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Enrique Iglesias had the most number ones in 1997 with three and the longest-running number-one song of the year with "Enamorado Por Primera Vez".

Latin Pop Airplay is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks the top-performing songs (regardless of genre or language) on Latin pop radio stations in the United States, based on weekly airplay data compiled by Nielsen's Broadcast Data Systems.[1] It is a subchart of Hot Latin Songs, which lists the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country.[2] In 1997, 17 songs topped the chart, in 52 issues of the magazine.

The first number one of the year was "Lloviendo Flores" by Ednita Nazario, which moved into the top spot in the issue dated January 4. It remained in place for only a single week before being replaced by "Las Cosas Que Vives" by Laura Pausini which had previously topped the chart in the week ending December 28, 1996,[3] and spent four further weeks at number one in 1997 for a total of five. Enrique Iglesias was the artist with the most number-one songs in 1997 with "Enamorado Por Primera Vez", "Sólo en Ti" (a Spanish-language adaptation of Yazoo's "Only You"),[4] and "Miente". The former track held this position for the longest with ten weeks. Alejandro Fernández and Luis Miguel were the only other acts to have more than one chart-topper in 1997.[5][6] Fernández achieved his first number one with "Si Tú Supieras" and had the final number one of the year with "En El Jardín", a duet with Gloria Estefan.[5] Estefan herself obtained her second number one with "No Pretendo".[7]

Luis Miguel spent a total of six weeks at number one with "Por Debajo de la Mesa" and "El Reloj", the former of which was named the best-performing song of the year.[8] "El Reloj", "Si Tú Supieras", and Cristian Castro's "Lo Mejor de Mi" were cited by Reforma when the newspaper described 1997 as the year of the bolero due to the songs' popularity.[9] Celine Dion recorded a Spanish-language version of Eric Carmen's "All by Myself" under the title "Sola Otra Vez" which became her first number one song on the chart.[10][11] Other artists to top the chart for the first time in 1997 were Ricardo Montaner,[12] Marta Sánchez,[13] and Diego Torres, while Fey obtained her first and only chart-topper this year with "Azúcar Amargo".[14][15]

Chart history

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"Por Debajo de la Mesa" by Luis Miguel spent five weeks at number one and was named the best-performing song of the year on the chart by Billboard.
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Celine Dion's Spanish-language cover version of "All by Myself" ("Sola Otra Vez") was her first song to reach number one on the Latin Pop Airplay chart.
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Alejandro Fernández had the final number one of the year.
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Fey obtained her only chart-topper in 1997 with "Azúcar Amargo".
Key
† Indicates number 1 on Billboard's year-end Latin pop chart[8]
Chart history
Issue date Title Artist(s) Ref.
January 4 "Lloviendo Flores" Ednita Nazario [16]
January 11 "Las Cosas Que Vives" Laura Pausini [17]
January 18 [18]
January 25 [19]
February 1 [20]
February 8 "Enamorado Por Primera Vez" Enrique Iglesias [21]
February 15 [22]
February 22 [23]
March 1 [24]
March 8 [25]
March 15 [26]
March 22 [27]
March 29 [28]
April 5 [29]
April 12 [30]
April 19 "Se Quiere, Se Mata" Shakira [31]
April 26 [32]
May 3 "Azúcar Amargo" Fey [33]
May 10 "Sola Otra Vez" Celine Dion [34]
May 17 [35]
May 24 "Sólo en Ti" Enrique Iglesias [36]
May 31 [37]
June 7 "Sé Que Ya No Volverás" Diego Torres [38]
June 14 "Moja Mi Corazón" Marta Sánchez [39]
June 21 [40]
June 28 "Sólo en Ti" Enrique Iglesias [41]
July 5 [42]
July 12 [43]
July 19 "No Pretendo" Gloria Estefan [44]
July 26 [45]
August 2 [46]
August 9 "Miente" Enrique Iglesias [47]
August 16 [48]
August 23 [49]
August 30 "Por Debajo de la Mesa" † Luis Miguel [50]
September 6 [51]
September 13 [52]
September 20 [53]
September 27 [54]
October 4 "Lo Mejor de Mí" Cristian Castro [55]
October 11 [56]
October 18 "Si Tú Supieras" Alejandro Fernández [57]
October 25 [58]
November 1 "Lo Mejor de Mí" Cristian Castro [59]
November 8 "El Reloj" Luis Miguel [60]
November 15 "Lo Mejor de Mí" Cristian Castro [61]
November 22 [62]
November 29 [63]
December 6 "Es Así" Ricardo Montaner [64]
December 13 "En El Jardín" Alejandro Fernández featuring Gloria Estefan [65]
December 20 [66]
December 27 [67]

See also

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