This week in 1997
1 I’ll Be Missing You Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
2 Bitter Sweet Symphony The Verve
3 Mmm Bop Hanson
4 Hundred Mile High City Ocean Colour Scene
5 On Your Own Blur
6 I Wanna Be The Only One Eternal feat Bebe Winans 7 Free Ultra Nate
8 Nothing Lasts Forever Echo and the Bunnymen 9 Guiding Star Cast
10 Coco Jamboo Mr President P. Diddy, or Puff Daddy as he was then known, recorded ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ with Faith Evans, widow of rapper The Notorious B.I.G., as a tribute to his friend who had been killed in a drive-by shooting a few months earlier. The song samples one of Puff Daddy’s favourite tunes,‘Every Breath You Take’, a hit for The Police in 1983, and as a result Sting bagged a writer’s credit and substantial royalties. ‘I’ll Be Missing You’ was one of the biggest-selling singles of 1997, topping charts all over the world. It had worldwide sales of over eight million, three million of which were in the United States where the song spent 11 weeks at No.1 in the Hot 100. In 1998, the song won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.