The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in the first half of 2021. 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 2021 in music.

For information on albums released in the second half of 2021, see List of 2021 albums (July–December).

First quarter January + List of albums released in January 2021 Release date Artist Album Genre Label January1 Agallah Don Bishop 2021 Anavitória Cor Folk-pop Anavitória Artes Bun B and Le$ Distant DIOS, II Trill Enterprises DJ Daddykat & Wiz Khalifa #FUCC2020 Eito Sukkarakan A.S.A.B R.A.P. Ferreira Bob's Son: R.A.P. Ferreira in the Garden Level Cafe of the Scallops Hotel Ruby Yacht That Handsome Devil Your Parents Are Sellouts Uncle Murda Don't Come Outside, Vol. 3 January4 Gudda Gudda 7 Slugs YMCMB Steve Earle & The Dukes J.T. New West January6 Greeeen Bokutachi No Denkosekka Zen Music Misako Uno Sweet Hug Avex Trax SixTones 1ST SME Japan Spyair Wadachi Yoasobi The Book J-pop Sony Japan January8 Aaron Watson American Soul Big Label Records Barry Gibb Greenfields Country Capitol, EMI The Dirty Nil Fuck Art Alternative rock, punk rock, pop-punk Dine Alone Jazmine Sullivan Heaux Tales Hip-hop, R&B RCA Kev Brown & J Scienide Stray from the Pack Mac Ayres Magic 8ball Dixon Court Records MCND MCND Age TOP Media Monica Ogah Different Morgan Wallen Dangerous: The Double Album Country Big Loud, Republic Passenger Songs for the Drunk and Broken Hearted Folk rock, indie folk Black Crow Records Sammy Hagar and the Circle Lockdown 2020 Hard rock Mailboat Viagra Boys Welfare Jazz Art punk, experimental rock, post-punk Year0001 Wax Tailor The Shadow of Their Suns January10 Cookin' Soul MF DOOM Tribute January11 (G)I-dle I Burn Cube Sergio Vallín Microsinfonías Treasure The First Step: Treasure Effect K-pop YG Victon Voice: The Future Is Now K-pop Play M January12 K.A.A.N. Long Time No See January13 Band-Maid Unseen World Hard rock Pony Canyon Boy George Cool Karaoke Vol 1 Danna Paola K.O. Latin pop Universal Music Mexico Gatecreeper An Unexpected Reality Death metal Closed Casket Activities Girls² Japanese Star Go to the Beds Reincarnation Fueled By Mentaiko Kyuso Nekokami Mormot Lab Pinegrove Amperland, NY Rough Trade January15 Ashnikko Demidevil Pop Warner Beach Bunny Blame Game Mom + Pop Beautify Junkyards Cosmorama Ghost Box Benjamin Ingrosso En gång i tiden (del 1) Pop TEN Bloody Hammers Songs of Unspeakable Terror Horror punk, gothic rock Napalm Buck Meek Two Saviors Indie rock, alt-country, folk Keeled Scales Dale Crover Rat-A-Tat-Tat! Joyful Noise Daniel Knox Won't You Take Me with You H.P. Johnson Presents Devin Dawson The Pink Slip Warner Music Nashville Dragony Viribus Unitis Power metal, symphonic metal Napalm Edenbridge The Chronicles of Eden, Part 2 Emma Ruth Rundle & Thou The Helm of Sorrow Sacred Bones Fickle Friends Weird Years (Season 1) Cooking Vinyl Frank Iero and the Future Violents Heaven Is a Place, This Is a Place UNFD Front Line Assembly Mechanical Soul Electro-industrial Metropolis Illy The Space Between Sony Music Australia Ludovico Einaudi Winds of Change Matthew Sweet Catspaw Indie pop Omnivore Pearl Charles Magic Mirror Indie pop, indie rock Kanine Shame Drunk Tank Pink Post-punk, art punk Dead Oceans Sleaford Mods Spare Ribs Post-punk, rap rock Rough Trade Why Don't We The Good Times and the Bad Ones Pop Atlantic The Xcerts So No One Told You Life Was Gonna Be This Way Raygun Music You Me at Six Suckapunch Rock Underdog Records, AWAL Zayn Nobody Is Listening Pop, R&B RCA January18 AB6IX Salute: A New Hope Brand New Music CJ Fly The Way I H(ear) It, Vol. 1 Epik High Epik High Is Here Hip-hop, alternative hip-hop Ours Co. Kota the Friend Lyrics to Go Vol. 2 U-Know Noir SM January19 Berry Good Undying Love Cravity Season 3. Hideout: Be Our Voice Starship Oneus Devil RBW January20 Baekhyun Baekhyun J-pop, R&B Avex Trax Cherry Bullet Cherry Rush K-pop FNC Da-ice Six Deen Pop in City ~For Covers Only~ Hiroki Moriuchi Sing;est Universal Music Japan Hoppipolla And Then There Was Us Moss Music Little Glee Monster Gradation Mameshiba no Taigun Mamejor! Avex Trax Tomorrow X Together Still Dreaming J-pop, dance Big Hit, Republic Toshinori Yonekura Green Giraffe Tokuma Japan, Style72 January21 Flux Pavilion .wav Circus January22 Anuel AA & Ozuna Los Dioses Reggaeton Real Hasta la Muerte, Inc. Arca Madre XL Asphyx Necroceros Death-doom Century Media Bicep Isles Electronic Ninja Tune Bill Champlin Livin' for Love Imagen Biosphere Angel's Flight AD 93 Brandon Lake House of Miracles (Live) Contemporary worship Bethel Music Carm Carm Experimental 37d03d Caroline Shaw Narrow Sea Nonesuch The Dead Daisies Holy Ground Spitfire Music, SPV GmbH Ektomorf Reborn Napalm Erick the Architect Future Proof Glorious Dead Recordings James Yorkston and the Second Hand Orchestra The Wide, Wide River Folk Domino Jarryd James P.M. Dryden Street Jason Bieler and The Baron Von Bielski Orchestra Songs for the Apocalypse Frontiers Jeremiah Fraites Piano Piano Decca Kiwi Jr. Cooler Returns Indie rock, jangle pop, slacker rock Sub Pop Labyrinth Welcome to the Absurd Circus Power metal, progressive metal Frontiers Lil Skies Unbothered All We Got Entertainment, Atlantic Lonely the Brave The Hope List Easy Life Records Madeline Kenney Summer Quarter Carpark Maggie Lindemann Paranoia Caroline Mason Lindahl Kissing Rosy in the Rain Tompkins Square Melim Amores E Flores Capitol Moon Taxi Silver Dream BMG Nervosa Perpetual Chaos Napalm Palberta Palberta5000 Noise-punk Wharf Cat Records Peewee Longway & Cassius Jay Longway Sinatra 2 Empire Rhye Home Loma Vista RuPaul RuPaul in London RuCo Inc. Steve Aoki 6OKI - Rave Royale Steve Hackett Under a Mediterranean Sky Acoustic Inside Out Still Corners The Last Exit Dream pop Wrecking Light Records Tebey The Good Ones Jayward Artist Group, The Orchard, Sony Music Th1rt3en & Pharoahe Monch A Magnificent Day for an Exorcism Rap rock Therion Leviathan Nuclear Blast Typhoon Sympathetic Magic Roll Call Wardruna Kvitravn Nordic folk Norse Music Widowspeak Honeychurch Captured Tracks Wig Wam Never Say Die Glam metal, hard rock Frontiers Witch Egg Witch Egg Rock Is Hell Records January23 Ewigkeit Depopulate Melodic death metal Death to Music January25 Bobby Lucky Man Chiharu Matsuyama Hikigatari Live Colde Idealism Golden Child Yes. K-pop Woollim January26 Dreamcatcher Dystopia: Road to Utopia Hip-hop, nu metal, rock Dreamcatcher January27 Asca Hyakkiyakou Sacra Music Boys and Men Boymen the Universe Jake Hoot Love Out Of Time The Magician Magic Tape 100 Potion Records Mica Levi Blue Alibi Mica Levi Nobuhiko Okamoto Chaosix Predia 10ct Ryo Nishikido Note Super Junior Star Avex Trax Yorushika Sōsaku January28 The Alchemist Carry the Fire Car, the Garden Absence Hyuna I'm Not Cool P Nation Maluma #7DJ (7 Días En Jamaica) Reggaeton January29 Accept Too Mean to Die Nuclear Blast Anna B Savage A Common Turn City Slang Ani DiFranco Revolutionary Love Indie folk, jazz Righteous Babe Annisokay Aurora Metalcore Arising Empire Arlo Parks Collapsed in Sunbeams Transgressive Baio Dead Hand Control Glassnote The Besnard Lakes The Besnard Lakes Are the Last of the Great Thunderstorm Warnings Full Time Hobby Black Pistol Fire Look Alive Black Hill Records The Body I've Seen All I Need to See Power electronics Thrill Jockey Buke and Gase & So Percussion A Record Of... Brassland Buzzy Lee Spoiled Love Future Classic Celeste Not Your Muse R&B Polydor Chip Snakes & Ladders Cash Motto Chris Garneau The Kind The Orchard Crystal Viper The Cult Listenable Delvon Lamarr Organ Trio I Told You So Colemine Records Fredo Money Can't Buy Happiness Since '93 Goat Girl On All Fours Rough Trade Tha God Fahim & Your Old Droog Tha Wolf on Wall St. Mongoloid Banks Helena Paparizou Apohrosis Minos EMI Joe Lovano's Trio Tapestry Garden of Expression ECM Keaton Henson Supernova — Original Motion Picture Soundtrack Lakeshore Records Langhorne Slim Strawberry Mansion Dualtone Lia Ices Family Album Natural Music LNZNDRF II Lucero When You Found Me Liberty & Lament, Thirty Tigers The Luka State Fall In Fall Out Indie rock Shelter, BMG Madlib Sound Ancestors Boom bap Madlib Invazion Martin Gore The Third Chimpanzee Mute Michael Schenker Group Immortal Nuclear Blast Minotaur Shock Qi Bytes Needlepoint Walking Up That Valley Stickman Records The Notwist Vertigo Days Electronic Morr Music Portrayal of Guilt We Are Always Alone Closed Casket Activities PrettyMuch Smackables Sire Remedy Drive Imago Amor Christian rock Rich the Kid Lucky 7 Rome Parlez-Vous Hate? Neofolk Trisol Soen Imperial Progressive metal, progressive rock Silver Lining Music Steven Wilson The Future Bites Caroline International Tribulation Where the Gloom Becomes Sound Century Media, Metal Blade Weezer OK Human Orchestral pop, baroque pop, pop rock Atlantic William Parker Migration of Silence Into and Out of the Tone World Centering, AUM Fidelity Yasmin Williams Urban Driftwood Folk, country Spinster Sounds January31 Papoose January Honorable Records

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