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. It is a subchart of Hot Latin Songs, which lists the best-performing Spanish-language songs in the country. 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, 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"), 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. 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. Estefan herself obtained her second number one with "No Pretendo".

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. "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. 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. Other artists to top the chart for the first time in 1997 were Ricardo Montaner, Marta Sánchez, and Diego Torres, while Fey obtained her first and only chart-topper this year with "Azúcar Amargo".

Chart history

Key

†	Indicates number 1 on Billboard's year-end Latin pop chart

Chart history

Issue date	Title	Artist(s)	Ref.
January 4	"Lloviendo Flores"	Ednita Nazario
January 11	"Las Cosas Que Vives"	Laura Pausini
January 18
January 25
February 1
February 8	"Enamorado Por Primera Vez"	Enrique Iglesias
February 15
February 22
March 1
March 8
March 15
March 22
March 29
April 5
April 12
April 19	"Se Quiere, Se Mata"	Shakira
April 26
May 3	"Azúcar Amargo"	Fey
May 10	"Sola Otra Vez"	Celine Dion
May 17
May 24	"Sólo en Ti"	Enrique Iglesias
May 31
June 7	"Sé Que Ya No Volverás"	Diego Torres
June 14	"Moja Mi Corazón"	Marta Sánchez
June 21
June 28	"Sólo en Ti"	Enrique Iglesias
July 5
July 12
July 19	"No Pretendo"	Gloria Estefan
July 26
August 2
August 9	"Miente"	Enrique Iglesias
August 16
August 23
August 30	"Por Debajo de la Mesa" †	Luis Miguel
September 6
September 13
September 20
September 27
October 4	"Lo Mejor de Mí"	Cristian Castro
October 11
October 18	"Si Tú Supieras"	Alejandro Fernández
October 25
November 1	"Lo Mejor de Mí"	Cristian Castro
November 8	"El Reloj"	Luis Miguel
November 15	"Lo Mejor de Mí"	Cristian Castro
November 22
November 29
December 6	"Es Así"	Ricardo Montaner
December 13	"En El Jardín"	Alejandro Fernández featuring Gloria Estefan
December 20
December 27

See also

• 1997 in Latin music