List of UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number ones of 1997

The UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart is a record chart which ranks the best-selling rock and heavy metal albums in the United Kingdom. Compiled and published by the Official Charts Company, the data is based on each album's weekly physical sales, digital downloads and streams. In 1997, there were 17 albums that topped the 52 published charts. The first number-one album of the year was the self-titled debut album by Garbage, which spent the first three weeks of the year atop the chart. The final number-one album of the year was the Queen compilation album Queen Rocks, which spent the last four weeks of the year (and the first one of 1998) at number one.

Tragic Kingdom by No Doubt was the longest-running UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart number-one album of 1997, spending 13 weeks atop the chart.

The most successful album on the UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart in 1997 was No Doubt's third studio album Tragic Kingdom, which spent a total of 13 weeks at number one over four different spells. It was also the best-selling rock album of the year, ranking 26th in the UK End of Year Albums Chart. Led Zeppelin spent eight weeks at number one in 1997 – seven with Remasters and one with BBC Sessions – Queen's Queen Rocks was number one for six weeks, and Skunk Anansie's Stoosh topped the chart for five weeks. Three albums – Garbage's self-titled debut album, Glow by Reef and The Colour and the Shape by Foo Fighters – were number one for three weeks each, while two albums – Jon Bon Jovi's second solo album Destination Anywhere and Green Day's fifth studio album Nimrod – both spent two weeks at number one during the year.

Chart history

Led Zeppelin spent a total of eight weeks at number one in 1997 with Remasters and BBC Sessions.

Skunk Anansie's second studio album Stoosh returned to number one on the chart in 1997 for five weeks.

The self-titled debut album by Garbage spent three weeks at number one.

Reef's second album Glow was number one for three weeks in February.

Foo Fighters spent three weeks at number one in 1997 with their second album The Colour and the Shape.

Key

†	Indicates best-selling rock album of 1997

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Record label(s)	Ref.
4 January	Garbage	Garbage	Mushroom
11 January
18 January
25 January	Greatest Hits: Feel the Noize	Slade	Polydor
1 February	Razorblade Suitcase	Bush	Interscope
8 February	Glow	Reef	S2
15 February
22 February
1 March	Tragic Kingdom †	No Doubt	Interscope
8 March
15 March
22 March	Nine Lives	Aerosmith	Columbia
29 March	Tragic Kingdom †	No Doubt	Interscope
5 April
12 April
19 April
26 April
3 May	This Strange Engine	Marillion	Raw Power
10 May	First Rays of the New Rising Sun	Jimi Hendrix	MCA
17 May	Tragic Kingdom †	No Doubt	Interscope
24 May	The Colour and the Shape	Foo Fighters	Roswell
31 May
7 June
14 June	Stoosh	Skunk Anansie	One Little Indian
21 June	Album of the Year	Faith No More	Slash
28 June	Destination Anywhere	Jon Bon Jovi	Mercury
5 July
12 July	Stoosh	Skunk Anansie	One Little Indian
19 July	Tragic Kingdom †	No Doubt	Interscope
26 July
2 August
9 August
16 August	Stoosh	Skunk Anansie	One Little Indian
23 August
30 August
6 September	Remasters	Led Zeppelin	Atlantic
13 September
20 September
27 September
4 October
11 October
18 October
25 October	Nimrod	Green Day	Reprise
1 November
8 November	Endless Nameless	The Wildhearts	Mushroom
15 November	Queen Rocks	Queen	Parlophone
22 November
29 November	BBC Sessions	Led Zeppelin	Atlantic
6 December	Queen Rocks	Queen	Parlophone
13 December
20 December
27 December

See also

• 1997 in British music
• List of UK Rock & Metal Singles Chart number ones of 1997

External links

• Official UK Rock & Metal Albums Chart Top 40 at the Official Charts Company
• The Official UK Top 40 Rock Albums at BBC Radio 1