The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2006. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2006 in music.
First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2006 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Ayumi Hamasaki (Miss)understood J-pop, dance-pop, pop rock Avex Trax January10 Bleeding Through The Truth Metalcore Trustkill, Roadrunner BR549 Dog Days Dualtone Jack Ingram Live: Wherever You Are Country Big Machine High School Musical cast High School Musical Pop, teen pop, dance-pop Walt Disney Kayo Dot Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue Experimental music, post-rock, avant-garde metal Robotic Empire Morningwood Morningwood Alternative rock, dance-rock, electropunk Capitol January13 Eric Burdon Soul of a Man Blues rock SPV January19 Mutemath Mutemath Alternative rock, post-rock Teleprompt, Warner Bros. January20 Cat Power The Greatest Indie rock, soul, country Matador Edguy Rocket Ride Power metal, progressive metal, hard rock Nuclear Blast January23 Arctic Monkeys Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not Indie rock, garage rock, post-punk revival Domino Clearlake Amber Indie rock Domino The Kooks Inside In / Inside Out Indie rock, post-punk revival, post-Britpop Virgin Richard Ashcroft Keys to the World Post-Britpop, folk rock Parlophone Rosanne Cash Black Cadillac Country folk, Americana Capitol January24 Ace Frehley Greatest Hits Live Hard rock Megaforce CunninLynguists A Piece of Strange Hip-hop, Southern hip-hop, underground hip-hop QN5 Music, L.A. Underground Gossip Standing in the Way of Control Indie rock, garage rock, dance-rock Back Yard, Kill Rock Stars His Name Is Alive Detrola Silver Mountain Media Group, Sony BMG Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins Rabbit Fur Coat Americana, country folk, gospel Team Love Josh Turner Your Man Country MCA Nashville Nocturnal Rites Grand Illusion Power metal Century Media P.O.D. Testify Nu metal, Christian metal, rap rock Atlantic Portugal. The Man Waiter: "You Vultures!" Math rock, emo, indie rock Fearless Robert Pollard From a Compound Eye Indie rock Merge Rocky Votolato Makers Indie Barsuk Some Girls Heaven's Pregnant Teens Mathcore, hardcore punk Epitaph Tortoise and Bonnie "Prince" Billy The Brave and the Bold Overcoat Yellowcard Lights and Sounds Alternative rock Capitol January26 Duncan Sheik White Limousine Zoë January31 Andrea Bocelli Amore Classical, pop Sugar Records, Universal, Decca Barry Manilow The Greatest Songs of the Fifties Easy listening, pop Arista The Devin Townsend Band Synchestra Progressive metal, hard rock, progressive rock HevyDevy Heather Headley In My Mind R&B RCA Jamey Johnson The Dollar Country BNA Lilys Everything Wrong Is Imaginary Alternative rock Manifesto P.O.S Audition Hip-hop Rhymesayers Entertainment She Wants Revenge She Wants Revenge Post-punk revival, dark wave, gothic rock Perfect Kiss, Geffen, Flawless Train For Me, It's You Rock, roots rock, pop rock Columbia Vakill Worst Fears Confirmed Hip-hop Molemen Records
February + List of albums released in February 2006 Release date Artist Album Genre Label February3 In Flames Come Clarity Melodic death metal, alternative metal, heavy metal Ferret, Nuclear Blast, Toy's Factory February4 The Living End State of Emergency Punk rock, rock, punkabilly EMI, Adeline February6 Belle and Sebastian The Life Pursuit Indie pop, R&B, glam rock Rough Trade, Matador Prefuse 73 Security Screenings Electronic Warp Sparks Hello Young Lovers Art pop, art rock, chamber pop In the Red, Gut Tiga Sexor House Different February7 Aceyalone with RJD2 Magnificent City Hip-hop Decon, Project Blowed Beth Orton Comfort of Strangers Folk Astralwerks, EMI Deadboy & the Elephantmen We Are Night Sky Blues rock, punk blues Fat Possum Decapitated Organic Hallucinosis Technical death metal Earache, Teichiku, Soyuz Music Dem Franchize Boyz On Top of Our Game Southern hip-hop, crunk, snap So So Def, Virgin J Dilla Donuts Instrumental hip-hop, alternative hip-hop, plunderphonics Stones Throw Jack Johnson and Friends Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George Folk rock, soft rock, pop Brushfire, Universal Kelley Stoltz Below the Branches Sub Pop The Minus 5 The Minus 5 Rock Yep Roc Psychic Ills Dins The Social Registry Ray Davies Other People's Lives Rock V2 Remy Ma There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story Hip-hop SRC, Terror Squad, Universal Wolves in the Throne Room Diadem of 12 Stars Black metal, folk metal Vendlus February13 Jaheim Ghetto Classics R&B Divine Mill Records, Warner Bros. Sérgio Mendes Timeless Samba, hip-hop, neo soul Concord, will.i.am Music Group February14 Matchbook Romance Voices Emo, post-hardcore Epitaph The Sword Age of Winters Heavy metal, doom metal, stoner rock Kemado Toto Falling in Between Hard rock, pop rock, progressive rock Frontiers February15 Amorphis Eclipse Nuclear Blast BoA Outgrow J-pop Avex Trax February17 Danko Jones Sleep Is the Enemy Hard rock Aquarius, Bad Taste, Razor & Tie The Knife Silent Shout Synth-pop, techno, electronic Rabid February20 Jel Soft Money Hip-hop Anticon Lee Harding What's Wrong with This Picture? Pop-punk, rock Sony BMG Australia Liars Drum's Not Dead Experimental rock, noise rock, post-punk revival Mute William Orbit Hello Waveforms Ambient, electronica Sanctuary February21 The Derek Trucks Band Songlines Blues rock, Southern rock, world fusion Columbia Destroyer Destroyer's Rubies Indie rock, folk rock, jazz Merge, Acuarela Discos, Rough Trade Dilated Peoples 20/20 Hip-hop Capitol Folly Resist Convenience Hardcore, punk, ska Triple Crown Janis Ian Folk Is the New Black Folk Cooking Vinyl Kataklysm In the Arms of Devastation Death metal, melodic death metal Nuclear Blast The M's Future Women Polyvinyl Man Man Six Demon Bag Experimental rock Ace Fu October Fall A Season in Hell Fueled by Ramen The Product One Hunid Southern hip-hop, gangsta rap Koch, Underground Railroad Shanice Every Woman Dreams Imajah Records, PlayTyme Entertainment The Slackers Peculiar Ska Hellcat Willie Nile Streets of New York Rock Reincarnate Music February24 Corinne Bailey Rae Corinne Bailey Rae Pop-soul, neo soul, R&B EMI February27 Darkthrone The Cult Is Alive Blackened crust Peaceville Sondre Lerche Duper Sessions Jazz, indie pop Astralwerks Television Personalities My Dark Places Domino February28 Alan Jackson Precious Memories Christian country, gospel Arista Nashville Bruce Springsteen Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 Rock Columbia Hank Williams III Straight to Hell Country, bluegrass, Western swing Bruc Hawthorne Heights If Only You Were Lonely Emo, post-hardcore Victory Jessi Colter Out of the Ashes Country Shout! Factory Kid Rock & The Twisted Brown Trucker Band Live Trucker Hard rock, rap rock Top Dog Records, Atlantic Ne-Yo In My Own Words R&B Def Jam, Compound Entertainment Plumb Chaotic Resolve Rock, pop, metal Curb Rhett Miller The Believer Pop rock, alternative country Verve Forecast Shannon Brown Corn Fed Country Warner Bros. Nashville
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