List of 2016 albums

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List of albums released

The following is a list of albums released or scheduled for release in 2016.

First quarter

January

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
January 1	Boosie Badazz	In My Feelings (Goin' Thru It)	Hip hop	Jewell House, Bad Azz, Trill, EMPIRE		[1]
	Rachel Platten	Wildfire	Pop, power pop, soul, electropop	Columbia	Ben Singer, Brian West, Jon Levine	[2][3]
January 8	David Bowie	Blackstar	Art rock, experimental rock, jazz	ISO, Columbia, RCA, Sony Music	David Bowie, Tony Visconti	[4]
	Hinds	Leave Me Alone	Garage rock, lo-fi	Mom + Pop		[5]
	Ignite	A War Against You	Melodic hardcore	Century Media	Cameron Webb	[6]
	KSI	Keep Up	British hip hop, grime	Island	D-Phantom, Sway, Zagor	[7]
	Marshmello	Joytime	Future bass, progressive house, trap	Joytime Collective	Marshmello	[8]
	Stevie McCrorie	Big World	Pop	Decca		[9]
	Villagers	Where Have You Been All My Life?	Indie folk	Domino		[10]
January 15	Anderson .Paak	Malibu	Hip hop, R&B, soul	Steel Wool, OBE, Art Club, EMPIRE	9th Wonder, Adrian L. Miller, Anderson .Paak, Callum Connor, Chris Dave and the Drumhedz, Dem Jointz, DJ Khalil, Hi-Tek, Jose Rios, Kaytranada, Ketrina "Taz" Askew, Kevin Morrow, Like, Madlib, POMO, Vicky Farewell Nguyen	[11]
	Blaze Ya Dead Homie	The Casket Factory	Gangsta rap, horrorcore	Majik Ninja	The Dead Beatz, DJ Swamp, Fritz the Cat, Seven	[12]
	Brothers Osborne	Pawn Shop	EMI Nashville	Country	Jay Joyce, Brad Hill, Brothers Osborne	[13]
	Classified	Greatful	Hip hop	Halflife Records, Universal Music Canada	Classified	[14][15]
	Daughter	Not to Disappear	Alternative pop	4AD	Igor Haefeli, Nicolas Vernhes	[16]
	Daz and Snoop	Cuzznz	West Coast hip hop, G-funk	Felder Entertainment Inc.	Daz Dillinger, Dâm-funk, kjconteh, Snoop Dogg	[17]
	Hank Williams, Jr.	It's About Time	Country rock, Southern rock	Nash Icon	Julian Raymond	[18]
	Lecrae	Church Clothes 3	Christian hip hop, conscious hip hop	Reach	Black Knight, Epikh Pro, GAWVI, Mykalife, Ryan Righteous, S1, Shindo, VohnBeatz	[19]
	Panic! at the Disco	Death of a Bachelor	Pop, rock, hip hop	DCD2, Fueled by Ramen	Jake Sinclair, J.R. Rotem, Imad Royal, Brendon Urie	[20]
	Randy Rogers Band	Nothing Shines Like Neon	Country	Tommy Jackson Records	Buddy Cannon	[21]
	Show of Hands	The Long Way Home	Folk	Hands on Music	Mark Tucker	[22]
	Skunk Anansie	Anarchytecture	Alternative rock	earMUSIC, Carosello		[23]
	Wes Montgomery	One Night in Indy	Hard bop	Resonance	Zev Feldman	[24]
January 21	Jesu and Sun Kil Moon	Jesu/Sun Kil Moon	Post-metal, indie folk, electronic music, ambient music, spoken word	Caldo Verde, Rough Trade	Justin Broadrick, Mark Kozelek	[25]
January 22	Adrian Younge	Something About April II	Soul, R&B	Linear Labs	Adrian Younge	[26]
	Aidan Knight	Each Other		Full Time Hobby		[27][28]
	The Besnard Lakes	A Coliseum Complex Museum	Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, indie rock	Jagjaguwar		[29]
	Cait Brennan	Debutante	Indie rock	Alternative Distribution Alliance	Fernando Perdomo, Cait Brennan	[30][31]
	Chairlift	Moth	Synthpop, indie pop, electropop, alternative dance	Columbia	Chairlift	[32][33]
	Cherry Poppin' Daddies	The Boop-A-Doo	Jazz, swing	Space Age Bachelor Pad Records	Steve Perry	[34]
	Conrad Keely	Original Machines	Rock	Superball		[35]
	Eleanor Friedberger	New View	Indie rock	Frenchkiss		[36]
	Eliot Sumner	Information		Island		[37]
	Half Japanese	Perfect	Art punk, indie rock	Joyful Noise		[38]
	John Cale	M:FANS	Experimental rock, industrial rock, electronic	Double Six	John Cale	[39]
	King Charles	Gamble for a Rose	Folk rock	Buffalo Gang		[40]
	Lionheart	Love Don't Live Here	Hard rock, heavy metal	LHHC		[41]
	Megadeth	Dystopia	Thrash metal	Tradecraft, Universal	Chris Rakestraw, Dave Mustaine, Toby Wright	[42]
	The Mute Gods	Do Nothing till You Hear from Me	Progressive rock, pop rock	InsideOut	Nick Beggs, Roger King	[43]
	Mystery Jets	Curve of the Earth		Caroline		[44]
	RÜFÜS	Bloom	Alternative dance	Sweat It Out		[45]
	Savages	Adore Life	Post-punk	Matador	Johnny Hostile	[46]
	Shearwater	Jet Plane and Oxbow	Indie rock	Sub Pop		[47]
	Sonya Kitchell	We Come Apart		Relativity Media		[48]
	Steve Angello	Wild Youth	Indie rock, electro house	Size	AN21, Francesco Rossi, Saturday, Monday, Steve Angello, Stuart Price, Tom Taped	[49][50]
	Steven Wilson	4 ½	Progressive rock	Kscope	Steven Wilson	[51][52]
	Suede	Night Thoughts	Art rock	Warner Bros.	Ed Buller, Neil Codling, Paul-Edouard Laurendeau	[53]
	Tank	Sex Love & Pain II	R&B	Atlantic	Alvin Isaacs, Antoinette Roberson, B. A. M., Bryan Harrison, Bryan Nelson, Chris Brown, Cynthia Biggs, Darrell "Delite" Allamby, Dexter Wansel, Durrell Babbs, Eric Bellinger, J. Valentine, Johnny Stokes, Kenneth Dickerson, Kenneth Gamble, Lincoln Browder, Mele Moore, Micah Powell, Michelle Sherman, Nicholas Baker, Olubowale Akintimehin, Rickey "Slikk" Offord, Shawn Stockman, Trevor Jackson, Yo Gotti, Zena Foster	[54]
	Tindersticks	The Waiting Room	Indie rock	City Slang, Lucky Dog		[55]
	Tortoise	The Catastrophist	Post-rock	Thrill Jockey		[56]
	Tricky	Skilled Mechanics		False Idols	Tricky, DJ Milo, Luke Harris	[57]
	Ty Segall	Emotional Mugger	Garage rock, hard rock, glam rock	Drag City	F. Bermudez	[58][59]
	Ulver	ATGCLVLSSCAP	Experimental, psychedelic rock	House Of Mythology	Ulver	[60][61]
January 27	Rihanna	Anti	Pop, R&B	Westbury Road, Roc Nation	Boi-1da, Brian Kennedy, Chad Sabo, Daniel Jones, DJ Mustard, Fade Majah, Frank Dukes, Fred Ball, Glass John, Hit-Boy, Jeff Bhasker, Kevin Parker, Kuk Harrell, Mick Schultz, Mitus, No I.D., Noah "40" Shebib, Rihanna, Robert Shea Taylor, Scum, Timbaland, Travis Scott, Twice as Nice, Vinylz	[62]
January 28	Massive Attack	Ritual Spirit	Trip hop, electronica	Virgin	Euan Dickinson	[63]
January 29	Aubrie Sellers	New City Blues	Country, country pop	Carnival		[64][65]
	Avantasia	Ghostlights	Symphonic metal, hard rock, power metal	Nuclear Blast	Sascha Paeth, Tobias Sammet	[66]
	Ayumi Tanaka Trio	Memento	Jazz	AMP Music & Records		[67][68]
	Basement	Promise Everything	Alternative rock	Run for Cover	Sam Pura	[69]
	Black Tusk	Pillars of Ash		Relapse		[70][71]
	Bloc Party	Hymns	Indie rock, alternative dance	Infectious, BMG, Vagrant	Tim Bran, Roy Kerr	[72]
	Bury Tomorrow	Earthbound	Metalcore	Nuclear Blast	Caleb Shomo	[73]
	Cavo	Bridges	Hard rock	Cavo Music Experience	Matt Noveskey	[74]
	Charlie Puth	Nine Track Mind	Pop, R&B	Atlantic	Andrew Cedar, Breyan Isaac, Charlie Puth, DJ Frank E, Geoffro Cause, Infamous, J.R. Rotem, Jesse Shatkin, Johan Carlsson, Matt Prime, Red Triangle	[75]
	Dream Theater	The Astonishing	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Roadrunner	John Petrucci	[76]
	Harriet	American Appetite		Harvest		[77]
	Kevin Gates	Islah	Hip hop	Atlantic, Bread Winners' Association	Alex Goose, Cook Classics, David D.A. Doman, DJ Chose, Dreamlife Beats, Earl & E, The Featherstones, Go Grizzly, IKENNA FuNkEn, Jake Troth, Kevin Gates, The Mekanics, Mxllzy, Patrick Carmelo, Rvssian, Swiff D	[78]
	Mike Oldfield	The 1984 Suite	Pop rock, progressive rock		Mike Oldfield, Simon Phillips	[79]
	Money	Suicide Songs	Indie rock	Bella Union		[80]
	Night Beats	Who Sold My Generation	Rock	Heavenly		[81]
	Prong	X (No Absolutes)		SPV/Steamhammer		[82]
	Sia	This Is Acting	Electropop, power pop, soul	Inertia, Monkey Puzzle, RCA	88-Keys, Cameron Deyell, Chris Braide, Dom $olo, Greg Kurstin, Jack Antonoff, Jake Sinclair, Jesse Shatkin, Josh Valle, Kanye West, Nikhil Seetharam, Noah Goldstein, T-Minus	[83]
	St. Lucia	Matter	Synthpop	Columbia	Jean-Philip Grobler, Patricia Baranek, Chris Zane, Joe LaPorta, Jack Antonoff	[84]
	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Let Me Get By	Blues, rock, R&B, soul	Fantasy	Derek Trucks	[85]
	Turin Brakes	Lost Property		Cooking Vinyl		[86]
	Wet	Don't You	Indie pop, indietronica, dream pop	Columbia	Chris Smith, Justyn Pilbrow, Noah Beresin, Patrick Wimberly, Robin Hannibal, Tom Elmhirst, Wet	[87]
	Wolfgang Gartner	10 Ways to Steal Home Plate	Electro house	Kindergarten Records	Wolfgang Gartner	[88]
	Yanni	Sensuous Chill	Easy listening, new-age	Portrait, Sony Masterworks	Yanni	[89]

