| 1 | It Was Written | NAS | |
| 2 | Jagged Little Pill | Alanis Morissette | |
| 3 | Load | Metallica | |
| 4 | Blue | LeAnn Rimes | |
| 5 | The Score | Fugees | |
| 6 | Secrets | Toni Braxton | |
| 7 | E.1999 Eternal | Bone Thugs-N-Harmony | |
| 8 | Falling Into You | Celine Dion | |
| 9 | New Beginning | Tracy Chapman | |
| 10 | Keith Sweat | Keith Sweat | |
| 11 | Tragic Kingdom | No Doubt | |
| 12 | The Nutty Professor | Soundtrack | |
| 13 | Phenomenon | Soundtrack | |
| 14 | (What's the Story) Morning Glory? | Oasis | |
| 15 | Crash | Dave Matthews Band | |
| 16 | The Woman In Me | Shania Twain | |
| 17 | The Final Tic | Crucial Conflict | |
| 18 | Down On The Upside | Soundgarden | |
| 19 | Fairweather Johnson | Hootie & The Blowfish | |
| 20 | Daydream | Mariah Carey | |
| 21 | Evil Empire | Rage Against The Machine | |
| 22 | Blue Clear Sky | George Strait | |
| 23 | Odelay | Beck | |
| 24 | The Hunchback Of Notre Dame | Soundtrack | |
| 25 | Garbage | Garbage | |
| 26 | Chaos And Disorder | The Artist | |
| 27 | Borderline | Brooks & Dunn | |
| 28 | Gettin' It (Album Number Ten) | Too Short | |
| 29 | Bad Hair Day | Weird Al Yankovic | |
| 30 | To The Faithful Departed | The Cranberries | |
| 31 | Pieces Of You | Jewel | |
| 32 | Mellon Collie And The Infinite Sadness | The Smashing Pumpkins | |
| 33 | Sixteen Stone | Bush | |
| 34 | Destiny | Gloria Estefan | |
| 35 | Stakes Is High | De La Soul | |
| 36 | MTV Party To Go Volume 9 | Various Artists | |
| 37 | All Eyez On Me | 2Pac | |
| 38 | Electriclarryland | Butthole Surfers | |
| 39 | Rocket | Primitive Radio Gods | |
| 40 | Banana Wind | Jimmy Buffett | |
| 41 | R. Kelly | R. Kelly | |
| 42 | Older | George Michael | |
| 43 | Star Turtle | Harry Connick, Jr. | |
| 44 | Gangsta's Paradise | Coolio | |
| 45 | 311 | 311 | |
| 46 | Reasonable Doubt | Jay-Z | |
| 47 | Legal Drug Money | Lost Boyz | |
| 48 | Tiny Music...Songs From The Vatican Gift Shop | Stone Temple Pilots | |
| 49 | Mission To Please | The Isley Brothers | |
| 50 | Greatest Hits | N.W.A. | |
