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2016 in American music

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Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
1	In My Feelings (Goin’ Thru It)^[12]	Boosie Badazz	Hip hop
1	Wildfire	Rachel Platten	Pop
8	A War Against You	Ignite	Melodic hardcore
15	Malibu	Anderson. Paak	Hip hop R&B soul
	The Casket Factory^[13]	Blaze Ya Dead Homie	Gangsta rap horrorcore
	Pawn Shop	Brothers Osborne	Country
	Cuzznz^[14]	Daz and Snoop	West Coast hip hop G-funk
	Church Clothes 3^[15]	Lecrae	Christian hip hop conscious hip hop
	Death of a Bachelor^[16]	Panic! at the Disco	Hip hop pop rock
	Nothing Shines Like Neon^[17]	Randy Rogers Band	Country
	It's About Time	Hank Williams, Jr.	Country rock Southern rock
21	Jesu/Sun Kil Moon	Jesu and Sun Kil Moon	Post-metal indie folk electronic music ambient music spoken word
22	The Boop-A-Doo	Cherry Poppin' Daddies^[18]	Jazz swing
	Debutante^[19]^[20]	Cait Brennan	Indie rock
	Moth^[21]^[22]	Chairlift	Indie pop
	New View^[23]	Eleanor Friedberger
	Perfect^[24]	Half Japanese	Art punk indie rock
	We Come Apart^[25]	Sonya Kitchell
	Dystopia^[26]	Megadeth	Thrash metal
	99¢^[27]	Santigold	Art pop alternative dance new wave
	Emotional Mugger^[28]^[29]	Ty Segall	Garage rock hard rock glam rock
	Jet Plane and Oxbow^[30]	Shearwater	Indie rock Sub Pop
	Sex Love & Pain II^[31]	Tank	R&B soul
	The Catastrophist^[32]	Tortoise	Post-rock
	Something About April II^[33]	Adrian Younge	Soul R&B
29	Pillars of Ash^[34]^[35]	Black Tusk
	Bridges^[36]	Cavo	Hard rock
	The Astonishing^[37]	Dream Theater	Progressive metal progressive rock
	Islah^[38]	Kevin Gates	Hip hop
	American Appetite^[39]	Harriet
	Paper Plane	Anya Marina	Indie rock
	Who Sold My Generation^[40]	Night Beats	Rock
	X (No Absolutes)^[41]	Prong
	Nine Track Mind	Charlie Puth	Pop
	Anti	Rihanna	R&B
	New City Blues	Aubrie Sellers	Country country pop
	Let Me Get By^[42]	Tedeschi Trucks Band	Blues Rock R&B Soul
	MartyrLoserKing	Saul Williams	Alternative hip hop
	10 Ways to Steal Home Plate^[43]	Wolfgang Gartner	Electro house

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
5	Songs for the Late Night Drive Home^[44]	Anchor & Braille	Alternative rock electronic rock shoegazing post-punk revival
	Is the Is Are^[45]	DIIV	Indie rock shoegazing krautrock
	Hellelujah	Drowning Pool	Heavy metal alternative metal
	Evol	Future	Hip hop, trap
	The Driver	Charles Kelley	Country
	I Don't Think It Is	Say Anything	Emo pop punk
	Porta Bohemica^[46]	Trixie Whitley
	The Ghosts of Highway 20^[47]	Lucinda Williams	Country
	Khalifa	Wiz Khalifa	Hip hop
12	It's Not Over...The Hits So Far	Daughtry	Alternative rock hard rock pop rock post-grunge
	Oil & Water	Lee DeWyze	Folk rock pop
	Down to My Last Bad Habit^[48]	Vince Gill	Country
	Synitha	The Jezabels	Indie Rock
	Letting Go...Slow	Lorrie Morgan	Country
	Wynonna & the Big Noise^[48]	Wynonna Judd	Country
	SVIIB^[49]	School of Seven Bells	Indie rock dream pop
	Family Dinner - Volume 2	Snarky Puppy	Jazz fusion
	Life Screams^[50]	Lacey Sturm	Hard rock Christian rock
14	Hymns That Are Important to Us^[48]	Joey + Rory	Christian country
14	The Life of Pablo	Kanye West	Hip hop
19	Painting With	Animal Collective	Experimental pop psychedelic pop
19	Need Your Light^[51]	Ra Ra Riot	Indie rock
21	Side A	Christina Grimmie	Pop teen pop
26	For All Kings	Anthrax^[52]	Heavy metal thrash metal
	Anvil is Anvil	Anvil	Heavy metal thrash metal
	This Unruly Mess I've Made	Macklemore & Ryan Lewis	Hip hop
	Dig in Deep	Bonnie Raitt	Blues Americana rock
	Zoetic	The Rocket Summer	Alternative rock pop rock indie rock
	Drinking from a Salt Pond	Run River North	Alternative rock indie rock
	Turning Point	Chuck Wicks	Country

