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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1997.
Contents 1 Events 1.1 January 1.2 February 1.3 March 1.4 April 1.5 May-June 1.6 August 1.7 September-October 1.8 November-December 1.9 Undated 2 Bands formed 3 Bands disbanded 4 Bands reformed 5 Albums released 5.1 January 5.2 February 5.3 March 5.4 April 5.5 May 5.6 June 5.7 July 5.8 August 5.9 September 5.10 October 5.11 November 5.12 December 5.13 Unknown date 6 Biggest hit singles 7 Top hits 8 Acclaimed Music 8.1 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums From 1997 8.2 AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1997 9 Classical music 10 Opera 11 Musical theater 12 Musical films 13 Deaths 14 Awards 15 Charts 16 References 17 See also // Events This section needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding reliable references. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (November 2008) January January 9 - David Bowie performs his 50th Birthday Bash concert (the day after his birthday) at Madison Square Garden, New York City, USA with guests Frank Black, The Foo Fighters, Sonic Youth, Robert Smith of The Cure, Lou Reed, and Billy Corgan of The Smashing Pumpkins, with the opening act Placebo. Proceeds from the concert went to the Save the Children fund.1 January 10 - James Brown receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, USA.2 January 19 - Madonna wins Best Actress In A Motion Picture, Musical Or Comedy, for her part in Evita, at the 54th annual Golden Globe Awards in the USA.3 January 28 - The Virginia Senate votes to retire "Carry Me Back to Old Virginny" as the official state song, and begins looking for a replacement. February February 2 - Rich Mullins' musical The Canticle of the Plains premieres in Wichita, Kansas. February 12 - David Bowie receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Hollywood, USA. February 13 Michael Jackson's first son is born. The Spice Girls knock Toni Braxton's "Unbreak My Heart" off the top spot in the US singles chart. They are the first female British group to have a US number one with their debut single. February 20 - Ben and Jerry's introduce Phish Food, a new flavor of ice cream named after the rock group Phish. The ingredients are chocolate ice cream, marshmallows, caramel and fish-shaped fudge.4 February 24 - The Spice Girls win Best Video for "Say You'll Be There" and Best Single for "Wannabe" at the BRIT Awards. Geri Halliwell's Union Jack dress from the girls' live performance hogs the headlines the next day. March Pianist David Helfgott performs at the Boston Symphony Hall, in Boston, USA, during his world tour. The Boston Globe describes his performance as "without phrasing, form, harmonic understanding, differentiation of style and often basic accuracy; worst of all, it was without emotional content." March 1 - The rock band Phish records "Slip Stitch and Pass" live at Markthalle, Hamburg, Germany. March 3 - U2 release the opinion-dividing Pop album. Along with the Oasis album Be Here Now, it becomes a major release that fails to sell to industry expectations, particularly in the US, despite many strong initial reviews. March 9 The Notorious B.I.G. is shot dead while sitting in the passenger seat of a car after a Soul Train Awards party in the USA. The Spice Girls become the first act in the history of the UK Top 40 singles charts to have four consecutive number one hits with Mama/Who Do You Think You Are. Profits from the single go to Comic Relief and provide the biggest individual contribution of 1997. March 11 - Paul McCartney is knighted by Queen Elizabeth II. March 17 - Whirlwind Heat play their first show. March 18 - Aerosmith releases Nine Lives, their 12th studio album. March 19 - March 20 - The reunited Monkees perform two sold-out concerts at Wembley Arena in London, UK. March 30 - The Spice Girls launch Britain's new television channel, Channel 5. April April - Nigel Kennedy, now calling himself simply Kennedy, returns to the stage at the Royal Festival Hall after a five-year absence from the concert stage resulting from neck surgery [1]. April 2 - Joni Mitchell is reunited with her daughter, Kilauren Gibb, whom she gave up for adoption 32 years earlier. April 14 - Depeche Mode come back with their 9th album Ultra April 25 – April 27 - The first Terrastock festival is held in Providence, Rhode Island, USA. May-June 5ive's musical career begins after auditions are held in London, UK to find potential band members, with over 3,000 hopefuls showing up to audition. The Spice Girls attend the Cannes Film Festival to announce their plans to hit the big screen with Spiceworld: The Movie. A photo call on top of the Hotel Martinez entrance brings the area to a standstill. May 3 At the 42nd Eurovision Song Contest, held in Dublin's Point Theatre, the UK win with "Love Shine a Light", sung by Katrina and the Waves. The