2016 in American music

List of years in American music
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The following is a list of events and releases that happened in 2016 in music in the United States.

Notable events

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January

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February

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March

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April

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May

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June

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July

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August

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September

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October

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  • 7 — Green Day released the first studio album in four years, Revolution Radio
  • 14 — JoJo released her first studio album in ten years, Mad Love.
  • 21 — Lady Gaga released her fourth studio album, Joanne, which debuted at number 1 on the Billboard 200, making her the first woman of the 2010s to have four number one albums [7]
  • 28 — Dope released their first studio album in seven years, Blood Money Part 1.

November

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December

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Bands formed

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Bands reformed

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Bands on hiatus

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Bands disbanded

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Albums released in 2016

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January

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 In My Feelings (Goin’ Thru It)[12] Boosie Badazz Hip hop
Wildfire Rachel Platten Pop
8 A War Against You Ignite Melodic hardcore
15 Malibu Anderson. Paak
The Casket Factory[13] Blaze Ya Dead Homie
Pawn Shop Brothers Osborne Country
Cuzznz[14] Daz and Snoop
Church Clothes 3[15] Lecrae
Death of a Bachelor[16] Panic! at the Disco
Nothing Shines Like Neon[17] 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[18]
Debutante[19][20] Cait Brennan Indie rock
Moth[21][22] Chairlift Indie pop
New View[23] Eleanor Friedberger
Perfect[24] Half Japanese
We Come Apart[25] Sonya Kitchell
Dystopia[26] Megadeth Thrash metal
99¢[27] Santigold
Emotional Mugger[28][29] Ty Segall
Jet Plane and Oxbow[30] Shearwater
Sex Love & Pain II[31] Tank
The Catastrophist[32] Tortoise Post-rock
Something About April II[33] Adrian Younge
29 Pillars of Ash[34][35] Black Tusk
Bridges[36] Cavo Hard rock
The Astonishing[37] Dream Theater
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
Let Me Get By[42] Tedeschi Trucks Band
MartyrLoserKing Saul Williams Alternative hip hop
10 Ways to Steal Home Plate[43] Wolfgang Gartner Electro house

February

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Songs for the Late Night Drive Home[44] Anchor & Braille
Is the Is Are[45] DIIV
Hellelujah Drowning Pool
Evol Future Hip hop, trap
The Driver Charles Kelley Country
I Don't Think It Is Say Anything
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
Oil & Water Lee DeWyze
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
Family Dinner - Volume 2 Snarky Puppy Jazz fusion
Life Screams[50] Lacey Sturm
14 Hymns That Are Important to Us[48] Joey + Rory Christian country
The Life of Pablo Kanye West Hip hop
19 Painting With Animal Collective
Need Your Light[51] Ra Ra Riot Indie rock
21 Side A Christina Grimmie
26 For All Kings Anthrax[52]
Anvil is Anvil Anvil
This Unruly Mess I've Made Macklemore & Ryan Lewis Hip hop
Dig in Deep Bonnie Raitt
Zoetic The Rocket Summer
Drinking from a Salt Pond Run River North
Turning Point Chuck Wicks Country

March

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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
55 The Knocks
Untitled Unmastered. Kendrick Lamar
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
More Rain M. Ward
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
After Party Adore Delano
  • Dance
  • Pop
All My Demons Greeting Me as a Friend AURORA
Painkillers Brian Fallon
3001: A Laced Odyssey Flatbush Zombies Hip hop
Fired Up Randy Houser Country
Incarnate Killswitch Engage
Good Grief Lucius
18 Letting You In Kris Allen
Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop
Change of Fortune Soul Asylum Alternative rock
This Is What the Truth Feels Like Gwen Stefani Pop
25 Sept. 5 dvsn
XI Metal Church
Patch the Sky Bob Mould
We Disappear The Thermals
Slime Season 3 Young Thug Hip hop, trap
Stiff White Denim Indie rock, garage rock, progressive rock, psychedelic rock