February

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
February 1	4Minute	Act. 7	K-pop, EDM, dance-pop, hip hop	Cube Entertainment, Universal		[90]
February 3	BIGBANG	Made Series	Dance-pop, PBR&B, hip hop	YG Entertainment, Avex Trax	G-Dragon, Teddy Park, Taeyang, P.K, Dee.P, Seo Won-jin, T.O.P	[91]
February 5	Anchor & Braille	Songs for the Late Night Drive Home	Alternative rock, electronic rock, shoegazing, post-punk revival	Tooth & Nail		[92]
	Charles Kelley	The Driver	Country	Capitol Nashville	Paul Worley	[93][94]
	The Cult	Hidden City	Hard rock	Cooking Vinyl	Bob Rock	[95]
	DIIV	Is the Is Are	Indie rock, shoegazing, krautrock	Captured Tracks	Zachary Cole Smith	[96]
	Elton John	Wonderful Crazy Night	Rock, soft rock, vocal jazz	Capitol, Mercury	T Bone Burnett, Elton John	[97]
	Eric Prydz	Opus	House, progressive house, electro house, electro	Virgin	Eric Prydz	[98]
	Field Music	Commontime	Indie pop, funk	Memphis Industries	Field Music	[99]
	Fleshgod Apocalypse	King	Symphonic metal	Nuclear Blast	Jens Bogren	[100]
	Foxes	All I Need	Synthpop	Sign of the Times, Epic, RCA	Ben Preston, Dan Wilson, Felix Snow, Future Cut, Ghostwriter, Jesse Shatkin, Jim Eliot, Kid Harpoon, Liam Howe, Mark Ralph, Mike Spencer, Roy Kerr, Tim Bran	[101]
	Junior Boys	Big Black Coat	Electronic, technopop, EDM	City Slang	Junior Boys	[102]
	Laurence Fox	Holding Patterns		Fox Club		[103]
	Lion Babe	Begin	R&B, neo soul, electronica	Interscope, Polydor	Al Shux, Andrew Wyatt, Astro Raw, Robin Hannibal, Itai Shapira, Joel Compass, Linden Jay, Paul Proteus, Pharrell Williams	[104]
	Lucinda Williams	The Ghosts of Highway 20	Country	Highway 20 Records		[105]
	Majid Jordan	Majid Jordan	R&B, PBR&B, synthpop, synthwave	OVO Sound, Warner Bros.	Illangelo, Jenna Andrews, Majid Jordan, Nineteen85, Noah "40" Shebib	[106]
	Scooter	Ace	EDM	Sheffield Tunes, Kontor	Scooter, Vassy	[107]
	Textures	Phenotype	Progressive metal, metalcore	Nuclear Blast	Jochem Jacobs, Yuma Van Eekelen	[108]
	Trixie Whitley	Porta Bohemica				[109]
	Wiz Khalifa	Khalifa	Hip hop	Taylor Gang, Rostrum, Atlantic	Crazy Mike, DJ Spinz, Finatik N Zac, I.D. Labs, Jim Jonsin, Juicy J, Knucklehead, Lex Luger, Mumbles, Ricky P, Ritz Reynolds, SAP, Sayez, Shod Beatz, Sledgren, TM88	[110]
February 12	Basia Bulat	Good Advice		Secret City	Jim James	[111][112]
	Daughtry	It's Not Over...The Hits So Far	Alternative rock, hard rock, pop rock, post-grunge	RCA, 19	Howard Benson, Martin Johnson	[113]
	Faderhead	FH-X		Not A Robot		[114]
	The Jezabels	Synthia	Indie rock, alternative rock	Dine Alone	Lachlan Mitchell	[115]
	Kula Shaker	K2.0	Rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock	StrangeF.O.L.K.	Crispian Mills, Alonza Bevan	[116]
	Lacey Sturm	Life Screams	Hard rock, Christian rock	Followspot Records	Evan Rodaniche, JW Clarke	[117]
	Lissie	My Wild West	Folk, rock	Lionboy, Thirty Tigers	Bill Reynolds, Curt Schneider	[118][119]
	Radiation City	Synesthetica	Alternative rock, dream pop	Polyvinyl	John Vanderslice	[120][121]
	Ronan Keating	Time of My Life	Pop	Decca	Peter-John Vettese, Stephen Lipson	[122]
	School of Seven Bells	SVIIB	Dream pop			[123][124]
	The Suffers	The Suffers	Soul	Rhyme & Reason Records		[125][126]
	Wynonna & the Big Noise	Wynonna & the Big Noise	Country	Curb	Scott "Cactus" Moser	[127]
	Yoko Ono	Yes, I'm a Witch Too	Electronic, alternative, house, indie rock	Manimal	Rob Stevens	[128]
February 14	Kanye West	The Life of Pablo	Hip hop	GOOD Music, Def Jam	Allen Ritter, Andrew Dawson, Anthony Kilhoffer, Boi-1da, Caroline Shaw, Cashmere Cat, Chance the Rapper, Charlie Handsome, Charlie Heat, Darren King, DJDS, Frank Dukes, Fonzworth Bentley, Havoc, Hudson Mohawke, Just BonaFide, Kanye West, Karriem Riggins, Kuk Harrell, Madlib, Menace, Metro Boomin, Mike Dean, Mitus, Noah Goldstein, Plain Pat, Rick Rubin, Sinjin Hawke, Southside, Swizz Beatz, Trevor Gureckis, Velous	[129]
	Myrna	Story of I	Soul, jazz, funk, R&B	Tomtom & Braza		[130]
	Mýa	Smoove Jones	R&B, soul, hip hop	Planet 9	Mýa Harrison, Yonni, The Hit List, Delivery Boy, Terrell Sass, T-Town Productions, Desmond "BigHeadDez" Peterson, Philip "HardWork" Constable, Lamar "Mars" Edwards, Mike & Keys, Michael Williams, Dejan Howerton, Dennis-Manuel Peters, Daniel Coriglie, Mario Bakovic, Orlando Williams	[131]
February 19	After the Burial	Dig Deep	Progressive metal, djent	Sumerian	After the Burial, Will Putney	[132]
	Alex Newell	POWER	Pop, R&B	Big Beat	MNEK, LDN Noise, Freshup & Harley, Red Triangle, Digital Farm Animals	[133]
	Animal Collective	Painting With	Psychedelic pop	Domino	Animal Collective	[134]
	BJ the Chicago Kid	In My Mind	R&B	Motown	Big K.R.I.T., BJ the Chicago Kid, Da Internz, DJ Khalil, Marcus Kincy, Mike & Keys, Sean Cooper	[135]
	Jack Garratt	Phase	Indie pop, PBR&B	Island	Brett Cox, Carassius Gold, Jack Garratt, Mike Spencer	[136]
	Josef Salvat	Night Swim	Pop, electropop	Columbia	Ben Mclusky, Josef Salvat, Rich Cooper, Will Purton	[137]
	Lake Street Dive	Side Pony	Pop, indie pop	Nonesuch	Dave Cobb	[138]
	Last in Line	Heavy Crown	Heavy metal	Frontiers	Jeff Pilson	[139]
	Mavis Staples	Livin' on a High Note	R&B, soul, roots rock	Anti-, Epitaph	M. Ward	[140]
	Ra Ra Riot	Need Your Light	Indie rock	Barsuk	Ryan Hadlock, Rostam Batmanglij	[141]
	Simple Plan	Taking One for the Team	Pop punk, punk rock, power pop	Atlantic	Howard Benson	[142][143]
	The Starting Line	Anyways	Pop punk, alternative rock	Downtown	Will Yip	[144]
	Wolfmother	Victorious	Hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock, neo-psychedelia	Universal	Brendan O'Brien	[145][146]
February 26	The 1975	I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It	Indie rock, pop	Interscope, Dirty Hit, Polydor, Vagrant	Mike Crossey, George Daniel, Matthew Healy	[147]
	Adelitas Way	Getaway	Hard rock, post-grunge, alternative metal, alternative rock	Vegas Syn, The Fuel Music	Johnny K	[148]
	Amanda Bergman	Docks	Pop	Ingrid	Petter Winnberg	[149][150]
	Anthrax	For All Kings	Thrash metal	Megaforce, Nuclear Blast	Jay Ruston	[151]
	Bonnie Raitt	Dig in Deep	Rock, blues, americana	Redwing Records	Bonnie Raitt, Joe Henry	[152][153]
	Charli XCX	Vroom Vroom	Experimental pop, wonky pop, electronic, bubblegum pop	Vroom Vroom Recordings	SOPHIE, Jodie Harsh, Hal Ritson, Richard Adlam	[154]
	From Ashes to New	Day One	Nu metal, rap metal, post hardcore	Better Noise Records	Grant McFarland	[155]
	Hands Like Houses	Dissonants	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Rise	James Paul Wisner, Erick Ron	[156]
	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	This Unruly Mess I've Made	Hip hop	Macklemore LLC	Ahamefule Oluo, Josh Karp, Ryan Lewis	[157]
	Santigold	99¢	Art pop, alternative dance, new wave	Atlantic	Dave Sitek, Haze Benga, Hit-Boy, Ian Longwell, John Hill, Martin Stilling, Noah Breakfast, Nugget, Patrik Berger, Rostam Batmanglij, Santigold, Stint, Style of Eye, VERYRVRE, Zeds Dead	[158]
	Voivod	Post Society	Progressive metal	Century Media		[159]
	Yuck	Stranger Things	Indie rock, alternative rock	Mamé Records	Yuck	[160]

March

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
March 2	Scandal	Yellow	Pop rock, alternative rock	Epic/Sony	Scandal	[161]
March 3	Frode Alnæs	Kanestrøm	Jazz rock	Øra Fonogram		[162]
March 4	Anouk	Queen for a Day	Rock			[163][164]
	Esperanza Spalding	Emily's D+Evolution	Jazz, jazz fusion, funk, art rock, math rock	Concord	Esperanza Spalding, Tony Visconti	[165]
	Face to Face	Protection	Punk	Fat Wreck Chords	Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore	[166]
	Kendrick Lamar	untitled unmastered.	Hip hop, jazz rap, funk	Top Dawg, Aftermath, Interscope	Astronote, Bizness Boi, Cardo, Egypt Daoud, DJ Khalil, DJ Spinz, Frank Dukes, Hit-Boy, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Nard & B, Swizz Beatz, Adrian Younge, Yung Exclusive	[167]
	The Knocks	55	EDM	Big Beat, Neon Gold	The Knocks, Mike Del Rio, Ryan McMahon, Matthew Koma, Josh Gudwin	[168]
	Låpsley	Long Way Home	Electronic, ambient, alternative R&B	XL	Låpsley, Rodaidh McDonald, James Draper, Paul O'Duffy, RØMANS, Tourist, Mura Masa	[169]
	Miike Snow	iii	Indie rock, psychedelic pop	Downtown	Henrik Jonback, Miike Snow	[170]
	Ninja Sex Party	Under the Covers	Rock, synthpop, pop rock		Brent Lilley, Brian Wecht, Jim Arsenault	[171]
	Poliça	United Crushers	Synthpop, indietronica	Mom + Pop	Ryan Olson	[172]
	The Qemists	Warrior Sound	Drum and bass	Amazing Record	The Qemists	[173][174]
	Ray LaMontagne	Ouroboros		RCA	Jim James	[175]
	La Sera	Music for Listening to Music To	Indie pop	Polyvinyl	Ryan Adams	[176]
	Sister Sparrow and the Dirty Birds	Fowl Play		Party Fowl Records, Thirty Tigers		[177][178]
	Thao & the Get Down Stay Down	A Man Alive	Alternative folk	Ribbon Music	Merrill Garbus	[179]
	Tonight Alive	Limitless	Pop punk	Sony Music Australia, Fearless	David Bendeth	[180][181]
	Urthboy	The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat	Hip hop	Elefant Traks		[182]
	Violent Femmes	We Can Do Anything	Rock	PIAS		[183]
March 11	3 Doors Down	Us and the Night	Post-grunge, hard rock, alternative rock, alternative metal	Republic	Matt Wallace	[184]
	Adore Delano	After Party	Dance, electronic, pop	Producer Entertainment Group	Paul Coultrup, Tomas Costanza	[185][186]
	AURORA	All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend	Art pop, electropop	Decca, Glassnote	Aurora Aksnes, Odd Martin Skålnes, Mangus Åserud Skylstad, Michelle Leonard, Nicholas Rebscher, Jeremy Wheatley, Jonny Wright, Alf Lund Gobolt, Tom Hull, Edvard Førre Erfjord, Henrik Barman Michelsen, Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Eden Ahbez	[187]
	Bethel Music	Have It All	Contemporary Christian music, worship	Bethel Music	Chris Greely, Bobby Strand	[188]
	Brian Fallon	Painkillers	Rock, alternative rock, heartland rock	Island	Butch Walker	[189]
	Emmy the Great	Second Love		Bella Union		[190]
	Killswitch Engage	Incarnate	Metalcore	Roadrunner	Adam Dutkiewicz	[191]
	Matt Corby	Telluric	Alternative, pop	Mercury, Universal Music Australia	Matt Corby, Dann Hume	[192]
March 18	Delta Heavy	Paradise Lost	Drum and bass	RAM		[193][194]
	Dustin Kensrue	Thoughts That Float on a Different Blood	Contemporary folk music, alternative rock, indie rock, indie folk, folk rock	Vagrant		[195]
	The Falcon	Gather up the Chaps	Punk	Red Scare Industries		[196]
	Gwen Stefani	This Is What the Truth Feels Like	Pop	Interscope	Danny D, Greg Kurstin, J.R. Rotem, Mattman & Robin, Mike Green, Stargate, Teal Douville, Tim Blacksmith	[197]
	Hooverphonic	In Wonderland		Sony (Belgium)		[198]
	Iggy Pop	Post Pop Depression	Art rock, garage rock, hard rock	Loma Vista	Josh Homme	[199][200]
	James	Girl at the End of the World	Alternative rock	BMG	Max Dingel	[201][202][203]
	Primal Scream	Chaosmosis		First International, Ignition	Andrew Innes, Björn Yttling, Bobby Gillespie	[204]
	Redfoo	Party Rock Mansion	Pop	Rykodisc, Party Rock	Brandon M. Garcia, Play-N-Skillz, Stefan Gordy	[205]
	Soul Asylum	Change of Fortune	Alternative rock	Entertainment One	John Fields, Soul Asylum	[206][207]
	Underworld	Barbara Barbara, We Face a Shining Future	Electronic	Universal	Rick Smith, High Contrast	[208]
	Violent Soho	WACO	Grunge, alternative	SideOneDummy	Bryce Moorhead	[209]
March 25	Amon Amarth	Jomsviking	Melodic death metal	Metal Blade	Andy Sneap	[210]
	Anthony Hamilton	What I'm Feelin'	R&B	RCA	Anthony Hamilton, Mark Batson, Eli Davis, James Poyser, Salaam Remi	[211]
	Asking Alexandria	The Black	Metalcore, electronicore	Sumerian	Joey Sturgis	[212]
	Birdy	Beautiful Lies	Indie folk, indie pop	Atlantic	Al Shux, Birdy, Felix Joseph, Jim Abbiss, Roy Kerr, Sam Romans, Steve Mac, Tim Bran, TMS	[213][214]
	Bob Mould	Patch the Sky	Alternative rock	Merge	Bob Mould	[215]
	Elisa	On	Pop, dance, pop rock, soul	Sugar Music	Elisa	[216]
	Elliphant	Living Life Golden	Electronic, pop	Kemosabe, TEN Music Group, Sony Music	Dr. Luke, Cirkut, Billboard, Diplo, Skrillex, Jr Blender, Nick Ruth, Dave Sitek, Carl Löf, T-Collar, Pfannenstill, Faux Delorean, Joel Little, Tommy Tysper	[217][218]
	Future of the Left	The Peace & Truce of Future of the Left	Noise rock	Prescriptions		[219]
	Hana Pestle	HANA	Indie pop		Hana Pestle, Mike Diamond	[220][221]
	The Joy Formidable	Hitch	Alternative rock	C'mon Let's Drift, Caroline	The Joy Formidable	[222]
	Lincoln Durham	Revelations of a Mind Unraveling		Droog Records		[223][224]
	Metal Church	XI	Heavy metal	Rat Pak	Kurdt Vanderhoof, Chris "The Wizard" Collier	[225]
	Rare Futures	This Is Your Brain on Love		Cerebral Music Group	Marc Jacob Hudson, Matthew Fazzi	[226][227]
	Robin Trower	Where You Are Going To		Manhaton Records, V-12 Records		[228][229]
	Zayn	Mind of Mine	Alternative R&B, pop, R&B	RCA	Alan Sampson, Levi Lennox, James "Malay" Ho, MYKL, XYZ	[230]