Notorious B.I.G. single Hypnotize is #1 for three weeks. May 11 - The Spice Girls perform their first British live gig for the Prince's Trust 21st anniversary concert at the Manchester Opera House They break royal protocol by kissing Prince Charles on the cheeks and even pinching his bottom. May 15 - The Spice Girls' album Spice reaches number one on the US charts, making them the first British act to top the charts with a debut album. May 20 Foo Fighters release their album The Colour and the Shape. Michael Jackson releases Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix which became the best seller remix album with 15 million copies sold. June 14 - Puff Daddy and The Family's I'll Be Missing You single is #1 on the Hot 100 charts for the next eleven weeks. Only to be replaced by The Notorious B.I.G. single Mo Money Mo Problems also featuring Puff Daddy. June 16 - Radiohead release OK Computer to huge critical acclaim. August August 3 - The Black Crowes perform their last show with Johnny Colt and Marc Ford. August 4 - Nigerian afrobeat pioneer and dissident pop star Fela Anikulapo-Kuti dies in Lagos, Nigeria, of HIV-related illness. August 7 - Garth Brooks performs to an estimated 800,000 to one million people during a free concert given in Central Park, New York City. August 16 - August 17 - Phish perform at the two day music festival, The Great Went, at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone, Maine, USA. They play 500 minutes of music, six sets and two encores. There was an estimated attendance of between 65,000-70,000 and it was the top grossing concert of the season making over $4,000,000 in box office receipts. August 19 - The reunited Fleetwood Mac release The Dance and begin a concert tour in the United States. August 21 - Oasis' third album, Be Here Now, is released. It becomes the fastest selling music album of all time, moving 695,761 copies in the first week in the UK. August 30 - Notorious B.I.G. scores his second posthumous #1 single on the Hot 100 singles chart. A feat rivaled by no one. September-October September 6 - Elton John performs "Candle in the Wind" at the funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales; John Tavener's Song for Athene is performed at the same ceremony, with soprano Lynne Dawson singing the solo part. September 16 -Aaliyah released "Hot Like Fire"/"The One I Gave My Heart To" single September 17 - The KLF return for 23 minutes with their performance of Fuck the Millennium. September 19 - While on his way to a benefit concert in Kansas, USA, Rich Mullins loses control of his Jeep, flipping the automobile and throwing both Mullins and passenger Mitch McVicker out onto the road. A tractor-trailer approaching the scene swerves to miss McVicker, striking and killing Mullins instantly. McVicker survives, but suffered major injuries. September 23 Björk releases Homogenic, moving towards a darker sound and away from her 'pixie' image.5 U2 perform a concert in Sarajevo during their PopMart Tour. September 29 The Rolling Stones release Bridges to Babylon. The Verve release Urban Hymns. Ironically, in a controversial legal dispute, the majority of their royalties and songwriting credit for their single "Bittersweet Symphony" go to The Rolling Stones. October 7 - Everclear release their multi-platinum third album So Much for the Afterglow, containing "Father of Mine" and "I Will Buy You a New Life". October 13 - The "Prince Igor" single, jointly performed by The Rhapsody, Warren G and Sissel Kyrkjebø is released. October 15 - Michael Jackson ends the History World Tour,which included an attendance record of 4,500,000 fa November-December November 3 - The Spice Girls release Spiceworld, their second number one album, making the group the first British band since The Beatles to have two albums in the US chart at the same time. Spice and Spiceworld have amassed enough sales for one out of every two people in Britain to own a Spice Girls album. November 4 - Shania Twain releases her album Come on Over which goes on to sell over 34 million copies worldwide6 and later became the biggest selling album in country music history and the biggest selling album by a female music artist. November 6 - The Spice Girls make the decision to take over the running of the group and drop Simon Fuller as their manager. December 26 - The Spice Girls release their big screen debut Spiceworld: The Movie, starring Richard E. Grant, Roger Moore, Sir Elton John and Stephen Fry. The movie makes £6.8m in its first week of release. December 31 - The Home of Country Music, the Opryland USA theme park, in Nashville, Tennessee, USA closes and is subsequently demolished. Undated Mikael Åkerfeldt & Peter Lindgren Fires Johan De Farfalla from Opeth. Then, Anders Nordin Quits The Band. To Replace the Ex-Members, Mike & Pete Hire Martin Lopez & Martin Mendez. The companies Memorex, Maxell, and TDK introduce