Concept albums have been produced by bands and solo artists across all musical genres. In popular music, a concept album is an album that is "unified by a theme, which can be instrumental, compositional, narrative, or lyrical." The following is a list with specific verification by reliable sources of being notable concept albums.
0–9 2nd Chapter of Acts – The Roar of Love (1980) The 1975 – A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships (2018)
A Ab-Soul – Control System (2012) A Tribe Called Red – We Are the Halluci Nation (2016) Acid Mothers Temple – St. Captain Freak Out & the Magic Bamboo Request (2002) Aesop Rock – Labor Days (2001) After Forever – Invisible Circles (2004) Against Me! – Searching for a Former Clarity (2005) Against Me! – Transgender Dysphoria Blues (2014) Ahab – The Call of the Wretched Sea (2006) Ahab – The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" (2015) Al Stewart – Past, Present, and Future (1973) Alan Parsons – The Time Machine (1999) The Alan Parsons Project – Tales of Mystery and Imagination (1976) The Alan Parsons Project – I Robot (1977) The Alan Parsons Project – Pyramid (1978) The Alan Parsons Project – Eve (1979) The Alan Parsons Project – The Turn of a Friendly Card (1980) The Alan Parsons Project – Eye in the Sky (1982) The Alan Parsons Project – Ammonia Avenue (1984) The Alan Parsons Project – Vulture Culture (1985) The Alan Parsons Project – Stereotomy (1985) The Alan Parsons Project – Gaudi (1987) Alanis Morissette – Jagged Little Pill (1995) Alesana – The Emptiness (2010) Alesana – A Place Where the Sun Is Silent (2011) Alesana – Confessions (2015) Alex Cameron – Forced Witness (2017) Alex Cameron – Miami Memory (2019) Alice Cooper – School's Out (1972) Alice Cooper – Billion Dollar Babies (1973) Alice Cooper – Welcome to My Nightmare (1975) Alice Cooper – Alice Cooper Goes to Hell (1976) Alice Cooper – From the Inside (1978) Alice Cooper – The Last Temptation (1994) Alice Cooper – Along Came a Spider (2008) Alice Cooper – Welcome 2 My Nightmare (2011) Alice Cooper – Paranormal (2017) Alice Cooper – Detroit Stories (2021) Alice Cooper – Road (2023) Alice in Chains – Dirt (1992) Allen Toussaint – Southern Nights (1975) Alter Bridge – AB III (2010) AJR – Neotheater (2019) AJR – The Maybe Man (2023) Amon Amarth – Jomsviking (2016) Anaïs Mitchell – Hadestown (2010) Ancient – The Cainian Chronicle (1996) Andrew Lloyd Webber – Evita (1976) Andy Black – The Ghost of Ohio (2019) Andy Shauf - The Party (2016) Angels and Airwaves – We Don't Need To Whisper (2006) Angels and Airwaves – I-Empire (2007) Angels and Airwaves – Love (2010) Angels and Airwaves – Love: Part Two (2011) Angels and Airwaves – The Dream Walker (2014) Angra – Temple of Shadows (2004) The Antlers – Hospice (2009) Aphrodites Child – 666 (1972) The Apples In Stereo – Travellers In Space and Time (2010) The Appleseed Cast – Mare Vitalis (2000) Arcade Fire – Funeral (2004) Arcade Fire – Neon Bible (2007) Arcade Fire – The Suburbs (2010) Arcade Fire – Reflektor (2013) Arcade Fire – Everything Now (2017) Arctic Monkeys – Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not (2006) Arctic Monkeys – Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino (2018) Armor for Sleep – What to Do When You Are Dead (2005) Attack Attack! – This Means War (2012) Aurora – A Different Kind of Human (Step 2) (2019) Aurora – The Gods We Can Touch (2022) The Avalanches – Since I Left You (2000) Ava Max – Heaven & Hell (2020) Avantasia – The Metal Opera (2001) Avantasia – The Metal Opera Part II (2002) Avantasia – The Scarecrow (2008) Avantasia – The Mystery of Time (2013) Avantasia – Ghostlights (2016) Avatar – Feathers and Flesh (2016) Avatar – Avatar Country (2018) Avenged Sevenfold – The Stage (2016) Ayreon – The Final Experiment (1995) Ayreon – Into the Electric Castle (1998) Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 1: The Dream Sequencer (2000) Ayreon – Universal Migrator Part 2: Flight of the Migrator (2000) Ayreon – The Human Equation (2004) Ayreon – 01011001 (2008) Ayreon – The Theory of Everything (2013) Ayreon – The Source (2017) Ayreon – Transitus (2020)