Second quarter

April

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
April 1	Autolux	Pussy's Dead	Experimental rock, electronic	30th Century Records, Columbia	BOOTS	[231]
	Babymetal	Metal Resistance	J-pop, heavy metal	BMD Fox, Toy's Factory	Kobametal, Kyoto, Yuppemetal, Takeshi Ueda, Tatsuo, Ryu-metal, Megmetal, Ledametal, Mish-Mosh	[232]
	Black Stone Cherry	Kentucky	Hard rock, Southern rock, alternative metal, post-grunge	Mascot	Black Stone Cherry	[233]
	Cheap Trick	Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello	Rock	Big Machine	Cheap Trick, Julian Raymond	[234]
	Explosions in the Sky	The Wilderness	Post-rock	Temporary Residence Limited	Explosions in the Sky, John Congleton	[235]
	The Field	The Follower	Ambient techno, experimental techno	Kompakt		[236]
	Gareth Emery	100 Reasons to Live	EDM	Garuda, Armada	Gareth Emery	[237]
	The Heavy	Hurt & the Merciless	Indie rock, funk rock, blues rock, garage rock	Counter Records, Bad Son	The Heavy	[238]
	Jordan Dykstra	Stressings	Meditation	Editions Verde		[239][240]
	The Last Shadow Puppets	Everything You've Come to Expect	Indie rock	Domino	James Ford	[241]
	Laura Gibson	Empire Builder	Rock	City Slang	John Askew, Laura Gibson	[242]
	Lukas Graham	Lukas Graham	Pop	Copenhagen, Warner Bros.	Backbone, Future Animals, Pilo, Rasmus Hedegaard	[243][244]
	Moderat	III	Electronic	Monkeytown, Mute		[245]
	Mogwai	Atomic	Post-rock	Rock Action	Tony Doogan	[246]
	PEARS	Green Star	Punk	Fat Wreck Chords	James Whitten	[247]
	Pet Shop Boys	Super	Synthpop	x2	Stuart Price	[248]
	The Summer Set	Stories for Monday		The Militia Group, Razor & Tie, Fearless		[249][250]
	Sunset Sons	Very Rarely Say Die		French Exit, Kobalt Label Services		[251]
	Terrace Martin	Velvet Portraits		Sounds of Crenshaw, Ropeadope		[252][253]
	Weezer	Weezer	Alternative rock, power pop, pop punk	Atlantic, Crush	Alex Goose, Jake Sinclair, Jonny Coffer, Ryan Spraker, Scott Chesak	[254]
	Yeasayer	Amen & Goodbye	Experimental rock	Mute		[255]
April 6	Gallant	Ology	Alternative R&B	Mind of a Genius	Ebrahim Lakhani, Maths Time Joy, STiNT, Yannick Häzel Beaucaine	[256]
April 8	All Saints	Red Flag	Pop, R&B	London	Draper, Fred Ball, Hutch, The Invisible Men, Jonny Rockstar, K-Gee, Sasha Scarbek, Utters	[257]
	Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals	Call It What It Is	Rock, blues rock, pop rock, alternative rock, R&B, folk rock	Stax	Ben Harper, Ethan Allen, Jason Yates, Juan Nelson, Leon Mobley, Michael Ward, Oliver Charles	[258]
	Deftones	Gore	Alternative metal, post-metal, experimental rock	Reprise	Deftones, Matt Hyde	[259]
	Frightened Rabbit	Painting of a Panic Attack	Indie rock	Atlantic	Aaron Dessner, Frightened Rabbit	[260]
	Krizz Kaliko	GO	R&B, pop	Strange Music	Seven, J. White Did It, Young Fyre	[261][262]
	The Lumineers	Cleopatra	Americana, folk rock, indie folk	Dualtone	Simone Felice	[263]
	M83	Junk	Electronic, dream pop, synthpop, new wave	Naïve, Mute	Anthony Gonzalez, Justin Meldal-Johnsen	[264]
	Mayer Hawthorne	Man About Town	R&B, soul	Vagrant	Mayer Hawthorne, Aeroplane, Benny Sings, Bram Inscore, Dave Tozer, Jack Splash	[265]
	Niki and the Dove	Everybody's Heart Is Broken Now	Pop	TEN Music Group		[266]
	Teleman	Brilliant Sanity	Indie pop	Moshi Moshi		[267][268]
	Tim Hecker	Love Streams	Electronic	4AD, Paper Bag	Ben Frost, Tim Hecker	[269]
April 15	Ace Frehley	Origins, Vol. 1	Hard rock, heavy metal	Entertainment One	Warren Huart	[270][271]
	Bear Hands	You'll Pay for This	Experimental rock, indie rock, post-punk	Spensive Records		[272]
	Blaqk Audio	Material	Electronic, new wave	Blaqknoise, Kobalt	Davey Havok, Jade Puget	[273]
	Cate Le Bon	Crab Day	Neo-psychedelia, indie pop, art pop	Drag City, Turnstile, Caroline International	Josiah Steinbrick, Noah Georgeson	[274][275]
	Fanfare Ciocărlia	Onwards to Mars	Balkan brass			[276]
	J Dilla	The Diary	Hip hop	Pay Jay Productions, Mass Appeal	J Dilla, Madlib, Pete Rock, Hi-Tek, Bink, House Shoes, Nottz, Karriem Riggins, Supa Dave West, Waajeed	[277]
	Keb' Mo'	Keb' Mo' Live – That Hot Pink Blues Album		Kind of Blue Music, RED Distribution		[278][279]
	Marina Prior and Mark Vincent	Together	Classical music	Sony Music Australia	Chong Lim	[280]
	Musiq Soulchild	Life on Earth	R&B, neo soul	My Block Inc., Entertainment One	Warryn Campbell, Musiq Soulchild, KC & Cooper, Taalib Johnson	[281][282]
	Otep	Generation Doom	Nu metal	Napalm		[283]
	PJ Harvey	The Hope Six Demolition Project	Rock	Island	Flood, John Parish, PJ Harvey	[284]
	RAIGN	When It's All Over	Alternative	Millionaire London Records		[285]
	Sturgill Simpson	A Sailor's Guide to Earth	Country, psychedelic rock	Atlantic	Sturgill Simpson	[286]
	Suuns	Hold/Still	Rock	Secretly Canadian	John Congleton	[287]
	Wild Belle	Dreamland		Columbia		[288]
April 16	Xiu Xiu	Xiu Xiu Plays the Music of Twin Peaks	Experimental rock, dark ambient	Polyvinyl	Jherek Bischoff	[289]
April 22	ASAP Ferg	Always Strive and Prosper	Hip hop	ASAP Worldwide, Polo Grounds Music, RCA	A$AP Ferg, Bryan Leach, Burd & Keyz, Cashmere Cat, Clams Casino, Danny Wolf, DJ Khalil, DJ Mustard, Geno Sims, Honorable C.N.O.T.E., Jordan Lewis, Lex Luger, Lido, The Mekanics, No I.D., Skrillex, Soldado, Stargate, Stelios Phili, TM88, Todd Bee, VERYRVRE, YEEZY808	[290]
	Blue October	Home	Alternative rock	Up/Down Records	Tim Palmer, Justin Furstenfeld	[291]
	Dami Im	Classic Carpenters	Pop	Sony Music Australia	Bry Jones, Michael Tan	[292][293]
	NF	Therapy Session	Hip hop, Christian hip hop	Capitol CMG		[294]
April 23	Beyoncé	Lemonade	R&B, pop, hip hop, blues, rock, funk, country, gospel, trap	Parkwood Entertainment	Beyoncé Knowles, Kevin Garrett, Diplo, Ezra Koenig, Jack White, Wynter Gordon, Kevin Cossom, MeLo-X, Danny Boy Styles, Ben Billions, Boots, Mike Dean, Vincent Berry II, James Blake, Jonathan Coffer, Just Blaze, Mike Will Made It	[295][296]
April 29	Afro Celt Sound System	The Source	Worldbeat	Real World		[297][298]
	Brian Eno	The Ship	Ambient	Warp	Brian Eno, Peter Chilvers	[299]
	The Boxer Rebellion	Ocean by Ocean	Indie rock	Amplify Music	Billy Bush	[300][301]
	Dizzy Mizz Lizzy	Forward in Reverse	Grunge, alternative rock, power rock	Columbia, Sony Music	Jacob Hansen, Nick Foss, Tim Christensen	[302]
	Discharge	End of Days	Hardcore punk	Nuclear Blast		[303]
	Drake	Views	Hip hop, dancehall, R&B	OVO Sound, Cash Money, Young Money, Boy Better Know	Allen Ritter, AxlfolieTHC, The Beat Bully, Boi-1da, Brian Alexander Morgan, Cardiak, Cardo, Cubeatz, Daxz, Di Genius, DJ Maphorisa, Drake, Frank Dukes, Hagler, Jordan Lewis, Kanye West, Jordan Ullman, Maneesh, Metro Boomin, Murda Beatz, Nineteen85, Noah "40" Shebib, OZ, Ricci Riera, Sarz, Sevn Thomas, Southside, Steven "Stwo" Vidal, Supa Dups, Vinylz, Wizkid, Yung Exclusive	[304][305]
	Haken	Affinity	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Inside Out	Jens Bogren	[306]
	Katy B	Honey	EDM, dubstep, electronica, house, R&B	Rinse, Virgin EMI	Chris Lorenzo, Diplo, Floating Points, Four Tet, Geeneus, Hannah Wants, The HeavyTrackerz, Jamie Jones, JD. Reid, Jr. Blender, Kate Simko, Kaytranada, KDA, MssingNo, Mr. Mitch, Wilkinson	[307]
	Less Than Jake	Live from Astoria	Ska punk	Rude		[308]
	Martina Stoessel	Tini	Pop	Hollywood		[309][310]
	Natalia	In My Blood		Natalia Music		[311]
	Pepper	Ohana	Alternative rock	LAW Records		[312]
	Sixx:A.M.	Prayers for the Damned: Vol. 1	Hard rock	Eleven Seven	James Michael	[313][314]
	Travis	Everything at Once	Post-Britpop, alternative rock, indie rock, soft rock	Red Telephone Box	Michael Ilbert	[315]
	Tremonti	Dust	Thrash metal, heavy metal, alternative metal, hard rock	FRET12	Michael "Elvis" Baskette	[316]
	Zucchero	Black Cat	Blues rock	Universal	T Bone Burnett, Brendan O'Brien, Don Was	[317]

May

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
May 2	BTS	The Most Beautiful Moment in Life: Young Forever	Hip hop, dance-pop, R&B, K-pop	Big Hit Entertainment	Pdogg	[318]
May 5	Alex Lloyd	Acoustica	Acoustic			[319]
May 6	Anohni	Hopelessness	Electronic, experimental, synthpop, EDM	Secretly Canadian, Rough Trade	Anohni, Hudson Mohawke, Oneohtrix Point Never, Paul Corley	[320]
	Beverly	The Blue Swell		Kanine Records		[321][322]
	Cyndi Lauper	Detour	Country, country rock, country blues	Sire	Cyndi Lauper, Seymour Stein, Tony Brown	[323]
	Death Grips	Bottomless Pit	Experimental hip hop, digital hardcore	Third Worlds	Death Grips	[324]
	James Blake	The Colour in Anything	Electronic pop, R&B, soul	Polydor, 1-800 Dinosaur	James Blake, Justin Vernon, Rick Rubin	[325]
	Jean Michel Jarre	Electronica 2: The Heart of Noise	Electronic music	Sony Music	Jean Michel Jarre	[326][327]
	JMSN	It Is				[328]
	Julianna Barwick	Will	Ambient, experimental	Dead Oceans	Julianna Barwick	[329]
	Kate Ceberano	Anthology	Pop, soul, jazz, synthpop	ABC Music		[330][331]
	Kaytranada	99.9%	Electronic	XL, HW&W	Kaytranada	[332]
	Keith Urban	Ripcord	Pop, country pop	Hit Red, Capitol Nashville	busbee, Dann Huff, Greg Wells, Jeff Bhasker, Johnny Price, Keith Urban, Nathan Chapman, Nile Rodgers, Nitzan Kaikov, Tyler Johnson	[333]
	Mike Posner	At Night, Alone.	Pop	Island	Adam Friedman, Brian Kierulf, Dave Katz, Jackson Foote, Jordan Orvosh, JordanXL, Kyle Tree, Martin Terefe, MdL, Mike Posner, Robopop, SeeB	[334]
	Rittz	Top of the Line	Hip hop	Strange Music	Best Kept Secret, Gabriel "Wonder" Arillo, Heartbeatz, Kato, Matic Lee, Mike Harnett, Seven	[335]
	The Screaming Jets	Chrome	Rock, pub rock	Dinner for Wolves, Shine On	Steve James	[336]
	Thalía	Latina	Latin pop, reggaeton, dance-pop, pop rock	Sony Music Latin	Andres Torres, Armando Avila, Chris Grayson, Cory Rooney, Isaac Delgado Jr., Khateeb M. Muhammad, Mauricio Rengifo, Sergio George, Thalía, Tommy Mottola	[337]
	Vektor	Terminal Redux	Thrash metal	Earache	Vektor, Byron Filson	[338]
	White Lung	Paradise	Punk rock	Domino	Lars Stalfors	[339]
May 8	Radiohead	A Moon Shaped Pool	Art rock, electronic	XL	Nigel Godrich, Radiohead	[340]
May 13	3OH!3	Night Sports	Pop, trap, hip hop	Fueled by Ramen, Atlantic, Photo Finish	3OH!3	[341]
	Corinne Bailey Rae	The Heart Speaks in Whispers	R&B	Virgin	Corinne Bailey Rae, Malay, Paris Strother, Stephen James Brown, Steve Chrisanthou	[342][343][344]
	Dance Gavin Dance	Tree City Sessions	Post-hardcore	Rise		[345]
	DevilDriver	Trust No One	Groove metal	Napalm	Mark Lewis	[346]
	Digitalism	Mirage	Electro house	Magnetism Recording Co, PIAS	Jens Moelle, İsmail Tüfekçi	[347]
	Grand Magus	Sword Songs	Heavy metal, doom metal	Nuclear Blast		[348]
	Hatebreed	The Concrete Confessional	Metalcore, hardcore punk	Nuclear Blast	Chris "Zeuss" Harris	[349][350]
	Jessy Lanza	Oh No	Electronic, R&B, pop	Hyperdub	Jeremy Greenspan, Jessy Lanza	[351][352]
	Kvelertak	Nattesferd	Heavy metal	Roadrunner	Nick Terry	[353]
	Kygo	Cloud Nine	Tropical house	Sony Music, Ultra Music, B1	Kyrre Gørvell-Dahll	[354]
	Meghan Trainor	Thank You	Dance-pop, R&B	Epic, Sony Music	Ricky Reed, Tommy Brown, Mr. Franks, Twice as Nice, Thomas Troelsen, The Elev3n, Chris Gelbuda, Kevin Kadish, Eric Tobias Wincorn, Johan Carlsson, Meghan Trainor, Justin Trainor, The Monsters and the Strangerz	[355][356]
	Modern Baseball	Holy Ghost	Indie rock, pop punk	Run for Cover	Joe Reinhart	[357]
	Pierce the Veil	Misadventures	Post-hardcore	Fearless	Dan Korneff	[358][359]
May 18	Cimorelli	Up At Night	Teen pop, country pop		Andrew Krach, Matt McVaney	[360]
May 20	Ana Popović	Trilogy	Blues, jazz, funk		Warren Riker, Tom Hambridge, Delfeayo Marsalis	[361][362]
	Ariana Grande	Dangerous Woman	Pop, R&B	Republic	Ali Payami, Ariana Grande, Billboard, Ilya, Jason Robert Brown, Jeffrey Lesser, Johan Carlsson, Max Martin, Ryan Tedder, Ryan Vojtesak, Peter Svensson, Savan Kotecha, Steven Franks, Tommy Brown, Travesty, Twice as Nice	[363][364]
	Baby Animals	BA25	Rock	Liberation	Mike Chapman	[365]
	Bob Dylan	Fallen Angels	Traditional pop	Columbia	Jack Frost	[366][367][368]
	Boys Noize	Mayday	Electro house	Boysnoize Records		[369]
	Eric Clapton	I Still Do	Blues, blues rock, folk	Bushbranch/Surfdog	Glyn Johns	[370]
	Highasakite	Camp Echo	Indie rock	Propeller		[371]
	Iron Savior	Titancraft	Power metal, heavy metal	AFM		[372]
	Issues	Headspace	Metalcore, nu metal, djent	Rise	Erik Ron, Kris Crummett, Tyler "Scout" Acord	[373]
	Kent	Då som nu för alltid	Alternative rock, pop rock	RCA, Sony Music	Kent	[374]
	Lali	Soy	Pop, R&B	Sony Music	Gustavo Novello, Johan Fransson, Luis Burgio, Michael Angelo, Pablo Akselrad, Tim Larsson, Tobias Lundgren, Will Simms	[375]
	Lords of Acid	Smoking Hot	Techno	Metropolis		[376]
	Marissa Nadler	Strangers		Sacred Bones	Randall Dunn	[377]
	Pantha du Prince	The Triad	Electronic			[378]
	Richard Ashcroft	These People	Alternative rock	Cooking Vinyl	Chris Potter	[379]
	Saosin	Along the Shadow	Post-hardcore, alternative rock	Epitaph	Beau Burchell, Chris Sorenson, Will Yip	[380]
	Sick Puppies	Fury	Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge	DrillDown Entertainment Group LLC	Mark Holman	[381]
	Tiger Army	V •••–	Psychobilly	Rise		[382]
	Yuna	Chapters	Pop, R&B	Verve	Fisticuffs, Ben Willis, Robin Hannibal, Paul Salva, Jochem van der Saag, David Foster, DJ Premier	[383]
May 27	ABC	Lexicon of Love II		Virgin EMI	Gary Stevenson, Martin Fry	[384][385]
	Architects	All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us	Metalcore	Epitaph, UNFD, New Damage	Henrik Udd, Fredrik Nordstrom	[386][387]
	Band of Skulls	By Default		BMG	Gil Norton	[388]
	Beth Orton	Kidsticks		ANTI-	Andrew Hung	[389]
	Big Big Train	Folklore	Progressive rock	English Electric	Big Big Train	[390][391]
	Catfish and the Bottlemen	The Ride	Alternative rock, indie rock	Capitol	Dave Sardy	[392][393]
	Clare Maguire	Stranger Things Have Happened	Indie pop, jazz, blues, soul	Virgin	Clare Maguire	[394][395]
	D.A.R.K.	Science Agrees		Cooking Vinyl		[396]
	Death Angel	The Evil Divide	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast	Jason Suecof	[397][398]
	Fifth Harmony	7/27	Pop, EDM, tropical house	Epic, Syco	Aaron Pearce, Alexander Kronlund, Ammo, Benny Blanco, Bloodpop, Dallas K, Harmony Samuels, Jack Antonoff, Kygo, Lukas Loules, The Monsters and the Strangerz, Ori Kaplan, Royal Z, Sir Nolan, Stargate, Tommy Brown	[399]
	Flume	Skin	Electronic	Future Classic	Harley Streten	[400]
	Gold Panda	Good Luck and Do Your Best	Electronic	City Slang		[401]
	The Jelly Jam	Profit		Music Theories Recordings	Ty Tabor	[402]
	Lacuna Coil	Delirium	Gothic metal, alternative metal	Century Media	Marco Coti Zelati	[403][404]
	PUP	The Dream Is Over	Punk rock	SideOneDummy, Royal Mountain	Dave Schiffman	[405]
	Real Friends	The Home Inside My Head	Pop punk	Fearless	Mike Green, Steve Evetts	[406][407]
	Thrice	To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere	Post-hardcore	Vagrant	Eric Palmquist	[408]

