Charting 1997: Album chart 5th April

01. (1) Spice Girls - Spice
02.(NE) Lisa Stansfield - Lisa Stansfield
(Spotify)
Possibly not an act you'd instantly associate with 1997, but this is jointly her highest-charting album.
03. (2) The Bee Gees - Still Waters
04. (6) No Doubt - Tragic Kingdom
05. (5) Manic Street Preachers - Everything must go
06. (4) U2 - Pop
07. (7) Lighthouse Family - Ocean Drive
08. (3) Eternal - Before The Rain
09. (8) The Bee Gees - The Very Best Of
10.(10) The Beautiful South - Blue is the colour
11.(23) Reef - Glow
12.(NE) Gina G - Fresh
Yeah, this happened.
13.(11) Kula Shaker - K
14.(19) The Smurfs - The Smurfs Hits 97 Vol 1
15.(14) Alisha's Attic - Alisha Rules The World
16.(NE) Machine Head - The More Things Change
They're still going, apparently.
17.(22) Original Soundtrack - Evita
18.(16) George Michael - Older
19.(13) Jamiroquai - Travelling Without Moving
20.(21) Sheryl Crow - Sheryl Crow
21.(12) Ocean Colour Scene - B sides seasides and freerides
22.(27) Texas - White On Blonde
23.(NE) The Notorious BIG - Life After Death

An apt title, or rather a prophetic one as he was shot a couple of weeks earlier and it must already have been in the supply chain by then. In terms of his UK chart career, perhaps the final song being called 'You're Nobody (Til Somebody Kills You)' was too. 

24. (9) Aerosmith - Nine Lives
25.(17) Robert Miles - Dreamland
26.(18) Beck - Odelay
27.(15) The Monkees - The Greatest hits
28.(20) John Denver - The Rocky mountain collection
29.(35) Blur - Blur
30.(25) Fugees - The Score
31.(28) Celine Dion - Falling into you
32.(29) Toni Braxton - Secrets
33.(34) Mark Morrison - Return of the Mack
34.(24) Crowded House - Recurring Dream - The Very Best of
35.(38) Fun Lovin' Criminals - Come Find Yourself
36.(30) Mansun - Attack of the Grey Lantern
37.(NE) 10cc - The Very best of
38.(41) Alanis Morissette - Jagged Little Pill
39.(32) Skunk Anansie - Stoosh
40.(42) Erykah Badu - Baduizm

53.(NE) Cake - Fashion Nugget
56.(NE) Clock - About Time 2
See what they've done there?
64.(NE) Nanci Griffith - Blue Roses From The Moons
68.(RE) The Beautiful South - Carry On Up The Charts The Best of
71.(NE) Hank Marvin - Hank Plays Live
73.(NE) Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine - A World Without Dave (Spotify)
After a brief split in the mid-1990s, they returned on the Cooking Vinyl label, who had a policy at the time of launching acts with mini-albums. 
74.(RE) Peter Andre - Natural