This is a list of Billboard's Top Hot 100 songs of 1997.
"You Were Meant for Me" / "Foolish Games" by Jewel (pictured) was number two on the Year-End list, despite never reaching the top of the Hot 100.
The Billboard Hot 100 is a chart that ranks the best-performing singles of the United States. Its data, published by Billboard magazine and compiled by Nielsen SoundScan, is based collectively on each single's weekly physical and digital sales, as well as airplay and streaming. At the end of a year, Billboard will publish an annual list of the 100 most successful songs throughout that year on the Hot 100 chart based on the information. For 2018, the list was published on December 4, calculated with data from December 2, 2017 to November 17, 2018.
American rapper and singer Post Malone has four songs in the top 40 with "Rockstar" (featuring 21 Savage) at number 5, "Psycho" (featuring Ty Dolla Sign) at number 6, "Better Now" at number 13, and "I Fall Apart" at number 39.
American rapper Cardi B charted eight songs on the list, tying Drake for the artist with the most songs on the list. In the top 10, two of her number-one hits "I Like It" (with Bad Bunny and J Balvin) and "Girls Like You" (Maroon 5 featuring Cardi B) are at number 7 and number 10 respectively.
American rapper Kendrick Lamar has four songs on the list, three of which are from his soundtrack for the film Black Panther.