Top 40 ROCK Songs Of The Year 1997
The year end rock music top 40 countdown for 1997

For 1997, new alternative group Third Eye Blind took the number one rock song of the year. Other groups on the top 40 countdown included Garbage, Chumbawamba, Days Of The New, Marcy Playground, Matchbox 20, Foo Fighters, Creed, Live, Bush, Tonic, Smash Mouth, Blink 182, The Wallflowers, Green Day, The Offspring, Sugar Ray, 311, Everclear, Collective Soul, Sneaker Pimps, U2, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Tool, The Smashing Pumpkins, Blur, Counting Crows, Sublime, The Verve Pipe, White Town, and Veruca Salt.