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List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1997

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

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.

Chart history

Key
† Indicates best performing album of 1997
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Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales Ref.
January 4 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 484,500 [1][2]
January 11 506,000 [3][4]
January 18 251,000 [5][6]
January 25 155,500 [7][8]
February 1 143,000 [9][10]
February 8 144,000 [11][12]
February 15 Gridlock'd Soundtrack Death Row 150,000 [13][14]
February 22 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 119,000 [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 19 307,000 [31][32]
April 26 197,000 [33][34]
May 3 165,000 [35][36]
May 10 Share My World Mary J. Blige MCA 240,000 [37][38]
May 17 Carrying Your Love with Me George Strait MCA 178,000 [39][40]
May 24 Spice † Spice Girls Virgin 138,000 [41][42]
May 31 134,000 [43][44]
June 7 136,000 [45][46]
June 14 137,000 [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 5 123,000 [53][54]
July 12 Spice † Spice Girls Virgin 123,000 [55][56]
July 19 The Fat of the Land The Prodigy Maverick 201,000 [57][58]
July 26 Men in Black: The Album Soundtrack Columbia 178,000 [59][60]
August 2 168,000 [61][62]
August 9 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 560,862 [63][64]
August 16 The Art of War Bone Thugs-n-Harmony Ruthless 394,000 [65][66]
August 23 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 228,000 [67][68]
August 30 186,000 [69][70]
September 6 The Dance Fleetwood Mac Reprise 199,000 [71][72]
September 13 No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Family Bad Boy 153,000 [73][74]
September 20 Ghetto D Master P No Limit 260,000 [75][76]
September 27 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 186,000 [77][78]
October 4 Butterfly Mariah Carey Columbia 235,000 [79][80]
October 11 Evolution Boyz II Men Motown 211,000 [81][82]
October 18 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 175,000 [83][84]
October 25 The Velvet Rope Janet Jackson Virgin 202,000 [85][86]
November 1 You Light Up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes Curb 131,000 [87][88]
November 8 The Firm – The Album The Firm Aftermath 147,000 [89][90]
November 15 Harlem World Mase Bad Boy 273,000 [91][92]
November 22 175,000 [93][94]
November 29 Higher Ground Barbra Streisand Columbia 207,000 [95][96]
December 6 ReLoad Metallica Elektra 435,000 [97][98]
December 13 Sevens Garth Brooks Capitol 896,932 [99][100]
December 20 609,000 [101][102]
December 27 529,000 [103][104]
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