Billboard Year-end Hot 100 Singles Of 1997 – High-Quality

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Rewind: The Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1997 (Pop’s Last Great Weird Year) billboard year-end hot 100 singles of 1997

Let’s break down the biggest songs of the year, the trends, and the acts that defined 1997. Here is how the year-end list shook out. Spoiler: The #1 song is not a ballad. In the age of the “sensitive singer-songwriter,” Jewel

In the age of the “sensitive singer-songwriter,” Jewel was queen. Billboard combined the two sides of this single into one entry. You couldn’t walk into a coffee shop or a dorm room without hearing her yodel-esque vibrato. Pure, unadulterated adult contemporary gold. Pure, unadulterated adult contemporary gold

The other massive tribute song of the year. Sampling The Police’s “Every Breath You Take,” this was Puff’s eulogy for his friend The Notorious B.I.G. It was a haunting, pop-friendly rap elegy that proved hip-hop could dominate the Hot 100 for weeks on end.