"Staring at the Sun" is a song by Irish rock band U2. It is the fifth track on their 1997 album, Pop, and was released by Island Records as the album's second single on 14 April 1997. The song peaked at number three on the UK Singles Chart, number one in Canada and Iceland and number 26 on the US Billboard Hot 100. In the US, it topped the Billboard Modern Rock Tracks and Adult Alternative Songs charts. It also reached the top 10 in Finland, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand and Norway.

The first single from 1997's album Pop, 'Discotheque' went to No.1 in several countries and was performed live for the first time during the PopMart tour opener in Las Vegas on April 25, 1997.
In October 1996 a 30-second snippet of the track, taken from a promotional release, made it onto the web, with the entire MP3 circulating within a couple of months. This brought forward the release of the single, which itself heralded the dance-music vibe of the album where the band were 'trying to make an ode to club culture without using the tools of dance music' as Bono later put it. The video for the single, with the band performing as members of The Village People, took some fans by surprise. 'I like to think we were dangerously ahead of our time,' reflects Edge. 'It is a great video and has been copied many times since.'

All new 6-CD Box Set from Phish. The Spectrum ‘97 is a two-show complete audio box set recorded live 12/2/97 + 12/3/97 at The Spectrum in Philadelphia, PA – a legendary sports and music arena that hosted Phish nine times between December 1995 and November 2003. Capturing the band at this classic venue during their Fall Tour ‘97 apex, The Spectrum ’97 celebrates a standout two-night run across 33 songs, and features a Soundcheck Bonus. The classic run of shows are mixed from the band’s multitracks and mastered. Recorded live by Paul Languedoc, mixed from multitrack by Jon Altschiller, and mastered by Fred Kevorkian.

The debut album from one of the biggest pop groups of the 1990s has turned 25 and to celebrate this anniversary it will be reissued on LP for the first time ever - a limited edition white vinyl pressing!
From their first single 'I Want You' in 1996, Savage Garden were unrivalled, and with the subsequent hits 'To The Moon And Back' and the immortal ballad 'Truly, Madly, Deeply', their huge success was an indisputable fact. The duo's self-titled debut album features these three hit singles + 9 other instantly catchy pop songs.
To date, the Savage Garden debut album has sold over 15 million copies worldwide, making it one of pop music's most successful debut albums of all time.

Deconstructed is a remix album by British band Bush, released on 11 November 1997, through Trauma Records.

Brown Album is the fifth studio album by the American rock band Primus.

'Salvation', released on September 1, 1997, marked Alphaville's fifth studio album and signaled a new phase in their musical journey, as it was the first Alphaville album without Ricky Echolette and the last to feature Bernhard Lloyd, who left the band in 2003. The album spawned the singles 'Wishful Thinking' and 'Flame'.

There is no overestimating the historical power and influence of Shania Twain's Come on Over. You can hear it in the music of Taylor Swift (all the way up through 1989, easily), as well as Carrie Underwood, Kelsea Ballerini, Carly Pearce, Kelly Clarkson, Maren Morris, latter day The Chicks, even Harry Styles.

Where janet., Ms. Jackson's third blockbuster album, implied sexuality with its teasing cover and seductive grooves, its sequel, The Velvet Rope, is sexually explicit, offering tales of bondage, body piercing, and bisexuality

On this prime collection of R&B and blues songs and influences from Boz Scaggs' youth – and four new yet classic-sounding self-penned originals – the blue-eyed soulman eschews the slick production values of his pop chart-toppers such as "Lido" and "Lowdown," instead getting way down and his hands dirty with the honest blood, sweat, and tears of the real down-home blues.

Hailing from Portland, this eight piece jazz funk outfit should have been the next in line for multi-platinum success after Earth, Wind & Fire and Kool & The Gang.

Rammstein's iconic 1997 studio album featuring
"Du hast" and "Engel", is back on June 9, 2023 as the remastered "Sehnsucht Anniversary Edition"!

When Bon Scott died at the age of 33, many thought this was the end of AC/DC. The band rebounded by recruiting vocalist Brian Johnson (a Scott favorite) and releasing their best-selling album ever, BACK IN BLACK.

With the Red Norvo Quintet: Live in Australia, 1959 is a live album by American singer Frank Sinatra, recorded in 1959 but released in 1997.

The cover alone is a dead giveaway, echoing as it does the cover of Crocodiles, with what looks like a set of trees and a car in place of De Freitas.