1997 |verified| — Billboard Year-end Hot 100 Singles Of

If you wanted to pinpoint the exact moment the musical tectonic plates of the 20th century shifted, you could do worse than looking at the .

If 1996 was the year of Macarena, 1997 was the year Hip-Hop firmly cemented its place as a dominant pop force, largely due to the production genius of Sean "Puff Daddy" Combs. billboard year-end hot 100 singles of 1997

If you were a teenager in 1997, you didn't realize how good you had it. You could wear a Fugees sweatshirt, listen to "Bittersweet Symphony" (actually 1998), and dance to "Da Dip" (Freak Nasty, #62) without irony. If you wanted to pinpoint the exact moment