June

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
June 3	Beartooth	Aggressive	Metalcore, hardcore punk	Red Bull, UNFD	Caleb Shomo	[409]
	Cat's Eyes	Treasure House	Alternative rock	Kobalt Label Services	Steve Osborne	[410]
	Classixx	Faraway Reach	Electronic	Innovative Leisure	Tyler Blake, Michael David	[411][412]
	The Claypool Lennon Delirium	Monolith of Phobos	Psychedelic rock, art rock, experimental rock	ATO		[413]
	Fatherson	Open Book	Alternative rock	Easy Life, Sony Music		[414]
	Hellyeah	Unden!able	Heavy metal, groove metal	Eleven Seven	Kevin Churko	[415]
	Jimmy Barnes	Soul Searchin'	Rock, soul	Liberation Music		[416][417]
	The Kills	Ash & Ice	Indie rock	Domino	Jamie "Hotel" Hince, John O'Mahony	[418][419]
	Ladyhawke	Wild Things	Indietronica, alternative dance, synthpop, indie pop	Polyvinyl	Tommy English	[420]
	The Lonely Island	Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping	Comedy hip hop	Republic	Alex Delicata, Arthur McArthur, CHOPS, DallasK, Deputy, DJ Frank E, Donut, The Exclusives, Knucklehead, Greg Kurstin, Jacob Plant, Kinetics & One Love, The Lonely Island, Maestro Harrell, Michael Woods, The Monarch, Nathaniel Motte, Needlz, Oddfellow, soFLY & Nius, Stress, Sultan Banks	[421][422]
	Paul Simon	Stranger to Stranger	Folk rock	Concord	Paul Simon, Roy Halee	[423]
	Roxette	Good Karma	Pop	Parlophone	Addeboy vs. Cliff, Christoffer Lundquist, Clarence Öfwerman, Lundquist, Per Gessle	[424]
	Tegan and Sara	Love You to Death	Synthpop	Vapor, Warner Bros.	Greg Kurstin	[425]
	Volbeat	Seal the Deal & Let's Boogie		Republic, Universal	Jacob Hansen, Johan Olsen, Michael Poulsen, Rob Caggiano	[426]
	Yanni	The Dream Concert: Live from the Great Pyramids of Egypt	Contemporary instrumental, adult contemporary	Portrait, Sony Masterworks	Yanni	[427]
June 10	Band of Horses	Why Are You OK	Indie rock, Southern rock	Interscope	Jason Lytle	[428][429]
	Big Deal	Say Yes		FatCat		[430]
	Fitz and The Tantrums	Fitz and the Tantrums	Indie pop, neo soul	Elektra	Jesse Shatkin, Michael Fitzpatrick, Ricky Reed	[431]
	Garbage	Strange Little Birds	Alternative rock, electronic rock, industrial rock	Stunvolume	Billy Bush, Garbage, Steve Marker	[432]
	Jon Bellion	The Human Condition	Hip hop, PBR&B, pop rock	Visonary Music Group, Capitol	Ian Kirkpatrick, Jason Evigan, Jon Bellion, Mark Williams, Raul Cubina, Stephan Moccio	[433]
	Kongos	Egomaniac	Alternative rock, kwaito	Epic		[434]
	letlive.	If I'm the Devil	Post-hardcore, progressive rock, jazz fusion, soul	Epitaph		[435]
	The Monkees	Good Times!	Rock, power pop	Rhino	Adam Schlesinger, Andrew Sandoval	[436]
	Nick Jonas	Last Year Was Complicated	Pop, R&B	Island, Safehouse	Anthony Vasquez, Ali Payami, Ian Kirkpatrick, Jason Evigan, LDN Noise, Magnus "Magnify" Martinsen, Mattman & Robin, Max Martin, The Monsters and the Strangerz, Most Wanted, Nick Jonas, Paul "Phamous" Shelton, Petter Walther Walthinsen, Shellback, Sir Nolan	[437]
	Peter Bjorn and John	Breakin' Point	Indie pop, indie rock	Ingrid	Björn Yttling, Paul Epworth, Greg Kurstin, Emile Haynie	[438][439]
	Rick Astley	50	Pop	BMG	Rick Astley	[440]
	Rival Sons	Hollow Bones	Blues rock, hard rock	Earache	Dave Cobb	[441]
	The Temper Trap	Thick as Thieves	Indie rock	Liberation, Glassnote, Infectious	Ben H. Allen III, Damian Taylor, Justin Parker	[442][443]
	Tom Odell	Wrong Crowd	Indie pop, indietronica	RCA	Inflo, Jim Abbiss, Rich Cooper, Rick Nowels, Tom Odell	[444]
June 13	G.L.O.S.S.	Trans Day of Revenge	D-beat, Boston hardcore	Total Negativity, Nervous Nelly, PANSY TWIST distro, Sabatoge	Joey Seward	[445]
June 17	Gojira	Magma	Technical death metal, progressive metal, groove metal	Roadrunner	Joe Duplantier	[446]
	Jake Bugg	On My One	Indie rock	Virgin EMI, Island	Jacknife Lee, Jake Bugg	[447]
	Laura Mvula	The Dreaming Room	Soul, R&B	RCA, Columbia	Laura Mvula, London Symphony Orchestra, Troy Miller	[448]
	Mitski	Puberty 2	Indie rock	Dead Oceans		[449][450][451]
	Neil Young	Earth	Rock	Reprise	John Hanlon, Neil Young	[452]
	Red Hot Chili Peppers	The Getaway	Funk rock, alternative rock, pop rock	Warner Bros.	Danger Mouse	[453]
	Reik	Des/Amor	Latin pop	Sony Music	Julio Ramírez, Gilberto Marí y Jesús Navarro.	[454]
	Snow Tha Product	Half Way There...Pt. 1	Hip hop, R&B	Atlantic	Arthur McArthur, Focus…, DJ Pumba	[455]
	Swans	The Glowing Man	Experimental music	Young God, Mute	Michael Gira	[456]
	Thousand Foot Krutch	Exhale	Christian rock, hard rock	TFK Music, The Fuel Music	Aaron Sprinkle	[457]
	The Tragically Hip	Man Machine Poem	Rock	Universal Music Canada	Kevin Drew, Dave Hamelin	[458]
	Unlocking the Truth	Chaos			Johnny K	[459]
	Will Butler	Friday Night	Indie rock	Merge		[460]
June 22	Delorean	Muzik		PHLEX		[461]
June 24	Broods	Conscious	Electropop, synthpop, dance	Dryden Street, Island, Capitol, Universal Music Australia	Alex Hope, Captain Cuts, Joel Little	[462]
	Cash Cash	Blood, Sweat & 3 Years	Electro house, progressive house	Big Beat, Atlantic	Jean Paul Makhlouf, Alex Makhlouf, Samuel Frisch, Nicholas Gale	[463]
	DJ Shadow	The Mountain Will Fall	Hip hop, instrumental hip hop, electronic	Mass Appeal	Josh Davis	[464]
	Drowners	On Desire	Indie rock	Frenchkiss		[465]
	Hot Hot Heat	Hot Hot Heat	Indie rock	Culvert, Kaw Liga		[466]
	Jay Chou	Jay Chou's Bedtime Stories	Mandopop	Sony Music Taiwan		[467]
	Meiko	Moving Day			Joshua Grange	[468][469]
	Nice As Fuck	Nice As Fuck	Punk, funk, pop	Love's Way Records		[470][471][472]
	Steve Vai	Modern Primitive / Passion and Warfare 25th Anniversary Edition	Instrumental rock	Legacy		[473]
	Whitechapel	Mark of the Blade	Deathcore, groove metal	Metal Blade	Mark Lewis	[474][475]