April

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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
Stories for Monday The Summer Set
TWENTY88 Twenty88
Acoustic Unwritten Law Acoustic
Weezer (White Album) Weezer
Amen & Goodbye Yeasayer
8 Chasing Shadows (EP) Angels & Airwaves Alternative rock
Distortland The Dandy Warhols Alternative rock
Gore Deftones
Crazy Eyes Filter
Man About Town Mayer Hawthorne
Cleopatra The Lumineers
Human Performance Parquet Courts
Book of Shadows II Zakk Wylde Heavy Metal
15 You'll Pay for This Bear Hands
Material Blaqk Audio
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
22 Always Strive and Prosper ASAP Ferg Hip hop
Home Blue October
Disappearing in Airports Candlebox
Please Be Honest Guided By Voices
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
Better Haley Reinhart
Delusions of Grand Fur Rogue Wave Indie rock
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

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Acoustia Alex Lloyd Acoustic
6 The Blue Swell Beverly
Bottomless Pit Death Grips Experimental hip hop
Boxes Goo Goo Dolls Alternative rock
Detour Cyndi Lauper Country
At Night, Alone Mike Posner
Washed Away[53] Rooney
You Should Be Here Cole Swindell Country
Ripcord[54] 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 (EP) Amerie R&B
Teens of Denial Car Seat Headrest
I Still Do Eric Clapton
Fallen Angels Bob Dylan Rock
Dangerous Woman Ariana Grande Pop
Along the Shadow Saosin
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
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

June

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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
Stranger to Stranger Paul Simon Folk rock
Future Present Past (EP) The Strokes
Train Does Led Zeppelin II Train
Reunion[58] Whitford/St. Holmes
9 Tween Wye Oak
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
Wanderlust Little Big Town
Last Year Was Complicated[59] Nick Jonas Pop
Egomaniac KONGOS Alternative rock
Love, Lies & Therapy Saliva
17 Friday Night Will Butler
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
Still Brazy YG West coast hip hop
24 True Sadness The Avett Brothers Folk rock
Blood, Sweat & 3 Years Cash Cash
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

July

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 What We Live For American Authors
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
Snapshots Nine Days Alternative rock
Blank Face LP Schoolboy Q Hip hop
Where the Light Shines Through Switchfoot
15 Savage Mode 21 Savage and Metro Boomin Hip hop
Dirty Heads Dirty Heads
No Hard Feelings Dreezy Hip hop, R&B
Youth Authority Good Charlotte
Kidz Bop 32 Kidz Bop Kids
Fighter David Nail[48] Country
We're All Somebody From Somewhere Steven Tyler[48]
22 Everybody Looking Gucci Mane Hip hop
Forever! Hed PE
Lil Durk 2X Lil Durk Hip hop, trap
Periphery III: Select Difficulty Periphery
Air for Free Relient K
Lemon Parade Revisited Tonic Acoustic
29 Simplicity The Bouncing Souls Punk rock
Hypercaffium Spazzinate Descendents
Major Key DJ Khaled Hip hop
American Love Jake Owen Country
Love Remains Hillary Scott & the Scott Family Gospel
Generationwhy Zhu Electronic

August

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Bury Me in Boots The Cadillac Three Country
Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not Dinosaur Jr.
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
10 Sorry, Mom Destroy Boys Punk rock
11 Zone[60] JEFF the Brotherhood
12 Fishing Blues Atmosphere Hip hop
And Then Like Lions Blind Pilots
Kinda Don't Care Justin Moore Country
Innocence Reaches Of Montreal
PartyNextDoor 3 PartyNextDoor
SremmLife 2 Rae Sremmurd
Home of the Strange Young the Giant[61]
19 Bad Omens Bad Omens
Vacancy Bayside
July 4 Carl Broemel
Endless Frank Ocean
Pure & Simple Dolly Parton Country
DNA Trapt
20 Blonde Frank Ocean
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
I'm Alone, No You're Not Joseph
Mangy Love Cass McCombs
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

