- Chart history
- See also
{{DISPLAYTITLE:List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996}}These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1996, per the Billboard 200. Chart historyKey{{dagger|alt=Best performing album of 1996}} | Indicates best performing album of 1996 | Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Label | January 6 | Daydream | Mariah Carey | Columbia | January 13 | January 20 | Waiting to Exhale | Whitney Houston/ Soundtrack | Arista | January 27 | February 3 | February 10 | February 17 | February 24 | Jagged Little Pill {{dagger}} | Alanis Morissette | Maverick | March 2 | All Eyez on Me | 2Pac | Death Row | March 9 | March 16 | Jagged Little Pill {{dagger}} | Alanis Morissette | Maverick | March 23 | March 30 | April 6 | Anthology 2 | The Beatles | Apple | April 13 | Jagged Little Pill {{dagger}} | Alanis Morissette | Maverick | April 20 | April 27 | May 4 | Evil Empire | Rage Against the Machine | Epic | May 11 | Fairweather Johnson | Hootie & the Blowfish | Atlantic | May 18 | May 25 | The Score | Fugees | Ruffhouse | June 1 | June 8 | June 15 | June 22 | Load | Metallica | Elektra | June 29 | July 6 | July 13 | July 20 | It Was Written | Nas | Columbia | July 27 | August 3 | August 10 | August 17 | Beats, Rhymes and Life | A Tribe Called Quest | Jive | August 24 | Jagged Little Pill {{dagger}} | Alanis Morissette | Maverick | August 31 | September 7 | September 14 | No Code | Pearl Jam | Epic | September 21 | September 28 | Home Again | New Edition | MCA | October 5 | Falling into You | Celine Dion | 550 Music | October 12 | October 19 | From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah | Nirvana | DGC | October 26 | Falling into You | Celine Dion | 550 Music | November 2 | Recovering the Satellites | Counting Crows | DGC | November 9 | Best Of – Volume I | Van Halen | Warner Bros. | November 16 | Anthology 3 | The Beatles | Apple | November 23 | The 7 Day Theory | Makaveli | Death Row | November 30 | Tha Doggfather | Snoop Doggy Dogg | Death Row | December 7 | Razorblade Suitcase | Bush | Trauma | December 14 | December 21 | Tragic Kingdom | No Doubt | Trauma | December 28 | |
See also- 1996 in music
- List of number-one albums (United States)
{{US Albums}} 2 : Lists of number-one albums in the United States|1996 record charts |