List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1996, per the Billboard 200.

Chart history[]

Key

Indicates best performing album of 1996

Issue date	Album	Artist(s)	Label	Ref.
January 6	Daydream	Mariah Carey	Columbia	[1]
January 13				[2]
January 20	Waiting to Exhale	Whitney Houston / Soundtrack	Arista	[3]
January 27				[4]
February 3				[5]
February 10				[6]
February 17				[7]
February 24	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	Maverick	[8]
March 2	All Eyez on Me	2Pac	Death Row	[9]
March 9				[10]
March 16	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	Maverick	[11]
March 23				[12]
March 30				[13]
April 6	Anthology 2	The Beatles	Apple	[14]
April 13	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	Maverick	[15]
April 20				[16]
April 27				[17]
May 4	Evil Empire	Rage Against the Machine	Epic	[18]
May 11	Fairweather Johnson	Hootie & the Blowfish	Atlantic	[19]
May 18				[20]
May 25	The Score	Fugees	Ruffhouse	[21]
June 1				[22]
June 8				[23]
June 15				[24]
June 22	Load	Metallica	Elektra	[25]
June 29				[26]
July 6				[27]
July 13				[28]
July 20	It Was Written	Nas	Columbia	[29]
July 27				[30]
August 3				[31]
August 10				[32]
August 17	Beats, Rhymes and Life	A Tribe Called Quest	Jive	[33]
August 24	Jagged Little Pill	Alanis Morissette	Maverick	[34]
August 31				[35]
September 7				[36]
September 14	No Code	Pearl Jam	Epic	[37]
September 21				[38]
September 28	Home Again	New Edition	MCA	[39]
October 5	Falling into You	Celine Dion	550 Music	[40]
October 12				[41]
October 19	From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah	Nirvana	DGC	[42]
October 26	Falling into You	Celine Dion	550 Music	[43]
November 2	Recovering the Satellites	Counting Crows	DGC	[44]
November 9	Best Of – Volume I	Van Halen	Warner Bros.	[45]
November 16	Anthology 3	The Beatles	Apple	[46]
November 23	The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	Makaveli	Death Row	[47]
November 30	Tha Doggfather	Snoop Doggy Dogg	Death Row	[48]
December 7	Razorblade Suitcase	Bush	Trauma	[49]
December 14				[50]
December 21	Tragic Kingdom	No Doubt	Trauma	[51]
December 28				[52]

See also[]

• 1996 in music
• List of number-one albums (United States)

References[]