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The following is a list of music albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2016. These are notable albums, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.

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First quarter[]

January[]

List of albums released in January 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
January 1	Rachel Platten	Wildfire	Pop, power pop, soul	Columbia	[1]
January 6	Misia	Love Bebop	Pop, soul, dance-pop	Ariola	[2]
January 8	David Bowie	Blackstar	Art rock, experimental rock, jazz	Columbia, RCA, Sony Music	[3]
	Full of Hell	Amber Mote in the Black Vault	Grindcore	Bad Teeth Recordings
	Hinds	Leave Me Alone	Garage rock, lo-fi	Mom + Pop	[4]
	Ignite	A War Against You	Melodic hardcore	Century Media	[5]
	Marshmello	Joytime	Future bass, progressive house, trap	Joytime Collective	[6]
	Villagers	Where Have You Been All My Life?	Indie folk	Domino	[7]
January 15	Anderson .Paak	Malibu	Hip hop, R&B, soul	Steel Wool, OBE, EMPIRE	[8]
	Ben Monder, Pete Rende, Andrew Cyrille, Paul Motian	Amorphae	Jazz	ECM	[9]
	Blaze Ya Dead Homie	The Casket Factory	Gangsta rap, horrorcore	Majik Ninja Entertainment	[10]
	Brothers Osborne	Pawn Shop	Country	EMI Nashville	[11]
	Charles Lloyd & The Marvels	I Long to See You	Jazz	Blue Note	[12]
	Classified	Greatful	Hip hop	Halflife Records, Universal Music Canada	[13]
	Daughter	Not to Disappear	Alternative pop	4AD	[14]
	Daz and Snoop	Cuzznz	West Coast hip hop, G-funk	Felder Entertainment Inc.	[15]
	Hank Williams Jr.	It's About Time	Country, Southern rock	Nash Icon	[16]
	Lecrae	Church Clothes 3	Christian hip hop, conscious hip hop	Reach	[17]
	Panic! at the Disco	Death of a Bachelor	Pop rock, pop, rock	DCD2, Fueled by Ramen	[18]
	Randy Rogers Band	Nothing Shines Like Neon	Country	Tommy Jackson Records	[19]
	Show of Hands	The Long Way Home	Folk	Hands on Music	[20]
	Skunk Anansie	Anarchytecture	Alternative rock	earMUSIC, Carosello	[21]
January 21	Jesu and Sun Kil Moon	Jesu/Sun Kil Moon	Post-metal, indie folk, electronic music	Caldo Verde, Rough Trade	[22]
January 22	The Besnard Lakes	A Coliseum Complex Museum	Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, indie rock	Jagjaguwar	[23]
	Cait Brennan	Debutante	Indie rock	Alternative Distribution Alliance	[24]
	Chairlift	Moth	Synth-pop, indie pop, electropop	Columbia	[25]
	Conrad Keely	Original Machines	Rock	Superball	[26]
	Eleanor Friedberger	New View	Indie rock	Frenchkiss	[27]
	Half Japanese	Perfect	Art punk, indie rock	Joyful Noise	[28]
	John Cale	M:FANS	Experimental rock, industrial rock, electronic	Double Six	[29]
	Lionheart	Love Don't Live Here	Hardcore punk, metalcore	LHHC Records, Beatdown Hardwear Records	[30]
	Megadeth	Dystopia	Thrash metal	Tradecraft, Universal	[31]
	The Mute Gods	Do Nothing till You Hear from Me	Progressive rock, pop rock	Inside Out	[32]
	Mystery Jets	Curve of the Earth	Indie rock	Caroline	[33]
	Roam	Backbone	Pop punk	Hopeless	[34]
	Rüfüs	Bloom	Alternative dance	Sweat It Out	[35]
	Savages	Adore Life	Post-punk	Matador	[36]
	Shearwater	Jet Plane and Oxbow	Indie rock	Sub Pop	[37]
	Steve Angello	Wild Youth	Indie rock, electro house	Size Records	[38]
	Steven Wilson	4½	Progressive rock	Kscope	[39]
	Suede	Night Thoughts	Art rock	Warner Bros.	[40]
	Tank	Sex Love & Pain II	R&B	Atlantic	[41]
	Tindersticks	The Waiting Room	Indie rock	City Slang, Lucky Dog	[42]
	Tortoise	The Catastrophist	Post-rock	Thrill Jockey	[43]
	Tricky	Skilled Mechanics		False Idols	[44]
	Ty Segall	Emotional Mugger	Garage rock, hard rock, glam rock	Drag City	[45]
	Ulver	ATGCLVLSSCAP	Experimental, psychedelic rock	House of Mythology	[46]
January 27	Rihanna	Anti	Pop, R&B	Westbury Road, Roc Nation	[47]
January 28	Massive Attack	Ritual Spirit	Trip hop, electronica	Virgin	[48]
January 29	Aubrie Sellers	New City Blues	Country, country pop	Carnival	[49]
	Avantasia	Ghostlights	Symphonic metal, hard rock, power metal	Nuclear Blast	[50]
	Basement	Promise Everything	Alternative rock	Run for Cover	[51]
	Bill Frisell	When You Wish Upon a Star	Jazz	Okeh	[52]
	Bloc Party	Hymns	Indie rock, alternative dance	Infectious, BMG, Vagrant	[53]
	Bury Tomorrow	Earthbound	Metalcore	Nuclear Blast	[54]
	Charlie Puth	Nine Track Mind	Pop, R&B	Atlantic	[55]
	Dream Theater	The Astonishing	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Roadrunner	[56]
	Kevin Gates	Islah	Hip hop	Atlantic, Bread Winners' Association	[57]
	Money	Suicide Songs		Bella Union	[58]
	Sia	This Is Acting	Pop	Monkey Puzzle, RCA	[59]
	St. Lucia	Matter	Synth-pop	Columbia	[60]
	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let Me Get By	Blues, rock, R&B	Fantasy	[61]
	Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Jarle Vespestad	What Was Said	Jazz	ECM	[62]
	Wet	Don't You	Indie pop, indie electronic, dream pop	Columbia	[63]
	Yanni	Sensuous Chill	Easy listening, new-age	Portrait, Sony Masterworks	[64]
January 31	Diane Birch	Nous	Jazz, indie pop, soul	Hymnpatia Recordings	[65]

February[]

