List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1997

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Spice by the Spice Girls was the best-selling album of 1997. Spice Girls (6 janv) 56.jpg
Spice by the Spice Girls was the best-selling album of 1997.
Sevens by Garth Brooks had the biggest sales week of 1997, selling almost 900,000 copies in a single week. Garth Brooks with Jennie Frankel and Terrie Frankel Backstage during rehearsals at the Country Music Awards 1991 (cropped).jpg
Sevens by Garth Brooks had the biggest sales week of 1997, selling almost 900,000 copies in a single week.

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1997, per the Billboard 200.

Contents

Chart history

Key
†Indicates best performing album of 1997
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)LabelSalesRef.
January 4 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 484,500 [1] [2]
January 11506,000 [3] [4]
January 18251,000 [5] [6]
January 25155,500 [7] [8]
February 1143,000 [9] [10]
February 8144,000 [11] [12]
February 15 Gridlock'd Soundtrack Death Row 150,000 [13] [14]
February 22Tragic KingdomNo DoubtTrauma119,000 [15] [16]
March 1 Unchained Melody: The Early Years LeAnn Rimes Curb 166,000 [17] [18]
March 8 Secret Samadhi Live Radioactive 227,000 [19] [20]
March 15 Howard Stern Private Parts – The Album Soundtrack Warner Bros. 177,590 [21] [22]
March 22 Pop U2 Island 349,000 [23] [24]
March 29 The Untouchable Scarface Rap-A-Lot 168,000 [25] [26]
April 5 Nine Lives Aerosmith Columbia 139,000 [27] [28]
April 12 Life After Death The Notorious B.I.G. Bad Boy 689,535 [29] [30]
April 19307,000 [31] [32]
April 26197,000 [33] [34]
May 3165,000 [35] [36]
May 10 Share My World Mary J. Blige MCA 240,000 [37] [38]
May 17 Carrying Your Love with Me George Strait MCA178,000 [39] [40]
May 24 Spice † Spice Girls Virgin 138,000 [41] [42]
May 31134,000 [43] [44]
June 7136,000 [45] [46]
June 14137,000 [47] [48]
June 21 Wu-Tang Forever Wu-Tang Clan Loud 612,069 [49] [50]
June 28 Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) Bob Carlisle Jive 233,000 [51] [52]
July 5123,000 [53] [54]
July 12Spice†Spice GirlsVirgin123,000 [55] [56]
July 19 The Fat of the Land The Prodigy Maverick 201,000 [57] [58]
July 26 Men in Black: The Album SoundtrackColumbia178,000 [59] [60]
August 2168,000 [61] [62]
August 9 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy560,862 [63] [64]
August 16 The Art of War Bone Thugs N Harmony Ruthless 394,000 [65] [66]
August 23No Way OutPuff Daddy and the FamilyBad Boy228,000 [67] [68]
August 30186,000 [69] [70]
September 6 The Dance Fleetwood Mac Reprise 199,000 [71] [72]
September 13No Way OutPuff Daddy and the FamilyBad Boy153,000 [73] [74]
September 20 Ghetto D Master P No Limit 260,000 [75] [76]
September 27 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn RimesCurb186,000 [77] [78]
October 4 Butterfly Mariah Carey Columbia235,000 [79] [80]
October 11 Evolution Boyz II Men Motown 211,000 [81] [82]
October 18You Light Up My Life: Inspirational SongsLeAnn RimesCurb175,000 [83] [84]
October 25 The Velvet Rope Janet Jackson Virgin202,000 [85] [86]
November 1You Light Up My Life: Inspirational SongsLeAnn RimesCurb131,000 [87] [88]
November 8 The Firm – The Album The Firm Aftermath 147,000 [89] [90]
November 15 Harlem World Mase Bad Boy273,000 [91] [92]
November 22175,000 [93] [94]
November 29 Higher Ground Barbra Streisand Columbia207,000 [95] [96]
December 6 ReLoad Metallica Elektra 435,000 [97] [98]
December 13 Sevens Garth Brooks Capitol 896,932 [99] [100]
December 20609,000 [101] [102]
December 27529,000 [103] [104]

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