blank recordable CDs. Rob Gommerman leaves Finger Eleven due to extensive touring. Derrick Green replaces Max Cavalera in Sepultura. Glenn Ljungström & Johan Larsson leaves In Flames. Wynton Marsalis became the first jazz artist to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music. Bands formed See Musical groups established in 1997 Bands disbanded Acid Bath (following the death of bassist Audie Pitre) Atomic Swing Les Avions Brainiac Christie Front Drive The Clouds Cocteau Twins Commander Venus Def FX Dinosaur Jr. (the original lineup reforms in 2005) Divinyls (reformed in 2006) Failure Gin Blossoms (they reform in 2002) Glue Gun Imperial Drag Jawbox (one-off reunion in 2009) Porno for Pyros Pungent Stench Soundgarden (reform in 2010) Soul II Soul Spdfgh The Sundays Supergroove (reform in 2007) Swans (reform in 2010) Tad Texas is the Reason Throwing Muses (they reform in 2001) Ugly Kid Joe White Zombie X Japan Bands reformed This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (December 2008) Black Sabbath (reformed after being on hiatus since 1994) Depeche Mode (reformed after being on hiatus since 1995) Echo & the Bunnymen (reformed after being on hiatus since 1992) Sunny Day Real Estate (reformed after being on hiatus since 1995) Albums released Contents: Top • January • February • March • April • May • June • July • August • September • October • November • December January Day Album Artist Notes 1 Six of Hearts Kenny G EP 7 Enjoy Incubus Incubus EP 10 The Donnas The Donnas Superteem; Re-issued in '98 on Lookout! The Best and the Rest Savatage Compilation 13 Glow Reef 14 Telegram Björk Remix Travelling Without Moving Jamiroquai US; released in UK Sept '96 Live Stages Vertical Horizon Live 20 Homework Daft Punk UK 21 Slick Shoes EP Slick Shoes EP Soft Effects Spoon EP 23 Clumsy Our Lady Peace Canada 27 Perfect from Now On Built to Spill - C'est pour vivre Celine Dion Compilation 28 In a Metal Mood: No More Mr. Nice Guy Pat Boone Covers CD Uptown Saturday Night Camp Lo - Vivir Enrique Iglesias - Lie to Me Jonny Lang - 30 Earthling David Bowie - February Day Album Artist Notes 1 White on Blonde Texas - 3 Freak Show Silverchair Sophomore. 4 Tony Bennett on Holiday Tony Bennett - Ixnay On The Hombre The Offspring - Spice Spice Girls Worldwide (released in UK Nov. '96) Bombs & Butterflies Widespread Panic - 8 Kingdom of Madness Edguy - Made in America (EP) Aerosmith EP 10 Blur Blur - A Short Album About Love The Divine Comedy - 11 I Like It When You Die Anal Cunt - Baduizm Erykah Badu LP Coal Chamber Coal Chamber - Brighten the Corners Pavement - Unchained Melody: The Early Years LeAnn Rimes - Built to Last Sick of It All - City Strapping Young Lad - Eight Arms to Hold You Veruca Salt - 15 Best of Gloria Estefan Gloria Estefan Compilation 16 Something Wild Children of Bodom - Evergreen Echo & the Bunnymen - 17 Live at the Wireless Ash Live 18 Secret Samadhi Live - Live at Tomfest P.O.D. - Lost Highway soundtrack Various Artists - 24 Now That's What I Call Music! 36 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 25 First Encounter Tour 1996 Cluster Live Maximum Abduction Hypocrisy EP Whiplash James - Marcy Playground Marcy Playground - Slush OP8 - Mega!! Kung Fu Radio Powerman 5000 - ...Somewhere More Familiar Sister Hazel - Either/Or Elliott Smith - Third Day Third Day - Women in Technology White Town - March Day Album Artist Notes 3 Electro Glide in Blue Apollo 440 - Pop U2 - 10 Wet Wet Wet - 4 The Boatman's Call Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds - Goldfly Guster - The Healing Game Van Morrison - Soul Assassins, Chapter 1 Soul Assassins - 7 Telling Everybody Human Nature - 10 Still Waters Bee Gees - Extinct Instinct Threshold - 11 Fake Can Be Just as Good Blonde Redhead - Disciplined Breakdown Collective Soul - Message for Albert Five for Fighting - Rapture Bradley Joseph - Let's Face It The Mighty Mighty Bosstones - Violent Demise: The Last Days Body Count - Live at Hammersmith '79 Ted Nugent Live 1979 The Untouchable Scarface - Before You Were Punk Various Artists Compilation 17 The Dismemberment Plan Is Terrified The Dismemberment Plan - 18 Nine Lives Aerosmith - Stealing Second Chris Thile - Whatever and Ever Amen Ben Folds Five - Aftertaste Helmet - Euphoria Leftover Salmon - 24 White Trash Hell Everclear EP Savage Garden Savage Garden Australia The Divine Wings of Tragedy Symphony X - Solid U.D.O. - 25 Homework Daft Punk US Carnival of Chaos GWAR - So Long So Wrong Alison Krauss - The More Things Change Machine Head Sophomore. Life After Death The Notorious B.I.G. Sophomore Hear in the Now Frontier Queensrÿche - Everything You Want Ray J Debut Come In and Burn Rollins Band - The Fawn The Sea & Cake - Blue Sky on Mars Matthew Sweet - Then: The Earlier Years They Might Be Giants Compilation Take a Look Over Your Shoulder Warren G - 31 The Collection 1982-1988 Celine Dion Compilation April Day Album Artist Notes 1 Tripping the Light Fantastic Lit - Midget Tossing Yellowcard Debut; features Ben Dobson on lead vocals The Splinter Shards the Birth of Separation Zao - 2 Clumsy Our Lady Peace US 4 Elegantly Wasted INXS Final album with Michael Hutchence on lead vocals. 