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
4	ColleGrove	2 Chainz	Hip hop
	Piece by Piece Remixed	Kelly Clarkson	Pop remixes
	Protection	Face to Face	Punk rock
	Folk Hop 'N Roll	Judah & the Lion	Americana alternative
	55	The Knocks	Electronic EDM
	Untitled Unmastered.	Kendrick Lamar	Hip hop jazz rap funk
	Full Circle^[48]	Loretta Lynn	Country
	You Know Who You Are	Nada Surf	Alternative rock
	United Crushers	Polica	Synth pop
	Remington	Granger Smith	Country
	Limitless	Tonight Alive	Pop punk
	We Can Do Anything	Violent Femmes	Rock alternative rock
	More Rain	M. Ward	Indie folk indie rock
	This Means War	ZZ Ward	Blues rock
	Under the Covers	Ninja Sex Party	Rock, new wave, progressive rock, glam rock
8	Phone Power	They Might Be Giants	Alternative rock
11	Us and the Night	3 Doors Down	Alternative rock post-grunge hard rock alternative metal
	After Party	Adore Delano	Dance Pop
	All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend	AURORA	Synthpop folktroinica
	Painkillers	Brian Fallon	Rock alternative rock
	3001: A Laced Odyssey	Flatbush Zombies	Hip hop
	Fired Up	Randy Houser	Country
	Incarnate	Killswitch Engage	Metalcore
	Good Grief	Lucius	Indie pop indie rock
18	Letting You In	Kris Allen	Pop rock alternative rock
	Post Pop Depression	Iggy Pop	Art rock garage rock
	Change of Fortune	Soul Asylum	Alternative rock
	This Is What the Truth Feels Like	Gwen Stefani	Pop
25	Sept. 5	dvsn	R&B PBR&B
	XI	Metal Church	Heavy metal thrash metal speed metal power metal
	Patch the Sky	Bob Mould	Alternative rock indie rock
	We Disappear	The Thermals	Indie rock lo-fi
	Slime Season 3	Young Thug	Hip hop, trap
	Stiff	White Denim	Indie rock, garage rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
1	Kentucky	Black Stone Cherry	Hard rock southern rock
	Welcome the Worms	Bleached	Rock punk rock
	Changes	Charles Bradley	Soul
	Bang, Zoom, Crazy... Hello	Cheap Trick	Rock
	The Wilderness	Explosions in the Sky	Post-rock
	Stories for Monday	The Summer Set	Pop rock pop punk
	TWENTY88	Twenty88	Hip Hop Contemporary R&B
	Acoustic	Unwritten Law	Acoustic
	Weezer (White Album)	Weezer	Alternative rock power pop
	Amen & Goodbye	Yeasayer	Experimental rock neo-psychedelia progressive pop
8	Chasing Shadows (EP)	Angels & Airwaves	Alternative rock
	Distortland	The Dandy Warhols	Alternative rock
	Gore	Deftones	Alternative metal post metal
	Crazy Eyes	Filter	Industrial rock rock
	Man About Town	Mayer Hawthorne	R&B soul pop
	Cleopatra	The Lumineers	Americana folk rock indie rock
	Human Performance	Parquet Courts	Indie rock art rock
	Book of Shadows II	Zakk Wylde	Heavy Metal
15	You'll Pay for This	Bear Hands	Experimental rock alternative rock indie rock
	Material	Blaqk Audio	Electronic new wave
	The Diary	J Dilla	Hip hop
	Life on Earth	Musiq Soulchild	R&B
	This Path Tonight	Graham Nash	Rock
	Layers	Royce da 5'9"	Hip hop
	Santana IV	Santana	Latin rock
	Dreamland	Wild Belle	Psychedelic pop
20	OK	The Fall of Troy	Mathcore post-hardcore progressive rock
22	Always Strive and Prosper	ASAP Ferg	Hip hop
	Home	Blue October	Rock alternative rock
	Disappearing in Airports	Candlebox	Alternative rock post-grunge
	Please Be Honest	Guided By Voices	Indie rock lo-fi
	Therapy Session	NF	Hip hop
	Helter Seltzer	We Are Scientists	Indie rock
23	Lemonade	Beyoncé	R&B
29	American Hi-Fi Acoustic	American Hi-Fi	Acoustic
	Reckless	Martina McBride	Country
	Ohana	Pepper	Reggae rock alternative rock
	Better	Haley Reinhart	Pop funk rock soul R&B jazz fusion
	Delusions of Grand Fur	Rogue Wave	Indie rock
	Prayers for the Damned	Sixx:A.M.	Hard rock alternative metal
	Culcha Vulcha	Snarky Puppy	Jazz fusion
	Dust	Tremonti	Thrash metal Heavy metal
	The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser	Rob Zombie	Heavy metal

