Editing 1997 in music (section)

===May===
*[[May 3]] 
**[[Five (group)|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 ''[[Spice World (film)|Spiceworld: The Movie]]''. A photo call on top of the Hotel Martinez entrance brings the area to a standstill.
**At the 42nd [[Eurovision Song Contest 1997|Eurovision Song Contest]], held in [[Dublin]]'s [[Point Theatre]], the [[United Kingdom in the Eurovision Song Contest|UK]] win with "[[Love Shine a Light]]", sung by [[Katrina and the Waves]].
**[[The Notorious B.I.G.]]'s single "[[Hypnotize (The Notorious B.I.G. song)|Hypnotize]]" is #1 for three weeks.
*[[May 6]] – The [[Rock and Roll Hall of Fame]] induction ceremony is held in Cleveland at the site of the hall itself for the first time. Prior to this year, the ceremony had only been held in New York City.
*[[May 11]] – The [[Spice Girls]] perform their first British live gig for the [[King's Trust|Prince's Trust]] 21st anniversary concert at the [[Manchester Opera House]]. They break royal protocol by kissing the Prince of Wales (now [[Charles III]]) on the cheeks and even pinching his bottom.
*[[May 15]] – The [[Spice Girls]]' album [[Spice (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 second studio album [[The Colour and the Shape]].
*[[May 21]] – [[Radiohead]] releases ''[[OK Computer]]''.
*[[May 23]] – [[Brainiac (band)|Brainiac]] frontman Tim Taylor is killed in a car crash at age 29 driving to his Dayton, Ohio home. The band announces they will not continue.
*[[May 24]] – The first [[Ozzfest]] tour kicks off at the [[Nissan Pavilion]] in Washington, D.C., featuring [[Pantera]] and a reconstituted [[Black Sabbath]] with three of the four original members.
*[[May 26]] – [[NSYNC]] releases their debut album ''[[NSYNC (album)|NSYNC]]''.
*[[May 27]] - [[Kirk Franklin]] releases his fourth album (first collaboration album with God’s Property) God’s Property from Kirk Franklin’s Nu Nation which spawned the crossover hit single “Stomp”
*[[May 28]] – Japanese pop singer and songwriter [[Miho Komatsu]] releases her first and debut song entitled ''[[Nazo (song)|Nazo]]''. It is used as an opening soundtrack in popular hit anime ''[[Detective Conan]]''.