7 Dig Your Own Hole The Chemical Brothers - Barafundle Gorky's Zygotic Mynci - 8 Flesh And Bone Richard Marx - 12 Picks Ace Frehley Greatest Hits Whole Pedro the Lion EP Dig Me Out Sleater-Kinney - Third Eye Blind Third Eye Blind - Have I Offended Someone? Frank Zappa Compilation 14 Mother Nature Calls Cast - 15 28 Teeth Buck-O-Nine - Shadowlife Dokken - Ultra Depeche Mode - Savage Garden Savage Garden US Sevendust Sevendust Debut. 20 For Monkeys Millencolin Sweden 21 In It for the Money Supergrass - 22 Share My World Mary J. Blige - Greatest Hits Boston Greatest Hits Cowboy Erasure - Back from the Dead Obituary - Full Circle Pennywise - I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One Yo La Tengo - 23 Visions Stratovarius - 29 Anywhere But Here The Ataris - Cheap Trick Cheap Trick - Shaming of the Sun Indigo Girls - Picnic Robert Earl Keen - Kill Fuck Die W.A.S.P. - May Day Album Artist Notes 5 Blurring the Edges Meredith Brooks - Sweet Potato Pie Robert Cray - Flaming Pie Paul McCartney - Honky Melvins - Baile de Los Locos Voodoo Glow Skulls - 6 Middle of Nowhere Hanson - Retrospective I Rush Compilation Return to Paradise Styx Live 12 Halim Natacha Atlas - 13 Terror & Magnificence Elvis Costello and John Harle - Quality Soft Core Mad Caddies - The Fruit That Ate Itself Modest Mouse EP 18 Polythene Feeder - 20 Blues Brothers & Friends: Live from House of Blues The Blues Brothers Live You're the Inspiration: A Collection Peter Cetera Compilation Remanufacture Fear Factory Remix Blue Moon Swamp John Fogerty - The Colour and the Shape Foo Fighters - Mag Earwhig! Guided by Voices - Marching to Mars Sammy Hagar - Blood on the Dance Floor: HIStory in the Mix Michael Jackson Remix Oxygene 7-13 Jean Michel Jarre - Standing in My Shoes Leo Kottke - I Got Next KRS-One - For Monkeys Millencolin US Red Apple Falls Smog - 26 Direction Reaction Creation The Jam Compilation 27 Get Some Snot - 30 Enthrone Darkness Triumphant Dimmu Borgir - June Day Album Artist Notes 1 Demonic Testament - 2 Timeless Sarah Brightman - Dark Days in Paradise Gary Moore - 3 Innamorata Pat Benatar - Accident of Birth Bruce Dickinson - Album of the Year Faith No More - Nighttime Birds The Gathering - Under These Rocks and Stones Chantal Kreviazuk US Inside the Torn Apart Napalm Death - Retrospective II Rush Compilation G3: Live in Concert Joe Satriani, Steve Vai and Eric Johnson Live Blood Rooted Sepultura Compilation RockCrown Seven Mary Three - Prime Cuts Suicidal Tendencies Compilation Wu-Tang Forever Wu-Tang Clan - 6 Nighttime Birds The Gathering - Days of Purgatory Iced Earth Remix 8 Becoming X Sneaker Pimps Limited Edition 10 Pushing the Salmanilla Envelope Jimmie's Chicken Shack - Drag k.d. lang Covers album SYR1: Anagrama Sonic Youth EP 12 My Own Prison Creed - 16 OK Computer Radiohead - 17 Dude Ranch blink-182 - Destination Anywhere Jon Bon Jovi - Feelings David Byrne - Body Language Jonathan Cain - The War Report Capone-N-Noreaga - The Devil You Know Econoline Crush Canada The Will to Live Ben Harper - Cryptic Writings Megadeth - The Legend of Chin Switchfoot - The Very Best of 10cc 10cc Greatest Hits Love Among the Ruins 10,000 Maniacs - Resolution .38 Special - Year of the Horse Neil Young & Crazy Horse Live Psycho's Path John Lydon - 21 Happy End of the World Pizzicato Five - 23 Heavy Soul Paul Weller - 24 Some Other Sucker's Parade Del Amitri - The Great Milenko Insane Clown Posse - The Carnival Wyclef Jean - Misguided Roses Edwin McCain - Generation Swine Mötley Crüe - Rusty Slick Shoes - Floored Sugar Ray - Robyn Is Here Robyn - Curtains Tindersticks - The Mollusk Ween - 27 Glory to the Brave HammerFall - 30 Iron Savior Iron Savior - Spiritech Alchemist - July Day Album Artist Notes 1 Straight on Till Morning Blues Traveler - Zoot Suit Riot Cherry Poppin' Daddies Compilation Three Dollar Bill, Yall$ Limp Bizkit - The Fat of the Land The Prodigy - No Way Out Puff Daddy and the Bad Boy Family - Keep Your Receipt Reel Big Fish EP The A Files Sham 69 - Guns in the Ghetto UB40 - East Los Presents... Union 13 - 4 Ten Rapid (Collected Recordings 1996-1997) Mogwai Compilation 7 Boys on the Docks Dropkick Murphys EP Vanishing Point Primal Scream - 8 Anthems to the Welkin at Dusk Emperor - Brown Album Primus - Fush Yu Mang Smash Mouth - 13 Mate. Feed. Kill. Repeat. Slipknot Re-Release 14 Now That's What I Call Music! 