List of albums released in February 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
February 3	BIGBANG	Made Series	Dance-pop, PBR&B, hip hop	YG Entertainment, Avex Trax	[66]
	Magnum	Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies	Rock	SPV/Steamhammer	[67]
February 5	Anchor & Braille	Songs for the Late Night Drive Home	Alternative rock, electronic rock, shoegaze	Tooth & Nail	[68]
	Charles Kelley	The Driver	Country	Capitol Nashville	[69]
	The Cult	Hidden City	Hard rock	Cooking Vinyl	[70]
	DIIV	Is the Is Are	Indie rock, shoegaze, krautrock	Captured Tracks	[71]
	Dr. Dog	The Psychedelic Swamp	Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia	Anti-
	Elton John	Wonderful Crazy Night	Rock, soft rock, vocal jazz	Capitol, Mercury	[72]
	Eric Prydz	Opus	House, progressive house, electro house	Virgin	[73]
	Field Music	Commontime	Indie pop, funk	Memphis Industries	[74]
	Fleshgod Apocalypse	King	Symphonic metal	Nuclear Blast	[75]
	Foxes	All I Need	Synth-pop	Sign of the Times, Epic, RCA	[76]
	Junior Boys	Big Black Coat	Electronic, technopop, EDM	City Slang	[77]
	Lion Babe	Begin	R&B, neo soul, electronica	Interscope, Polydor	[78]
	Lucinda Williams	The Ghosts of Highway 20	Country	Highway 20 Records	[79]
	Majid Jordan	Majid Jordan	R&B, PBR&B, synth-pop	OVO Sound, Warner Bros.	[80]
	Obscura	Akrøasis	Progressive metal, technical death metal	Relapse	[81]
	Textures	Phenotype	Progressive metal, metalcore	Nuclear Blast	[82]
	Trixie Whitley	Porta Bohemica			[83]
	Wiz Khalifa	Khalifa	Hip hop	Taylor Gang, Rostrum, Atlantic	[84]
February 8	Haywyre	Two Fold Pt. 2	Future bass, house	Monstercat	[85]
February 12	Basia Bulat	Good Advice	Indie pop, folk	Secret City	[86]
	Daughtry	It's Not Over...The Hits So Far	Alternative rock, hard rock, pop rock	RCA, 19	[87]
	The Jezabels	Synthia	Indie rock, alternative rock	Dine Alone	[88]
	Kula Shaker	K2.0	Rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock	StrangeF.O.L.K.	[89]
	Lacey Sturm	Life Screams	Hard rock, Christian rock	Followspot Records	[90]
	Lissie	My Wild West	Folk, rock	Lionboy, Thirty Tigers	[91]
	Pinegrove	Cardinal	Americana	Run for Cover	[92]
	Radiation City	Synesthetica	Alternative rock, dream pop	Polyvinyl	[93]
	Ronan Keating	Time of My Life	Pop	Decca	[94]
	Rotting Christ	Rituals	Black metal, dark metal	Season of Mist	[95]
	The Suffers	The Suffers	Soul	Rhyme & Reason Records	[96]
	Wynonna & the Big Noise	Wynonna & the Big Noise	Country	Curb	[97]
February 14	Kanye West	The Life of Pablo	Hip hop	GOOD Music, Def Jam	[98]
	Mýa	Smoove Jones	R&B, soul, hip hop	Planet 9	[99]
February 15	Illenium	Ashes	Electronic, progressive house, dubstep	Kasaya, Seeking Blue	[100]
February 19	After the Burial	Dig Deep	Progressive metal, djent	Sumerian	[101]
	Animal Collective	Painting With	Psychedelic pop	Domino	[102]
	BJ the Chicago Kid	In My Mind	R&B	Motown	[103]
	Creeper	The Stranger	Horror punk, punk rock	Roadrunner
	Jack Garratt	Phase	Indie pop, PBR&B	Island	[104]
	Lake Street Dive	Side Pony	Pop, indie pop	Nonesuch	[105]
	Mavis Staples	Livin' on a High Note	R&B, soul, roots rock	Anti-, Epitaph	[106]
	Myrath	Legacy	Progressive metal, Oriental metal, Arabic music	Groove Master Records, King	[107]
	Ra Ra Riot	Need Your Light	Indie rock	Barsuk	[108]
	Ralph Alessi, Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits	Quiver	Jazz		[109]
	Simple Plan	Taking One for the Team	Pop punk, punk rock, power pop	Atlantic	[110]
	Wolfmother	Victorious	Hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock	Universal	[111]
	Yo Gotti	The Art of Hustle	Hip hop	Epic, CMG	[112]
	Yoko Ono	Yes, I'm a Witch Too		Manimal	[113]
February 26	The 1975	I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It	Indie rock, new wave, synth-pop	Interscope, Dirty Hit, Polydor	[114]
	Anthrax	For All Kings	Thrash metal	Megaforce, Nuclear Blast	[115]
	Anvil	Anvil Is Anvil	Heavy metal, speed metal	SPV/Steamhammer	[116]
	Bonnie Raitt	Dig in Deep	Rock, blues, Americana	Redwing Records	[117]
	Charli XCX	Vroom Vroom	Experimental pop, wonky pop, electronic	Vroom Vroom Recordings	[118]
	The Gloaming	2	Folk	Brassland	[119]
	Hands Like Houses	Dissonants	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Rise	[120]
	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	This Unruly Mess I've Made	Hip hop	Macklemore LLC	[121]
	Santigold	99¢	Art pop, alternative dance, new wave	Atlantic	[122]
	School of Seven Bells	SVIIB	Dream pop	Vagrant	[123]
	Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Kim Myhr and Jenny Hval	In the End His Voice Will Be the Sound of Paper	Jazz	Hubro Music	[124]
	Tweet	Charlene	R&B, soul, neo soul	eOne	[125]
	Voivod	Post Society	Progressive metal	Century Media	[126]
	Willie Nelson	Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin	Country	Legacy	[127]
	Yuck	Stranger Things	Indie rock, alternative rock	Mamé Records	[128]
February 29	Lemon Demon	Spirit Phone	Pop	Needlejuice Records

March[]

List of albums released in March 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
March 4	2 Chainz	ColleGrove	Hip hop, trap	Def Jam	[129]
	Esperanza Spalding	Emily's D+Evolution	Jazz, jazz fusion, funk	Concord	[130]
	Face to Face	Protection	Punk	Fat Wreck Chords	[131]
	Kendrick Lamar	Untitled Unmastered	Hip hop, jazz rap	Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope	[132]
	The Knocks	55	EDM	Big Beat, Neon Gold	[133]
	Låpsley	Long Way Home	Electronic, ambient, alternative R&B	XL	[134]
	Miike Snow	iii	Indie rock, electropop	Downtown	[135]
	Ninja Sex Party	Under the Covers	Rock, synth-pop, pop rock		[136]
	Poliça	United Crushers	Synth-pop, indie electronic	Mom + Pop	[137]
	The Qemists	Warrior Sound	Drum and bass	Amazing Record	[138]
	Ray LaMontagne	Ouroboros	Psychedelic rock	RCA	[139]
	Reckless Love	InVader	Glam metal, hard rock	Spinefarm	[140]
	RuPaul	Butch Queen	Dance	RuCo Inc.	[141]
	La Sera	Music for Listening to Music To	Indie pop	Polyvinyl	[142]
	Sister Sparrow & the Dirty Birds	Fowl Play	Rock, alternative	Party Fowl Records, Thirty Tigers	[143]
	Thao & the Get Down Stay Down	A Man Alive	Alternative folk	Ribbon Music	[144]
	Tonight Alive	Limitless	Pop rock	Sony Music Australia, Fearless	[145]
	Urthboy	The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat	Australian hip hop	Elefant Traks	[146]
	Violent Femmes	We Can Do Anything	Rock	PIAS	[147]
March 9	Alexandra Stan	Alesta	Dance	Victor, Roton, Global, Warner Bros., Vae Victis, Ego	[148]
March 11	3 Doors Down	Us and the Night	Post-grunge, pop rock, alternative rock	Republic	[149]
	Adore Delano	After Party	Dance, electronic, pop	Producer Entertainment Group	[150]
	Aurora	All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend	Art pop, electropop	Decca, Glassnote	[151]
	Bethel Music	Have It All	Contemporary Christian music, worship	Bethel Music	[152]
	Brian Fallon	Painkillers	Rock, alternative rock, heartland rock	Island	[153]
	Citizen Way	2.0	Christian music, Christian rock, Christian EDM	Fair Trade	[154]
	Emmy the Great	Second Love		Bella Union	[155]
	Julian Lage	Arclight	Jazz, jazz blues	Mack Avenue	[156]
	Killswitch Engage	Incarnate	Metalcore	Roadrunner	[157]
	Matt Corby	Telluric	Alternative, pop	Mercury, Universal Music Australia	[158]
	Nine Lashes	Ascend	Christian pop, Christian EDM, Christian rock	BEC	[159]
March 18	Dustin Kensrue	Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood	Contemporary folk music, alternative rock, indie rock	Vagrant	[160]
	The Falcon	Gather Up the Chaps	Punk rock	Red Scare Industries	[161]
	Gwen Stefani	This Is What the Truth Feels Like	Pop	Interscope	[162]
	Iggy Pop	Post Pop Depression	Art rock, garage rock, hard rock	Loma Vista	[163]
	James	Girl at the End of the World	Alternative rock	BMG	[164]
	Primal Scream	Chaosmosis		First International, Ignition	[165]
	Redfoo	Party Rock Mansion	Pop	Rykodisc, Party Rock	[166]
	Soul Asylum	Change of Fortune	Alternative rock	Entertainment One	[167]
	Underworld	Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future	Electronic	Universal	[168]
	Violent Soho	Waco	Grunge, alternative	SideOneDummy	[169]
March 25	Amon Amarth	Jomsviking	Melodic death metal	Metal Blade	[170]
	Anthony Hamilton	What I'm Feelin'	R&B	RCA	[171]
	Asking Alexandria	The Black	Metalcore, electronicore	Sumerian	[172]
	Birdy	Beautiful Lies	Indie folk, indie pop	Atlantic	[173]
	Bob Mould	Patch the Sky	Alternative rock	Merge	[174]
	The Body and Full of Hell	One Day You Will Ache Like I Ache	Sludge metal, grindcore, noise	Neurot
	Elisa	On	Pop, dance, pop rock	Sugar Music	[175]
	Hana Pestle	Hana	Synth-pop		[176]
	The Joy Formidable	Hitch	Alternative rock	C'mon Let's Drift, Caroline	[177]
	K. Michelle	More Issues Than Vogue	R&B, soul, pop	Atlantic	[178]
	Lincoln Durham	Revelations of a Mind Unraveling	Rock, alternative folk, Southern gothic	Droog Records	[179]
	Metal Church	XI	Heavy metal	Rat Pak	[180]
	White Denim	Stiff	Indie rock, garage rock, progressive rock	Downtown	[181]
	Zayn	Mind of Mine	Alternative R&B, R&B	RCA	[182]
March 27	dvsn	Sept. 5th	R&B	OVO Sound, Warner Bros.	[183]
March 28	Oh My Girl	Pink Ocean	K-pop	WM
March 29	Babymetal	Metal Resistance	J-pop, heavy metal	BMD Fox, Toy's Factory	[184]