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
5	Acoustia	Alex Lloyd	Acoustic
6	The Blue Swell	Beverly	Indie pop indie rock
	Bottomless Pit	Death Grips	Experimental hip hop
	Boxes	Goo Goo Dolls	Alternative rock
	Detour	Cyndi Lauper	Country
	At Night, Alone	Mike Posner	Singer-songwriter indie folk
	Washed Away^[53]	Rooney	Indie rock power pop
	You Should Be Here	Cole Swindell	Country
	Ripcord^[54]	Keith Urban	Country country pop
13	Night Sports	3OH!3	Alternative hip hop
	Coloring Book	Chance the Rapper	Hip hop, gospel rap
	Trust no One	DevilDriver	Groove metal melodic death metal
	Cloud Nine	Kygo	Electronic
	Playing with Fire	Jennifer Nettles	Country
	Misadventures	Pierce the Veil	Alternative rock punk rock
	Thank You	Meghan Trainor	Dance-pop R&B
18	Up at Night	Cimorelli	Teen pop
20	Drive (EP)	Amerie	R&B
	Teens of Denial	Car Seat Headrest	Indie rock lo-fi
	I Still Do	Eric Clapton	Rock blues pop rock
	Fallen Angels	Bob Dylan	Rock
	Dangerous Woman	Ariana Grande	Pop
	Along the Shadow	Saosin	Alternative rock post-hardcore
	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	Pop R&B
	Skin	Flume	Electronica
	Good Times!	The Monkees	Pop rock
	The Home Inside My Head^[55]^[56]	Real Friends	Pop punk
	To Be Everywhere Is to Be Nowhere^[57]	Thrice	Post-hardcore

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August

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Top songs on record

Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs

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Musical theater

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See also

References

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Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
3	Obsessed	Dan + Shay	Country
	Unden!able	Hellyeah	Heavy metal
	A Whole Lot More to Me	Craig Morgan	Country
	Hero	Maren Morris	Country
	Summer	Cassadee Pope	Country country pop
	Stranger to Stranger	Paul Simon	Folk rock
	Future Present Past (EP)	The Strokes	Indie rock garage rock
	Train Does Led Zeppelin II	Train	Rock hard rock blues rock
	Reunion^[58]	Whitford/St. Holmes	Rock hard rock
9	Tween	Wye Oak	Indie rock indie folk
10	El Río	Frankie Ballard	Country
	Why Are You OK	Band of Horses	Southern rock indie rock
	Big Day in a Small Town	Brandy Clark	Country
	Fitz and the Tantrums	Fitz and the Tantrums	Indie pop neo soul
	Strange Little Birds	Garbage	Alternative rock
	Wanderlust	Little Big Town	Country pop psychedelic pop R&B folk sunshine pop
	Last Year Was Complicated^[59]	Nick Jonas	Pop
	Egomaniac	KONGOS	Alternative rock
	Love, Lies & Therapy	Saliva	Rock nu metal
17	Friday Night	Will Butler	Indie rock indie pop
	Otero War	Caveman	Indie rock
	The Fighters	LoCash	Country
	California Sunrise	Jon Pardi	Country
	The Getaway	Red Hot Chili Peppers	Rock
	Some Things Never Leave You	Sherwood	Rock indie rock alternative rock
	Still Brazy	YG	West coast hip hop
24	True Sadness	The Avett Brothers	Folk rock
	Blood, Sweat & 3 Years	Cash Cash	Progressive house electro house
	The Magic	Deerhoof	Indie rock
	On Desire	Drowners	Indie rock
	Say It Out Loud	The Interrupters	Ska punk
	Act One	Marian Hill
	Boom Boom Room (Side A)	Palaye Royale	Art rock
26	New English	Desiigner	Trap

