Billboard Year-end Hot 100 Singles Of 1997 | Android |

The power ballad of the year. Diane Warren penned this monster, and Toni Braxton’s sultry, aching vocals made it an adult contemporary staple. If you were slow-dancing at a middle school dance in 1997, this was the song.

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. billboard year-end hot 100 singles of 1997

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Rewind: The Billboard Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1997 (Pop’s Last Great Weird Year) The power ballad of the year

(Note: The rest of the top 20 includes Hanson's "MMMbop" at #12, The Cardigans' "Lovefool" at #15, and Chumbawamba's "Tubthumping" at #18.) 1. Elton John – “Candle in the Wind 1997” You can’t talk about 1997 without addressing the elephant in the room: the death of Princess Diana. Elton John’s reworked tribute to Marilyn Monroe became the best-selling single in Billboard history (until streaming changed the math). It was inescapable, somber, and utterly dominant. It spent 14 weeks at #1. In the age of the “sensitive singer-songwriter,” Jewel