List of Oricon number-one albums of 1997

These are the Oricon number one albums of 1997, per the Oricon Albums Chart.^[1]

Chart history

Key

†	Indicates best-selling album of 1997

Issue Date	Album	Artist(s)
January 13	Maximum	MAX
January 20
January 27	True	L'Arc-en-Ciel
February 3	Sicks	The Yellow Monkey
February 10	Magma	Koshi Inaba
February 17	Welcome-Muzik	Kohmi Hirose
February 24	Magma	Koshi Inaba
March 3	Dreams & Memories	Favorite Blue
March 10	Cowgirl Dreamin'	Yumi Matsutoya
March 17	Bolero	Mr. Children
March 24	Faces Places	Globe
March 31
April 7	The Power Source	Judy and Mary
April 14
April 21	Everlasting	Every Little Thing
April 28
May 5	Zard Blend: Sun & Stone	Zard
May 12
May 19	Smiling: The Best of Noriyuki Makihara	Noriyuki Makihara
May 26
June 2	Starting Over	Speed
June 9
June 16
June 23	Evangelion: Death	TV soundtrack
June 30	Cranberry Soda	Ryuichi Kawamura
July 7	Kawamoto Makoto	Makoto Kawamoto
July 14	Paradox	Nanase Aikawa
July 21
July 28	A Album	Kinki Kids
August 4	Concentration 20	Namie Amuro
August 11
August 18	Power of Dreams	Maki Ohguro
August 25
September 1
September 8
September 15	Fuzakenja nē	Tsuyoshi Nagabuchi
September 22	Butterfly	Mariah Carey
September 29	Junior Sweet	Chara
October 6
October 13	Review †	Glay
October 20
October 27
November 3
November 10
November 17	Wands Historical Best Album	Wands
November 24	Sing or Die	Dreams Come True
December 1	Survive	B'z
December 8	Love	Ryuichi Kawamura
December 15
December 22	I·De·A	Kyosuke Himuro
December 29	Singles	Luna Sea

References

1. "Index of charts". Archived from the original on 21 October 2014. Retrieved 21 April 2014.