B B'z – Friends (1992) B'z – Friends II (1996) B'z – Friends III (2021) Babymetal – Metal Galaxy (2019) Babymetal – The Other One (2023) The Band – The Band (1969) Barbra Streisand – Wet (1979) Bastille – Doom Days (2019) Bastille – Give Me the Future (2022) Bastille – "&" (2024) Bat for Lashes – The Bride (2016) Bathory – Blood on Ice (1996) The Beach Boys – Surfin' Safari (1962) The Beach Boys – Surfin' U.S.A. (1963) The Beach Boys – Surfer Girl (1963) The Beach Boys – Little Deuce Coupe (1963) The Beach Boys – Shut Down Volume 2 (1964) The Beach Boys – All Summer Long (1964) The Beach Boys – The Beach Boys Today! (1965) The Beach Boys – Pet Sounds (1966) The Beach Boys – Smile (1966–1967) The Beatles – Rubber Soul (1965) The Beatles – Revolver (1966) The Beatles – Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1967) Bee Gees – Odessa (1969) Between the Buried and Me – Colors (2007) Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax: Hypersleep Dialogues (2011) Between the Buried and Me – The Parallax II: Future Sequence (2012) Between the Buried and Me – Coma Ecliptic (2015) Between the Buried and Me – Automata II (2018) Beyoncé – I Am... Sasha Fierce (2008) Beyoncé – Lemonade (2016) Big K.R.I.T. – Cadillactica (2014) Big K.R.I.T. – 4eva Is a Mighty Long Time (2017) Big Sean – I Decided (2017) Billy Idol – Cyberpunk (1993) Billy Joel – The Nylon Curtain (1982) Billy Joel – An Innocent Man (1983) Billy Woods and Kenny Segal – Maps (2023) Björk – Biophilia (2011) Björk – Vulnicura (2015) Black Country, New Road – Ants from Up There (2022) Black Veil Brides – Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones (2013) Black Veil Brides – Vale (2018) Black Veil Brides – The Phantom Tomorrow (2021) Blackfield – Blackfield V (2017) Blind Guardian – Nightfall in Middle-Earth (1998) Blind Guardian – Legacy of the Dark Lands (2019) Blink-182 – Take Off Your Pants And Jacket (2001)Nathan Brackett. (2004). The New Rolling Stone Album Guide. New York: Fireside, 904 pp. First edition, 2004. Blink-182 – Blink-182 (2003) Blue Man Group – The Complex (2003) Blue October – Any Man in America (2010) Blue Öyster Cult – Imaginos (1988) Blues Traveler – Decisions of the Sky (2000) Blur – Modern Life is Rubbish (1993)Moody, Paul. "Blur – Modern Life Is Rubbish". NME. May 8, 1993. Blur – Parklife (1994) Bob Johnson & Peter Knight - The King of Elfland’s Daughter (1977) Bobby Conn – Rise Up! (1998) Bomb the Music Industry! – Vacation (2011) Bon Iver – For Emma, Forever Ago (2007) Boublil & Schönberg – Les Misérables (1980)Behr, Edward (1993). The Complete Book of Les Misérables. New York: Arcade Publishing. p. 51 Boys Night Out – Trainwreck (2005) Brakence – Hypochondriac (2022) Brandon Flowers – Thrasher (2026) Brendon Small – Brendon Small's Galaktikon (2012) Brian Wilson – Smile (2004) Bring Me the Horizon – That's the Spirit (2015) Bring Me the Horizon – Amo (2019) Bring Me the Horizon – Post Human: Nex Gen (2024) Britney Spears – Britney Jean (2013) Brockhampton – The Family (2022) Bryan Scary and the Shredding Tears – Flight of the Knife (2008) BTS – Map of the Soul: 7 (2020) The Buggles – The Age of Plastic (1980) Burzum – Dauði Baldrs (1997) Burzum – Hliðskjálf (1999)