Second quarter[]

April[]

List of albums released in April 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
April 1	Andrew Bird	Are You Serious	Indie folk	Loma Vista	[185]
	Autolux	Pussy's Dead	Experimental rock, electronic	30th Century Records, Columbia	[186]
	Black Stone Cherry	Kentucky	Hard rock, Southern rock, alternative metal	Mascot	[187]
	Bombino	Azel	Blues, folk	Partisan	[188]
	Cheap Trick	Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello	Rock	Big Machine	[189]
	Explosions in the Sky	The Wilderness	Post-rock	Temporary Residence Limited	[190]
	The Field	The Follower	Ambient techno, techno	Kompakt	[191]
	Gareth Emery	100 Reasons to Live	EDM	Garuda, Armada	[192]
	Hammock	Everything and Nothing	Ambient	Hammock Music	[193]
	The Heavy	Hurt & the Merciless	Indie rock, funk rock, blues rock	Counter Records, Bad Son Recording Company	[194]
	Kaada/Patton	Bacteria Cult	Experimental	Ipecac	[195]
	The Last Shadow Puppets	Everything You've Come to Expect	Indie rock	Domino	[196]
	Laura Gibson	Empire Builder	Rock	City Slang	[197]
	Moderat	III	Electronic	Monkeytown, Mute	[198]
	Mogwai	Atomic	Post-rock	Rock Action	[199]
	Pet Shop Boys	Super	Synth-pop	x2	[200]
	Terrace Martin	Velvet Portraits	R&B, jazz fusion, G-funk	Sounds of Crenshaw, Ropeadope	[201]
	Weezer	Weezer (White Album)	Alternative rock, power pop, pop punk	Atlantic, Crush	[202]
	Yeasayer	Amen & Goodbye	Experimental rock	Mute	[203]
April 6	Gallant	Ology	Alternative R&B	Mind of a Genius	[204]
April 8	Álex Anwandter	Amiga	Latin alternative, pop rock	Nacional	[205]
	All Saints	Red Flag	Pop, R&B	London	[206]
	Art Bergmann	The Apostate	Alternative rock	weewerk	[207]
	Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals	Call It What It Is	Rock, blues rock, pop rock	Stax	[208]
	Black Peaks	Statues		Easy Life, RED Music	[209]
	Deftones	Gore	Alternative metal, post-metal, experimental rock	Reprise	[210]
	Frightened Rabbit	Painting of a Panic Attack	Indie rock	Atlantic	[211]
	Future of the Left	The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left	Noise rock	Prescriptions	[212]
	Ihsahn	Arktis	Progressive metal, black metal, experimental metal	Candlelight	[213]
	JJ Weeks Band	As Long as We Can Breathe	Worship, Christian pop, Christian rock	Centricity	[214]
	The Lumineers	Cleopatra	Americana, folk rock, indie folk	Dualtone	[215]
	M83	Junk	Electronic, dream pop, synth-pop	Naïve, Mute	[216]
	Mayer Hawthorne	Man About Town	R&B, soul	Vagrant	[217]
	Niki and the Dove	Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now	Pop	TEN Music Group	[218]
	Parquet Courts	Human Performance	Indie rock, art punk, experimental rock	Rough Trade	[219]
	Teleman	Brilliant Sanity	Indie pop	Moshi Moshi	[220]
	Tim Hecker	Love Streams	Electronic	4AD, Paper Bag	[221]
April 13	Ace Frehley	Origins, Vol. 1	Hard rock, heavy metal	Entertainment One	[222]
April 15	Bear Hands	You'll Pay for This	Experimental rock, indie rock, post-punk	Spensive Records	[223]
	Blaqk Audio	Material	Electronic, new wave	Blaqknoise, Kobalt	[224]
	Cate Le Bon	Crab Day	Neo-psychedelia, indie pop, art pop	Drag City, Turnstile, Caroline International	[225]
	Fanfare Ciocărlia	Onwards to Mars!	Balkan brass		[226]
	J Dilla	The Diary	Hip hop	Pay Jay Productions, Mass Appeal	[227]
	Keb' Mo'	Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Pink Blues Album		Kind of Blue Music, RED Distribution	[228]
	Lush	Blind Spot	Indie pop, dream pop, shoegaze	Edamame	[229]
	Otep	Generation Doom	Nu metal	Napalm	[230]
	PJ Harvey	The Hope Six Demolition Project	Rock	Island	[231]
	Santana	Santana IV	Latin rock	RCA	[232]
	Sturgill Simpson	A Sailor's Guide to Earth	Country, psychedelic rock	Atlantic	[233]
	Suuns	Hold/Still	Rock	Secretly Canadian	[234]
	Wild Belle	Dreamland	Psychedelic pop, alternative rock, indie pop	Columbia	[235]
April 16	Xiu Xiu	Plays the Music of Twin Peaks	Experimental rock, dark ambient	Polyvinyl	[236]
April 18	Up10tion	Spotlight	K-pop	TOP Media	[237]
April 20	The Fall of Troy	OK	Mathcore, post-hardcore, progressive rock	The Fall of Troy	[238]
April 22	The 69 Eyes	Universal Monsters	Gothic rock	Nuclear Blast	[239]
	ASAP Ferg	Always Strive and Prosper	Hip hop	ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music, RCA	[240]
	Bankroll Mafia	Bankroll Mafia	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, EMPIRE	[241]
	Blue October	Home	Alternative rock	Up/Down Records	[242]
	Dälek	Asphalt for Eden	Experimental hip hop, industrial hip hop, shoegaze	Profound Lore	[243]
	Katy B	Honey	EDM, dubstep, electronica	Rinse, Virgin EMI	[244]
	NF	Therapy Session	Hip hop, Christian hip hop	Capitol CMG	[245]
April 23	Beyoncé	Lemonade	R&B	Parkwood, Columbia	[246]
April 25	Twice	Page Two	K-pop, dance	JYP
April 29	Brian Eno	The Ship	Ambient	Warp	[247]
	The Boxer Rebellion	Ocean by Ocean	Indie rock	Amplify Music	[248]
	Discharge	End of Days	Hardcore punk	Nuclear Blast	[249]
	Drake	Views	Hip hop, dancehall, R&B	OVO Sound, Cash Money, Young Money	[250]
	Fallujah	Dreamless	Technical death metal, progressive metal	Nuclear Blast	[251]
	King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard	Nonagon Infinity	Psychedelic rock, garage rock, heavy metal	ATO, Flightless	[252]
	Martina Stoessel	Tini	Pop	Hollywood	[253]
	Rob Zombie	The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser	Industrial metal	Zodiac Swan Records, T-Boy Records, Universal	[254]
	Sixx:A.M.	Prayers for the Damned: Vol. 1	Hard rock	Eleven Seven	[255]
	Travis	Everything at Once	Post-Britpop, alternative rock, indie rock	Red Telephone Box	[256]
	Zucchero	Black Cat	Blues rock	Universal	[257]

May[]