37 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 15 …The Dandy Warhols Come Down The Dandy Warhols - Supa Dupa Fly Missy "Misdemeanor" Elliott - Musical Monkey Guttermouth - Surfacing Sarah McLachlan - Deadly Sting: The Mercury Years Scorpions Compilation Metropolis Sister Machine Gun - 22 Outcast Kreator - This Strange Engine Marillion - 28 Funcrusher Plus Company Flow - 29 The Art of War Bone Thugs-N-Harmony - The Virginian Neko Case - Adam and Eve Catherine Wheel - A Fistful of Alice Alice Cooper Live Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? Harvey Danger - Angry Fist Hi-Standard - Pup Tent Luna - Shrinking the Blob Oleander - Official Live: 101 Proof Pantera Live Give 'Em the Boot Various Artists Compilation August Day Album Artist Notes 5 Transistor 311 - 11 Backstreet's Back Backstreet Boys Not released in US 12 Backstreet Boys (US) Backstreet Boys US only No Holds Barred Biohazard - Spoke Calexico - Hed PE Hed PE - Double Plaidinum Lagwagon - Release Some Tension SWV - A Deeper Kind of Slumber Tiamat - 14 F♯A♯∞ Godspeed You Black Emperor! - 18 In Deep Tina Arena - 19 The Dance Fleetwood Mac Live Transmission The Tea Party - 21 Be Here Now Oasis - 22 Sehnsucht Rammstein - 24 Midnite Lover Shaggy - 25 Bad Timing Jim O'Rourke - Word Gets Around Stereophonics - 26 Likwidation Tha Alkaholiks - Welcome to the Freak Show dc Talk Live Last of the Sharpshooters Down by Law - The First Session Hole EP All That I Am Joe - Love Scenes Diana Krall - Singles 1-12 Melvins Compilation I Like to Score Moby Compilation Making Friends No Use for a Name - Conspiracy No. 5 Third Day - (Songbook) A Collection of Hits Trisha Yearwood Compilation 30 Somewhere Out in Space Gamma Ray - September Day Album Artist Notes 1 Calling All Stations Genesis - 2 Heaven and Hell Joe Jackson - Ghetto D Master P - SYR2: Slaapkamers Met Slagroom Sonic Youth EP 5 Based on a True Story Mack 10 - 8 Vegas The Crystal Method - Slightly Odway Jebediah - Good Feeling Travis UK 9 Behind the Eyes Amy Grant - Aquarium Aqua - S.C.I.E.N.C.E. Incubus - Total Madness - the Very Best of Madness Madness Greatest Hits You Light up My Life: Inspirational Songs LeAnn Rimes - It Means Everything Save Ferris - 15 Marchin' Already Ocean Colour Scene - 16 The Greatest Hits Collection Brooks & Dunn Greatest Hits When Disaster Strikes Busta Rhymes - Butterfly Mariah Carey - Film Noir Carly Simon - My Way Usher 17 Marigold Sky Hall & Oates - 18 El Gran Orgo At the Drive-In EP 22 ESCM BT - Barely Legal The Hives - 23 Happy? Jann Arden - Gone From Danger Joan Baez - In the Zone EB3 - Homogenic Björk - Man & His Music (Remixes from Around the World) Boogie Down Productions Remix The Bouncing Souls The Bouncing Souls - Evolution Boyz II Men - Novelty Forever Bracket - Time to Say Goodbye Sarah Brightman - The Next Voice You Hear: The Best of Jackson Browne Jackson Browne Greatest Hits Tubthumper Chumbawamba - Songs of a Circling Spirit Tom Cochrane Compilation Falling into Infinity Dream Theater - Time Out of Mind Bob Dylan - Hang-Ups Goldfinger - The Final Chapter Hypocrisy - The Big Picture Elton John - Dots and Loops Stereolab - 29 Levitate The Fall - Symbols KMFDM - Paul McCartney's Standing Stone Paul McCartney - With a Twist Todd Rundgren - The Promised Simple Minds Compilation Urban Hymns The Verve - Life thru a Lens Robbie Williams - 30 Tone Soul Evolution The Apples in Stereo - Four Minute Mile The Get Up Kids - Portishead Portishead - Peace and Noise Patti Smith - ? It's My Life - The Album Sash! - October Day Album Artist Notes 1 Shadows in the Banquet Hall Carbon Leaf - 6 Come to Daddy Aphex Twin EP 7 More Best of Leonard Cohen Leonard Cohen Greatest Hits So Much for the Afterglow Everclear - Underdogs Matthew Good Band - Thicker Than Water H2O - South Saturn Delta Jimi Hendrix Compilation The Velvet Rope Janet Jackson - Jerky Boys 4 Jerky Boys - Milk and Blood Jim Martin - Willis The Pietasters - Death to the Pixies Pixies Compilation 60 Cycle Hum Pulley - Good Feeling Travis US 8 National Steel Colin James - 10 blackmail blackmail - The Fantastic Plastic Machine Fantastic Plastic Machine - 12 20,000 Watt R.S.L. Midnight Oil Greatest Hits 13 Jurassic 5 EP Jurassic 5 EP Pleased to Meet You Sleeper - Quarashi Quarashi - 14 Medazzaland Duran Duran - Nimrod Green Day - A Jagged Era Jagged Edge - Phenomenon LL Cool J - Unleash the Beast Saxon - Soundbombing Various Artists Compilation 15 Whoracle In Flames 20 Exile Gary Numan UK 21 Phoenix Rising Artension - Serpents of the Light Deicide - Extreme Honey Elvis Costello Compilation Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature Present The Firm: The Album The Firm (Nas, Foxy Brown, AZ, and Nature) - Get Crunk, Who U Wit: Da Album Lil Jon & the Eastside Boyz - Young Team Mogwai - Joya Will Oldham - The Remixes Shakira Remix 27 Lennon Legend: The Very Best of John Lennon John Lennon UK, Compilation Echo Dek Primal Scream Remix Legendary Tales Rhapsody - 28 The Fury of the Aquabats! The Aquabats - Talk on Corners The Corrs - Galore The Cure Compilation Around the Fur Deftones - Zaireeka The Flaming Lips - My Body, the Hand Grenade Hole Compilation Get It How U Live! Hot Boys - Forever and Counting