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
1	What We Live For	American Authors	Indie rock pop rock
	California	Blink-182	Punk rock alternative rock pop punk
	FMA	Grace	Hip hop soul
	Bobby Tarantino	Logic	Hip hop
	blackSUMMER'S'night	Maxwell	R&B soul
	Coolaid	Snoop Dogg	West Coast hip hop
	Waking at Dawn	Roy Woods	Hip hop PBR&B
8	The North Corridor	Chevelle	Rock
	Snapshots	Nine Days	Alternative rock
	Blank Face LP	Schoolboy Q	Hip hop
	Where the Light Shines Through	Switchfoot	Alternative rock power pop
15	Savage Mode	21 Savage and Metro Boomin	Hip hop
	Dirty Heads	Dirty Heads	Reggae rock alternative rock
	No Hard Feelings	Dreezy	Hip hop, R&B
	Youth Authority	Good Charlotte	Pop punk alternative rock
	Kidz Bop 32	Kidz Bop Kids	Children's music pop
	Fighter	David Nail^[48]	Country
	We're All Somebody From Somewhere	Steven Tyler^[48]	Country Southern rock
22	Everybody Looking	Gucci Mane	Hip hop
	Forever!	Hed PE	Rap rock nu metal
	Lil Durk 2X	Lil Durk	Hip hop, trap
	Periphery III: Select Difficulty	Periphery	Metal Djent
	Air for Free	Relient K	Alternative rock Christian rock
	Lemon Parade Revisited	Tonic	Acoustic
29	Simplicity	The Bouncing Souls	Punk rock
	Hypercaffium Spazzinate	Descendents	Punk rock pop punk
	Major Key	DJ Khaled	Hip hop
	American Love	Jake Owen	Country
	Love Remains	Hillary Scott & the Scott Family	Gospel
	Generationwhy	Zhu	Electronic

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
5	Bury Me in Boots	The Cadillac Three	Country
	Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not	Dinosaur Jr.	Indie rock alternative rock
	Encore	DJ Snake	Electronic
	Hurricane	Nick Fradiani	Pop
	Girl Problems	Chris Lane	Country pop
	Unleashed	Skillet	Christian metal hard rock
	Now 59	Various	Various artists
	Boy King	Wild Beasts	Art rock electronica synth-funk alternative rock
10	Sorry, Mom	Destroy Boys	Punk rock
11	Zone^[60]	JEFF the Brotherhood	Rock indie rock
12	Fishing Blues	Atmosphere	Hip hop
	And Then Like Lions	Blind Pilots	Indie folk indie pop
	Kinda Don't Care	Justin Moore	Country
	Innocence Reaches	Of Montreal	Art pop indie rock
	PartyNextDoor 3	PartyNextDoor	R&B PRB&B
	SremmLife 2	Rae Sremmurd	Hip Hop trap PBR&B
	Home of the Strange	Young the Giant^[61]	Indie rock alternative rock
19	Bad Omens	Bad Omens	Metalcore rock
	Vacancy	Bayside	Punk rock power pop
	July 4	Carl Broemel
	Endless	Frank Ocean	Alternative R&B alternative hip hop dream pop
	Pure & Simple	Dolly Parton	Country
	DNA	Trapt	Hard rock alternative metal
20	Blonde	Frank Ocean	Alternative R&B dream pop neo soul hip hop
26	Anything But Words	Banks & Steelz	East Coast hip-hop
	This Album Does Not Exist	Dreamers	Alternative rock
	Dig Your Roots	Florida Georgia Line	Country
	As Seen on the Internet	Futuristic	Hip hop Trap
	I'm Alone, No You're Not	Joseph	Alternative pop folk
	Mangy Love	Cass McCombs	Indie rock folk
	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	Trap hip hop