List of albums released in May 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
May 2	BTS	The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever	Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B	Big Hit Entertainment	[258]
May 6	Anohni	Hopelessness	Electronic, experimental, synth-pop	Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade	[259]
	Beverly	The Blue Swell		Kanine Records	[260]
	Carla Bley, Andy Sheppard, and Steve Swallow	Andando el Tiempo	Jazz	ECM	[261]
	Cuong Vu Trio meets Pat Metheny	Cuong Vu Trio Meets Pat Metheny	Jazz	Nonesuch	[262]
	Cyndi Lauper	Detour	Country, country rock, country blues	Sire	[263]
	Death Grips	Bottomless Pit	Experimental hip hop, digital hardcore	Third Worlds	[264]
	Jack DeJohnette, Ravi Coltrane and Matthew Garrison	In Movement	Jazz	ECM	[265]
	James Blake	The Colour in Anything	Electronic pop, R&B, soul	Polydor, 1–800 Dinosaur	[266]
	Jean-Michel Jarre	Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise	Electronic music	Sony Music	[267]
	Julianna Barwick	Will	Ambient, experimental	Dead Oceans	[268]
	Kate Ceberano	Anthology	Pop, soul, jazz	ABC Music	[269]
	Kaytranada	99.9%	Electronic	XL, HW&W	[270]
	Keith Urban	Ripcord	Pop, country pop	Hit Red, Capitol Nashville	[271]
	Meghan Trainor	Thank You	Dance-pop, R&B	Epic, Sony Music	[272]
	Mike Posner	At Night, Alone.	Pop	Island	[273]
	Pat Metheny	The Unity Sessions	Jazz	Nonesuch	[274]
	Rittz	Top of the Line	Hip hop	Strange Music	[275]
	Tim Garland	One	Jazz	Edition	[276]
	Vektor	Terminal Redux	Thrash metal	Earache	[277]
	White Lung	Paradise	Punk rock	Domino	[278]
May 8	Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool	Art rock, electronic	XL	[279]
May 13	3OH!3	Night Sports	Pop, trap, hip hop	Fueled by Ramen, Atlantic, Photo Finish	[280]
	Chance the Rapper	Coloring Book	Hip hop, gospel rap		[281]
	Corinne Bailey Rae	The Heart Speaks in Whispers	R&B	Virgin	[282]
	DevilDriver	Trust No One	Groove metal	Napalm	[283]
	Digitalism	Mirage	Electro house	Magnetism Recording Co, PIAS	[284]
	Hatebreed	The Concrete Confessional	Metalcore	Nuclear Blast	[285]
	Jessy Lanza	Oh No	Electronic, R&B, pop	Hyperdub	[286]
	Kvelertak	Nattesferd	Heavy metal	Roadrunner	[287]
	Kygo	Cloud Nine	Tropical house	Sony Music, Ultra Music, B1	[288]
	Modern Baseball	Holy Ghost	Indie rock, pop punk	Run for Cover	[289]
	Pierce the Veil	Misadventures	Post-hardcore	Fearless	[290]
May 20	Ana Popović	Trilogy	Blues rock, soul, jazz	ArtisteXclusive records	[291]
	Ariana Grande	Dangerous Woman	Pop, R&B	Republic	[292]
	Bob Dylan	Fallen Angels	Traditional pop	Columbia	[293]
	Boys Noize	Mayday	Electronic	Boysnoize Records	[294]
	Car Seat Headrest	Teens of Denial	Indie rock	Matador	[295]
	Eric Clapton	I Still Do	Blues, blues rock, folk	Bushbranch/Surfdog	[296]
	Highasakite	Camp Echo	Indie rock	Propeller	[297]
	Katatonia	The Fall of Hearts	Progressive rock	Peaceville	[298]
	Kent	Då som nu för alltid	Alternative rock, pop rock	RCA, Sony Music	[299]
	Lali	Soy	Pop, R&B	Sony Music Argentina	[300]
	Marissa Nadler	Strangers		Sacred Bones	[301]
	Mudcrutch	2	Southern rock, country rock	Reprise	[302]
	Pantha du Prince	The Triad	Electronic		[303]
	Richard Ashcroft	These People	Alternative rock	Cooking Vinyl	[304]
	Saosin	Along the Shadow	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Epitaph	[305]
	Yuna	Chapters	Pop, R&B	Verve	[306]
May 27	ABC	The Lexicon of Love II		Virgin EMI	[307]
	Architects	All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us	Metalcore	Epitaph, UNFD, New Damage	[308]
	Band of Skulls	By Default	Blues rock, dance-rock	BMG	[309]
	Beth Orton	Kidsticks			[310]
	Catfish and the Bottlemen	The Ride	Alternative rock, indie rock	Capitol	[311]
	Clare Maguire	Stranger Things Have Happened	Indie pop, jazz, blues	Virgin	[312]
	Fifth Harmony	7/27	Pop, R&B, tropical house	Epic, Syco	[313]
	Flume	Skin	Electronic	Future Classic	[314]
	Gold Panda	Good Luck and Do Your Best	Electronic	City Slang	[315]
	Lacuna Coil	Delirium	Gothic metal, alternative metal	Century Media	[316]
	The Monkees	Good Times!	Rock, power pop	Rhino	[317]
	PUP	The Dream Is Over	Punk rock	SideOneDummy, Royal Mountain	[318]
	Real Friends	The Home Inside My Head	Pop punk	Fearless	[319]
	Robert Glasper & Miles Davis	Everything's Beautiful	Jazz	Blue Note, Columbia, Legacy	[320]
	Thrice	To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	Post-hardcore	Vagrant	[321]

June[]

List of albums released in June 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
June 3	Beartooth	Aggressive	Metalcore, hardcore punk	Red Bull, UNFD	[322]
	Cat's Eyes	Treasure House	Alternative rock	Kobalt Label Services	[323]
	Classixx	Faraway Reach	Electronic	Innovative Leisure	[324]
	The Claypool Lennon Delirium	Monolith of Phobos	Psychedelic rock, art rock, experimental rock	ATO	[325]
	Dan + Shay	Obsessed	Country	Warner Bros. Nashville
	Hellyeah	Unden!able	Heavy metal, groove metal	Eleven Seven	[326]
	Jimmy Barnes	Soul Searchin'	Rock, soul	Liberation Music	[327]
	The Kills	Ash & Ice	Indie rock	Domino	[328]
	Ladyhawke	Wild Things	Indie electronic, alternative dance, synth-pop	Polyvinyl	[329]
	The Lonely Island	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Comedy hip hop	Republic	[330]
	Maren Morris	Hero	Country, pop	Columbia Nashville	[331]
	Netsky	3	Drum & bass, dance-pop, electropop	Sony Music, Hospital, Epic	[332]
	Paul Simon	Stranger to Stranger	Folk rock, worldbeat	Concord	[333]
	Roxette	Good Karma	Pop	Parlophone	[334]
	Tegan and Sara	Love You to Death	Synth-pop	Vapor, Warner Bros.	[335]
	Volbeat	Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie		Republic, Universal	[336]
	Yanni	The Dream Concert: Live from the Great Pyramids of Egypt	Contemporary instrumental	Portrait, Sony Masterworks	[337]
June 10	Band of Horses	Why Are You OK	Indie rock, Southern rock	Interscope	[338]
	Brandy Clark	Big Day in a Small Town	Country	Warner Bros.	[339]
	Fitz and the Tantrums	Fitz and the Tantrums	Indie pop, neo soul	Elektra	[340]
	Garbage	Strange Little Birds	Alternative rock, electronic rock, industrial rock	Stunvolume	[341]
	Jon Bellion	The Human Condition	Hip hop, PBR&B, pop rock	Visionary, Capitol	[342]
	Kaleo	A/B	Indie folk, garage rock, Americana	Elektra	[343]
	letlive.	If I'm the Devil...	Post-hardcore, progressive rock, jazz fusion	Epitaph	[344]
	Nick Jonas	Last Year Was Complicated	Pop, R&B	Island, Safehouse	[345]
	Peter Bjorn and John	Breakin' Point	Indie pop, indie rock	Ingrid	[346]
	Rick Astley	50	Pop	BMG	[347]
	Rival Sons	Hollow Bones	Blues rock, hard rock	Earache	[348]
	The Temper Trap	Thick as Thieves	Indie rock	Liberation, Glassnote, Infectious	[349]
	Tom Odell	Wrong Crowd	Indie pop, indie electronic	RCA	[350]
June 13	G.L.O.S.S.	Trans Day of Revenge	D-beat, hardcore punk	Total Negativity, Nervous Nelly, Sabotage	[351]
June 15	Disclosure	Moog for Love	Electronic	Island, PMR	[352]
June 17	The Game	Streets of Compton	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap	eOne	[353]
	Gojira	Magma	Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal	Roadrunner	[354]
	Jake Bugg	On My One	Indie rock	Virgin EMI, Island	[355]
	Laura Mvula	The Dreaming Room	Soul, R&B	RCA, Columbia	[356]
	Let's Eat Grandma	I, Gemini	Pop	Transgressive
	Mitski	Puberty 2	Indie rock	Dead Oceans	[357]
	Neil Young & Promise of the Real	Earth	Rock	Reprise	[358]
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	The Getaway	Funk rock, alternative rock, pop rock	Warner Bros.	[359]
	Reik	Des/Amor	Latin pop	Sony Music Latin	[360]
	Swans	The Glowing Man	Experimental music	Young God, Mute	[361]
	Thousand Foot Krutch	Exhale	Christian rock, hard rock	TFK Music, The Fuel Music	[362]
	The Tragically Hip	Man Machine Poem	Rock	Universal Music Canada	[363]
	Will Butler	Friday Night	Indie rock	Merge	[364]
June 22	Corey Feldman	Angelic 2 the Core	Dance-pop, funk rock		[365]
	Delorean	Muzik		PHLEX	[366]
June 24	Alice Bag	Alice Bag	Punk rock, rock	Don Giovanni	[367]
	Broods	Conscious	Electropop, synth-pop, dance	Island, Capitol, Universal Music Australia	[368]
	Cash Cash	Blood, Sweat & 3 Years	Electro house, progressive house	Big Beat, Atlantic	[369]
	DJ Shadow	The Mountain Will Fall	Hip hop, instrumental hip hop, electronic	Mass Appeal	[370]
	Drowners	On Desire	Indie rock	Frenchkiss	[371]
	Jay Chou	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Mandopop	Sony Music Taiwan	[372]
	Nice As Fuck	Nice As Fuck	Punk, funk, pop	Love's Way Records	[373]
	Steve Vai	Modern Primitive		Epic	[374]
	Whitechapel	Mark of the Blade	Deathcore, groove metal	Metal Blade	[375]
June 27	Marsheaux	Ath.Lon	Synth-pop, electronica	Undo	[376]
June 28	Blood Orange	Freetown Sound	R&B, funk, jazz	Domino	[377]

