List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996

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

Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette was the best-selling album of 1996.
Daydream by Mariah Carey had the biggest sales week of 1996.

Chart history

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Key
Indicates best performing album of 1996
Issue date Album Artist(s) Label Sales Ref.
January 6 Daydream Mariah Carey Columbia 759,959 [1][2]
January 13 414,000 [3][4]
January 20 Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack Arista 231,000 [5][6]
January 27 174,000 [7][8]
February 3 159,000 [9][10]
February 10 131,000 [11][12]
February 17 118,000 [13][14]
February 24 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 132,000 [15][16]
March 2 All Eyez on Me 2Pac Death Row 566,500 [17][18]
March 9 297,000 [19][20]
March 16 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 241,000 [21][22]
March 23 251,000 [23][24]
March 30 233,000 [25][26]
April 6 Anthology 2 The Beatles Apple 441,000 [27][28]
April 13 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 213,000 [29][30]
April 20 254,000 [31][32]
April 27 200,000 [33][34]
May 4 Evil Empire Rage Against the Machine Epic 249,000 [35][36]
May 11 Fairweather Johnson Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 411,000 [37][38]
May 18 259,000 [39][40]
May 25 The Score Fugees Ruffhouse 206,000 [41][42]
June 1 189,000 [43][44]
June 8 180,000 [45][46]
June 15 179,000 [47][48]
June 22 Load Metallica Elektra 680,000 [49][50]
June 29 302,000 [51][52]
July 6 219,000 [53][54]
July 13 172,000 [55][56]
July 20 It Was Written Nas Columbia 269,000 [57][58]
July 27 161,000 [59][60]
August 3 144,000 [61][62]
August 10 132,000 [63][64]
August 17 Beats, Rhymes and Life A Tribe Called Quest Jive 173,000 [65][66]
August 24 Jagged Little Pill Alanis Morissette Maverick 121,000 [67][68]
August 31 120,000 [69][70]
September 7 115,000 [71][72]
September 14 No Code Pearl Jam Epic 366,500 [73][74]
September 21 146,000 [75][76]
September 28 Home Again New Edition MCA 227,000 [77][78]
October 5 Falling into You Celine Dion 550 Music 132,000 [79][80]
October 12 131,000 [81][82]
October 19 From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Nirvana DGC 158,000 [83][84]
October 26 Falling into You Celine Dion 550 Music 136,000 [85][86]
November 2 Recovering the Satellites Counting Crows Geffen 160,000 [87][88]
November 9 Best Of Volume I Van Halen Warner Bros 233,000 [89][90]
November 16 Anthology 3 The Beatles Apple 236,000 [91][92]
November 23 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Makaveli Death Row 664,000 [93][94]
November 30 Tha Doggfather Snoop Doggy Dogg Death Row 478,971 [95]
December 7 Razorblade Suitcase Bush Trauma 295,000 [96][97]
December 14 200,000 [98][99]
December 21 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 229,000 [100][101]
December 28 329,000 [102][103]

See also

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References

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