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
2	Bad Vibrations	A Day to Remember	Metalcore pop punk
	The Sun's Tirade	Isaiah Rashad	Hip hop
	Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight	Travis Scott	Hip hop trap
6	My Kind of Christmas	Reba McEntire	Christmas country acoustic
9	They Don't Know	Jason Aldean	Country
	Cold World	Of Mice & Men	Alternative metal metalcore
	Thin Line	Billy Ray Cyrus	Country
	Pixie Queen	Anthony Green	Indie rock emo
	Big Mess	Grouplove	Indie rock indie pop
	Signs of Light	The Head and the Heart	Indie rock indie folk
	Leo Rising	Karmin	Pop
	Sunlit Youth	Local Natives	Indie rock
	Polar Similar	Norma Jean	Metalcore post-hardcore
	Low Tides	This Wild Life	Acoustic emo
	Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016	Jack White	Acoustic
	Why?	Jacob Whitesides	Pop Indie
	Schmilco	Wilco	Folk rock indie rock
16	Shape Shift with Me	Against Me!	Punk rock indie rock
	I Remember	AlunaGeorge	Alternative pop
	Disappear Here	Bad Suns	Alternative rock
	Legends Never Die	Chinx	Hip hop
	Femejism	Deap Vally	Garage rock alternative rock
	Sinner	Aaron Lewis	Country
	Braver Than We Are	Meat Loaf	Rock
	The Divine Feminine	Mac Miller	Alternative hip hop
	Tidal Wave	Taking Back Sunday	Rock
	Hard II Love	Usher	R&B hip hop trap
23	The Art of Elegance	Kristin Chenoweth
	If You See Me, Say Yes	Flock of Dimes	Indie rock indie folk
	West of the West^[62]	Goldroom	Electronic electropop
	Natural Causes	Skylar Grey	Alternative pop
	The Healing Component	Mick Jenkins	Hip hop
	I Had a Dream That You Were Mine	Hamilton Leithauser + Rostam	Indie rock
	idina.	Idina Menzel	Pop
	Illuminate	Shawn Mendes	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^[63]	Bon Iver	Indie folk folktronica
	Where'd Your Weekend Go?	The Mowgli's	Alternative rock
	Head Carrier	Pixies	Alternative rock indie rock
	A Seat at the Table	Solange	Alternative R&B neo soul
	Remember Us To Life	Regina Spektor	Indie pop
	Blue Mountain	Bob Weir	Folk rock
	Yellowcard	Yellowcard	Alternative rock pop punk