Third quarter[]

July[]

List of albums released in July 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
July 1	American Authors	What We Live For	Indie rock, alternative rock	Island	[378]
	Area 11	Modern Synthesis	Alternative rock	Cooking Vinyl	[379]
	The Avalanches	Wildflower	Plunderphonics, electronic, neo-psychedelia	Astralwerks, Modular, EMI	[380]
	Bat for Lashes	The Bride	Baroque pop, rock	Parlophone	[381]
	Blink-182	California	Pop punk, alternative rock	BMG	[382]
	Delta Goodrem	Wings of the Wild	Pop	Sony Music Australia	[383]
	Diesel	Americana	Rock	Liberation	[384]
	Fates Warning	Theories of Flight	Progressive metal	Inside Out	[385]
	Grace	FMA	Hip hop soul	RCA	[386]
	Magic!	Primary Colours	Pop, reggae fusion, reggae	Latium, RCA, Sony Music	[387]
	Maxwell	blackSUMMERS'night	Soul, neo soul	Columbia	[388]
	Metronomy	Summer 08	Indie electronic	Because Music	[389]
	Sara Watkins	Young in All the Wrong Ways	Americana, country	New West	[390]
	Silent Planet	Everything Was Sound	Metalcore, post-hardcore, post-metal	Solid State	[391]
	Snoop Dogg	Coolaid	West Coast hip hop	Doggystyle, eOne Music	[392]
July 5	Lindsey Abudei	...and the Bass Is Queen	Neo soul, blues, jazz	Stealth	[393]
July 8	Biffy Clyro	Ellipsis	Alternative rock, electronic rock	14th Floor	[394]
	Boys Night Out	Black Dogs	Post-hardcore, alternative rock, rock	Good Fight	[395]
	Heart	Beautiful Broken	Hard rock, folk rock	Concord Bicycle Music	[396]
	Nonpoint	The Poison Red	Alternative metal	Spinefarm	[397]
	Róisín Murphy	Take Her Up to Monto	Electropop, art pop	PIAS	[398]
	Schoolboy Q	Blank Face LP	West Coast hip hop, hip hop, gangsta rap	Top Dawg, Interscope	[399]
	Show Me the Body	Body War			[400][401]
	Shura	Nothing's Real	Electropop	Polydor	[402]
	Switchfoot	Where the Light Shines Through	Alternative rock, pop rock	Vanguard	[403]
	Tanzwut	Schreib es mit Blut		AFM	[404]
	Vanna	All Hell	Hardcore punk	Pure Noise	[405]
July 11	GFriend	LOL	K-pop	Source Music
July 15	Benny Benassi	Danceaholic	Progressive house	Ultra	[406]
	Cane Hill	Smile	Nu metal	Rise	[407]
	Good Charlotte	Youth Authority	Pop punk	MDDN	[408]
	Kel Valhaal	New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala	Electronic, experimental music	YLYLCYN	[409]
	Michael Kiwanuka	Love & Hate	Indie rock, folk rock	Polydor	[410]
	Steven Tyler	We're All Somebody from Somewhere	Country rock	Dot	[411]
July 17	Logic	Bobby Tarantino	Hip hop	Visionary, Def Jam	[412]
July 18	F.T. Island	Where's the Truth?	Rock	FNC	[413]
July 22	Crown the Empire	Retrograde		Rise	[414]
	Gucci Mane	Everybody Looking	Hip hop, trap	1017, Atlantic	[415]
	Lil Durk	Lil Durk 2X	Drill, trap	Only the Family, Def Jam	[416]
	Periphery	Periphery III: Select Difficulty	Progressive metal, djent	Sumerian, Century Media, Roadrunner	[417]
	Karmakanic	DOT		Inside Out	[418]
	Relient K	Air for Free	Pop rock, alternative rock	Mono vs Stereo	[419]
July 29	Anarbor	Anarbor	Alternative rock, pop rock		[420]
	Billy Talent	Afraid of Heights	Alternative rock, punk rock, post-hardcore	Warner Music Canada, The End	[421]
	The Bouncing Souls	Simplicity	Punk rock	Rise, Chunksaah	[422]
	Descendents	Hypercaffium Spazzinate	Punk rock	Epitaph	[423]
	DJ Khaled	Major Key	Hip hop, trap, R&B	Epic, We the Best	[424]
	Fantasia	The Definition Of...	R&B	19, RCA	[425]
	Jake Owen	American Love	Country	RCA Nashville	[426]
	Nao	For All We Know	Alternative R&B	Little Tokyo Recordings	[427]
	Sinsaenum	Echoes of the Tortured	Blackened death metal	earMUSIC	[428]
	Viola Beach	Viola Beach	Indie rock, indie pop	Fuller Beans Records	[429]
	Zhu	Generationwhy	Electronic	Mind of a Genius, Columbia	[430]

August[]

List of albums released in August 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
August 5	Blossoms	Blossoms	Indie rock, indie pop	Virgin EMI	[431]
	Dinosaur Jr.	Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not	Alternative rock, indie rock	Jagjaguwar	[432]
	DJ Snake	Encore	EDM, trap	Interscope	[433]
	Elvis Presley	Way Down in the Jungle Room		RCA, Legacy	[434]
	Giggs	Landlord	British hip hop	SN1 Records	[435]
	Russian Circles	Guidance	Instrumental rock, post-metal, post-rock	Sargent House	[436]
	Skillet	Unleashed	Christian metal, hard rock	Atlantic	[437]
	Tarja	The Shadow Self	Symphonic metal	earMUSIC	[438]
	Wild Beasts	Boy King	Synth-pop	Domino	[439]
August 12	The Amity Affliction	This Could Be Heartbreak	Metalcore, post-hardcore	UNFD, Roadrunner	[440]
	of Montreal	Innocence Reaches	Indie rock	Polyvinyl	[441]
	The Pineapple Thief	Your Wilderness	Progressive rock, alternative rock	Kscope	[442]
	Rome	The Hyperion Machine	Neofolk	Trisol	[443]
	Young the Giant	Home of the Strange	Indie rock, alternative rock	Fueled by Ramen	[444]
August 18	AJJ	The Bible 2	Folk punk	SideOneDummy	[445]
August 19	Crystal Castles	Amnesty (I)	Electropunk, witch house	Fiction, Casablanca	[446]
	Dolly Parton	Pure & Simple	Country	Dolly Records, RCA Nashville
	Ed Harcourt	Furnaces		Polydor	[447]
	Frank Ocean	Endless	Ambient pop, R&B	Def Jam	[448]
	John Williamson	His Favourite Collection	Country	Warner Music Australasia	[449]
	Lindsey Stirling	Brave Enough	EDM, classical crossover, electro house	Lindseystomp	[450]
	Lisa Hannigan	At Swim	Folk, indie	Hoop Recordings, PIAS	[451]
	Myrkur	Mausoleum		Relapse	[452]
	Sabaton	The Last Stand	Power metal	Nuclear Blast	[453]
	Soilwork	Death Resonance	Melodic death metal	Nuclear Blast	[454]
	Trapt	DNA	Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge		[455]
August 20	Frank Ocean	Blonde	R&B	Def Jam, Boys Don't Cry	[456]
August 24	Radwimps	Your Name	Rock		[457]
August 26	The Album Leaf	Between Waves		Relapse	[458]
	The Bad Plus	It's Hard	Jazz	Okeh	[459]
	Barbra Streisand	Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway	Traditional pop	Columbia	[460]
	Britney Spears	Glory	Pop	RCA	[461]
	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion: Side B	Pop	604, School Boy, Interscope	[462]
	Celine Dion	Encore un soir	Pop	Columbia	[463]
	De La Soul	and the Anonymous Nobody...	Hip hop	A.O.I. Records	[464]
	Florida Georgia Line	Dig Your Roots	Country	Big Machine	[465]
	Glass Animals	How to Be a Human Being	Indie pop, art pop, alternative R&B	Wolf Tone, Caroline International, Harvest	[466]
	Marius Neset	Snowmelt	Jazz	ACT Music	[467]
	Omar Rodríguez-López	Arañas en la Sombra	Experimental rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock	Ipecac	[468]
	Sodom	Decision Day	Thrash metal	SPV/Steamhammer	[469]
	Trygve Seim	Rumi Songs	Jazz	ECM	[470]

