive weeks here on our chart, and 26 of those 30 weeks were within the TOP 10 !	Le Click
4	39	634	1997 & 1998	Can U Feel It ? 3rd Party consisted of lead singer Maria Christensen, Karmine Alers, and Elaine Borja. In 1997 they made an impact on the dance floors with this HI-NRG anthem. It nearly hit the TOP 40 on the U.S. CHR-POP chart. It was on our chart for a MASSIVE 39 weeks in a row. It was the lead-off single from their HI-NRG CD "Alive" which included "Waiting For Tonight" - a TOP 10 smash a couple of years later for Jennifer Lopez.	3rd Party
20	5	45	1997	Coco Jamboo When this song first came out I thought that it was a brand new one from Swedish sensation Ace Of Base, but I was surely wrong. Mr. President were from Germany, and they consisted of singers T-Seven and Lady Danii and British rapper DJ Lazy Dee. This Jamboo made it to # 20 here on our chart.	Mr. President
--	--	--	1997	Da Da Da I Don't Love You You Don't Love Me Aha Aha Aha It never hit the U.S. pop chart back in 1982, and none of the various reissues of the single during the late-1990s did so either. But this was a pop smash all across Europe, and it's not like it didn't make its presence known here stateside. Its simple lyrics backed by raw keyboard electronics with a catchy hook probably stuck in your mind indefinitely whenever you heard it. Perhaps you may have even gotten the urge to go out and buy yourself a Volkswagon back in 1997. Da Da Da Ich Lieb Dich Nicht Du Liebst Mich Nicht Aha Aha Aha.	Trio
1	31	620	1997	ESPN Presents The Jock Jam One of the hottest dance smashes during the Summer Of 1997 was actually a medley of previous hits from years gone by presented by ESPN as part of their collection of sports stadium anthems. This 3¼-minute single contained snippets from no less than 17 hits of the past from such artists as Black Box, 2 Unlimited, Tag Team, The Village People, and Gary Glitter. It spent 7 months on our chart, and it was our # 7 smash overall in 1997.	Various Artists
3	27	547	1997	How Bizarre Here's a song that was born in New Zealand where it became a MASSIVE-selling # 1 smash early on in 1996. It went on to be crowned the Single Of The Year at the 1996 New Zealand Music Awards. After its initial success in New Zealand it literally took the world by storm - albeit slowly over the next two years - from Australia northward into Asia and westward to Europe and the U.K. and then ultimately across the Atlantic into North America. It was a heavily-played listener-favourite hit on U.S. Mainstream TOP 40 radio during much of 1997 and even into 1998.	OMC
15	2	30	1997	If You Could Only See It spent a MASSIVE 15 months on the U.S. hit music chart from the Summer Of 1997 clear through the Summer Of 1998, but ironically it only spent 2 weeks right here on our chart towards the end of 1997. These MASSIVE Memories are not necessarily about great chart performance, but rather how I remember them years later. This tune is remembered as a great rock song that has aged gracefully over the past 8 years. It reminds me of some fun times I enjoyed in 1997.	Tonic
1	23	616	1997 & 1998	(I Just Wanna) Fly Sugar Ray had fun making hit music for about 8 years from 1995 to 2003 with 5 CDs. 6 out of 7 of their hits from 1997 to 2001 hit our TOP 5, and 3 of those 6 went all the way to # 1. This was their breakthrough # 1 smash for a single week in September 1997. It then spent the next 13 weeks in a row at # 2 - stuck behind Chumabwamba's "Tubthumbing" - the longest-running # 1 smash in our history.	Sugar Ray Ft. Super Cat
1	27	653	1997	I Like It (Like That) Ray Barretto, Paquito D'Rivera, Sheila E., Tito Nieves, Tito Puente, Dave Valentin, and Grover Washington Jr. teamed-up for a one-shot deal in this Latin anthem. It was specifically recorded as the theme song for the 1994 movie of the same name starring Lauren Velez. Nearly three years later it was rejuvenated by its inclusion in a popular Burger King commercial. It spent 27 consecutive weeks on our chart including a single week at # 1 and 15 weeks in the TOP 5 !	The Blackout Allstars