Third quarter

July

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
July 1	American Authors	What We Live For	Indie rock, alternative rock	Island	Aaron Accetta, Shep Goodman	[476]
	Area 11	Modern Synthesis	Modern rock	Cooking Vinyl	Tom Clarke	[477]
	Bat for Lashes	The Bride	Baroque pop, rock	Parlophone	Ben Christophers, Dan Carey, David Baron, Head, Jacknife Lee, Matt Hales, Natasha Khan, Simone Felice	[478]
	Blink-182	California	Pop punk, alternative rock	BMG	John Feldmann, Matt Pauling, Zakk Cervini	[479]
	Blood Orange	Freetown Sound	R&B, funk, jazz, baroque pop	Domino	Dev Hynes	[480]
	Delta Goodrem	Wings of the Wild	Pop	Sony Music Australia	Delta Goodrem, DNA, Vince Pizzinga	[481][482]
	Diesel	Americana	Blues	Liberation	Diesel	[483]
	Grace	FMA	Hip hop soul	RCA	Byron Thomas, Da Internz, Fraser T Smith, Kassa Alexander, Mike Riley, Naughty Boy, Parker Ighile, Philip Constable, Quincy Jones, R!O	[484]
	Magic!	Primary Colours	Pop, reggae fusion, reggae	Latium, RCA, Sony Music	Nasri Atweh, Fraser T. Smith, Adam Messinger, Mark "Pelli" Pellizzer, Alex Tanas, Charles Chavez	[485][486]
	Maxwell	BlackSUMMERS'night	R&B, neo soul	Columbia	Hod David, MUSZE, Stuart Matthewman	[487]
	Metronomy	Summer 08	Indietronica	Because Music	Joseph Mount	[488]
	Sara Watkins	Young in All the Wrong Ways	Americana, country	New West	Gabe Witcher	[489]
	Silent Planet	Everything Was Sound	Metalcore, post-hardcore, post-metal, Christian metal,	Solid State	Will Putney, Spencer Keene	[490]
	Snoop Dogg	Coolaid	West Coast hip hop	Doggystyle, eOne Music	Avenue Beatz, Bongo The Drum GAHD, Cardo, Cubeatz, Daz Dillinger, Dazmin, Fingazz, J Dilla, Jazze Pha, Just Blaze, KJ Conteh, Los, Musicman Ty, Nottz, Rockwilder, Snagz, Snoop Dogg, Soopafly, Swizz Beatz, Timbaland	[491]
July 8	The Avalanches	Wildflower	Plunderphonics, electronic, neo-psychedelia, disco, hip hop	Astralwerks, Modular, EMI, XL	Robbie Chater, Tony Di Blasi	[492]
	Biffy Clyro	Ellipsis	Alternative rock, electronic rock	14th Floor	Biffy Clyro, James Rushent, John Feldmann, Rich Costey	[493]
	Boys Night Out	Black Dogs	Post-hardcore, alternative rock, rock	Good Fight		[494]
	Chevelle	The North Corridor	Alternative metal, post-grunge	Epic	Chevelle, Joe Barresi, Marcel Fernandez, Morgan Stratton	[495]
	Emarosa	131	Alternative rock, post-hardcore	Hopeless	Casey Bates	[496]
	Heart	Beautiful Broken	Hard rock, folk rock	Concord Bicycle Music	Dan Rothchild, Nancy Wilson	[497][498]
	Nonpoint	The Poison Red		Spinefarm		[499]
	Róisín Murphy	Take Her Up to Monto	Electropop, art pop	PIAS	Eddie Stevens, Katie Lambert, Róisín Murphy	[500]
	Schoolboy Q	Blank Face LP	West Coast hip hop, hip hop, gangsta rap	Top Dawg, Interscope	The Alchemist, Anthony "Top Dawg" Tiffith, Cardo, Cubeatz, Dem Jointz, DJ Dahi, Frank Dukes, J.LBS, Larrance Dopson, Metro Boomin, Nez & Rio, Sounwave, Southside, Swizz Beatz, Tae Beast, Tony Russell, Tyler, The Creator, Willie B, Yex	[501]
	Shura	Nothing's Real	Electropop, synthpop, alternative R&B, indietronica, new wave	Polydor	Shura, Joel Pott, Greg Kurstin, Al Shux	[502][503]
	Switchfoot	Where the Light Shines Through	Alternative rock, pop rock	Vanguard	John Fields, Joseph Barba, Lenny Skolnik, Switchfoot	[504][505]
	Tanzwut	Schreib es mit Blut	Medieval metal	AFM		[506]
July 15	Good Charlotte	Youth Authority	Pop punk, alternative rock, pop rock	MDDN	John Feldmann	[507]
	Kel Valhaal	New Introductory Lectures on the System of Transcendental Qabala	Electronic, experimental music	YLYLCYN	Hunter Hunt-Hendrix	[508][509]
	Michael Kiwanuka	Love & Hate	Soul, acoustic	Polydor	Danger Mouse, Inflo, Paul Butler	[510][511]
	Steven Tyler	We're All Somebody from Somewhere	Country	Dot	Dann Huff, Jared Gutstadt, Jaren Johnston, Jeff Peters, Luke Silas, Marti Frederiksen, Poo Bear, Steven Tyler, T Bone Burnett	[512]
July 22	Crown the Empire	Retrograde		Rise	Joey Sturgis	[513]
	Human Nature	Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II	Doo-wop	Sony Music Australia		[514]
	Lil Durk	Lil Durk 2X	Drill, trap	Only the Family, Def Jam	Lil Durk, Dontay Banks, Andrews Bonsu, Cassius Jay, C-Sick, ChopSquad DJ, Donis Beats, DJ L, Inomek, Sonny Digital, Southside, Wheezy, Young Chop, Zaytoven	[515]
	Periphery	Periphery III: Select Difficulty	Progressive metal, djent	Sumerian, Century Media, Roadrunner	Misha Mansoor, Adam Getgood	[516][517]
	Relient K	Air for Free	Pop rock, alternative rock	Mono vs Stereo	Mark Lee Townsend	[518][519]
July 29	Billy Talent	Afraid of Heights	Alternative rock, punk rock, post-hardcore, pop punk	Warner Music Canada, The End	Ian D'Sa	[520]
	DJ Khaled	Major Key	Hip hop, trap, R&B	Epic, We the Best	DJ Khaled, 808-Ray, Ben Billions, Cool & Dre, DJ Nasty & LVM, Dyryk, Edsclusive, G Koop, Hollywood JB, Jake One, Jordan Ullman, Kent Jones, Key Wane, Lee on the Beats, Metro Boomin, Nineteen85, Qolorsound, Southside, The Beat Bully	[521]
	Fantasia	The Definition Of...	R&B	19, RCA	Brian Kennedy, David Outing, Dreshan Smith, Dylan Wiggins, GRADES, Jerome "J-Roc" Harmon, Priscilla Renea, R. Kelly, Ron Fair, Neff-U, Tye Tribbett	[522][523]
	Jason Derulo	Platinum Hits	Hip hop, R&B, pop	Beluga Heights, Warner Bros.	Ammo, Axident, Emanuel Kiriakou, The Fliptones, Fuego, Heather Jeanette, Honua Music, Ian Kirkpatrick, J.R. Rotem, Joe London, John Ryan, Jon Bellion, Jonas Jeberg, Ricky Reed, Thomas Eriksen, Thomas Troelsen, Tim Roberts
	Nao	For All We Know	Electronic, R&B	Little Tokyo Recordings	GRADES, John Calvert, Nao, Loxe, A.K. Paul, ST!NT, Jungle, Christian Gregory, Miles James, Royce Junior	[524]
	Ringworm	Snake Church		Relapse		[525][526]
	Sinsaenum	Echoes of the Tortured	Blackened death metal, death metal	earMUSIC	Jens Bogren	[527][528]
	ZHU	Generationwhy	Electronic, R&B, UK Garage	Mind of A Genius, Columbia	Zhu	[529]

August

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
August 5	Arkells	Morning Report		Universal Music Canada	Joe Chiccarelli, Tony Hoffer, Brian West, Gus van Go	[530]
	Blossoms	Blossoms	Indie rock, indie pop	Virgin EMI	Rich Turvey, James Skelly	[531]
	Dinosaur Jr.	Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not	Alternative rock, indie rock	Jagjaguwar	J Mascis	[532]
	DJ Snake	Encore	EDM, trap, pop, hip hop	Interscope	DJ Snake	[533][534]
	Elvis Presley	Way Down in the Jungle Room	Soul, country pop	RCA, Legacy	Elvis Presley, Ernst Mikael Jørgensen, Felton Jarvis, Rob Santos	[535]
	Giggs	Landlord	Grime, UK hip hop	SN1 Records		[536]
	Jem	Beachwood Canyon	Pop	Orchid Entertainment	Jem, Michael Bradford	[537]
	Nick Fradiani	Hurricane	Pop	19, Big Machine	Jerrod Bettis, Nick Fradiani, David Hodges, Julian Raymond, Rykeyz, Jordan Schmidt, Nolan Sipe, Pär Westerlund	[538][539]
	Russian Circles	Guidance	Instrumental rock, post-metal, post-rock	Sargent House	Kurt Ballou	[540]
	Skillet	Unleashed	Christian metal, hard rock	Atlantic	Brian Howes, Kevin Churko, Neal Avron, Seth Mosely	[541]
	Tarja	The Shadow Self	Symphonic rock, symphonic metal	earMUSIC	Tarja Turunen	[542]
	Wild Beasts	Boy King	Art rock, art pop, synthpop	Domino	John Congleton	[543]
August 12	The Amity Affliction	This Could Be Heartbreak	Metalcore, post-hardcore	UNFD, Roadrunner	Will Putney	[544]
	Of Montreal	Innocence Reaches	Indie rock	Polyvinyl	Kevin Barnes	[545]
	The Pineapple Thief	Your Wilderness	Progressive rock, alternative rock	Kscope	Bruce Soord, Steve Kitch	[546]
	Young the Giant	Home of the Strange	Indie rock, alternative rock	Fueled by Ramen	Alex Salibian, Jeff Bhasker	[547]
August 19	AJJ	The Bible 2	Folk punk	SideOneDummy	Alex Bhore, John Congleton	[548]
	Ball Park Music	Every Night the Same Dream		Stop Start Music, Inertia	Matt Redlich	[549]
	Crystal Castles	Amnesty (I)	Electropunk, witch house	Fiction, Casablanca	Ethan Kath, Jake Lee	[550]
	Ed Harcourt	Furnaces		Polydor	Flood	[551]
	Frank Ocean	Endless	Alternative R&B, alternative hip hop, dream pop	Def Jam	Frank Dukes, Frank Ocean, Joe Thornalley, Michael Uzowuru, Stwo, Troy Noka	[552]
	Lindsey Stirling	Brave Enough	Electronic	Lindseystomp	AFSHeeN, Andrew Goldstein, Gladius, Jason Yik Nam Wu, Josh Abraham, Keith Varon, Lindsey Stirling, Marty "Marø" Rod, Nathaniel Motte, Nico Stadi, Oligee, Robert DeLong, Rock Mafia, RUMORS, SILAS, Stephen Anderson, Vicetone, Zedd	[553][554]
	Myrkur	Mausoleum	Black metal	Relapse		[555][556]
	Sabaton	The Last Stand	Power metal	Nuclear Blast	Peter Tägtgren	[557]
	Soilwork	Death Resonance		Nuclear Blast		[558][559]
	Trapt	DNA	Hard rock, alternative metal, post-grunge, nu metal		Crash Collide Records, The End, Alternative Distribution Alliance	[560]
	Watsky	x Infinity	Alternative hip hop	Steel Wool Media, EMPIRE	Watsky, Kush Mody, Russell Simmons, Anderson .Paak, Frans Mernick, Mikos Da Gawd, Daniel Riera, Wax, Andrew Oedel	[561]
August 20	Frank Ocean	Blonde	R&B	Def Jam, Boys Don't Cry	Bob Ludwig, Buddy Ross, Frank Ocean, Hudson Mohawke, Jamie XX, Michael Uzowuru, Mike Dean, Om'Mas Keith, Rostam Batmanglij, Pharrell Williams, Tyler, The Creator, Vegyn	[562]
August 26	The Album Leaf	Between Waves		Relapse		[563]
	The Bad Plus	It's Hard	Jazz	Okeh		[564]
	Barbra Streisand	Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway	Traditional pop	Columbia	Barbra Streisand, Walter Afanasieff	[565]
	Beginner	Advanced Chemistry	Hip hop			[566]
	Britney Spears	Glory	Dance-pop	RCA	Karen Kwak, Bloodpop, Dan Book, Burns, Cashmere Cat, Jason Evigan, Warren "Oak" Felder, Andrew Goldstein, Oscar Görres, Ian Kirkpatrick, Mattman & Robin, Mischke, Nick Monson, Alex Nice, Robopop, Lance Eric Shipp, Pat Thrall, Young Fyre, DJ Mustard, Twice as Nice, Jon Asher	[567]
	Carly Rae Jepsen	Emotion: Side B	Pop	604, School Boy, Interscope	Ben Romans, Carl Falk, CJ Baran, Dibs, Greg Kurstin, Kyle Shearer, Nick Ruth, Rami Yacoub, Ryan Stewart, TMS	[568]
	Celine Dion	Encore un soir	French pop	Columbia	Eddy Marnay, Humberto Gatica, Jacques Veneruso, Jean-Jacques Goldman, Luc Leroy, Ludovic Carquet, Marie-Louise Therry, Patrick Hampartzoumian, Rudi Pascal, Scott Price, Silvio Lisbonne, Thierry Blanchard, Yann Macé, Zaho	[569]
	De La Soul	and the Anonymous Nobody...	Hip hop	A.O.I. Records	The Anonymous Nobodies, Dave Palmer, Davey Chegwidden, De La Soul, Ethan Phillips, Joshua Matthew Lopez, Kaveh Rastegar, Money Mark, Pete Rock, Supa Dave West	[570]
	Florida Georgia Line	Dig Your Roots	Country	Big Machine	Joey Moi	[571]
	Glass Animals	How to Be a Human Being				[572]
	Ingrid Michaelson	It Doesn't Have to Make Sense	Indie pop	Cabin 24, Mom + Pop	Barry Dean, Cason Cooley, Chris Kuffner, Dan Romer, Ingrid Michaelson, Katie Herzig, Luke Laird	[573]
	Imany	The Wrong Kind of War	Pop	Think Zik!		[574]
	Marius Neset	Snowmelt	Jazz	ACT Music	Marius Neset, Anton Eger	[575][576]
	Sodom	Decision Day	Thrash metal	SPV/Steamhammer	Cornelius Rambadt	[577]