September[]

List of albums released in September 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
September 2	Angel Olsen	My Woman	Indie rock	Jagjaguwar	[471]
	A Day to Remember	Bad Vibrations	Metalcore, pop punk	ADTR, Epitaph	[472]
	The Divine Comedy	Foreverland	Orchestral pop	Divine Comedy	[473]
	Eluvium	False Readings On		Temporary Residence	[474]
	Freddie Mercury	Messenger of the Gods: The Singles	Rock, pop rock, opera	Mercury, Hollywood, Universal Music	[475]
	Isaiah Rashad	The Sun's Tirade	Hip hop	Top Dawg Entertainment	[476]
	James Vincent McMorrow	We Move	Alternative R&B	Faction Records, Believe Recordings, Mahogany Books	[477]
	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Familia	Indie pop, folk, disco	EBGB's, Red Essential	[478]
	Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, and Jan Bang	Atmosphères	Ambient music, jazz, chamber music	ECM	[479]
	Travis Scott	Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Epic	[480]
	Zomby	Ultra		Hyperdub	[481]
September 9	Bastille	Wild World	Indie rock	Virgin EMI, Virgin, Universal Music Group	[482]
	clipping.	Splendor & Misery	Experimental hip hop	Sub Pop	[483]
	The Dear Hunter	Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional	Progressive rock, indie rock	Equal Vision	[484]
	Devin Townsend Project	Transcendence	Progressive metal, symphonic metal	HevyDevy Records	[485]
	Gavin DeGraw	Something Worth Saving	Pop	RCA	[486]
	Grouplove	Big Mess	Alternative rock, indie rock	Canvasback, Atlantic	[487]
	The Head and the Heart	Signs of Light	Indie folk, indie pop, indie rock	Warner Bros.	[488]
	Jack White	Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016	Acoustic, blues	Third Man, Columbia	[489]
	Jennifer Rostock	Genau in diesem Ton	Rock, punk, pop rock	Four Music	[490]
	KT Tunstall	Kin	Pop rock, indie rock	Caroline, Sony/ATV Music	[491]
	Leagues	Alone Together		Bufalotone Records	[492]
	Local Natives	Sunlit Youth	Indie rock	Loma Vista, Infectious	[493]
	M.I.A.	AIM	Hip hop	Interscope, Polydor	[494]
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Skeleton Tree	Alternative rock, electronica, ambient	Bad Seed Ltd.	[495]
	Norma Jean	Polar Similar	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Solid State	[496]
	Of Mice & Men	Cold World	Nu metal, alternative metal, post-hardcore	Rise	[497]
	Okkervil River	Away	Indie rock	ATO	[498]
	Pansy Division	Quite Contrary	Queercore		[499]
	Safia	Internal	Electronic, indie pop	Parlophone, Warner Music Australasia	[500]
	Scott Tixier	Cosmic Adventure	Jazz	Sunnyside	[501]
	Teenage Fanclub	Here	Alternative rock		[502]
September 16	Aaron Lewis	Sinner	Country	Dot, Big Machine	[503]
	Against Me!	Shape Shift with Me	Punk rock	Total Treble Music	[504]
	AlunaGeorge	I Remember	Electronic	Island	[505]
	The Black Sorrows	Faithful Satellite	Blues, rock, soul	Head Records	[506]
	Beware of Darkness	Are You Real?	Alternative rock	Bright Antenna	[507]
	Bobby Rush	Porcupine Meat	Blues	Rounder	[508]
	Die Antwoord	Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid	Alternative hip hop, rave		[509]
	Dinosaur	Together, As One	Jazz	Edition	[510]
	Lordi	Monstereophonic (Theaterror vs. Demonarchy)	Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock	AFM	[511]
	Mac Miller	The Divine Feminine	Alternative hip hop, jazz rap	REMember Music, Warner Bros.	[512]
	Moor Mother	Fetish Bones	Experimental	Don Giovanni
	The Shondes	Brighton			[513]
	Taking Back Sunday	Tidal Wave	Alternative rock, hard rock	Hopeless	[514]
	Touché Amoré	Stage Four	Post-hardcore, screamo, melodic hardcore	Epitaph	[515]
	Usher	Hard II Love	R&B	RCA	[516]
	Willie Nelson	For the Good Times: A Tribute to Ray Price	Country	Legacy	[517]
	Young Guns	Echoes	Alternative rock	Windup	[518]
September 21	Feeder	All Bright Electric	Alternative rock, post-grunge, art rock	Cooking Vinyl	[519]
September 22	The Caretaker	Everywhere at the End of Time - Stage 1		History Always Favours The Winners
September 23	Airbourne	Breakin' Outta Hell	Hard rock	Spinefarm	[520]
	Beach Slang	A Loud Bash of Teenage Feelings	Punk rock	Polyvinyl, Big Scary Monsters	[521]
	Billy Bragg & Joe Henry	Shine a Light: Field Recordings from the Great American Railroad	Folk	Cooking Vinyl	[522]
	Bruce Springsteen	Chapter and Verse	Rock	Columbia	[523]
	Crowder	American Prodigal	CCM, worship	Sparrow, sixsteps, Capitol CMG	[524]
	David Bowie	Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)		Parlophone	[525]
	Devendra Banhart	Ape in Pink Marble	Indie folk, indie, alternative	Nonesuch	[526]
	Every Time I Die	Low Teens	Metalcore, hardcore punk, Southern rock	Epitaph	[527]
	Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam	I Had a Dream That You Were Mine	Indie rock	Glassnote	[528]
	How to Dress Well	Care	Art pop	Domino, Weird World	[529]
	Idina Menzel	Idina	Pop	Warner Bros.	[530]
	Marillion	Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R)	Neo-progressive rock	earMUSIC	[531]
	Rachael Yamagata	Tightrope Walker		Frankenfish, Thirty Tigers	[532]
	Shawn Mendes	Illuminate	Pop	Island, Universal	[533]
	Skylar Grey	Natural Causes	Alternative pop	KidinaKorner, Interscope	[534]
	Vangelis	Rosetta	Electronic, ambient, classical	Decca	[535]
	Various artists	Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack		RCA	[536]
	Warpaint	Heads Up	Indie rock	Rough Trade	[537]
September 27	Danny Brown	Atrocity Exhibition	Experimental hip hop	Warp	[538]
September 29	Lori McKenna	The Bird and the Rifle	Country	CN Records	[539]
September 30	Banks	The Altar	Alternative R&B	Harvest	[540]
	Bob Weir	Blue Mountain	Rock, folk, country	Legacy, Columbia	[541]
	Bon Iver	22, A Million	Indie folk, folktronica	Jagjaguwar	[542]
	Craig David	Following My Intuition	UK Garage, dance, tropical house	Sony Music, Insanity	[543]
	Drive-By Truckers	American Band	Country rock, alternative rock, alternative country	ATO	[544]
	Epica	The Holographic Principle	Symphonic metal	Nuclear Blast	[545]
	Eric Clapton	Live in San Diego		Reprise	[546]
	Hayley Kiyoko	Citrine	Pop	Atlantic	[547]
	Jenny Hval	Blood Bitch	Art pop, avant-garde, electronica	Sacred Bones	[548]
	Mr. Oizo	All Wet	Electronic music, techno	Ed Banger	[549]
	Opeth	Sorceress	Progressive rock	Nuclear Blast, Moderbolaget	[550]
	Pixies	Head Carrier	Alternative rock, indie rock, pop rock	Pixiesmusic, PIAS	[551]
	Regina Spektor	Remember Us to Life	Pop, alternative	Warner Bros., Sire	[552]
	Slaves	Take Control	Punk rock	Virgin EMI	[553]
	Solange	A Seat at the Table	Neo soul, R&B	Saint, Columbia	[554]
	Suicidal Tendencies	World Gone Mad	Crossover thrash	Suicidal Records	[555]
	Tycho	Epoch	Ambient, electronic, post-rock	Ghostly International	[556]
	Van Morrison	Keep Me Singing	Rock	Caroline	[557]
	Yello	Toy	Electronic dance music	Universal	[558]
	Yellowcard	Yellowcard	Alternative rock, pop punk	Hopeless	[559]