Hot Water Music - Jugulator Judas Priest - Carnival of Souls: The Final Sessions Kiss - Harlem World Mase - Slip Stitch and Pass Phish - The Psycho Realm Psycho Realm Debut Eros Eros Ramazzotti Greatest Hits New Forms Roni Size & Reprazent - The Black Bossalini (a.k.a. Dr. Bomb from Da Bay) Spice 1 - November Day Album Artist Notes 1 Savoir aimer Florent Pagny - 3 FLAvour of the Weak Front Line Assembly - Queen Rocks Queen Compilation Keys to Ascension 2 Yes - 4 Heavy Petting Bad Manners - The Pet Sounds Sessions The Beach Boys Box Set All That Matters Michael Bolton - Tracks and Traces Harmonia '76 - In My Lifetime, Vol. 1 Jay-Z - Greatest Hits Richard Marx - The 18th Letter Rakim - Spice World Spice Girls - Signs of Chaos Testament - Chapter 2: World Domination Three 6 Mafia - Come on Over Shania Twain US Tribute Yanni Live Tibetan Freedom Concert Various Artists Live 5 Don't Knock the Baldhead: Live Bad Manners Live 7 American Lesion Greg Graffin - 9 Live Trax Megadeth EP 11 Shut Your Mouth and Open Your Eyes AFI - The Omega Sessions Bad Brains EP See It Through My Eyes Meredith Brooks - Deconstructed Bush Remix To See You Harry Connick, Jr. - Paint the Sky with Stars Enya Compilation Satisfaction is the Death of Desire Hatebreed - Best of King's X King's X Greatest Hits BBC Sessions Led Zeppelin Live So Long and Thanks for All the Shoes NOFX - The Ozzman Cometh Ozzy Osbourne Compilation Second-hand Smoke Sublime Compilation 17 Scum Anti-Nowhere League - Caring and Killing Converge - Breed to Breathe Napalm Death EP Now That's What I Call Music! 38 (UK series) Various Artists Compilation 18 Bonfire AC/DC Box Set Live Erykah Badu Live Inna Heights Buju Banton LP Let's Talk About Love Celine Dion - Snowed In Hanson Christmas Titanic James Horner Soundtrack Kenny G - Greatest Hits Kenny G Greatest Hits The Best That I Could Do 1978–1988 John Mellencamp Greatest Hits ReLoad Metallica - The Lonesome Crowded West Modest Mouse - We're Outta Here! Ramones Live Songs from The Capeman Paul Simon - 20 Greatest Love Songs Vol. 666 HIM - Endless Nameless The Wildhearts - 24 All Saints All Saints - Left of the Middle Natalie Imbruglia UK Open Your Eyes Yes - 25 Sevens Garth Brooks - Closure Nine Inch Nails VHS Truly: The Love Songs Lionel Richie Compilation Big Willie Style Will Smith - Mostasteless Twiztid Debut R U Still Down? (Remember Me) 2Pac - Physical Fatness Various Artists Compilation 30 Somber Eyes to the Sky Shadows Fall - ? Lustra Echobelly - The 1999 Party Hawkwind Live December Day Album Artist Notes 1 Aaron Carter Aaron Carter Europe Six Loverboy - 23am Robert Miles Europe 8 Sounds of Decay Katatonia 9 MTV Unplugged Bryan Adams Live 10 Cloudy Cloud Calculator Takako Minekawa 16 Riverfenix Riverfenix - 20 It's All About the Girls A New Found Glory EP 23 Blindside Blindside - 27 The Slim Shady EP Eminem EP ? Eye & I Kardinal Offishall Canada, Debut Unknown date Skyscraping - ABC R.A.F.I. (France only) - Asian Dub Foundation Overcast! (EP & full-length) - Atmosphere Okenspay Ordway: Things I Forgot to Tell Mommy (spoken word album) - Bif Naked English Boy Wonders - Big Big Train Sydney High - Citizen King The Phantom Lodge - Diabolical Masquerade You Can Play These Songs with Chords - Death Cab for Cutie Alive Alive-O - The Dubliners When You Land Here, It’s Time to Return - Flake Music Chloroform the One You Love - Flickerstick Distant Horizons - Hawkwind Smile and Wave - The Headstones Muffins - Hoobastank Play the Music of Tim Rice & Andrew Lloyd Webber - Hank Marvin and The Shadows A Triumph for Man - Mew Rain Without End - October Tide Orchid (U.S. release) - Opeth Old Friends from Young Years - Papa Roach Grounded - Papa Vegas The Full Sentence by Pigeonhed Flash Bulb Emergency Overflow Cavalcade of Remixes by Pigeonhed Abrasive - Puddle of Mudd The Collection - Spandau Ballet Retreat from the Sun - that dog. The Union Underground - The Union Underground If You Were There (The Best of Wham) - Wham! Biggest hit singlesThe following songs achieved the highest positions in the charts of 1997.7
# Artist Title Year Chart Entries 1 Puff Daddy & Faith Evans I'll Be Missing You 1997 UK 1 - Jun 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Jun 1997, Sweden 1 - Aug 1997, Austria 1 - Jul 1997, Switzerland 1 - Jul 1997, Norway 1 - Jul 1997, Italy 1 of 1997, Germany 1 - Jun 1997, Éire 1 - Jul 1997, New Zealand 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1997, Australia 1 for 5 weeks Oct 1997, Poland 5 - Jul 1997, Australia 5 of 1997, Germany 12 of the 1990s, POP 16 of 1997, Global 33 (5 M sold) - 1997, Europe 50 of the 1990s, RYM 99 of 1997 2 Elton John Candle in the Wind '97 1997 UK 1 - Sep 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Sep 1997, Austria 1 - Oct 1997, Switzerland 1 - Sep 1997, Norway 1 - Jan 1997, Poland 1 - Sep 1997, Germany 1 - Jan 1998, Éire 1 - Sep 1997, New Zealand 1 for 6 weeks Oct 1997, Australia 