Charting 1997: Album chart 29th March

Not the most inspiring of weeks to be honest with you.

01. (1) Spice Girls - Spice
02. (2) The Bee Gees - Still Waters
03.(NE) Eternal - Before The Rain
See, this largely forgotten girl-group effort is the highest new entry. Their third album, for the record.
04. (3) U2 - Pop
05. (5) Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go
06. (8) No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
07. (6) Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive
08. (9) The Bee Gees - The Very Best Of
09. (4) Aerosmith - Nine Lives
10.(14) The Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
11.(10) Kula Shaker - K
12. (7) Ocean Colour Scene - B sides seasides and freerides
13.(12) Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
14.(29) Alisha's Attic - Alisha Rules The World
15.(21) The Monkees - The Greatest hits
16.(13) George Michael - Older
17.(11) Robert Miles - Dreamland
18.(17) Beck - Odelay
19.(15) The Smurfs - The Smurfs Hits 97 Vol 1
20.(19) John Denver - The Rocky mountain collection
21.(28) Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
22.(18) Original Soundtrack - Evita
23.(34) Reef - Glow
24.(20) Crowded House - Recurring Dream - The Very Best of
25.(25) Fugees - The Score
26.(16) Van Morrison - The Healing game
27.(27) Texas - White On Blonde
28.(22) Celine Dion - Falling into you
29.(24) Toni Braxton - Secrets
30.(23) Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
31.(NE) Live - Secret Samadhi
Entered the US chart at 1, but not as big a deal over here.
32.(31) Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
33.(NE) Mary Black - Shine
The Irish folk-rock singer who seems to sell mainly to the diaspora over here. This album is notable for including five covers of songs by David Gray (including the title cut), a couple of years before he was famous even in Ireland.
34.(39) Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
35.(35) Blur - Blur
36.(26) Elkie Brooks - The Very Best of Elkie Brooks 1997
37.(RE) The Stone Roses - The Stone Roses
Two of the ex-members were of course about to emerge.
38.(37) Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
39.(30) Eels - Beautiful Freak
40.(46) Oasis - (What's The Story) Morning Glory?

46.(NE) Queensryche - Hear In The Now Forever
52.(NE) Death In Vegas - Dead Elvis
Debut album from Richard Fearless (not his real name) and then-collaborator Tim Holmes. Paved the ground for the massive acclaim and relative commercial success of The Contino Sessions in 1999.
62.(RE) Radiohead - Pablo Honey
68.(RE) Spearhead - Chocolate Supa Highway
70.(RE) The Commitments - The Commitments (OST)
72.(NE) Gladys Knight & The Pips - The Singles Album