September

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
September 2	Angel Olsen	My Woman	Garage rock, dream pop, psychedelic rock, folk rock	Jagjaguwar	Justin Raisen, Angel Olsen	[578]
	A Day to Remember	Bad Vibrations	Metalcore, pop punk	ADTR, Epitaph	Bill Stevenson, Jason Livermore	[579]
	Eluvium	False Readings On		Temporary Residence		[580]
	La Femme	Mystère	Psychedelic rock	Born Bad Records		[581]
	James Vincent McMorrow	We Move	Alternative R&B	Faction Records, Believe Recordings, Mahogany Books, Burning Rope	James Vincent McMorrow, Nineteen85, Two Inch Punch, Frank Dukes	[582]
	Sophie Ellis-Bextor	Familia	Indie pop, folk, disco	EBGB's, Red Essential	Ed Harcourt	[583]
	Till Brönner	The Good Life	Jazz	Sony Masterworks		[584]
	Travis Scott	Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight	Hip hop	Grand Hustle, Epic	Allen Ritter, Boi-1da, Cardo, Cashmere Cat, Cubeatz, Daxz, dF, Frank Dukes, Hit-Boy, Honorable C.N.O.T.E., Illa Jones, Mel & Mus, Mike Dean, Murda Beatz, Nav, Nisi, OZ, Rogét Chahayed, Ricci Rierra, Sy Ari Da Kid, T.I., T-Minus, TEAUXNY, TM88, Travis Scott, Vinylz, WondaGurl, Yung Exclusive	[585]
	Ward Thomas	Cartwheels	Country pop	Sony Music	Jimmy Hogarth, Martin Terefe	[586][587]
	Wretch 32	Growing Over Life	Hip hop	Polydor		[588]
	Zomby	Ultra		Hyperdub		[589]
September 9	Bastille	Wild World	Indie pop	Virgin EMI, Virgin, Universal Music Group	Dan Smith, Mark Crew	[590]
	Bear Mountain	Badu		Last Gang		[591]
	clipping.	Splendor & Misery	Experimental hip hop	Sub Pop	William Hutson, Jonathan Snipes	[592]
	The Dear Hunter	Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional	Progressive rock, indie rock	Equal Vision	Casey Crescenzo	[593]
	Devin Townsend Project	Transcendence	Progressive metal, symphonic metal, progressive rock	HevyDevy Records	Adam "Nolly" Getgood, Devin Townsend	[594]
	Diorama	Zero Soldier Army	Synthpop			[595][596]
	Fences	To the Tall Trembling Trees	Alternative			[597]
	Gavin DeGraw	Something Worth Saving	Pop	RCA	Butch Walker, Dave Bassett, Gregg Wattenberg, Ian Kirkpatrick, Johan Carlsson, John Shanks, Ricky Reed	[598]
	Grouplove	Big Mess	Alternative rock, indie rock	Canvasback, Atlantic	Captain Cuts, Phil Ek, Ryan Rabin	[599]
	The Head and the Heart	Signs of Light	Indie folk, indie pop, indie rock	Warner Bros.	Jay Joyce	[600]
	Jack White	Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016	Acoustic, blues	Third Man, Columbia	Jack White, Beck, Brendan Benson, T Bone Burnett	[601]
	Jennifer Rostock	Genau in diesem Ton	Rock, punk, pop rock, electropop	Four Music	Alex Lys, Alexander Voigt, Christoph Deckert, Christopher Kohl, Crada, Jay Maas, Jennifer Rostock, Johannes Walter	[602]
	Local Natives	Sunlit Youth	Indie rock	Loma Vista, Infectious	Brian Joseph, Bob Kirwan, Catherine Marks, Lars Stalfors, Little Dragon, Local Natives	[603]
	KT Tunstall	KIN	Pop	Caroline, Sony/ATV Music	Tony Hoffer	[604][605]
	M.I.A.	AIM	Hip hop	Interscope, Polydor	ADP, Blaqstarr, Branko, Diplo, Fakear, João Barbosa, Justus Arison, Leo Justi, Levi Lennox, M.I.A., MC Renee, The Partysquad, Polow da Don, Richard X, Skrillex, Spanker, Surkin	[606]
	Meat Loaf	Braver Than We Are		Caroline International S&D, 429	Paul Crook	[607][608]
	Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds	Skeleton Tree	Alternative rock, electronica, ambient, avant-garde	Bad Seed Ltd.	Nick Cave, Nick Launay, Warren Ellis	[609]
	Norma Jean	Polar Similar	Metalcore, post-hardcore	Solid State	Josh Barber, Josh Holyaok, Norma Jean	[610]
	Of Mice & Men	Cold World	Nu metal, alternative metal, post-hardcore, metalcore	Rise	David Bendeth	[611]
	Safia	Internal	Electronic, indie pop	Parlophone , Warner Music Australasia	Safia	[612]
	Scott Tixier	Cosmic Adventure	Jazz	Sunnyside	Corelli Savarez, Donald Brown, François Zalacain, Schertler Group	[613]
	Teenage Fanclub	Here	Alternative rock			[614][615]
	Tigran Hamasyan, Arve Henriksen, Eivind Aarset, and Jan Bang	Atmosphères	Jazz	ECM		[616][617]
	What So Not	Divide & Conquer	Trap, EDM	OWSLA		[618][619]
	Wovenhand	Star Treatment		Sargent House, Glitterhouse		[620][621]
September 16	Aaron Lewis	Sinner	Country	Dot Records, Big Machine	Buddy Cannon	[622][623]
	Against Me!	Shape Shift with Me	Punk rock	Total Treble Music	Laura Jane Grace, Marc Hudson	[624]
	AlunaGeorge	I Remember	Electronic	Island	AlunaGeorge, Dante Jones, Flume, John Hill, Mark Ralph, Rock Mafia, Stint, Utters, Yogi, Zhu	[625]
	Anthony Callea	Backbone	Pop	Sony Music Australia	James Roche	[626]
	The Black Sorrows	Faithful Satellite	Blues, rock, soul	Head Records	Joe Camilleri, John McAll	[627]
	Bobby Rush	Porcupine Meat	Blues, Soul blues	Rounder	Scott Billington	[628][629][630]
	Brujeria	Pocho Aztlan	Deathgrind, groove metal	Nuclear Blast	Eddie Casillas, Huey Dee, Ross Gonzalez, Russ Russell	[631][632]
	Die Antwoord	Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid	Alternative hip hop, rave		God (formerly DJ Hi-Tek)	[633]
	Kent	Best Of	Alternative rock, pop rock	RCA, Sony Music	Daniel Alexander, Joshua, Martin von Schmalensee, Nille Perned, Stefan Boman, Zed	[634]
	Kishi Bashi	Sonderlust	Indie pop	Joyful Noise	Chris Taylor, Kishi Bashi	[635]
	Mac Miller	The Divine Feminine	Hip hop	Warner Bros.	Aja Grant, Dâm-Funk, DJ Dahi, Frank Dukes, Garcia Bros., ID Labs, JMSN, Kaan Gunesberk, MisterNeek, MusicMan Ty, Pomo, Tae Beast, Vinylz	[636][637]
	Taking Back Sunday	Tidal Wave	Alternative rock, rock	Hopeless	Mike Sapone	[638][639]
	Trentemøller	Fixion		In My Room		[640]
	Usher	Hard II Love	R&B, hip hop, trap	RCA	Usher Raymond IV, Mark Pitts, Jaha Johnson, Coup D'etat, B. A. M., Rock City, Pop & Oak, Raphael Saadiq, Tricky Stewart, The-Dream, Metro Boomin, PartyNextDoor, D'Mile, Frank Dukes, Paul Epworth, R!O, Kamo, f a l l e n, Carlos St. John, Fisticuffs, J. Hill, Tane Runo, Geniuz League, K-Major, xSDTRK	[641]
	Young Guns	Echoes	Alternative rock	Windup	David Bendeth	[642]
September 23	Airbourne	Breakin' Outta Hell	Hard rock	Spinefarm	Bob Marlette	[643][644]
	Billie Marten	Writing of Blues and Yellows	Folk jazz	RCA, Chess Club Records		[645][646]
	Bruce Springsteen	Chapter and Verse	Rock	Columbia	Bruce Springsteen	[647]
	Chris de Burgh	A Better World		Rockware	Chris de Burgh	[648][649]
	David Bowie	Who Can I Be Now? (1974–1976)	Glam rock, art rock	Parlophone	David Bowie, Harry Maslin, Tony Visconti	[650]
	Devendra Banhart	Ape in Pink Marble	Indie folk, indie, alternative	Nonesuch	Devendra Banhart, Noah Georgeson, Josiah Steinbrick	[651]
	Giraffe Tongue Orchestra	Broken Lines		Party Smasher, Cooking Vinyl	Steve Evetts, Ross Robinson	[652][653]
	Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam	I Had a Dream That You Were Mine	Indie rock	Glassnote	Rostam Batmanglij	[654]
	How to Dress Well	Care	Art pop	Domino, Weird World	Tom Krell, Jack Antonoff, Dre Skull, CFCF, Kara-Lis Coverdale	[655]
	Idina Menzel	idina.	Pop	Warner Bros.		[656]
	Kristin Chenoweth	The Art of Elegance	Vocal pop, jazz	Concord	Steve Tyrell	[657][658]
	Lady Wray	Queen Alone	R&B, soul	Big Crown Records	Leon Michels, Tom Brenneck	[659]
	Marillion	Fuck Everyone and Run (F E A R)	Neo-progressive rock	earMUSIC	Marillion, Mike Hunter	[660]
	Paper Route	Real Emotion	Alternative	Kemosabe, Sony Music	Paper Route	[661]
	Rachael Yamagata	Tightrope Walker		Frankenfish , Thirty Tigers	Rachael Yamagata, John Alagía	[662][663]
	Shawn Mendes	Illuminate	Pop	Island, Universal	Jake Gosling, Teddy Geiger, Dan Romer, Daniel "Daylight" Kyriakides, Laleh Pourkarim	[664]
	Skylar Grey	Natural Causes	Alternative pop	KidinaKorner, Interscope	Alex da Kid, Eminem, J. Griffin, Jayson DeZuzio, Luis Resto, Mark Batson, Mike Elizondo, S. Lowery, Skylar Grey, Symbolyc One	[665][666]
	Various artists	Trolls: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack		RCA	Justin Timberlake, The Outfit, Max Martin, Shellback, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Earth, Wind & Fire, Oscar Holter, Nile Rodgers, Timbaland	[667]
	Warpaint	Heads Up	Indie rock	Rough Trade	Jacob Bercovici, Warpaint	[668]
September 30	The Agonist	Five	Metalcore	Napalm	Mike Plotnikoff	[669]
	Banks	The Altar	Alternative R&B	Harvest	Al Shux, The Anmls, Aron Forbes, Ben Billions, Chris Spilfogel, Danny Boy Styles, DJ Dahi, John Hill, Sohn, Tim Anderson	[670][671]
	Bob Weir	Blue Mountain	Rock, folk, country	Legacy, Columbia	Bernie Cahill, Bob Weir, Josh Kaufman, Matt Busch	[672]
	Bon Iver	22, A Million	Indie folk, folktronica	Jagjaguwar	Justin Vernon	[673]
	Craig David	Following My Intuition	UK Garage, dance, tropical house	Sony Music, Insanity	Tre Jean-Marie, Kaytranada, White N3rd, TMS, Sigala, Blonde, Hitimpulse, Hardwell, Wez Clarke, Dave Tozer, Chris Connors, Ambrose Henri, Jack Ü, Richard Adlam, Hal Ritson, Shy FX, Alan Sampson, MYKL, Anthony Marshall	[674]
	Danny Brown	Atrocity Exhibition	Hip hop	Warp	The Alchemist, Black Milk, DJ Playa Haze, Evian Christ, Paul White, Petite Noir	[675][676]
	Deacon Blue	Believers				[677]
	Epica	The Holographic Principle	Symphonic metal	Nuclear Blast	Epica, Joost van der Broek	[678]
	Eric Clapton	Live in San Diego	Rock, blues rock, pop rock	Reprise	Simon Climie, Eric Clapton	[679][680]
	Hayley Kiyoko	Citrine	Pop	Atlantic	4e, Bram Inscore, Hayley Kiyoko	[681]
	Jenny Hval	Blood Bitch		Sacred Bones		[682]
	The Mowgli's	Where'd Your Weekend Go?		Photo Finish	Mike Green	[683]
	Opeth	Sorceress	Progressive metal, progressive rock	Nuclear Blast, Moderbolaget	Tom Dalgety	[684]
	Pixies	Head Carrier	Alternative rock, indie rock, pop rock	Pixiesmusic, PIAS	Tom Dalgety	[685][686]
	Poets of the Fall	Clearview	Alternative rock	Insomniac	Stefan Boman	[687]
	Regina Spektor	Remember Us to Life	Pop, alternative	Warner Bros., Sire		[688]
	Slaves	Take Control	Punk revival, hardcore punk	Virgin EMI	Mike D	[689]
	Solange	A Seat at the Table	Neo soul, R&B	Saint, Columbia	Adam Bainbridge, Bryndon Cook, Dave Sitek, David Longstreth, Kwes, Majical Cloudz, Olugbenga Adelekan, Patrick Wimberly, Q-Tip, Questlove, Raphael Saadiq, Raymond Angry, Sampha, Sir Dylan, Solange, Troy Johnson	[690][691]
	Suicidal Tendencies	World Gone Mad	Crossover thrash	Suicidal Records	Mike Muir, Paul Northfield	[692]
	Tor Miller	American English	Indie pop	Glassnote		[693]
	Van Morrison	Keep Me Singing	Rock	Caroline	Van Morrison	[694][695]
	Yello	Toy	Electronic dance music	Universal	Yello	[696]
	Yellowcard	Yellowcard	Alternative rock, pop punk	Hopeless	Neal Avron	[697]

