Songs · Billboard Hot 100
We Trying To Stay Alive
Wyclef Jean feat. Refugee Allstars
Entered Jun 14, 1997 · 12 weeks on the chart, last seen Aug 30, 1997
- Record Power
- 6.0
- share-weeks: a #1 week is 3.5
- Peak
- #45
- 2 weeks there · first Jul 12, 1997
- Top-ten weeks
- 0
- weeks at #10 or better
- Weeks on chart
- 12
- June 1997 – August 1997
Ranked by Record Power, part of the ChartReign Power model — not a chart published by anyone else. How it works →
The run
Position by week; a gap is a spell off the chart.What it earned each artist
Record Power is the song's own figure. Power contributed is what it earned each artist's Career Power: a featured credit takes its reduced share, and a week where the artist had other songs charting is split between them.
| Artist | Credit | Credit share | Power contributed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wyclef Jean | primary | 70% | 4.3 |
| Refugee Allstars | featured | 30% | 1.8 |
The top ten the week it peaked
See Jul 12, 1997 on the timeline →- #1I'll Be Missing YouDiddy & Faith Evans feat. 112
- #2BitchMeredith Brooks
- #3MMMBopHanson
- #4Return Of The MackMark Morrison
- #5Look Into My Eyes (From "Batman & Robin")Bone Thugs-N-Harmony
- #6I Belong To You (Every Time I See Your Face)Rome
- #7Say You'll Be ThereSpice Girls
- #8Sunny Came HomeShawn Colvin
- #9Do You Know (What It Takes)Robyn
- #10Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)Backstreet Boys
The #1 songs of 1997
1997 in music →Every other song that reached #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1997.
- Un-Break My Heart · Toni Braxton
- Wannabe · Spice Girls
- Can't Nobody Hold Me Down · Diddy feat. Mase
- Hypnotize · The Notorious B.I.G.
- MMMBop · Hanson
- I'll Be Missing You · Diddy & Faith Evans feat. 112
- Mo Money Mo Problems · The Notorious B.I.G. feat. Diddy & Mase
- Honey · Mariah Carey
- 4 Seasons Of Loneliness · Boyz II Men
- Candle In The Wind 1997/Something About The Way You Look Tonight · Elton John
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