Year-end Billboardhitlist

Here are the yearly charts for the nation's best-selling
recorded music for the year 1997 as they appear in
this week's issue of Billboard magazine.
A star () indicates a Hawaii artist.

SINGLES

1. Candle in the Wind 1997/Something About the Way You Look Tonight Elton John
2. You Were Meant For Me/Foolish Games Jewel
3. I'll Be Missing You Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
4. Un-Break My Heart Toni Braxton
5. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down Puff Daddy featuring Mase)
6. I Believe I Can Fly R. Kelly
7. Don't Let Go (Love) En Vogue
8. Return of the Mack Mark Morrison
9. How Do I Live Leann Rimes
10. Wannabe Spice Girls
11. Quit Playing Games (With My Heart) Backstreet Boys
12. MMMBop Hanson
13. For You I Will Monica
14. You Make Me Wanna ... Usher
15. B- Meredith Brooks

ALBUMS

1. Spice Spice Girls
2. Tragic Kingdom No Doubt
3. Falling Into You Celine Dion
4. "Space Jam" Soundtrack
5. Pieces of You Jewel
6. Blue LeAnn Rimes
7. Bringing Down the Horse The Wallflowers
8. Life After Death The Notorious B.I.G.
9. Secrets Toni Braxton
10. No Way Out Puff Daddy & The Family
11. Razorblade Suitcase Bush
12. "Romeo & Juliet" soundtrack
13. Middle of Nowhere Hanson
14. Did I Shave My Legs for This? Deana Carter
15. The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Makaveli

COUNTRY

1. How Do I Live LeAnn Rimes
2. It's Your Love Tim McGraw
3. Here's Your Sign (Get the Picture) Bill Engvall with Travis Tritt
4. Butterfly Kisses Raybon Bros.
5. How Do I Live Trisha Yearwood
6. Love Gets Me Every Time Shania Twain
7. You Light Up My Life LeAnn Rimes
8. The Light in Your Eyes/Blue LeAnn Rimes
9. Friends John Michael Montgomery
10. One Night at a Time George Strait
11. Little Bitty Alan Jackson
12. We Danced Anyway Deana Carter
13. A Broken Wing/Valentine Martina McBride
14. A Girl's Gotta Do (What a Girl's Gotta Do/Maybe He'll Notice Her Now) Mindy McCready
15. God Bless the Child Shania Twain

R&B

1. In My Bed Dru Hill
2. I'll Be Missing You Puff Daddy & Faith Evans
3. G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T. Changing Faces
4. Can't Nobody Hold Me Down Puff Daddy
5. You Make Me Wanna ... Usher
6. I Belong to You (Every Time I See Your Face) Rome
7. I Believe I Can Fly R. Kelly
8. Cupid 112
9. On & On Erykah Badu
10. Get it Together 702
11. Never Make a Promise Dru Hill
12. Don't Let Go (Love) En Vogue
13. Return of the Mack Mark Morrison
14. For You I Will Monica
15. For You Kenny Lattimore

MODERNROCK

1. Semi-Charmed Life Third Eye Blind
2. Fly Sugar Ray
3. The Impression That I Get The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
4. Walkin' on the Sun Smash Mouth
5. Push Matchbox 20
6. One Headlight The Wallflowers
7. If You Could Only See Tonic
8. The Freshmen The Verve Pipe
9. Santeria Sublime
10. Wrong Way Sublime
11. 1 Crush Garbage
12. Not an Addict K's Choice
13. Everlong Foo Fighters
14. Song 2 Blur
15. 6 Underground Sneaker Pimps

ClASSICAL

1. Plays Rachmaninov David Helfgott
2. Appalachia Waltz Ma, Meyer, O'Connor
3. The Vienna I Love Andre Rieu
4. In Gabriel's Garden Wynton Marsalis
5. The Classical Album Vanessa-Mae
6. Chant D'Amour Cecilia Bartoli
7. From Holland With Love Andre Rieu
8. Grace Kathleen Battle
9. In Concert Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
10. Paul McCartney's Standing Stone London Symphony Orchestra
11. Chant III Benedictine Monks of Santo Domingo De Silos
12. The 3 Tenors in Concert 1994 Carreras, Domingo, Pavarotti
13. The Mozart Sessions Saint Paul Chamber Orchestra
14. The Three Sopranos Cassello, Esperian, Lawrence
15. Chant Benedictine Monks

JAZZ

1. Tony Bennett on Holiday - A Tribute to Billie Holiday Tony Bennett
2. Beyond the Missouri Sky (Short Stories) Charlie Haden & Pat Metheny
3. Quartet Pat Metheny Group
4. New Moon Daugher Cassandra Wilson
5. "Leaving Las Vegas" soundtrack
6. All For You (A Dedication to the Nat King Cole Trio) Diana Krall
7. Love Scenes Diana Krall
8. Swing The Manhattan Transfer
9. Greatest Hits Louis Armstrong
10. Mugzy's Move Royal Crown Revue
11. White Christmas Rosemary Clooney
12. Two for the Road - The Music of Henry Mancini Dave Grusin
13. The Guitar Trio Paco De Lucia, Al Di Meola, John McLaughlin
14. Live in Australia, 1959 Frank Sinatra with the Red Norvo Quintet
15. Freedom in the Groove Joshua Redman

REGGAE

1. Reggae Gold 1997 Various artists
2. The Best of Vol. 1 UB40
3. The Best of Vol. 2 UB40
4. Boombastic Shaggy
5. My Xperience Bounty Killer
6. Natural Mystic Bob Marley & The Wailers
7. Guns in the Ghetto UB40
8. Fallen is Babylon Ziggy Marley & the Melody Makers
9. Strictly the Best of Seventeen Various
10. Man with the Fun Maxi Priest
11. 'Til Shiloh Bufu Banton
12. Midnight Lover Shaggy
13. Soul Almighty: The Formative Years Vol. 1 Bob Marley
14. Yardcore Born Jamericans
15. Maestro Beanie Man

WORLDMUSIC

1. Riverdance Bill Whelan
2. Michael Flatley's Lord of the Dance Roman Hardimon
3. Celtic Christmas II Various artists
4. The Book of Secrets Loreena McKennitt
5. The Best of the Gipsy Kings Gipsy Kings
6. Compas Gipsy Kings
7. Red Hot & Rio Various artists
8. Santiago The Chieftans
9. Celtic Pride Column MacDireachtaigh & The Irish Ceili Band
10. N Dis Life Israel Kamakawiwo'ole
11. Cabo Verde Cesario Evora
12. Legends James Glaway & Phil Coulter
13. Riverdance Bill Whelan
14. Tierra Gitana Gipsy Kings
15. Romanza Andrea Bocelli

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