page_title: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1997
section_title: Chart history
hierarchical_section_title: List of Top Country Albums number ones of 1997 / Chart history
caption_attribution_description: English: LeAnn Rimes performs for military members while visiting here Sept. 23., 2004. The concert was part of a promotion by the wing's 435th Services Squadron.
context_page_description: Top Country Albums is a chart that ranks the top-performing country music albums in the United States, published by Billboard. In 1997, eight different albums topped the chart, based on electronic point of sale data provided by SoundScan Inc.
  The number-one position was occupied for more than half of the year by LeAnn Rimes, who had first topped the chart the previous year when she was 13 years old. In the issue of Billboard dated January 4, Rimes held the top spot with her album Blue, the record's 20th week in the top spot. Blue occupied the peak position for the first eight weeks of 1997, after which it was displaced by Unchained Melody: The Early Years, also by Rimes. This was a compilation of tracks released to capitalize on the success of her first major-label album, and consisted mostly of tracks from the independent album All That, originally released when she was aged 11. It spent 10 consecutive weeks at number one, meaning that Rimes occupied the top spot from the start of the year until early May.
caption: LeAnn Rimes had three number ones in 1997, which between them spent more than half of the year in the top spot.
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