Fourth quarter[]

October[]

List of albums released in October 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
October 5	Shinee	1 of 1	K-pop	SM, KT Music	[560]
October 7	Alter Bridge	The Last Hero	Alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal	Caroline, Napalm	[561]
	Barry Gibb	In the Now	Rock, country	Columbia	[562]
	Colbie Caillat	The Malibu Sessions	Pop	PlummyLou Records	[563]
	Dance Gavin Dance	Mothership	Post-hardcore, experimental rock	Rise	[564]
	Daya	Sit Still, Look Pretty	Electropop, dance-pop, synth-pop	Z Entertainment, Artbeatz, RED Distribution	[565]
	Goat	Requiem	Alternative rock, psychedelic	Sub Pop, Rocket Recordings	[566]
	Green Day	Revolution Radio	Punk rock, pop punk, alternative rock	Reprise	[567]
	Joyce Manor	Cody	Emo, pop punk, indie rock	Epitaph	[568]
	Kaiser Chiefs	Stay Together	Pop rock	Fiction	[569]
	Lizzo	Coconut Oil		Atlantic	[570]
	Loretta Lynn	White Christmas Blue	Country	Legacy	[571]
	Melissa Etheridge	MEmphis Rock and Soul	Rock, Memphis soul	Stax	[572]
	Meshuggah	The Violent Sleep of Reason	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal	Nuclear Blast	[573]
	NOFX	First Ditch Effort	Punk rock	Fat Wreck Chords	[574]
	Norah Jones	Day Breaks	Jazz, pop rock	Blue Note	[575]
	Olivia Newton-John, Beth Nielsen Chapman and Amy Sky	Liv On		Sony Music Australia	[576]
	OneRepublic	Oh My My	Pop, pop rock	Mosley, Interscope	[577]
	Phantogram	Three		Republic	[578]
	Placebo	Life's What You Make It	Alternative rock		[579]
	Placebo	A Place for Us to Dream	Alternative rock	Rise	[580]
	Sonata Arctica	The Ninth Hour	Symphonic metal, power metal	Nuclear Blast	[581]
	Sum 41	13 Voices	Alternative metal, alternative rock, punk rock	Hopeless	[582]
	White Lies	Friends	Indie rock	BMG	[583]
October 10	BTS	Wings	Hip hop, EDM, R&B	Big Hit	[584]
October 14	Beth Hart	Fire on the Floor	Blues rock	Provogue	[585]
	Chris Young	It Must Be Christmas	Country, Christmas	RCA Nashville	[586]
	Conor Oberst	Ruminations		Nonesuch	[587]
	Cupcakke	Audacious	Hip hop		[588]
	Darkthrone	Arctic Thunder	Black metal	Peaceville	[589]
	Dave Holland	Aziza	Jazz	Dare2 Records	[590]
	David Bromberg Band	The Blues, the Whole Blues, and Nothing But the Blues	Blues	Red House	[591]
	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Dissociation	Mathcore, progressive metal	Party Smasher, Cooking Vinyl	[592]
	The Game	1992	West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap	Blood Money Entertainment, eOne	[593]
	Hillsong Worship	Let There Be Light	Worship	Hillsong, Sparrow, Capitol	[594]
	Jeff Rosenstock	Worry.	Punk rock, indie rock	SideOneDummy	[595]
	Jessica Mauboy	The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series	Pop	Sony Music Australia	[596]
	JoJo	Mad Love	R&B	Atlantic	[597]
	Katie Melua	In Winter		BMG	[598]
	Kings of Leon	Walls	Rock	RCA	[599]
	Lisa Mitchell	Warriors	Pop	Warner Music Australia	[600]
	The Naked and Famous	Simple Forms		Somewhat Damaged, Kobalt Label Services	[601]
	The Orb	COW / Chill Out, World!	Electronica, dub, IDM	Kompakt	[602]
	Phil Collins	The Singles		Rhino	[603]
	Rebecca Ferguson	Superwoman		Syco, Sony Music	[604]
	Sabrina Carpenter	Evolution	Electropop	Hollywood	[605]
	Tom Chaplin	The Wave	Pop	Island	[606]
	Two Door Cinema Club	Gameshow	Indie rock	Parlophone	[607]
October 21	Agnes Obel	Citizen of Glass		PIAS	[608]
	Amaranthe	Maximalism	Metalcore, power metal	Spinefarm	[609]
	American Football	American Football	Rock	Polyvinyl	[610]
	Cakes da Killa	Hedonism		Ruffians, Thirty Tigers	[611]
	David Crosby	Lighthouse	Folk	GroundUP Music	[612]
	The Dean Ween Group	The Deaner Album		ATO	[613]
	DRAM	Big Baby DRAM	Hip hop	Atlantic, Empire	[614]
	Elvis Presley	The Wonder of You	Orchestral pop	RCA, Legacy	[615]
	Far East Movement	Identity	EDM, pop	Transparent Agency, Spinnin', eOne	[616]
	I Prevail	Lifelines	Post-hardcore, metalcore, alternative rock	Fearless	[617]
	Jimmy Eat World	Integrity Blues	Rock	RCA	[618]
	Joe Budden	Rage & The Machine	Hip hop	Mood Muzik Entertainment, Empire	[619]
	Kevin Devine	Instigator		Procrastinate! Music Traitors	[620]
	Kero Kero Bonito	Bonito Generation	Electropop	Double Denim, Sony Music Japan	[621]
	Korn	The Serenity of Suffering	Nu metal	Roadrunner	[622]
	Lady Gaga	Joanne	Soft rock, dance-pop	Interscope	[623]
	Leonard Cohen	You Want It Darker	Folk, soft rock	Columbia	[624]
	Melanie C	Version of Me	Pop rock	Red Girl	[625]
	Michael Bublé	Nobody but Me	Traditional pop, vocal jazz	Reprise	[626]
	Pentatonix	A Pentatonix Christmas	A cappella, Christmas	RCA	[627]
	The Pretenders	Alone	Rock	BMG	[628]
	The Pretty Reckless	Who You Selling For	Rock	Razor & Tie	[629]
	R. Kelly	12 Nights of Christmas	R&B, soul	RCA	[630]
	The Radio Dept.	Running Out of Love	Dream pop, indie pop, electronic	Labrador	[631]
	Rascal Flatts	The Greatest Gift of All	Country, Christmas	Big Machine	[632]
	Saint Motel	saintmotelevision	Indie pop	Elektra, On The Records, Parlophone	[633]
	Sarah McLachlan	Wonderland	Christmas	Verve	[634]
October 24	Twice	Twicecoaster: Lane 1	K-pop, dance	JYP
October 26	Arashi	Are You Happy?	Pop, R&B	J Storm	[635]
October 28	Avenged Sevenfold	The Stage	Thrash metal, progressive metal	Capitol	[636]
	Black M	Éternel insatisfait	French hip hop, French pop	Wati B, Sony Music, Jive	[637]
	Blue Rodeo	1000 Arms	Country rock	Warner Music Canada	[638]
	Courteeners	Mapping the Rendezvous	Indie rock	Ignition Records	[639]
	CRX	New Skin	Hard rock, stoner rock, industrial rock	Columbia	[640]
	Empire of the Sun	Two Vines		Virgin EMI	[641]
	Helmet	Dead to the World	Alternative metal	earMUSIC	[642]
	James Arthur	Back from the Edge	Pop	Columbia	[643]
	Jeezy	Trap or Die 3	Hip hop	Def Jam, CTE World	[644]
	Jennifer Nettles	To Celebrate Christmas	Country, Christmas	Big Machine	[645]
	Kacey Musgraves	A Very Kacey Christmas	Country, Christmas	Mercury Nashville	[646]
	Kenny Chesney	Cosmic Hallelujah	Country	Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville	[647]
	LeAnn Rimes	Remnants	Country, rock, country pop	Sony Music	[648]
	Madness	Can't Touch Us Now	Ska, pop, reggae	Lucky 7	[649]
	Testament	Brotherhood of the Snake	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast	[650]
	Tkay Maidza	Tkay	Synth-pop, hip hop	Downtown, Interscope	[651]
	Tove Lo	Lady Wood	Electropop, synth-pop, dance-pop	Island	[652]

November[]