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
7	The Last Hero	Alter Bridge	Alternative metal
	Light We Made	Balance and Composure	Emo post-grunge
	Mothership	Dance Gavin Dance	Post-hardcore experimental rock
	Sit Still, Look Pretty	Daya	Pop
	Revolution Radio^[64]	Green Day	Punk rock
	Day Breaks	Norah Jones	Jazz pop rock
	First Ditch Effort	NOFX	Punk rock
	Oh My My	OneRepublic	Pop rock
	Three	Phantogram	Electro rock dream pop
	Big Boat	Phish	Rock
	Upside Down	Set It Off	Alternative rock pop rock pop punk
8	The Beer Sessions	Sponge	Alternative rock rock
14	Drunk Dynasty	Bowling for Soup	Pop punk
	_	BT	Ambient electronica
	Dissociation	The Dillinger Escape Plan	Mathcore metalcore
	The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns	Mike Doughty	Indie rock
	1992	The Game	West Coast hip hop gangsta rap
	Woptober	Gucci Mane	Hip hop trap
	Kevin Hart: What Now? (The Mixtape Presents Chocolate Droppa)	Kevin Hart	Hip hop
	Mad Love	JoJo	Pop R&B Soul
	Walls	Kings of Leon	Rock
	Ruminations	Conor Oberst	Indie rock folk
	Two Tongues Two	Two Tongues	Indie rock pop punk
	It Must Be Christmas	Chris Young	Christmas country
21	Lighthouse	David Crosby	Rock
	Big Baby D.R.A.M.	DRAM	Hip hop trap
	Excommunication	Tyler Glenn	Pop rock
	Lifelines	I Prevail	Post-hardcore metalcore pop-punk
	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	A capella Christmas
	Alone	The Pretenders	Rock
	Who You Selling For	The Pretty Reckless	Rock hard rock
	saintmotelevision	Saint Motel	Indie pop
28	The Stage	Avenged Sevenfold	Heavy metal progressive Metal
	'Tis the SeaSon	Jimmy Buffett	Christmas
	Cosmic Hallelujah	Kenny Chesney	Country
	New Skin	CRX	Hard rock garage rock industrial rock
	Blood Money Part 1	Dope	Nu metal alternative metal
	Glow	Brett Eldredge	Christmas country
	Someday at Christmas	Jackie Evancho	Christmas classical crossover
	Parachutes	Frank Iero and the Patience	Post-hardcore alternative rock
	Dead to the World	Helmet	Alternative metal
	Trap or Die 3	Jeezy	Hip hop trap
	DC4	Meek Mill	Hip hop trap
	I Dreamt I Was a Cowboy^[65]	Miniature Tigers	Indie pop indie rock
	A Very Kacey Christmas	Kacey Musgraves	Christmas country
	To Celebrate Christmas	Jennifer Nettles	Christmas country
	'Tis the Season	Jordan Smith	Christmas
	Brotherhood of the Snake	Testament	Thrash metal

Date	Album	Artist	Genre (s)
4	This House Is Not for Sale	Bon Jovi	Rock
	Eternally Even	Jim James	Indie rock psychedelic rock
	Here	Alicia Keys	R&B hip hop soul
	SafetySuit	SafetySuit	Alternative rock pop rock
	Nightride	Tinashe	Alternative R&B
11	Christmas Together	Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood	Christmas country
	Tattooed Heart	Ronnie Dunn	Country
	My Name Is Joe Thomas	Joe	R&B
	Simply Christmas	Leslie Odom Jr.	Christmas
	Coke N Butter	O.T. Genasis	Hip hop
	Slugger	Sad13	Indie rock
	Jessica Rabbit	Sleigh Bells	Indie pop noise pop
	We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service	A Tribe Called Quest	Hip hop alternative hip hop jazz rap
18	Free 6LACK	6LACK	R&B Hip hop
	DNCE	DNCE	Pop
	The D-Boy Diary: Book 1	E-40	Hip hop
	The D-Boy Diary: Book 2	E-40	Hip hop
	Dear Life	High Valley	Country
	The Boy Who Died Wolf	Highly Suspect	Hard rock alternative rock
	Don't Waste Your Wishes	The Killers	Christmas
	The Weight of These Wings	Miranda Lambert	Country
	24K Magic	Bruno Mars	Pop R&B
	Nemesis	Bridgit Mendler	Pop
	Hardwired...to Self-Destruct	Metallica	Thrash metal
	An Odd Entrances	Thee Oh Sees	Garage rock psychedelic rock
25	Gunslinger	Garth Brooks	Country

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	Hip hop
9	4 Your Eyez Only	J. Cole	Hip hop
	Peace Trail	Neil Young
	Stoney	Post Malone	Hip hop
	The Storm	Tech N9ne	Hip hop
	Do What Thou Wilt.	Ab-Soul	Hip hop
	Fireplace: TheNotTheOtherSide	Hodgy	Hip hop
	Hamilton, Charles	Charles Hamilton	Hip hop
16	Passion, Pain & Demon Slayin'	Kid Cudi	Hip hop
16	The Return of East Atlanta Santa	Gucci Mane	Hip hop Trap
22	Beautiful Crutch	Dommin	Rock alternative rock
23	Not the Actual Events (EP)	Nine Inch Nails	Industrial Rock
23	White Friday (CM9)	Yo Gotti	Hip hop
25	Run the Jewels 3	Run the Jewels	Hip hop