Charting 1997: Album chart 8th February

A proper new Number One this time, with an actual entry at the top. Not that much more happening though.

01.(NE) Reef - Glow (Spotify) (Amazon)

The high-water mark of the impressive start to their career. It was around this time that somebody wrote to Q to complain they'd printed a picture of Gary Stringer's hairy back, and their career was never the same after that.

Yes, this is the one with 'Place Your Hands' on it.
02. (1) Original Soundtrack - Evita
03. (2) Spice Girls - Spice
04. (3) The Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
05.(18) Suede - Coming Up
06. (6) Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive
07. (9) George Michael - Older
08. (5) Celine Dion - Falling into you
09.(20) No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
10. (7) Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
11.(10) Simply Red - Greatest Hits
12.(24) Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
13.(14) Manic Street Preachers - Everything Must Go
14.(13) Kula Shaker - K
15.(12) Toni Braxton - Secrets
16.(11) The Lightning Seeds - Dizzy Heights
17. (4) Bush - Razorblade Suitcase
18. (8) Daft Punk - Homework
19.(15) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
20.(41) Rod Stewart - If We Fall In Love Tonight
People had obviously started their Valentine's shopping.
21.(19) Robert Miles - Dreamland
22.(17) Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
23.(21) Crowded House - Recurring Dream - The Very Best of
24.(16) Fugees - The Score
25.(23) Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?
26.(22) Slade - Greatest Hits Feel the Noize
27.(26) Ocean Colour Scene - Moseley Shoals
28.(33) Gabrielle - Gabrielle
29.(25) East 17 - Around The World The Journey So Far
30.(27) Space - Spiders
31.(19) The Prodigy - Music For The Jilted Generation
32.(28) Robson And Jerome - Take Two
33.(30) Faithless - Reverence
34.(31) Boyzone - A Different Beat
35.(34) Baby Bird - Ugly Beautiful
36.(32) Enigma - Le roi est mort vive le roi
37.(45) Seal - Seal
38.(37) Beck - Odelay
39.(40) Blur - Parklife
40.(35) Whitney Houston - The Preachers Wife

52.(NE) The Stranglers - Written In Red

Their last new album to chart in the 20th Century, from the post-Cornwell years.

54.(NE) Talk Talk - The Very Best Of (Spotify) (Amazon)

Their second full-price compilation. The band probably weren't too happy about this but it gives me an excuse to embed one one of the less over-familiar tracks from the album.