List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996

These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1996, per the Billboard 200.

Chart history +KeyIndicates best performing album of 1996

Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales DaydreamColumbia760,000 414,000 Waiting to ExhaleSoundtrackArista231,000 174,000 159,000 131,000 118,000 Jagged Little Pill Maverick132,000 All Eyez on Me2PacDeath Row566,500 315,000 Jagged Little Pill Alanis MorissetteMaverick241,000 251,000 233,000 Anthology 2The BeatlesApple441,000 Jagged Little Pill Alanis MorissetteMaverick213,000 254,000 200,000 Evil EmpireRage Against the MachineEpic249,000 Fairweather JohnsonHootie & the BlowfishAtlantic411,000 259,000 The ScoreFugeesRuffhouse206,000 189,000 180,000 179,000 LoadMetallicaElektra680,000 302,000 219,000 172,000 It Was WrittenNasColumbia269,000 161,000 144,000 132,000 Beats, Rhymes and LifeA Tribe Called QuestJive173,000 Jagged Little Pill Alanis MorissetteMaverick121,000 120,000 115,000Mayfield, Josh. "Between the Bullets: Big But Not Huge". Billboard. September 14, 1996. No CodePearl JamEpic366,500Mayfield, Josh. "Between the Bullets: Big But Not Huge". Billboard. September 14, 1996. 146,000 Home AgainNew EditionMCA227,000 Falling into YouCeline Dion550 Music132,000 131,000 From the Muddy Banks of the WishkahNirvanaDGC158,000 Falling into YouCeline Dion550 Music136,000 Recovering the SatellitesCounting CrowsGeffen160,000 Best Of Volume IVan HalenWarner Bros233,000 Anthology 3The BeatlesApple236,000 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day TheoryMakaveliDeath Row664,000 Tha DoggfatherSnoop Doggy DoggDeath Row478,971 Razorblade SuitcaseBushTrauma295,000 200,000 Tragic KingdomNo DoubtTrauma229,000 329,000

See also 1996 in music List of number-one albums (United States)

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