The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2016. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2016 in music.
First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2016 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Rachel Platten Wildfire Pop, power pop, soul Columbia January6 Misia Love Bebop Pop, soul, dance-pop Ariola January8 David Bowie Blackstar Art rock, experimental rock, jazz Columbia, RCA, Sony Music Full of Hell Amber Mote in the Black Vault Grindcore Bad Teeth Recordings Hinds Leave Me Alone Garage rock, lo-fi Mom + Pop Ignite A War Against You Melodic hardcore Century Media Marshmello Joytime Future bass, progressive house, trap Joytime Collective Villagers Where Have You Been All My Life? Indie folk Domino January15 Anderson .Paak Malibu Hip-hop, R&B, soul Steel Wool, OBE, EMPIRE Ben Monder, Pete Rende, Andrew Cyrille, Paul Motian Amorphae Jazz ECM Blaze Ya Dead Homie The Casket Factory Gangsta rap, horrorcore Majik Ninja Entertainment Brothers Osborne Pawn Shop Country EMI Nashville Charles Lloyd & The Marvels I Long to See You Jazz Blue Note Classified Greatful Hip-hop Halflife Records, Universal Music Canada Daughter Not to Disappear Alternative pop 4AD Daz and Snoop Cuzznz West Coast hip-hop, G-funk Felder Entertainment Inc. Hank Williams Jr. It's About Time Country, Southern rock Nash Icon Lecrae Church Clothes 3 Christian hip-hop, conscious hip-hop Reach Panic! at the Disco Death of a Bachelor Pop rock, pop, rock DCD2, Fueled by Ramen Randy Rogers Band Nothing Shines Like Neon Country Tommy Jackson Records Show of Hands The Long Way Home Folk Hands on Music Skunk Anansie Anarchytecture Alternative rock earMUSIC, Carosello January21 Jesu and Sun Kil Moon Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Post-metal, indie folk, electronic music Caldo Verde, Rough Trade January22 The Besnard Lakes A Coliseum Complex Museum Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, indie rock Jagjaguwar Cait Brennan Debutante Indie rock Alternative Distribution Alliance Chairlift Moth Synth-pop, indie pop, electropop Columbia Conrad Keely Original Machines Rock Superball Eleanor Friedberger New View Indie rock Frenchkiss Half Japanese Perfect Art punk, indie rock Joyful Noise The I Don't Cares Wild Stab Rock Dry Wood Music John Cale M:FANS Experimental rock, industrial rock, electronic Double Six Lionheart Love Don't Live Here Hardcore punk, metalcore LHHC Records, Beatdown Hardwear Records Megadeth Dystopia Thrash metal Tradecraft, Universal The Mute Gods Do Nothing till You Hear from Me Progressive rock, pop rock Inside Out Mystery Jets Curve of the Earth Indie rock Caroline Roam Backbone Pop punk Hopeless Rüfüs Bloom Alternative dance Sweat It Out Savages Adore Life Post-punk Matador Shearwater Jet Plane and Oxbow Indie rock Sub Pop Steve Angello Wild Youth Indie rock, electro house Size Records Steven Wilson 4½ Progressive rock Kscope Suede Night Thoughts Art rock Warner Bros. Tank Sex Love & Pain II R&B Atlantic Tindersticks The Waiting Room Chamber pop City Slang, Lucky Dog Tortoise The Catastrophist Post-rock Thrill Jockey Tricky Skilled Mechanics Trip hop False Idols, !K7 Records Ty Segall Emotional Mugger Garage rock, hard rock, glam rock Drag City Ulver ATGCLVLSSCAP Experimental, psychedelic rock House of Mythology January28 Massive Attack Ritual Spirit Trip hop, electronica Virgin Rihanna Anti Pop, dancehall, alternative R&B Westbury Road, Roc Nation January29 Aubrie Sellers New City Blues Country, country pop Carnival Avantasia Ghostlights Symphonic metal, hard rock, power metal Nuclear Blast Basement Promise Everything Alternative rock Run for Cover Bill Frisell When You Wish Upon a Star Jazz Okeh Bloc Party Hymns Indie rock, alternative dance Infectious, BMG, Vagrant Bury Tomorrow Earthbound Metalcore Nuclear Blast Charlie Puth Nine Track Mind Pop, R&B Atlantic Dream Theater The Astonishing Progressive metal, progressive rock Roadrunner Kevin Gates Islah Hip-hop Atlantic, Bread Winners' Association Michael W. Smith Hymns II The MWS Group Money Suicide Songs Bella Union Saul Williams MartyrLoserKing Alternative hip-hop Fader Label Sia This Is Acting Pop Monkey Puzzle, RCA St. Lucia Matter Synth-pop Columbia Tedeschi Trucks Band Let Me Get By Blues, rock, R&B Fantasy Tord Gustavsen, Simin Tander, Jarle Vespestad What Was Said Jazz ECM Wet Don't You Indie pop, indie electronic, dream pop Columbia Yanni Sensuous Chill Easy listening, new-age Portrait, Sony Masterworks
