| Top 40 Hits of January 1997 |
| 1 |
Tori Amos | Professional Widow (It's Got To Be Big) |
| 2 |
White Town | Your Woman |
| 3 |
Spice Girls | 2 Become 1 |
| 4 |
Backstreet Boys | Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) |
| 5 |
Texas | Say What You Want |
| 6 |
Madonna | Don't Cry For Me Argentina |
| 7 |
En Vogue | Don't Let Go (Love) |
| 8 |
Blur | Beetlebum |
| 9 |
Toni Braxton | Un-Break My Heart |
| 10 |
No Mercy | Where Do You Go |
| 11 |
Orbital | Satan (Live) |
| 12 |
Lisa Stansfield / Dirty Rotten | People Hold On (Bootleg Mixes) |
| 13 |
East 17 | Hey Child |
| 14 |
Robert Miles featuring Maria Nayler | One And One |
| 15 |
Prodigy | Breathe |
| 16 |
Kavana | I Can Make You Feel Good |
| 17 |
Whitney Houston | Step By Step |
| 18 |
Mark Morrison | Horny |
| 19 |
George Michael | Older / I Can't Make You Love Me |
| 20 |
Suede | Saturday Night |
| 21 |
Placebo | Nancy Boy |
| 22 |
Reef | Come Back Brighter |
| 23 |
Lightning Seeds | Sugar Coated Iceberg |
| 24 |
Beautiful South | Don't Marry Her |
| 25 |
Gabrielle | Walk On By |
| 26 |
Damage | Forever |
| 27 |
MC Lyte | Cold Rock A Party |
| 28 |
Boyzone | A Different Beat |
| 29 |
Nas | Street Dreams |
| 30 |
Terrorvision | Easy |
| 31 |
Byron Stingily | Get Up (Everybody) |
| 32 |
Ginuwine | Pony |
| 33 |
Erasure | In My Arms |
| 34 |
Blueboy | Remember Me |
| 35 |
Jamiroquai | Cosmic Girl |
| 36 |
Warren G featuring Adina Howard | What's Love Got To Do With It |
| 37 |
Dunblane | Knockin' On Heaven's Door / Throw These Guns Away |
| 38 |
Celine Dion | All By Myself |
| 39 |
Woolpackers | Hillbilly Rock Hillbilly Roll |
| 40 |
Skunk Anansie | Hedonism (Just Because You Feel Good) |