List of albums released in November 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
November 4	Alicia Keys	Here	R&B, soul	RCA	[653]
	B.o.B.	Elements	Conscious hip hop, political hip hop	Label No Genre	[654]
	Bon Jovi	This House Is Not for Sale	Arena rock, pop rock	Island	[655]
	The Chainsmokers	Collage		Disruptor, Columbia	[656]
	Client Liaison	Diplomatic Immunity	Electropop, indie pop, new wave	Dot Dash Recordings, Remote Control, Inertia	[657]
	Common	Black America Again	Hip hop	ARTium, Def Jam	[658]
	Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions	Until the Hunter	Alternative rock	Tendril Tales	[659]
	Jaws	Simplicity	Post-punk		[660]
	Jim James	Eternally Even	Indie rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock	ATO, Capitol	[661]
	Keke Palmer	Lauren	R&B	Island	[662]
	Kungs	Layers	Deep house, tropical house	House of Barclay	[663]
	Laura Pausini	Laura Xmas	Christmas music, jazz, swing	Warner	[664]
	Marcus & Martinus	Together	Pop	Sony Music Entertainment Norway	[665]
	Queen	On Air	Rock, hard rock	Virgin EMI, Hollywood	[666]
	Robbie Williams	The Heavy Entertainment Show	Pop	Columbia	[667]
	Shirley Collins	Lodestar	Folk	Domino	[668]
	Susan Boyle	A Wonderful World	Operatic pop, crossover, easy listening	Syco, Columbia, Sony Music	[669]
	Tinashe	Nightride	Alternative R&B	RCA	[670]
	Waterparks	Double Dare	Pop punk	Equal Vision	[671]
November 5	French Montana	MC4	Hip hop	Bad Boy, Maybach Music Group, Epic	[672]
November 8	Wakrat	Wakrat	Alternative rock	Earache	[673]
November 11	Bob Dylan	The 1966 Live Recordings	Folk	Columbia	[674]
	Cliff Richard	Just... Fabulous Rock 'n' Roll	Rock and roll	Sony Music	[675]
	David Bowie	Legacy (The Very Best of David Bowie)	Rock	Sony Music	[676]
	Emeli Sandé	Long Live the Angels	R&B, soul	Virgin	[677]
	Enigma	The Fall of a Rebel Angel	New-age, pop, electronica	Baloo Music S.A.	[678]
	Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood	Christmas Together	Christmas, country	Pearl, Gwendolyn	[679]
	In Flames	Battles	Alternative metal	Eleven Seven, Nuclear Blast	[680]
	John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John	Friends for Christmas	Pop, Christmas music	Sony Music Australia	[681]
	Lorenzo Senni	Persona	Hard trance, intelligent dance music	Warp	[682]
	Mina & Celentano	Le migliori	Pop	Clan, PDU	[683]
	Nathan Sykes	Unfinished Business	Pop, R&B, EDM	Global Entertainment	[684]
	Olly Murs	24 Hrs	Pop	Epic	[685]
	Ronnie Dunn	Tattooed Heart	Country	Nash Icon	[686]
	Simple Minds	Acoustic	Acoustic	Caroline International	[687]
	Sirenia	Dim Days of Dolor	Gothic metal, symphonic metal, doom metal	Napalm	[688]
	Sleigh Bells	Jessica Rabbit	Indie pop	Torn Clean	[689]
	Sting	57th & 9th	Pop rock	Cherrytree, Interscope, A&M	[690]
	A Tribe Called Quest	We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service	East Coast hip hop, jazz rap	Epic	[691]
	You Blew It!	Abendrot	Indie rock	Triple Crown	[692]
November 18	6lack	Free 6lack	Hip hop, R&B	LoveRenaissance, Interscope	[693]
	Bic Runga	Close Your Eyes		Sony Music New Zealand	[694]
	Bridgit Mendler	Nemesis	Soul, indie, R&B	Black Box	[695]
	Bruno Mars	24K Magic	Funk	Atlantic	[696]
	DNCE	DNCE	Pop	Republic	[697]
	Dragonette	Royal Blues			[698]
	E-40	The D-Boy Diary: Book 1	Hip hop	Heavy on the Grind Entertainment	[699]
	E-40	The D-Boy Diary: Book 2	Hip hop	Heavy on the Grind Entertainment	[699]
	High Valley	Dear Life	Country	Atlantic, Warner Nashville	[700]
	Highly Suspect	The Boy Who Died Wolf	Alternative rock	300 Entertainment	[701]
	Ion Dissonance	Cast the First Stone		Good Fight Music	[702]
	Justice	Woman	Nu-disco, electro house	Because, Ed Banger	[703]
	Kerser	Tradition		Warner Australia	[704]
	Kevin Abstract	American Boyfriend: A Suburban Love Story	Indie pop, alternative hip hop, alternative R&B	Brockhampton Records	[705]
	Little Mix	Glory Days	Dance-pop, R&B	Syco, Columbia	[706]
	Metallica	Hardwired... to Self-Destruct	Thrash metal	Blackened Recordings	[707]
	Miranda Lambert	The Weight of These Wings	Country	RCA Nashville	[708]
	Pink Martini	Je dis oui!		Heinz Records	[709]
	Sixx:A.M.	Prayers for the Blessed	Alternative metal, hard rock	Eleven Seven	[710]
	Thee Oh Sees	An Odd Entrances	Garage rock, psychedelic rock	Castle Face	[711]
November 21	Up10tion	Burst	K-pop	TOP Media	[712]
November 22	Prince	4Ever	Pop, rock, funk	NPG, Warner Bros.	[713]
November 23	Lil Uzi Vert and Gucci Mane	1017 vs. The World	Hip hop, trap	Generation Now, GUWOP	[714]
November 25	Flume	Skin Companion EP 1			[715]
	Garth Brooks	Gunslinger	Country	Pearl	[716]
	Kate Bush	Before the Dawn	Progressive pop, art pop, art rock	Concord, Fish People	[717]
	Kylie Minogue	Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition	Christmas, traditional pop	Parlophone, Warner Bros.	[718]
	Rumer	This Girl's in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook	Pop	East West, Warner Bros.	[719]
	The Weeknd	Starboy	Alternative R&B	XO, Republic	[720]
November 29	Dr. Dog	Abandoned Mansion	Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia	Anti-	[721]

December[]

List of albums released in December 2016

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Ref.
December 1	Sechs Kies	2016 Re-Album	K-pop, hip hop, dance-pop	YG	[722]
December 2	Animotion	Raise Your Expectations		Invisible Hands Music	[723][724]
	Childish Gambino	"Awaken, My Love!"	R&B, soul, funk	Glassnote	[725]
	deadmau5	W:/2016Album/	Electronic dance music	mau5trap	[726]
	Grace VanderWaal	Perfectly Imperfect	Pop	Columbia	[727]
	Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygène 3	Electronic		[728]
	John Legend	Darkness and Light	R&B	Columbia, GOOD	[729]
	Nails / Full of Hell	Nails / Full of Hell	Grindcore	Closed Casket Activities
	The Narrative	Golden Silence	Indie rock, synth-pop		[730]
	Pete Doherty	Hamburg Demonstrations		Cloud Hill	[731]
	The Rolling Stones	Blue & Lonesome	Blues rock	Polydor	[732]
	Tiziano Ferro	Il mestiere della vita	Pop	Universal	[733]
	Various artists	The Hamilton Mixtape	Hip hop, R&B, pop	Atlantic	[734]
December 9	Ab-Soul	Do What Thou Wilt.	Hip hop	Top Dawg	[735]
	Evanescence	Lost Whispers	Alternative metal	The Bicycle Music Company	[736]
	Hodgy	Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide	Hip hop	Odd Future, Columbia	[737]
	J. Cole	4 Your Eyez Only	Conscious hip hop	Dreamville, Roc Nation	[738]
	LP	Lost on You	Indie rock	Vagrant	[739]
	Maria Taylor	In the Next Life	Indie folk	Flower Moon Records	[740]
	Neil Young	Peace Trail	Rock	Reprise	[741]
	Post Malone	Stoney	Country, R&B	Republic	[742]
	Tech N9ne	The Storm	Hip hop	Strange	[743]
	Various artists	Doing It In Lagos: Boogie, Pop & Disco in 1980s Nigeria	Pop, disco, afro-pop	Soundway	[744]
December 12	Big Bang	Made	Dance-pop, R&B, hip hop	YG	[745]
December 15	Injury Reserve	Floss			[746]
December 16	Gabrielle Aplin	Miss You		Never Fade	[747]
	Kid Cudi	Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'	Hip hop	Wicked Awesome, Republic	[748]
	T.I.	Us or Else: Letter to the System	Political hip hop	Grand Hustle, Roc Nation	[749]
December 21	Dec 99th	Dec 99th			[750]
December 22	Nine Inch Nails	Not the Actual Events	Industrial rock	The Null Corporation	[751]

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