February + List of albums released in February 2016 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February3 BIGBANG Made Series Dance-pop, PBR&B, hip-hop YG Entertainment, Avex Trax Magnum Sacred Blood "Divine" Lies Rock SPV/Steamhammer February5 Anchor & Braille Songs for the Late Night Drive Home Alternative rock, electronic rock, shoegaze Tooth & Nail Charles Kelley The Driver Country Capitol Nashville The Cult Hidden City Hard rock Cooking Vinyl DIIV Is the Is Are Indie rock, shoegaze, krautrock Captured Tracks Dr. Dog The Psychedelic Swamp Indie rock, blues rock, neo-psychedelia Anti- Drowning Pool Hellelujah Alternative metal eOne Elton John Wonderful Crazy Night Rock, soft rock, vocal jazz Capitol, Mercury Eric Prydz Opus House, progressive house, electro house Virgin Field Music Commontime Indie pop, funk Memphis Industries Fleshgod Apocalypse King Symphonic metal Nuclear Blast Foxes All I Need Synth-pop Sign of the Times, Epic, RCA Junior Boys Big Black Coat Electronic, technopop, EDM City Slang Lion Babe Begin R&B, neo soul, electronica Interscope, Polydor Lucinda Williams The Ghosts of Highway 20 Country Highway 20 Records Majid Jordan Majid Jordan R&B, PBR&B, synth-pop OVO Sound, Warner Bros. Obscura Akrøasis Progressive metal, technical death metal Relapse Prong X – No Absolutes Groove metal, thrash metal Steamhammer/SPV Textures Phenotype Progressive metal, metalcore Nuclear Blast Trixie Whitley Porta Bohemica Wiz Khalifa Khalifa Hip-hop Taylor Gang, Rostrum, Atlantic February6 Future Evol Hip-hop, trap A1, Freebandz, Epic February8 Haywyre Two Fold Pt. 2 Future bass, house Monstercat February12 Basia Bulat Good Advice Indie pop, folk Secret City Beyond the Black Lost in Forever Symphonic metal, power metal Airforce1 Records, We Love Music, Universal Daughtry It's Not Over...The Hits So FarAlternative rock, hard rock, pop rock RCA, 19 El Guincho Hiperasia R&B, Latin Everlasting Records, Canada The Jezabels Synthia Indie rock, alternative rock Dine Alone Kula Shaker K2.0 Rock, psychedelic rock, raga rock StrangeF.O.L.K. Lacey Sturm Life Screams Hard rock, Christian rock Followspot Records Lissie My Wild West Folk, rock Lionboy, Thirty Tigers Pinegrove Cardinal Americana Run for Cover That Poppy Bubblebath Pop Island Radiation City Synesthetica Alternative rock, dream pop Polyvinyl Ronan Keating Time of My Life Pop Decca Rotting Christ Rituals Black metal, dark metal Season of Mist The Suffers The Suffers Soul Rhyme & Reason Records Vince Gill Down to My Last Bad Habit Country MCA Nashville Wynonna & the Big Noise Wynonna & the Big Noise Country Curb February14 Currensy and the Alchemist The Carrollton Heist Hip-hop ALC Records, Jet Life Kanye West The Life of Pablo Hip-hop GOOD Music, Def Jam Mýa Smoove Jones R&B, soul, hip-hop Planet 9 February15 Illenium Ashes Electronic, progressive house, dubstep Kasaya, Seeking Blue February17 CFCF On Vacation International Feel February19 After the Burial Dig Deep Progressive metal, djent Sumerian Animal Collective Painting With Psychedelic pop Domino BJ the Chicago Kid In My Mind R&B Motown Creeper The Stranger Horror punk, punk rock Roadrunner The Fall Wise Ol' Man Post-punk Cherry Red Jack Garratt Phase Indie pop, PBR&B Island Lake Street Dive Side Pony Pop, indie pop Nonesuch Marlon Williams Marlon Williams Rock Caroline Australia Mavis Staples Livin' on a High Note R&B, soul, roots rock Anti-, Epitaph Myrath Legacy Progressive metal, Oriental metal, Arabic music Groove Master Records, King Ra Ra Riot Need Your Light Indie rock Barsuk Ralph Alessi, Gary Versace, Drew Gress, Nasheet Waits Quiver Jazz Simple Plan Taking One for the Team Pop punk, punk rock, power pop Atlantic Wolfmother Victorious Hard rock, heavy metal, stoner rock Universal Yo Gotti The Art of Hustle Hip-hop Epic, CMG Yoko Ono Yes, I'm a Witch Too Manimal February26 The 1975 I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It Indie rock, new wave, synth-pop Interscope, Dirty Hit, Polydor Anthrax For All Kings Thrash metal Megaforce, Nuclear Blast Anvil Anvil Is Anvil Heavy metal, speed metal SPV/Steamhammer Bonnie Raitt Dig In Deep Rock, blues, Americana Redwing Records Charli XCX Vroom Vroom Experimental pop, wonky pop, electronic Vroom Vroom Recordings The Dirty Nil Higher Power Punk rock, rock and roll Dine Alone The Gloaming 2 Folk Brassland Hands Like Houses Dissonants Post-hardcore, alternative rock Rise Lucy Dacus No Burden Indie rock, indie folk, power pop EggHunt, Matador Macklemore & Ryan Lewis This Unruly Mess I've Made Hip-hop Macklemore LLC Quilt Plaza Indie folk, psychedelic folk Mexican Summer Santigold 99¢ Art pop, alternative dance, new wave Atlantic School of Seven Bells SVIIB Indie rock, dream pop, shoegaze Vagrant, Full Time Hobby Trondheim Jazz Orchestra with Kim Myhr and Jenny Hval In the End His Voice Will Be the Sound of Paper Jazz Hubro Music TV Girl Who Really Cares Indie pop Tweet Charlene R&B, soul, neo soul eOne Voivod Post Society Progressive metal Century Media Willie Nelson Summertime: Willie Nelson Sings Gershwin Country Legacy Yuck Stranger Things Indie rock, alternative rock Mamé Records February29 Lemon Demon Spirit Phone Pop Needlejuice
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