1 for 6 weeks Dec 1997, Global 2 (35 M sold) - 1997, Australia 4 of 1997, Japan 11 of all time (international songs), Italy 12 of 1997, TOTP 33, Germany 37 of the 1990s, RYM 85 of 1997, OzNet 433 3 Aqua Barbie Girl 1997 UK 1 - Oct 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Holland 1 - Sep 1997, Sweden 1 - Sep 1997, Switzerland 1 - Oct 1997, Norway 1 - May 1997, Germany 1 - Jan 1998, Éire 1 - Oct 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Sep 1997, Australia 1 for 3 weeks Jan 1998, POP 1 of 1997, Italy 2 of 1997, Austria 3 - Oct 1997, France 6 - May 1997, US BB 7 of 1997, Australia 8 of 1997, Germany 36 of the 1990s, Scrobulate 53 of happy 4 No Doubt Don't Speak 1997 UK 1 - Feb 1997, Holland 1 - Dec 1996, Sweden 1 - Nov 1996, Switzerland 1 - Jan 1997, Norway 1 - Dec 1996, Poland 1 - Jan 1997, Éire 1 - Feb 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Jan 1997, Australia 1 for 8 weeks Apr 1997, Austria 2 - Feb 1997, Germany 2 - Jan 1997, Australia 7 of 1997, France 10 - Feb 1997, RYM 10 of 1996, Europe 22 of the 1990s, POP 38 of 1996, Scrobulate 44 of rock, Italy 76 of 1997, Germany 77 of the 1990s, Acclaimed 1098 5 Hanson Mmmbop 1997 UK 1 - Jun 1997, US BB 1 of 1997, Sweden 1 - May 1997, Austria 1 - Jun 1997, Switzerland 1 - Jun 1997, Éire 1 - Jun 1997, New Zealand 1 for 2 weeks Jun 1997, Australia 1 for 9 weeks Aug 1997, Holland 2 - May 1997, Norway 2 - Jun 1997, Australia 2 of 1997, Germany 2 - Jun 1997, Poland 9 - Jun 1997, US BB 17 of 1997, POP 18 of 1997, Scrobulate 69 of fun, RYM 81 of 1996, Germany 187 of the 1990s, Acclaimed 516 Top hits This section contains information which may be of unclear or questionable importance or relevance to the article's subject matter. 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(April 2008) "2 Become 1" – Spice Girls "Abuse Me" – Silverchair "A.D.I.D.A.S." – KoЯn "Ain't That Just the Way" – Lutricia McNeal "All By Myself" – Céline Dion "All I Want" – The Offspring "All Is Full Of Love" – Björk "As Long As You Love Me" – Backstreet Boys "Be With Me Always" – Cliff Richard "Beetlebum" – Blur "Bitch" – Meredith Brooks "Bittersweet Symphony" – The Verve "Block Rockin' Beats" – The Chemical Brothers "Breathe" – The Prodigy "C U When U Get There" – Coolio "Congo" – Genesis "Da Funk" – Daft Punk "Dammit" – Blink-182 "Don't Speak" – No Doubt "D'You Know What I Mean" – Oasis "Everlong" – Foo Fighters "Everybody (Backstreet's Back)" – Backstreet Boys "Everything Is Automatic" – Matthew Good Band "Eye" – The Smashing Pumpkins "Falling in Love (Is Hard on the Knees)" – Aerosmith "Firestarter" – The Prodigy "Flagpole Sitta" – Harvey Danger "Foolish Games" – Jewel "Forty Six & 2" – Tool "For You I Will" – Monica "Gone Away" – The Offspring "Good Riddance (Time of Your Life)" – Green Day "Honey" – Mariah Carey "Hypnotize" – The Notorious B.I.G. "I Do" – Lisa Loeb "If I Could Teach The World" – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "I'll Be Missing You" – Puff Daddy and The Family "It's All About The Benjamins (Remix)" – Puff Daddy and The Family "The Impression That I Get" – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones "It's No Good" – Depeche Mode "Karma Police" – Radiohead "Lakini's Juice" – Live "Look Into My Eyes" – Bone Thugs-N-Harmony "Love Gets Me Every Time" – Shania Twain "MMMBop" – Hanson "Monkey Wrench" – Foo Fighters "My Heart Will Go On" – Celine Dion "Mo Money Mo Problems – The Notorious B.I.G "Nothing Lasts Forever" – Echo & the Bunnymen "On Your Own" – Blur "One Headlight" – The Wallflowers "Paranoid Android" – Radiohead "Pink" – Aerosmith "Push" – Matchbox Twenty "Put Your Hands Where My Eyes Could See" – Busta Rhymes "Quit Playing Games (With My Heart)" – Backstreet Boys "Say You'll Be There" – Spice Girls "Sell Out" – Reel Big Fish "Semi-Charmed Life" – Third Eye Blind "She's a Star" – James "Shipwrecked" – Genesis "Song 2" – Blur "Step by Step" – Whitney Houston "Sunny Came Home" – Shawn Colvin "Takes a Little Time" – Amy Grant "Truly Madly Deeply" – Savage Garden "6 Underground" – Sneaker Pimps "Smack My Bitch Up" – The Prodigy "3 A.M. " – Matchbox Twenty "Time to Say Goodbye" – Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman "Tubthumping" – Chumbawamba "Walkin' on the Sun" – Smash Mouth "Wannabe" – Spice Girls "You Were Meant for Me" – Jewel Acclaimed Music AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Albums From 1997 OK Computer — Radiohead Time Out of Mind — Bob Dylan Urban Hymns — The Verve Dig Your Own Hole — The Chemical Brothers Homework — Daft Punk Homogenic — Bjork Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space — Spiritualized Buena Vista Social Club — Buena Vista Social Club The Fat of the Land — The Prodigy Either/Or — Elliott Smith The Boatman's Call — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds Blur — Blur Supa Dupa Fly — Missy Elliott New Forms — Roni Size/Reprazent I Can Hear the