C Camel – The Snow Goose (1975) Camel – Moonmadness (1976) Camel – Nude (1981) Camel – Stationary Traveller (1984) Camel – Harbour of Tears (1996) Camper Van Beethoven – New Roman Times (2004) Candy Claws – Ceres & Calypso in the Deep Time (2013) Caparezza – Le dimensioni del mio caos (2008) Caparezza – Il sogno eretico (2011) Caparezza – Museica (2014) Car Seat Headrest – Twin Fantasy (2011) Car Seat Headrest - Teens of Denial (2016) Carach Angren – Lammendam (2008) Carach Angren – Death Came Through a Phantom Ship (2010) Carach Angren – Where the Corpses Sink Forever (2012) Carach Angren – This Is No Fairytale (2015) The Caretaker – An Empty Bliss Beyond This World (2011) The Caretaker – Everywhere at the End of Time (2016–2019) Cat System Corp. – News at 11 (2016) Catch 22 – Permanent Revolution (2006) Cherry Poppin' Daddies – Susquehanna (2008) Childish Gambino – Camp (2011) Childish Gambino – Because the Internet (2013) Childish Gambino – 3.15.20 (2020) Christine and the Queens – Redcar les adorables étoiles (prologue) (2022) Christine and the Queens – Paranoia, Angels, True Love (2023) Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross (2010) Christopher Lee – Charlemagne: The Omens of Death (2013) Chumbawamba – Pictures of Starving Children Sell Records (1986) Chvrches – Screen Violence (2021) Clairo – Sling (2021) Clipping. – Splendor & Misery (2016) CMX – Talvikuningas (2007) Coheed and Cambria – The Second Stage Turbine Blade (2002) Coheed and Cambria – In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3 (2003) Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume One: From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness (2005) Coheed and Cambria – Good Apollo, I'm Burning Star IV, Volume Two: No World for Tomorrow (2007) Coheed and Cambria – Year of the Black Rainbow (2010) Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Ascension (2012) Coheed and Cambria – The Afterman: Descension (2013) Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures (2018) Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act II: A Window of the Waking Mind (2022) Coheed and Cambria – Vaxis – Act III: The Father of Make Believe (2025) Cold 187um – The Only Solution (2012) Coldplay – Mylo Xyloto (2011) Coldplay – Music of the Spheres (2021) Conan Gray – Found Heaven (2024) Conan Gray – Wishbone (2025) Cradle of Filth – Godspeed on the Devil's Thunder (2008) Cradle of Filth – Darkly, Darkly, Venus Aversa (2010) Creeper – Eternity, in Your Arms (2017) Cursive – Domestica (2000) Cursive – The Ugly Organ (2003) Cursive – Happy Hollow (2006) Cynic – Carbon-Based Anatomy (2011)
D Daft Punk – Discovery (2001) Danger Doom – The Mouse and the Mask (2005) Daniel Liam Glyn – Changing Stations (2016) Daniel Liam Glyn – Nocturnes (2020) Dave – Psychodrama (2019) Dave Greenslade – Cactus Choir (1976) David Bowie – The Man Who Sold the World (1970) Chap. 4 David Bowie – The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972) David Bowie – Diamond Dogs (1974) David Bowie – Outside (1995) David Bowie – Blackstar (2016) Deadlock – Manifesto (2008) The Dear Hunter – Act I: The Lake South, The River North (2006) The Dear Hunter – Act II: The Meaning of, and All Things Regarding Ms. Leading (2007) The Dear Hunter – Act III: Life and Death (2009) The Dear Hunter – The Color Spectrum (2011) The Dear Hunter – Act IV: Rebirth in Reprise (2015) The Dear Hunter – Act V: Hymns with the Devil in Confessional (2016) Death Cab for Cutie – Transatlanticism (2003) The Decemberists – The Crane Wife (2006) The Decemberists – The Hazards of Love (2009) Defeater – Lost Ground (2004) Defeater – Travels (2008) Defeater – Empty Days & Sleepless Nights (2011) Defeater – Letters Home (2013) Defeater – Abandoned (2015) Deftones – White Pony (2000)Gavin Haynes, "Deftones: ‘It took a tragedy for us to really reconnect’", The Guardian, April 14, 2016 Deltron 3030 – Deltron 3030 (2000) Denzel Curry – TA13OO (2018)Jbanks. (2021, October 5). Denzel Curry on meaning of 'ta13oo' album, attending XXXTentacion's funeral + meeting Lil Peep [watch]. KPWR-FM. Retrieved May 10, 2022, from https://www.power106.com/2018/09/20/denzel-curry-on-meaning-of-ta13oo-album-attending-xxxtentacions-funeral-meeting-lil-peep-watch/