Fourth quarter

October

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
October 7	Alter Bridge	The Last Hero	Alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal, progressive metal	Caroline, Napalm	Ben Grosse, Michael Baskette	[698]
	Archive	The False Foundation		Dangervisit, PIAS		[699]
	Barry Gibb	In the Now	Rock, country	Columbia	Barry Gibb, John Merchant	[700]
	Blaudzun	Jupiter	Indie pop	Glitterhouse, V2		[701]
	Colbie Caillat	The Malibu Sessions	Pop	PlummyLou Records		[702][703]
	Dance Gavin Dance	Mothership	Post-hardcore, experimental rock	Rise	Kris Crummett	[704]
	Daya	Sit Still, Look Pretty	Synthpop, electropop	Z Entertainment, Artbeatz, RED Distribution	Gino Barletta, Jamie P. Velez, Jonas Jeberg, Lukas Loules, Omega, Scott Bruzenak, Steven Zap, Teal Douville	[705]
	Ennio Morricone	Morricone 60		Decca		[706]
	Eric Benét	Eric Benét	R&B, neo soul, jazz	Jordan House, BMG		[707]
	Feeder	All Bright Electric	Alternative rock, post-grunge, indie rock, art rock, post-punk	Cooking Vinyl	Feeder, Tim Roe, Todd Kinnon	[708][709]
	Glen Phillips	Swallowed by the New				[710]
	Green Day	Revolution Radio	Punk rock, pop punk, alternative rock	Reprise	Green Day	[711]
	Kaiser Chiefs	Stay Together	Indie rock, Britpop	Polydor, B-Unique	Kaiser Chiefs, Brian Higgins	[712]
	Kate Ceberano	The Monash Sessions	Jazz	Jazzhead, MGM Distribution	James Mustafa	[713][714]
	Loretta Lynn	White Christmas Blue	Country	Legacy		[715]
	Melissa Etheridge	MEmphis Rock and Soul	Rock, Memphis soul	Stax		[716]
	Meshuggah	The Violent Sleep of Reason	Extreme metal, progressive metal, avant-garde metal	Nuclear Blast	Meshuggah, Tue Madsen	[717][718]
	NOFX	First Ditch Effort	Punk rock	Fat Wreck Chords	Cameron Webb	[719][720]
	Norah Jones	Day Breaks	Jazz, pop rock	Blue Note	Eli Wolf, Norah Jones, Sarah Oda	[721][722]
	OneRepublic	Oh My My	Pop, pop rock	Mosley, Interscope	Benny Blanco, Brandon Collins, Brent Kutzle, Cassius, Katalyst, MojaveGhst, Noel Zancanella, Ryan Tedder, Steve Wilmot, Zach Skelton	[723]
	Phantogram	Three	Electronic	Republic	Ricky Reed	[724][725]
	Placebo	Life's What You Make It	Alternative rock	Rise		[726]
	Placebo	A Place for Us to Dream	Alternative rock	Rise	Adam Noble, Brad Wood, Dare Mason, David Bottrill, Dimitri Tikovoï, Jim Abbiss, Paul Corkett, Phil Vinall, Placebo, Steve Osborne	[727]
	Sebastian Kole	Soup	Pop	Motown		[728]
	Set It Off	Upside Down		Rude, Equal Vision	Brandon Paddock, Erik Ron, Mike Green	[729]
	Sum 41	13 Voices	Alternative metal, alternative rock, punk rock, pop punk	Hopeless	Deryck Whibley	[730][731]
	White Lies	Friends	Indie rock	BMG	White Lies	[732]
October 10	BTS	Wings	Hip hop, EDM, R&B, trap	Big Hit	BTS, Chris 'Tricky' Stewart, DOCSKIM, James Reynolds, Josh Wilkinson, Kevin Moore, Medor J. Pierre, Miss Kay, Pdogg, Philtre, Primary, Rap Monster, Sam Klempner, Slow Rabbit, Suga, Tony Esterly	[733]
October 14	The Answer	Solas			Andy Bradfield, Avril Macintosh	[734]
	Beth Hart	Fire on the Floor	Blues rock	Provogue		[735]
	Chris Young	It Must Be Christmas	Country, Christmas	RCA Nashville	Chris Young, Corey Crowder	[736]
	Conor Oberst	Ruminations	Indie rock	Nonesuch	Conor Oberst	[737]
	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Dissociation	Mathcore, experimental rock	Party Smasher, Cooking Vinyl	Steve Evetts	[738]
	Donny McCaslin	Beyond Now	Jazz	Motéma Music		[739]
	French Montana	MC4	Hip hop	Coke Boys, Bad Boy, Maybach Music Group, Epic	The Alchemist, The ANMLS, Ben Billions, Bizzy, CritaCal, Cubeatz, Danny Boy Styles, Detail, DJ Khaled, DJ Khalil, Earl and E, Harry Fraud, iLLA, LJ Milan, Maaly Raw, Masar, The Mekanics, Murda Beatz, Rick Steel, Sauce Lord Rich, Sidney Swift, The Superiors	[740]
	Harald Lassen	Rainbow Session	Jazz	Hagen Recordings	Harald Lassen	[741]
	Hillsong Worship	Let There Be Light	Worship	Hillsong, Sparrow, Capitol	Michael Guy Chislett	[742][743]
	Jessica Mauboy	The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series		Sony Music Australia		[744]
	JoJo	Mad Love	R&B	Atlantic	ADP, Josh Monroy, JUSSIFER, Matt Friedman, Michael Kintish, MNEK, Oscar Holter, Rock Mafia, Ryan Gray Hawken, SeventyEight, TJ Routon	[745]
	Katie Melua featuring Gori Women's Choir	In Winter		BMG Chrysalis, 8Ball Records	Katie Melua, Adam 'Cecil' Bartlett	[746][747]
	Kings of Leon	Walls	Rock	RCA	Markus Dravs	[748]
	Lisa Mitchell	Warriors	Pop	Warner Music Australia	Eric Dubowsky	[749][750]
	The Naked and Famous	Simple Forms	Indie electronic	Somewhat Damaged, Kobalt Label Services	The Naked and Famous, Sombear	[751]
	The Orb	COW / Chill Out, World!	Electronica, dub, IDM, chill-out	Kompakt	The Orb	[752]
	Phil Collins	The Singles		Rhino		[753][754]
	Rebecca Ferguson	Superwoman	R&B	Syco, Sony Music	Matt Prime, Phil Cook, Troy Miller	[755][756]
	Sabrina Carpenter	EVOLution	Pop	Hollywood	Daylight, Halatrax, Ido Zmishlany, Jimmy Robbins, NONFICTION, Rob Persaud, Ryan Ogren, Steve Mac	[757]
	Tom Chaplin	The Wave	Pop	Island	Matt Hales	[758]
	Two Door Cinema Club	Gameshow	Indie rock	Parlophone	Jacknife Lee	[759]
	Two Tongues	Two Tongues Two		Equal Vision		[760]
October 21	Amaranthe	Maximalism	Metalcore, power metal, glam metal	Spinefarm	Elize Ryd, Jacob Hansen, Olof Mörck	[761]
	American Football	American Football	Rock	Polyvinyl	American Football, Jason Cupp	[762]
	David Crosby	Lighthouse	Rock	GroundUP Music		[763][764]
	The Dean Ween Group	The Deaner Album		ATO	Dean Ween	[765]
	D.R.A.M.	Big Baby D.R.A.M.	Hip hop	Atlantic, Empire	The ANMLS, Ben Billions, Cardo, Charlie Heat, Chris McClenney, Dan Stuckie, Donnie Trumpet, Gabe Niles, J Gramm, Karl Rubin, LosHendrix, Mike Dean, Pablo Dylan, Ricky Reed, Roofeeo, Rogét Chahayed, SamTrax, Yung Exclusive	[766]
	Elvis Presley	The Wonder of You	Orchestral pop	RCA, Legacy	Don Reedman, Nick Patrick, Priscilla Presley	[767]
	I Prevail	Lifelines	Post-hardcore, metalcore, alternative rock	Fearless	BJ Perry, John A. Pregler	[768][769]
	Jimmy Eat World	Integrity Blues	Rock	RCA	Justin Meldal-Johnsen	[770]
	Joe Budden	Rage & The Machine	Hip hop	Mood Muzik Entertainment, EMPIRE	AraabMuzik	[771]
	Korn	The Serenity of Suffering	Nu metal	Roadrunner	Nick Raskulinecz	[772][773]
	Lady Gaga	Joanne	Soft rock, dance-pop	Interscope	BloodPop, Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, Josh Homme, Kevin Parker, Lady Gaga, Mark Ronson, RedOne	[774][775]
	Leonard Cohen	You Want It Darker	Folk, soft rock	Columbia	Leonard Cohen, Adam Cohen, Patrick Leonard	[776]
	Melanie C	Version of Me	Pop, indie, alternative	Red Girl	Paul Boddy, Dele Ladimeji, SOS Music, Tom Wilding	[777]
	Michael Bublé	Nobody but Me	Traditional pop, vocal jazz	Reprise	Alan Chang, Jason "Spicy G" Goldman, Johan Carlsson, Michael Bublé, The Monsters and the Strangerz	[778][779]
	Pentatonix	A Pentatonix Christmas	A cappella, Christmas	RCA	Alex Green, Andrew Kesler, Ben Bram, PTX	[780]
	The Pretty Reckless	Who You Selling For	Rock	Razor & Tie	Kato Khandwala	[781][782]
	R. Kelly	12 Nights of Christmas	R&B, soul	RCA	R. Kelly	[783][784]
	The Radio Dept.	Running Out of Love	Dream pop, indie pop, electronic	Labrador		[785]
	Rascal Flatts	The Greatest Gift of All	Country, Christmas	Big Machine		[786]
	Saint Motel	saintmotelevision	Indie pop	Elektra, OnThe Records, Parlophone		[787]
	Sarah McLachlan	Wonderland	Christmas	Verve	Pierre Marchand	[788][789]
October 28	Avenged Sevenfold	The Stage	Heavy metal, thrash metal, progressive metal	Capitol	Joe Barresi	[790][791]
	Black M	Éternel insatisfait	French hip hop, French pop	Wati B, Sony Music, Jive, Epic	Barack Adama, Black M, Boaz van de Beatz, Dadju, Dany Synthé, Diplo, Elji Beatzkilla, FB Cool, Hcue, Jo A, Manu Dibango, Philip Meckseper, Raphael Koua, Renaud Rebillaud, Shakira, Skalp, Supa Dups, Zaho	[792][793][794]
	Courteeners	Mapping the Rendezvous	Indie rock	Ignition Records		[795]
	CRX	New Skin	Hard rock, stoner rock, industrial rock, power pop	Columbia	Josh Homme	[796]
	Empire of the Sun	Two Vines	EDM, synthpop, electronic, new wave	Astralwerks, Capitol	Empire of the Sun, Peter Mayes, Donnie Sloan	[797]
	Giorgia	Oronero		Microphonica, Sony Music Italy	Michele Canova	[798][799]
	Helmet	Dead to the World	Alternative metal	earMUSIC	Page Hamilton	[800]
	James Arthur	Back from the Edge	Pop	Columbia	Adam Argyle, Alex Beitzke, Bradley Spence, Jeeve, Jonathan Quarmby, Pete "Boxsta" Martin, Red Triangle, Steve Solomon	[801]
	Jeezy	Trap or Die 3	Hip hop, trap	Def Jam, CTE World	30 Roc, Big Korey, D. Rich, DJ Montay, Doda 1K, Kenoe, Mike Will Made It, P.C., PD, S-X, Shawty Redd	[802]
	Jennifer Nettles	To Celebrate Christmas	Country, Christmas	Big Machine	Julian Raymond	[803]
	Kacey Musgraves	A Very Kacey Christmas	Country, Christmas	Mercury Nashville	Kacey Musgraves, Kyle Ryan, Misa Arriaga	[804]
	Kate Voegele	Canyonlands				[805]
	Kenny Chesney	Cosmic Hallelujah	Country	Blue Chair, Columbia Nashville	Buddy Cannon, Kenny Chesney	[806]
	LeAnn Rimes	Remnants	Country, rock, country pop	Sony Music	Darrell Brown, John Hume, LeAnn Rimes, Mark Batson, Niko Bolas, Steve Jordan	[807]
	Madness	Can't Touch Us Now	Ska, pop, reggae	Lucky 7	Clive Langer, Liam Watson	[808]
	Rachael Sage	Choreographic				[809]
	Testament	Brotherhood of the Snake	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast	Juan Urteaga	[810]
	Tkay Maidza	Tkay	Synthpop, hip hop, grime, witch house	Downtown, Interscope	Christoph Andersson, Dan Farber, Dann Hume, Dre Skull, Friend Within, King Henry, Lewis Cancut, LK McKay, Noah Breakfast, Salva, Stefan Gräslund, What So Not	[811][812]
	Tove Lo	Lady Wood	Electropop, synthpop, dance-pop, tech house	Island	Ali Payami, Chords, Hyperbits, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Joel Little, The Knocks, Oscar Holter, OzGo, Rickard Gorranson, The Struts	[813]