Heart Beating as One — Yo La Tengo AcclaimedMusic.net's Top Songs From 1997 "Bitter Sweet Symphony" — The Verve "Song 2" — Blur "Paranoid Android" — Radiohead "Block Rockin' Beats" — The Chemical Brothers "Brimful of Asha" — Cornershop "Mmmbop" — Hanson "Karma Police" — Radiohead "Around the World" — Daft Punk "The Drugs Don't Work" — The Verve "Mo Money Mo Problems" — The Notorious B.I.G. "Hypnotize" — The Notorious B.I.G. "Into My Arms" — Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds "Everlong" — Foo Fighters "The Rain (Supa Dupa Fly)" — Missy Elliott "No Surprises" — Radiohead Classical music Leonardo Balada - Concierto Magico for guitar and orchestra Silvie Bodorova - Terezin Ghetto Requiem Peter Maxwell Davies - Concerto for Piano and Orchestra Lorenzo Ferrero Storie di neve Championship Suite Five Easy Pieces Three Baroque Buildings Andrew Glover- The Fickle Virgin of Seventeen Summers: A Quartet for Strings Jaakko Mäntyjärvi - Canticum Calamitatis Maritiamae Opera Robert Ashley - Balseros Marc Blitzstein - Regina Antonio Braga - San Domenico di Guzman Michael Daugherty - Jackie O Daron Hagen - Vera of Las Vegas Peter Lieberson - Ashoka's Dream Einojuhani Rautavaara - Aleksis Kivi Musical theater 1776 – Broadway revival Annie – Broadway revival Candide (Leonard Bernstein) – Broadway revival Dream – Broadway production Forever Tango – Broadway production Jekyll & Hyde – Broadway production The Life – Broadway production The Lion King – Broadway production Scarlet Pimpernel – Broadway production Side Show – Broadway production Steel Pier – Broadway production Street Corner Symphony – Broadway production Titanic – Broadway production Triumph of Love – Broadway production Musical films Anastasia (animated feature) Cats Don't Dance (animated feature) Hercules (animated feature) Deaths January 5 - Burton Lane, composer and lyricist, 84 January 10 - Kenny Pickett (The Creation), 54 January 21 - Colonel Tom Parker, Elvis Presley's manager, 87 January 22 - Richard Berry, songwriter (notably wrote "Louie Louie"), 61 February 10 - Brian Connolly, vocalist (Sweet) (liver failure), 51 March 9 - The Notorious B.I.G., rapper, 24 (shot) March 17 - Jermaine Stewart, vocalist, 39 (AIDS) March 24 - Harold Melvin, soul musician, 57 April 4 - Gene Ames, Ames Brothers April 8 - Laura Nyro, singer-songwriter, 49 (ovarian cancer) May 29 - Jeff Buckley, American singer-songwriter and guitarist, 30 (drowned) June 2 - Doc Cheatham, jazz trumpeter, 91 June 4 - Ronnie Lane, member of The Small Faces, 51 (multiple sclerosis, pneumonia) June 16 - John Wolters (Dr Hook), 52 (liver cancer) June 20 - Lawrence Payton, The Four Tops, 59 June 24 - Prince Nico Mbarga, Nigerian highlife musician, 47 August 1 - Sviatoslav Richter, pianist, 82 August 2 - Fela Kuti, Nigerian musician and composer, 58 (Kaposi's sarcoma) August 10 - Conlon Nancarrow, composer, 84 August 16 - Ustad Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, qawwali singer and world music ambassador, 48 September 5 - Sir Georg Solti, conductor, 84 September 8 - Derek Taylor, press agent for The Beatles, 65 September 18 - Jimmy Witherspoon, blues singer, 77 September 19 - Rich Mullins, singer, 41 October 12 - John Denver, American folk singer-songwriter and folk rock musician, 53 (air crash) October 19 - Glen Buxton, guitarist for the original Alice Cooper Band, 49 (pneumonia) November 5 - Epic Soundtracks, English singer-songwriter, drummer of Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution and These Immortal Souls, 38 November 22 - Michael Hutchence, singer of INXS, 37 (hanging) December 1 - Stephane Grappelli, French violinist December 28 - Henry Barraud, French composer, 97 December 31 - Floyd Cramer, pianist, 64 Awards Eurovision Song Contest: Won by Katrina and the Waves (UK) with the song "Love Shine a Light". Main article: Eurovision Song Contest 1997 Gospel Music Hall of Fame: Inductees include Gloria Gaither, and Billy Ray Hearn (founder of Myrrh Records). Grammy Awards Main article: Grammy Awards of 1997 Mercury Music Prize: Awarded to Roni Size/Reprazent for the album New Forms. MTV Video Music Awards Main article: 1997 MTV Video Music Awards Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: The following artists are inducted: The (Young) Rascals; The Bee Gees; Buffalo Springfield; Crosby, Stills and Nash; The Jackson 5; Joni Mitchell; and Parliament-Funkadelic. Charts Triple J Hottest 100: Main article: Triple J Hottest 100, 1997 References ^ Pareles, John (11 January 1997). "Once More the Outsider, David Bowie Turns 50". The New York Times. http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D02E3D81738F932A25752C0A961958260. Retrieved 2008-04-18. ^ unattributed (30 December 2006). "The James Brown Review". The Augusta Chronicle. Archived from the original on 2009-05-11. http://www.webcitation.org/5ghhulrvb. 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