These are the Oricon number one albums of 1996, per the Oricon Albums Chart.
Chart history +KeyIndicates best-selling album of 1996
Issue Date Album Artist(s) January 1 Beauty and Harmony Miwa Yoshida January 15 Back Beats #1 Maki Ohguro January 22 January 29 February 5 Hey Man Mr. Big February 12 Banzai Ulfuls February 19 Beat Out! Glay February 26 Looking Back Kazumasa Oda March 4 The Live 3 TRF March 11 King & Queen Tomoyasu Hotei March 18 March 25 Singles Collection +6 Wands April 1 Daiginjō Miyuki Nakajima April 8 Globe Globe April 15 Love Unlimited Dreams Come True April 22 Globe Globe April 29 May 6 Style Luna Sea May 13 Globe Globe May 20 May 27 June 3 Neon Genesis Evangelion III TV soundtrack June 10 Fake Star Kuroyume June 17 Love Brace Tomomi Kahala June 24 Only Good Summer Tube July 1 Love Brace Tomomi Kahala July 8 Shinkai Mr. Children July 15 Red Nanase Aikawa July 22 Today Is Another Day Zard July 29 Young Love Southern All Stars August 5 Sweet 19 Blues Namie Amuro August 12 August 19 Since 1995: Forever V6 August 26 Smap 009 SMAP September 2 Singles T-Bolan September 9 September 16 Psyence Hide September 23 By Myself Hitomi September 30 Montage Yen Town Band October 7 October 14 Missing Piece Kyosuke Himuro October 21 MTV Unplugged Live Chage and Aska October 28 Kyutai no kanaderu ongaku Kenji Ozawa November 4 Indigo Chiheisen Spitz November 11 November 18 Dahlia X Japan November 25 Aozora no Tobira Shōgo Hamada December 2 Beloved Glay December 9 Friends II B'z December 16 Greeting V6 December 23 Maximum MAX December 30 Golden Q Sharan Q
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