November

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
November 4	Alicia Keys	Here	R&B, soul, hip hop	RCA	Alicia Keys, Swizz Beatz, Erika Rose Santoro, Mark Batson, Illangelo, Jimmy Napes, Pharrell Williams, Harold Lilly	[814]
	B.o.B	Elements	Hip hop	No Genre		[815]
	Bon Jovi	This House Is Not for Sale	Rock, hard rock	Island	John Shanks, Jon Bon Jovi	[816]
	The Chainsmokers	Collage	EDM	Disruptor, Columbia	Andrew Taggart, Alex Pall	[817]
	Client Liaison	Diplomatic Immunity	Electronic pop, indie pop, new wave, synthpop	Dot Dash Recordings, Remote Control, Inertia	Client Liaison	[818]
	Common	Black America Again	Hip hop	ARTium, Def Jam	Frank Dukes, Karriem Riggins, Robert Glasper	[819][820]
	Dark Tranquillity	Atoma	Melodic death metal, progressive metal, gothic metal, industrial metal	Century Media	Dark Tranquillity, Jens Bogren	[821]
	Efterklang	Leaves – The Colour of Falling		Tambourhinoceros		[822]
	The Fray	Through the Years: The Best of the Fray	Pop rock	Epic	Aaron Johnson, Brendan O'Brien, Mike Flynn, Ryan Tedder, Stuart Price	[823]
	HammerFall	Built to Last	Heavy metal, power metal	Napalm	James Michael, Oscar Dronjak, Pontus Norgren	[824]
	Jaws	Simplicity				[825]
	Jim James	Eternally Even	Indie rock, psychedelic rock, alternative rock	ATO, Capitol	Blake Mills, Jim James	[826]
	Keke Palmer	Lauren	R&B, trap, soul	Island		[827]
	Kungs	Layers	Deep house, tropical house	House of Barclay	Kungs	[828][829][830]
	Laura Pausini	Laura Xmas	Christmas music, jazz, swing	Warner	Laura Pausini, Patrick Williams	[831][832]
	Marcus & Martinus	Together	Pop	Sony Music Entertainment Norway		[833][834]
	La Oreja de Van Gogh	El planeta imaginario	Pop, pop rock	Sony Music	Áureo Baqueiro	[835][836]
	Queen	On Air	Rock, hard rock	Virgin EMI, Hollywood	Kris Fredriksson, Josh Macrae, Justin Shirley-Smith	[837]
	Robbie Williams	The Heavy Entertainment Show		Columbia	Guy Chambers, Jonny Coffer, Richard Flack, Stuart Price, Steve Robson, Johnny McDaid, Gary Go	[838]
	Susan Boyle	A Wonderful World	Adult contemporary	Syco, Columbia, Sony Music	Cliff Masterson, Steve Anderson	[839]
	Tinashe	Nightride	Alternative R&B	RCA	Allen Ritter, Atu, The Beat Bully, Boi-1da, Brent Reynolds, Dev Hynes, Dpat, The-Dream, Illangelo, Joel Compass, King Kachingwe, Metro Boomin, Sango, Stephen Spencer, Vinylz	[840]
	Tom Aspaul	LEFT	Pop	BLK&WHT Records	The Dealer, MNEK, Chris Hutchings	[841][842]
	Unheilig	Von Mensch zu Mensch		Vertigo		[843]
	Waterparks	Double Dare	Pop punk	Equal Vision		[844]
November 11	Animals as Leaders	The Madness of Many	Progressive metal, djent	Sumerian	Animals as Leaders	[845][846]
	Bob Dylan	The 1966 Live Recordings	Folk	Sony Music		[847]
	David Bowie	Bowie Legacy	Rock	Sony Music	Alan Winstanley, Brian Eno, Brian Rawling, Clive Langer, David Bowie, David Richards, Derek Bramble, Gary Miller, Gus Dudgeon, Harry Maslin, Hugh Padgham, Ken Scott, Mark Plati, Nile Rodgers, Nine Inch Nails, Pat Metheny, Photek, Queen, Reeves Gabrels, Tony Visconti	[848]
	Dragonette	Royal Blues	Electropop			[849]
	Emeli Sandé	Long Live the Angels	Pop, gospel, trip hop	Virgin, EMI	Chris Loco, Emeli Sandé, Jonny Coffer, Mac & Phil, Mojam, Naughty Boy, ProducerWez, Rachet, Shakaveli, TMS	[850][851]
	Enigma	The Fall of a Rebel Angel	New age, pop, electronica, downtempo	Baloo Music S.A.	Michael Cretu	[852]
	In Flames	Battles	Alternative metal	Eleven Seven, Nuclear Blast	Howard Benson	[853]
	John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John	Friends for Christmas	Pop, Christmas music	Sony Music Australia	Chong Lim	[854]
	Mina & Celentano	Le migliori		Clan/PDU		[855]
	Nathan Sykes	Unfinished Business	Pop, R&B, EDM	Global Entertainment	Diane Warren, Harmony Samuels, Jin Choi, LDN Noise, Martin Sjølie, Matthew Burnett, Nathan Sykes, Riley Bell, Talay Riley	[856]
	Olly Murs	24 Hrs	Pop	Epic	Carl Falk, Cutfather, Daniel Davidsen, Electric, Matt Rad, Peter Wallevik, Steve Mac, Steve Robson, TMS, William Ristorp	[857]
	Ronnie Dunn	Tattooed Heart	Country	Nash Icon	Jay DeMarcus, Ronnie Dunn, Tommy Lee Jame	[858]
	Simple Minds	Acoustic	Rock, new wave, post-punk, alternative rock	Caroline International		[859]
	Sirenia	Dim Days of Dolor	Gothic metal, symphonic metal, doom metal	Napalm	Morten Veland	[860]
	Sleigh Bells	Jessica Rabbit	Noise pop, electronica, industrial rock	Torn Clean	Sleigh Bells	[861][862]
	Sting	57th & 9th	Pop rock	Cherrytree, Interscope, A&M	Martin Kierszenbaum	[863][864]
	A Tribe Called Quest	We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service	Alternative hip hop, jazz rap	Epic, Sony Music	A Tribe Called Quest, Blair Wells, Q-Tip	[865][866]
	Various artists	Christmas Queens 2	Christmas, pop, comedy	Producer Entertainment Group		[867]
November 12	Jan Gunnar Hoff	Stories	Jazz	2L	Lindberg Lyd	[868]
November 18	6LACK	Free 6LACK	Hip hop, R&B	LoveRenaissance, Interscope	6LACK, Aleksi Asiala, Alexander Leone, Bizness Boi, Breyan Isaac, Childish Major, Dot da Genius, Frank Dukes, FWDSLXSH, Jakob Rabitsch, Jared Gagarin, Karl Rubin, MDS, Nova, OZ, Roofeeo, Singawd, Southside, Sky Sense, Take A Daytrip	[869]
	Bic Runga	Close Your Eyes		Sony Music New Zealand	Bic Runga, Kody Nielsen	[870]
	Bridgit Mendler	Nemesis	Soul, indie, Alternative R&B, R&B, electronica	Black Box	Mischa Chillak, Spencer Bastian	[871]
	Bruno Mars	24K Magic	Funk	Atlantic	Emile Haynie, Jeff Bhasker, Shampoo Press & Curl, The Stereotypes	[872][873]
	Disturbed	Live at Red Rocks		Warner Bros.		[874]
	DNCE	DNCE	Pop	Republic	Aaron Z, Albin Nedler, Ilya Salmanzadeh, Kristoffer Fogelmark, Mattman & Robin, OzGo, Rami Yacoub, Sir Nolan	[875]
	E-40	The D-Boy Diary: Book 1	Hip hop	Heavy on the Grind Entertainment	Brandon "Brvndon P" Peavy, DecadeZ, DJ Mumblezz, Droop-E, iLLA, Istevie, June Onna Beat, Kent Jones, Mally Mall, The Mekanix, Mike Free, ProHoeZak, RAYTONA, Rick Rock, Scorp Dezel, Ted DiGTL, Zaytoven	[876]
	E-40	The D-Boy Diary: Book 2	Hip hop	Heavy on the Grind Entertainment	Baby Treeze, Brandon "Brvndon P" Peavy, Christopher "B-Man" Alcorn, DecadeZ, Disko Boogie, Droop-E, Fre$h On the Beat, June Onna Beat, Lil B, Nard & B, ReeceBeats, Rick Rock, Ted DiGTL, Willy Will, XL Eagle	[876]
	High Valley	Dear Life	Country	Atlantic, Warner Nashville	Seth Mosley	[877]
	Highly Suspect	The Boy Who Died Wolf	Alternative rock	300 Entertainment	Joel Hamilton	[878]
	Justice	Woman	Nu-disco, funk, electro	Because, Ed Banger	Justice	[879]
	Little Mix	Glory Days	Electronic club, rhythm and blues	Syco, Columbia	Adam Midgley, Cutfather, Dan Bartlett, Daniel Davidsen, Electric, Freedo, JMIKE, Joe Kearns, Johan Carlsson, Kuya, Maegan Cottone, Matt Rad, MNEK, Nick Atkinson, Noah Passovoy, Peter Wallevik, Robopop, Steve James, Steve Robson, Tommy Baxter	[880]
	Ligabue	Made in Italy		Warner Music Italy		[881]
	Metallica	Hardwired... to Self-Destruct	Thrash metal	Blackened Recordings	Greg Fidelman, James Hetfield, Lars Ulrich	[882]
	Miranda Lambert	The Weight of These Wings	Country	RCA Nashville	Eric Masse, Frank Liddell, Glenn Worf	[883][884]
	Pink Martini	Je dis oui!		Heinz Records	Kyle Mustain, Thomas Lauderdale	[885]
	Sixx:A.M.	Prayers for the Blessed		Eleven Seven		[886][887]
	Thee Oh Sees	An Odd Entrances	Garage rock, psychedelic rock	Castle Face		[888]
November 19	Tanaka/Lindvall/Wallumrød	3 Pianos	Jazz	Nakama Records		[889]
November 22	Prince	4Ever	Pop, rock, funk	NPG, Warner Bros.	Prince, The Revolution, Rick Chertoff	[890]
November 25	Flume	Skin Companion EP			Harley Streten	[891]
	Garth Brooks	Gunslinger	Country	Pearl	Mark Miller	[892]
	Guy Sebastian	Part 1	Pop	Sony Music Australia		[893]
	Kate Bush	Before the Dawn	Progressive pop, art pop, art rock	Concord, Fish People	Kate Bush	[894]
	Kylie Minogue	Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition	Christmas, traditional pop	Parlophone, Warner Bros.	Kylie Minogue, Steve Anderson, Ash Howes, Richard Stannard, Charles Pignone, Matt Prime, Stargate, Daniel Davidsen, Peter Wallevik, Chong Lim, Eric J. Dubowsky	[895]
	Rumer	This Girl's in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook	Pop	East West, Warner Bros.		[896][897]
	The Weeknd	Starboy	R&B	XO, Republic	Ben Billions, Cirkut, Daft Punk, Doc McKinney, Frank Dukes, Mano, Metro Boomin, The Weeknd, Sir Sylan, DaHeala, Max Martin, Peter Svensson, Savan Kotecha, Ali Payami, Cashmere Cat, Benny Blanco, Jake One, Labrinth, Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Dan Wilson, Diplo, Prince 85	[898]

December

Release date	Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref.
December 2	Avenged Sevenfold	The Best of 2005–2013	Heavy metal, hard rock	Warner Bros.	Adam Cook, Andrew Murdock, Avenged Sevenfold, Mike Elizondo, Terry Date	[899]
	Childish Gambino	"Awaken, My Love!"		Glassnote	Childish Gambino, Ludwig Göransson	[900]
	deadmau5	W:/2016ALBUM/	Electro house, progressive house	mau5trap	Joel Zimmerman	[901][902]
	Grace VanderWaal	Perfectly Imperfect		Columbia		[903]
	Jean-Michel Jarre	Oxygène 3	Electronic		Jean-Michel Jarre	[904]
	John Legend	Darkness and Light	R&B, soul	Columbia, GOOD	Blake Mills, John Ryan, Greg Kurstin, Miguel, BloodPop, Ludwig Göransson, The Belle Brigade, Eg White	[905]
	The Narrative	Golden Silence	Indie rock, synthpop		Bryan Russell, The Narrative	[906]
	Pete Doherty	Hamburg Demonstrations		BMG, Clouds Hill	Johann Scheerer	[907]
	The Rolling Stones	Blue & Lonesome	Blues	Polydor	Don Was, The Glimmer Twins	[908][909]
	Tiziano Ferro	Il mestiere della vita	Pop	Universal	Michele Canova	[910]
	Various artists	The Hamilton Mixtape	Hip hop, R&B, soul, dancehall	Atlantic		[911]
	Vaults	Caught in Still Life		Virgin EMI		[912]
December 9	The Colorist Orchestra & Emilíana Torrini	The Colorist & Emilíana Torrini		Rough Trade		[913][914]
	Hodgy	Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide	Hip hop	Odd Future, RED	88-Keys, BadBadNotGood, Jonti, Knxwledge, Nottz, Rahki, Unknown Mortal Orchestra	[915]
	Isaiah Firebrace	Isaiah	Pop	Sony Music Australia		[916]
	J. Cole	4 Your Eyez Only	Hip hop	Dreamville, Roc Nation		[917]
	LP	Lost on You				[918]
	Neil Young	Peace Trail	Rock	Reprise	John Hanlon, Neil Young	[919]
	Maria Taylor	In The Next Life	Singer-Songwriter	Flower Moon Records	Produced, recorded and engineered by Nik Freitas, co-produced by Maria Taylor.	[920]
	Post Malone	Stoney	Hip hop	Republic	Charlie Handsome, FKi, Foreign Teck, Frank Dukes, Illangelo, Justin Mosely, Leon Thomas III, Louis Bell, Masamune Kudo, Metro Boomin, Post Malone, Roofeeo, Vinylz	[921]
Tech N9ne	The Storm	Hip hop	Strange		[922]
December 16	Buddy Goode	More Rubbish		Goode Times Music, ABC Music		[923]
	Kid Cudi	Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'		Wicked Awesome, Republic	Kid Cudi, Dot da Genius, Mike Dean, Mike Will Made It, Plain Pat, Pharrell Williams , J Gramm	[924][925]
	Tony Bennett	Tony Bennett Celebrates 90	Jazz	Columbia		[926]

Unscheduled and TBA

Artist	Album	Genre	Label	Producer	Ref
50 Cent	Street King Immortal	Hip hop	G-Unit, Caroline, Capitol	50 Cent, TM88, Sonny Digital, London on da Track, Zaytoven, Frank Dukes, Remo The Hitmaker, Metro Boomin	[927][928]
Aminata Savadogo	Red Moon				[929][930]
Arca	Reverie	Electronic, experimental	Mute	Arca	[931]
Azealia Banks	Business and Pleasure		Prospect Park		[932]
Bad Religion	TBA	Punk rock	Epitaph		[933][934]
The Black Eyed Peas	TBA				[935]
Brand New	TBA	Alternative rock	Procrastinate! Music Traitors		[936]
Cheryl	TBA		Polydor		[937]
Cold	TBA		Napalm		[938]
Christina Aguilera	TBA		RCA		[939]
Danzig	Danzig Sings Elvis	Heavy metal, gothic metal	Evilive, The End		[940][941]
Doro	TBA	Heavy metal, hard rock	Nuclear Blast		[942]
Dúné	TBA		Universal		[943]
Falling in Reverse	TBA		Epitaph		[944]
Fergie	Double Dutchess		will.i.am, Interscope		[945]
GZA	Dark Matter	Hip hop	Liquid Swords, Babygrande		[946]
Haim	TBA			Ariel Rechtshaid, Rostam Batmanglij	[947]
Hope Sandoval & the Warm Inventions	TBA	Dream pop	Tendril Tales	Hope Sandoval, Colm Ó Cíosóig, Jim Putnam	[948]
Illy	TBA			Cam Bluff, Nick Knight, Rahki, M-Phazes	[949]
Incubus	Trust Fall (Side B)				[950][951]
Kreator	TBA	Thrash metal	Nuclear Blast		[952][953]
Linkin Park	TBA	Rock	Warner Bros.		[954]
Lush	TBA				[955]
Magnum	TBA		SPV/Steamhammer		[956]
Metric	TBA	Synthpop	Metric Music International, Universal		[957]
Modest Mouse	TBA	Indie rock	Epic		[958]
Nine Inch Nails	TBA	Industrial rock			[959]
October Tide	TBA	Death-doom	Agonia Records		[960]
Paulina Rubio	TBA	Latin pop	Universal Music Spain		[961]
Pearl Jam	TBA		Monkeywrench, Republic		[962]
Rage	TBA	Power metal			[963]
Rotting Christ	TBA	Extreme metal	Season of Mist	Sakis Tolis	[964]
Steeleye Span	Dodgy Bastards				[965]
Tinashe	Joyride	R&B	RCA		[966][967]
VIMIC	Open Your Omen		Roadrunner	Kato Khandwala	[968][969]
Voivod	TBA	Progressive metal	Century Media		[970]
Wiz Khalifa	Rolling Papers 2: The Weed Album	Hip hop	Taylor Gang, Rostrum, Atlantic	ID Labs, Cozmo, Mike WiLL Made-It, Ricky P, Stargate, Jim Jonsin, Dr. Dre, Eminem, Rick Rubin, Timbaland, Snoop Dogg	[971]
X Japan	TBA	Speed metal		Yoshiki	[972][973]
Zendaya	TBA	Pop, R&B	Republic, Hollywood		[974]

See also

• 2016 in music

References