1	32	725	1997	I Want You This song reminded me a lot of Reunion's fast-paced lyric-filled track "Life Is A Rock (But The Radio Rolled Me)" from 1974. It was the first of six successful hits on our chart for Savage Garden (Darren Hayes & Daniel Jones) from 1997 to 2000. It spent 32 weeks on our chart including 4 weeks in a row at the top. They followed it up with 5 lighter (and mostly long-running hits) - "To The Moon And Back" (20 weeks), "Truly Madly Deeply" (28 weeks), "The Animal Song" (7 weeks), "I Knew I Loved You" (30 weeks), and "Crash And Burn" (10 weeks).	Savage Garden
2	26	625	1997 & 1998	Legend Of A Cowgirl Imani Coppola's first and only hit from her CD "Chupacabra" was a memorable smash in late-1997 and early-1998. It closed out 1997 by peaking at # 2 on our chart for the final 3 weeks of the year. It went on to spend 26 weeks in a row on the chart - 14 in 1997 and 12 in 1998. All of this MASSIVE success on our pop chart, yet it barely cracked the TOP 40 in both the U.S. (# 36) and the U.K. (# 32).	Imani Coppola
1	28	621	1997	MMMBop From March to September of 1997 brothers Isaac (age 16), Taylor (age 14), and Zac (age 11) out of Tulsa Oklahoma were on our chart with this debut smash that's credited with kicking-off an all-new teen-pop era at U.S. Mainstream TOP 40 radio. It spent 14 weeks in a row in our TOP 5 including 4 weeks at # 1. Hanson would never be so MASSIVE again although they would hit our chart with 5 more tracks through 2000. This was our # 6 smash overall of 1997.	Hanson
3	17	413	1997 & 1998	Mo Money Mo Problems The Notorious B.I.G. scored a posthumous U.S. # 1 smash less than 6 months after his untimely death at the age of 24. It was also his longest-running single on the U.S. pop chart at 30 weeks. It spent 17 weeks here on our chart including 9 weeks in the TOP 5.	Notorious B.I.G. Ft. Puff Daddy & Mase
2	37	619	1997 & 1998	Return Of The Mack It entered our chart during the final weekend of April 1997, and it peaked at # 2 in its 14TH week on the chart. (It also peaked at # 2 nationally.) It spent 37 weeks on our chart through the first weekend of January 1998. It finished 1997 as the # 8 smash of the year. Mark Morrison would never be heard from again here in the U.S.	Mark Morrison
1	32	737	1997 & 1998	Semi-Charmed Life Third Eye Blind were HOT on our chart during the late-1990s. They hit it big with the # 1 smash "How's It Going To Be", the 43-week run of "Jumper", and the # 1 smash "(I'll) Never Let You Go". They were the # 8 artist overall of 1997, # 9 of 1998, and # 13 of 2000. This was their debut smash that spent 10 months on the U.S. pop chart. It was in our TOP 10 for 21 weeks in a row.	Third Eye Blind
4	21	337	1997 & 1998	Stay In Love (With Me) It started out as an R & B ballad, but it just didn't work out that way. It needed something else. It needed more beats-per-minute. So it was reworked, remixed, and re-recorded. Mon a Q even ad-libbed some additional lyrics at the faster tempo. What it became was a total dance smash from an admitted non-dance artist. It was huge in Tampa, Orlando, and Miami in 1997 and 1998 - and pretty much nowhere else.	Mon a Q
1	26	692	1997 & 1998	Tubthumping Never say never, but it's highly unlikely that any song will ever equal its MASSIVE chart-topping success. It spent an all-time record 18 consecutive weeks at # 1 on our chart from September 1997 through January 1998. It spent over 7 months on the U.S. pop chart and peaked at # 6. It spent a remarkable 20 weeks on the U.K. pop chart and peaked at # 2.	Chumbawamba
3	16	372	1997	Your Woman Jyoti Mishra was born in Rourkela India in 1966. In 1989 he formed White Town - a one-man synth-pop band where he 'played' all of the instruments. He created this track in 1996 - a tune based on an old Al Bowlly song from 1932 ("My Woman"). He tested and distributed it successfully in the U.K. later that year, and it eventually soared to # 1 on the U.K. pop chart in January 1997.	White Town