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The following is a list of notable events and releases that have happened or are expected to happen in 2016 in music in the United States.

Events

January

February

March

April

May

June

July

August

September

  • 30 — Bon Iver released their first album in five years.[3]

October

  • 14 — JoJo released her first album in ten years titled Mad Love.

November

December

Bands formed

Bands reformed

Bands on hiatus

Bands disbanded

Albums released in 2016

January

Date Album Artist Genre
1 In My Feelings (Goin’ Thru It)[8] Boosie Badazz Hip hop
Wildfire Rachel Platten Pop
6 Miss Morgan Myles EP[9] Morgan Myles Country
8 A War Against You Ignite Melodic hardcore
15 Malibu Anderson. Paak
The Casket Factory[10] Blaze Ya Dead Homie
Pawn Shop Brothers Osborne Country
Cuzznz[11] Daz and Snoop
Church Clothes 3[12] Lecrae
Death of a Bachelor[13] Panic! at the Disco
Nothing Shines Like Neon'[14] Randy Rogers Band Country
It's About Time Hank Williams, Jr.
21 Jesu/Sun Kil Moon Jesu and Sun Kil Moon
22 The Boop-A-Doo Cherry Poppin' Daddies[15]
Debutante[16][17] Cait Brennan Indie rock
Moth[18][19] Chairlift
New View[20] Eleanor Friedberger
Perfect[21] Half Japanese
We Come Apart[22] Sonya Kitchell
Dystopia[23] Megadeth Thrash metal
99¢[24] Santigold
Emotional Mugger[25][26] Ty Segall
Jet Plane and Oxbow[27] Shearwater
Sex Love & Pain II[28] Tank
The Catastrophist [29] Tortoise Post-rock
Something About April II[30] Adrian Younge
29 Pillars of Ash[31][32] Black Tusk
Bridges[33] Cavo Hard rock
The Astonishing[34] Dream Theater
Islah[35] Kevin Gates Hip hop
American Appetite[36] Harriet
Who Sold My Generation[37] Night Beats Rock
X (No Absolutes)[38] Prong
Nine Track Mind Charlie Puth
Anti Rihanna Pop, R&B
New City Blues Aubrie Sellers
Matter[39] St. Lucia Synthpop
Let Me Get By[40] Tedeschi Trucks Band
10 Ways to Steal Home Plate[41] Wolfgang Gartner Electro house

February

Date Album Artist Genre
5 Songs for the Late Night Drive Home[42] Anchor & Braille
Is the Is Are[43] DIIV
The Driver Charles Kelley Country
Evol Future Hip hop, trap
Majid Jordan Majid Jordan
Porta Bohemica[44] Trixie Whitley
The Ghosts of Highway 20[45] Lucinda Williams Country
Khalifa Wiz Khalifa Hip hop
12 It's Not Over...The Hits So Far Daughtry
Oil & Water Lee DeWyze
Down to My Last Bad Habit[9] Vince Gill Country
Synitha The Jezabels Indie Rock
Lorrie Morgan Letting Go...Slow Country
Wynonna & the Big Noise[9] Wynonna Judd Country
Family Dinner - Volume 2 Snarky Puppy Jazz fusion
Life Screams[46] Lacy Sturm
14 Hymns That Are Important to Us[9] Joey + Rory Christian country
The Life of Pablo Kanye West Hip hop
19 Need Your Light[47] Ra Ra Riot Indie rock
26 For All Kings Anthrax[48]
Anvil is Anvil Anvil
This Unruly Mess I've Made Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Hip hop
Dig In Deep Bonnie Raitt
Drinking from a Salt Pond Run River North
Turning Point Chuck Wicks Country

March

Date Album Artist Genre
4 ColleGrove 2 Chainz Hip hop
Piece by Piece Remixed Kelly Clarkson
untitled unmastered. Kendrick Lamar
Full Circle[9] Loretta Lynn Country
United Curshers Polica Synth pop
Remington Granger Smith Country
iii Miike Snow Indie rock
Limitless Tonight Alive Pop punk
This Means War ZZ Ward Blues rock
11 Us and the Night 3 Doors Down
After Party Adore Delano
All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend AURORA
"3001: A Laced Odyssey" Flatbush Zombies Hip hop
Painkillers Brian Fallon
Fired Up Randy Houser Country
Incarnate Killswitch Engage
18 Letting You In Kris Allen
Change of Fortune Soul Asylum Alternative rock
This Is What the Truth Feels Like Gwen Stefani Pop
25 Sept. 5th dvsn
XI Metal Church
Patch the Sky Bob Mould
Slime Season 3 Young Thug Hip hop, trap