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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
Cold World Of Mice & Men
Thin Line Billy Ray Cyrus Country
Pixie Queen Anthony Green
Big Mess Grouplove
Signs of Light The Head and the Heart
Leo Rising Karmin Pop
Sunlit Youth Local Natives Indie rock
Polar Similar Norma Jean
Low Tides This Wild Life
Acoustic Recordings 1998–2016 Jack White Acoustic
Why? Jacob Whitesides
Schmilco Wilco
16 Shape Shift with Me Against Me!
I Remember AlunaGeorge Alternative pop
Disappear Here Bad Suns Alternative rock
Legends Never Die Chinx Hip hop
Femejism Deap Vally
Sinner Aaron Lewis Country
Braver Than We Are Meat Loaf Rock
The Divine Feminine Mac Miller
Tidal Wave Taking Back Sunday
  • Rock
Hard II Love Usher
23 The Art of Elegance Kristin Chenoweth
If You See Me, Say Yes Flock of Dimes
West of the West[62] Goldroom
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
Where'd Your Weekend Go? The Mowgli's Alternative rock
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

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
7 The Last Hero Alter Bridge Alternative metal
Light We Made Balance and Composure
Mothership Dance Gavin Dance
Sit Still, Look Pretty Daya Pop
Revolution Radio[64] Green Day Punk rock
Day Breaks Norah Jones
First Ditch Effort NOFX Punk rock
Oh My My OneRepublic Pop rock
Three Phantogram
Big Boat Phish Rock
Upside Down Set It Off
8 The Beer Sessions Sponge
14 Drunk Dynasty Bowling for Soup Pop punk
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Dissociation The Dillinger Escape Plan
The Heart Watches While the Brain Burns Mike Doughty Indie rock
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
Ruminations Conor Oberst
Two Tongues Two Two Tongues
It Must Be Christmas Chris Young
21 Lighthouse David Crosby Rock
Big Baby D.R.A.M. DRAM
Excommunication Tyler Glenn Pop rock
Lifelines I Prevail
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
Alone The Pretenders Rock
Who You Selling For The Pretty Reckless
saintmotelevision Saint Motel Indie pop
28 The Stage Avenged Sevenfold
'Tis the SeaSon Jimmy Buffett Christmas
Cosmic Hallelujah Kenny Chesney Country
New Skin CRX
Blood Money Part 1 Dope
Glow Brett Eldredge
Someday at Christmas Jackie Evancho
Parachutes Frank Iero and the Patience
Dead to the World Helmet Alternative metal
Trap or Die 3 Jeezy
DC4 Meek Mill
This Light I Hold Memphis May Fire Metalcore
I Dreamt I Was a Cowboy[65] Miniature Tigers
A Very Kacey Christmas Kacey Musgraves
To Celebrate Christmas Jennifer Nettles
'Tis the Season Jordan Smith Christmas
Brotherhood of the Snake Testament Thrash metal

November

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
4 This House Is Not for Sale Bon Jovi Rock
Eternally Even Jim James
Here Alicia Keys
SafetySuit SafetySuit
Nightride Tinashe Alternative R&B
11 Christmas Together Garth Brooks and Trisha Yearwood
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
Slugger Sad13 Indie rock
Jessica Rabbit Sleigh Bells
We Got It from Here... Thank You 4 Your Service A Tribe Called Quest
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
The Boy Who Died Wolf Highly Suspect
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

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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
22 Beautiful Crutch Dommin
23 Not the Actual Events (EP) Nine Inch Nails Industrial Rock
White Friday (CM9) Yo Gotti Hip hop
25 Run the Jewels 3 Run the Jewels Hip hop

Top songs on record

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Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs

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Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 Hits

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All songs that reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the year, complete with peak chart placement.

Musical theater

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Deaths

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See also

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References

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