MagikRush Song Of The Year 1997

MagikRush Song Of The Year 1997 was the 31st edition of MRSOTY. This edition had a record-breaking amount of participants - 28, with four debuts appearing this year: Coconut, Eggsford 30th, Murdoc and The Wicker Man, the latter of whom finally made his actual debut after his disqualification in 1988. This would also be Coconut's only participation in MRSOTY.

Given the high number of participants, an experiment of making the event two weeks long was implemented, which received mostly negative reactions from the participants. In the end, the experiment was marked as unsuccessful and a return to a one week format was made in the next edition.

This edition was won by 69420JMAN69420 with "Everlong" by Foo Fighters. The top 3 was rounded out by Rock Rill and Old Age Is A Bop. Given the high amount of participants, the winning song of this edition holds the record for the highest amount of points - 554.