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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.
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.

Chart history

Key
Indicates best performing album of 1997
Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales Ref.
January 4 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 484,500
January 11 506,000
January 18 251,000
January 25 155,500
February 1 143,000
February 8 144,000
February 15 Gridlock'd Soundtrack Death Row 150,000
February 22 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 119,000
March 1 Unchained Melody: The Early Years LeAnn Rimes Curb 166,000
March 8 Secret Samadhi Live Radioactive 227,000
March 15 Howard Stern Private Parts – The Album Soundtrack Warner Bros. 177,590
March 22 Pop U2 Island 349,000
March 29 The Untouchable Scarface Rap-A-Lot 168,000
April 5 Nine Lives Aerosmith Columbia 139,000
April 12 Life After Death The Notorious B.I.G. Bad Boy 689,535
April 19 307,000
April 26 197,000
May 3 165,000
May 10 Share My World Mary J. Blige MCA 240,000
May 17 Carrying Your Love with Me George Strait MCA 178,000
May 24 Spice Spice Girls Virgin 138,000
May 31 134,000
June 7 136,000
June 14 137,000
June 21 Wu-Tang Forever Wu-Tang Clan Loud 612,069
June 28 Butterfly Kisses (Shades of Grace) Bob Carlisle Jive 233,000
July 5 123,000
July 12 Spice Spice Girls Virgin 123,000
July 19 The Fat of the Land The Prodigy Maverick 201,000
July 26 Men in Black: The Album Soundtrack Columbia 178,000
August 2 168,000
August 9 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 560,862
August 16 The Art of War Bone Thugs N Harmony Ruthless 394,000
August 23 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 228,000
August 30 186,000
September 6 The Dance Fleetwood Mac Reprise 199,000
September 13 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 153,000
September 20 Ghetto D Master P No Limit 260,000
September 27 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 186,000
October 4 Butterfly Mariah Carey Columbia 235,000
October 11 Evolution Boyz II Men Motown 211,000
October 18 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 175,000
October 25 The Velvet Rope Janet Jackson Virgin 202,000
November 1 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 131,000
November 8 The Firm – The Album The Firm Aftermath 147,000
November 15 Harlem World Mase Bad Boy 273,000
November 22 175,000
November 29 Higher Ground Barbra Streisand Columbia 207,000
December 6 ReLoad Metallica Elektra 435,000
December 13 Sevens Garth Brooks Capitol 896,932
December 20 609,000
December 27 529,000

See also

References

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