List of Top 25 albums for 1997 in Australia

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The following lists the top 25 albums of 1997 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) End of Year Albums Chart.^[1][2]

#	Title	Artist	Highest pos. reached	weeks at No. 1
1.	Savage Garden	Savage Garden	1	19[3]
2.	Romeo + Juliet	Soundtrack	1	9[4]
3.	Middle of Nowhere	Hanson	1	2[5]
4.	Spice	Spice Girls	3
5.	Let's Talk About Love	Celine Dion	1	5 [nb 1]
6.	Tragic Kingdom	No Doubt	3
7.	Pieces of You	Jewel	5
8.	In Deep	Tina Arena	1	3[7]
9.	Falling into You	Celine Dion	1	4[nb 2]
10.	Songs from the South	Paul Kelly	2
11.	Telling Everybody	Human Nature	7
12.	Secret Samadhi	Live	2
13.	Anthology 1: Greatest Hits 1986-1997	John Farnham	1	1[9]
14.	Freak Show	Silverchair	1	1[10]
15.	Spiceworld	Spice Girls	2
16.	Diana Princess of Wales Tribute	Various Artists
17.	Bill Lawry... This is Your Life	The Twelfth Man	1	2 [11]
18.	Forgiven, Not Forgotten	The Corrs	1	3[nb 3]
19.	My Best Friend's Wedding	Soundtrack	1	4 [13]
20.	Ixnay on the Hombre	The Offspring	2
21.	Still Waters	Bee Gees	4
22.	Recurring Dream	Crowded House	1	8[nb 4]
23.	The Fat of the Land	The Prodigy	1	1[15]
24.	My Promise[nb 5]	No Mercy	4
25.	Snowed In	Hanson	3

Peak chart positions from 1997 are from the ARIA Charts, overall position on the End of Year Chart is calculated by ARIA based on the number of weeks and position that the records reach within the Top 50 albums for each week during 1997.^[2]

Notes

1. Let's Talk About Love debuted at #1 in November, 1997 and again in January, 1998^[6]
2. Falling into You debuted at #1 in March 1996 and again in July, 1996 remaining in the charts until November, 1997 ^[8]
3. Forgiven, Not Forgotten entered the charts in March, 1996 and reached #1 in August, 1996 and again in September, 1996 remaining in the charts until March, 1998 ^[12]
4. Recurring Dream debuted at #1 in July, 1996 and again in December, 1996 through to January 1997 remaining in the charts until October, 1997 ^[14]
5. My Promise was released in the United States as No Mercy but was retitled for its Australian release^[16]

References

1. "ARIA Charts - End Of Year Charts - Top 100 Albums 1997". Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA). Retrieved 2009-02-16.
2. "Official ARIA Charts". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
3. "ARIA Charts - Savage Garden". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
4. "ARIA Charts - Romeo + Juliet". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
5. "ARIA Charts - Middle of Nowhere". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
6. "ARIA Charts - Let's Talk About Love". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-16.
7. "ARIA Charts - In Deep". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
8. "ARIA Charts - Let's Talk About Love". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
9. "ARIA Charts - Anthology". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
10. "ARIA Charts - Freak Show". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
11. "ARIA Charts - Bill Lawry". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
12. "ARIA Charts - Forgiven, Not Forgotten". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
13. "ARIA Charts - My Best Friend's Wedding". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
14. "ARIA Charts - Recurring Dream". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
15. "ARIA Charts - The Fat of the Land". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.
16. "ARIA Charts - My Promises". Australian Charts Portal. 2009-02-08. Retrieved 2009-02-17.