April

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 Kentucky Black Stone Cherry
Welcome the Worms Bleached
Changes Charles Bradley Soul
Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello Cheap Trick Rock
The Wilderness Explosions in the Sky Post-rock
TWENTY88 Twenty88
Weezer Weezer
8 Gore Deftones
Cleopatra The Lumineers
Book of Shadows II Zakk Wylde Heavy Metal
15 The Diary J Dilla Hip hop
This Path Tonight Graham Nash Rock
Layers Royce da 5'9" Hip hop
Santana IV Santana Latin rock
22 Always Strive and Prosper ASAP Ferg Hip hop
Please Be Honest Guided By Voices
Therapy Session NF Hip hop
23 Lemonade Beyoncé R&B
29 Reckless Martina McBride Country
Better Haley Reinhart
Prayers for the Damned Sixx:A.M.
Culcha Vulcha Snarky Puppy Jazz fusion
Dust Tremonti
The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser Rob Zombie Heavy metal

May

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Acoustia Alex Lloyd Acoustic
6 Bottomless Pit Death Grips Experimental hip hop
Boxes Goo Goo Dolls Alternative rock
Detour Cyndi Lauper Country
At Night, Alone. Mike Posner
You Should Be Here Cole Swindell Country
Ripcord [49] Keith Urban
13 Night Sports 3OH!3
Coloring Book Chance the Rapper Hip hop, gospel rap
Trust no One DevilDriver
Cloud Nine Kygo Electronic
Playing with Fire Jennifer Nettles Country
Misadventures Pierce the Veil
Thank You Meghan Trainor
18 Up At Night Cimorelli Teen pop
20 Drive Amerie R&B
I Still Do Eric Clapton
Fallen Angels Bob Dylan Rock
Dangerous Woman Ariana Grande Pop
Camp Echo Highsakite Indie
If I'm Honest Blake Shelton Country
27 Black Dierks Bentley Country
Double Vanity Broncho Indie rock
The Evil Divide Death Angel Thrash metal
7/27 Fifth Harmony
Skin Flume Electronica
The Home Inside My Head[50][51] Real Friends Pop punk
To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere[52] Thrice Post-hardcore
30 Threatened By The Thorns Carmela Torres

June

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Unden!able Hellyeah Heavy metal
Obsessed Dan + Shay Country
A Whole Lot More to Me Craig Morgan Country
Hero Maren Morris Country
Summer Cassadee Pope
Stranger to Stranger Paul Simon Folk rock
Train Does Led Zeppelin II Train
10 El Río Frankie Ballard Country
Why Are You OK Band of Horses
Big Day in a Small Town Brandy Clark Country
Fitz and The Tantrums Fitz and The Tantrums
Strange Little Birds Garbage Alternative rock
A/B Kaleo Rock
Wanderlust Little Big Town
Last Year Was Complicated[53] Nick Jonas Pop
Egomaniac KONGOS
17 The Fighters LoCash Country
California Sunrise Jon Pardi Country
The Getaway Red Hot Chili Peppers Rock
Still Brazy YG West coast hip hop
24 True Sadness The Avett Brothers Folk rock
Blood, Sweat & 3 Years Cash Cash
On Desire Drowners Indie rock
26 New English Desiigner Trap

July

Date Album Artist Genre(s)
1 California Blink-182
FMA Grace Hip hop soul
Bobby Tarantino Logic Hip hop
blackSUMMER'S'night Maxwell
Coolaid Snoop Dogg West Coast hip hop
Waking at Dawn Roy Woods
8 The North Corridor Chevelle Rock
Blank Face LP Schoolboy Q Hip hop
15 Savage Mode 21 Savage and Metro Boomin Hip hop
No Hard Feelings Dreezy Hip hop, R&B
Youth Authority Good Charlotte
Kidz Bop 32 Kidz Bop Kids
Fighter David Nail[9] Country
We're All Somebody From Somewhere Steven Tyler[9]
22 Everybody Looking Gucci Mane Hip hop
Lil Durk 2X Lil Durk Hip hop, trap
Periphery III: Select Difficulty Periphery
29 Major Key DJ Khaled Hip hop
American Love Jake Owen Country
Love Remains Hillary Scott & the Scott Family Gospel
Generationwhy Zhu Electronic

August

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Bury Me In Boots The Cadillac Three Country
Encore DJ Snake Electronic
Hurricane Nick Fradiani Pop
Girl Problems Chris Lane Country pop
Unleashed Skillet
Now 59 Various Various artists
Boy King Wild Beasts
12 And Then Like Lions Blind Pilots
Kinda Don't Care Justin Moore Country
PartyNextDoor 3 PartyNextDoor
SremmLife 2 Rae Sremmurd
Home of the Strange Young the Giant[54]
19 4 July Carl Broemel
Endless Frank Ocean
Pure & Simple Dolly Parton Country
20 Blonde Frank Ocean
26 Dig Your Roots Florida Georgia Line Country
As Seen on the Internet Futuristic
It Doesn't Have to Make Sense Ingrid Michaelson Pop rock
Glory Britney Spears Pop
Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway Barbra Streisand Traditional pop
Stay Gold Butch Walker Alternative rock
Jeffery Young Thug

September

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
2 Bad Vibrations A Day to Remember
The Sun's Tirade Isaiah Rashad Hip hop
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight Travis Scott
6 My Kind of Christmas Reba McEntire
9 They Don't Know Jason Aldean Country
Thin Line Billy Ray Cyrus Country
Big Mess Grouplove
Signs of Light The Head and the Heart
Leo Rising Karmin Pop
Why? Jacob Whitesides
16 Shape Shift with Me Against Me!
I Remember AlunaGeorge Alternative pop
Legends Never Die Chinx Hip hop
Sinner Aaron Lewis Country
Braver Than We Are Meat Loaf Rock
The Divine Feminine Mac Miller
Tidal Wave Taking Back Sunday
Hard II Love Usher
23 The Art of Elegance Kristin Chenoweth
Natural Causes Skylar Grey Alternative pop
The Healing Component Mick Jenkins Hip hop
idina. Idina Menzel Pop
Chapter and Verse Bruce Springsteen Rock
Heads Up Warpaint Indie rock
Swimmin' Pools, Movie Stars Dwight Yoakam Country
27 Atrocity Exhibition Danny Brown Alternative hip hop
30 The Altar Banks Alternative R&B
22, A Million[3] Bon Iver
Head Carrier Pixies
A Seat at the Table Solange
Remember Us To Life Regina Spektor Indie pop
Blue Mountain Bob Weir Folk rock
Yellowcard Yellowcard

October

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
7 The Last Hero Alter Bridge Alternative metal
Sit Still, Look Pretty Daya Pop
Revolution Radio[55] Green Day Punk rock
Day Breaks Norah Jones
First Ditch Effort NOFX Punk rock
Oh My My OneRepublic Pop rock
Big Boat Phish Rock
Climate Change Pitbull Hip hop
Upside Down Set It Off
14 1992 The Game
Woptober Gucci Mane
Kevin Hart: What Now?
(The Mixtape Presents Chocolate Droppa)
Kevin Hart
Mad Love JoJo
Walls Kings of Leon Rock
It Must Be Christmas Chris Young
21 Lighthouse David Crosby Rock
Big Baby D.R.A.M. D.R.A.M.
Tattooed Heart Ronnie Dunn Country
Integrity Blues Jimmy Eat World Rock
The Serenity of Suffering KoЯn Nu metal
Joanne Lady Gaga Pop
Love Gloom Night Riots Alternative rock
A Pentatonix Christmas Pentatonix
saintmotelevision Saint Motel Indie pop
28 The Stage Avenged Sevenfold
'Tis the SeaSon Jimmy Buffett Christmas
Cosmic Hallelujah Kenny Chesney Country
Glow Brett Eldredge
Someday at Christmas Jackie Evancho
Trap or Die 3 Jeezy
DC4 Meek Mill
A Very Kacey Christmas Kacey Musgraves
To Celebrate Christmas Jennifer Nettles
'Tis the Season Jordan Smith Christmas
Brotherhood of the Snake Testament Thrash metal
Lady Wood Tove Lo Pop

November

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
4 This House Is Not for Sale Bon Jovi Rock
Here Alicia Keys
SafetySuit SafetySuit
Nightride Tinashe Alternative R&B
11 We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service A Tribe Called Quest
Christmas Together Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
Tattooed Heart Ronnie Dunn Country
Simply Christmas Leslie Odom Jr. Christmas
Coke N Butter O.T. Genasis
Jessica Rabbit Sleigh Bells
18 Free 6LACK 6LACK
DNCE DNCE Pop
The D-Boy Diary: Book 1 E-40
The D-Boy Diary: Book 2
Dear Life High Valley Country
Don't Waste Your Wishes The Killers Christmas
The Weight of These Wings Miranda Lambert Country
24K Magic Bruno Mars
Nemesis Bridgit Mendler Pop
Hardwired...to Self-Destruct Metallica Thrash Metal
An Odd Entrances Thee Oh Sees
25 Gunslinger Garth Brooks Country

December

Date Album Artist Genre (s)
2 "Awaken, My Love!" Childish Gambino R&B
Darkness and Light John Legend R&B
Don't Smoke Rock Smoke DZA, Pete Rock
9 4 Your Eyez Only J. Cole
Peace Trail Neil Young
Stoney Post Malone
The Storm Tech N9ne
Do What Thou Wilt. Ab-Soul
Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide Hodgy
Hamilton, Charles Charles Hamilton
16 Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin' Kid Cudi
The Return of East Atlanta Santa Gucci Mane
23 Not the Actual Events Nine Inch Nails Industrial Rock
White Friday (CM9) Yo Gotti Hip hop
25 Run the Jewels 3 Run the Jewels Hip hop

Top hits on record

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Hits

Billboard Hot 100 Hits – Singles which have ranked within Top 20

Deaths

See also

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