List of 2026 albums

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The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released or scheduled for release in 2026. 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.

Contents

For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2026 in music.

First quarter

January

List of albums released or to be released in January 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
January
1
Rawayana ¿Dónde Es El After? Rimas [1]
Joost Klein Kleinkunst Gabberpop, happy hardcore, Eurotrance [2]
January
2
Paleface Swiss The Wilted EP Blood Blast Distribution [3]
January
5
Petra Hope Christian metal Girder Music
Cxmmxns (Ben Fielding and Reuben Morgan)The Commons Chapel: Where Two or Three Are Gathered Worship [4]
Vince Gill Brown's Diner Bar MCA [5]
January
7
Chuu XO, My CyberloveATRP [6]
Euphoria Again and Dogwood Tales Destination HeavenBorn Loser Records [7]
Sondre Lerche Turning Up the Heat AgainPLZ [8]
January
9
Alter Bridge Alter Bridge Napalm [9]
Beyond the Black Break the Silence Power metal, symphonic metal Nuclear Blast
The Cribs Selling a Vibe Indie rock PIAS
Dry Cleaning Secret Love 4AD
The Kid Laroi Before I Forget R&B Columbia
Mon Rovîa Bloodline [10]
The Protomen Act III: This City Made Us Rock opera Sound Machine Records [11]
Pullman III Western Vinyl [12]
Sault Chapter 1 [13]
Zach Bryan With Heaven on Top [14]
Zu Ferrum SidereumHouse of Mythology [15] [16]
January
14
Evilgiane Giane 2 [17]
January
15
@onefive Doh Yoh Avex Trax [18]
Robbie Williams Britpop Columbia
Skrillex Kora [19]
They Might Be Giants Eyeball [20]
Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel Celestun [21]
January
16
ASAP Rocky Don't Be Dumb AWGE, ASAP Worldwide, RCA
Cavetown Running with ScissorsFutures Music Group [22]
Courtney Marie Andrews Valentine Thirty Tigers [23]
DZ Deathrays Easing Out of ControlDZ Worldwide [24]
Edenbridge Set the Dark on Fire Steamhammer/SPV [25]
Enhypen The Sin: Vanish Belift Lab [26]
I Promised the World I Promised the World Rise [27]
The James Hunter Six Off the Fence Easy Eye Sound [28]
Jana Horn Jana HornNo Quarter Records [29]
Jon Hopkins and Biggi HilmarsWilding (Original Soundtrack)Domino Soundtracks [30]
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore Tragic Magic inFiné [31]
Kreator Krushers of the World Nuclear Blast [32]
Lexa Gates I Am [33]
Madison Beer Locket Epic [34]
Michael League, Pedrito Martínez & Antonio Sánchez Elipsis GroundUP [35]
Nat & Alex Wolff Nat & Alex WolffCoup D'Etat Recordings, Broke [36]
Ov Sulfur Endless Century Media [37]
Peaer DoppelgängerDanger Collective Records [38]
Peter Peter Heated Rivalry (Original Series Soundtrack) Milan [39]
Sassy 009 Dreamer+Heaven-Sent, PIAS [40]
Sleaford Mods The Demise of Planet X Rough Trade
Smiley and Baka Not Nice Heartless [41]
Soen RelianceSilver Lining Music [42]
Together Pangea Eat Myself Nettwerk [43]
Westside Cowboy So Much Country 'Till We Get ThereAdventure Recordings [44]
Wiz Khalifa Khaotic [45]
Xiu Xiu Xiu Mutha Fuckin' Xiu: Vol. 1 Polyvinyl
YoungBoy Never Broke Again Slime Cry Never Broke Again, Motown [46]
January
21
Artio Soul Rot LAB [47]
January
23
54-40 Porto [48]
Agnes Beautiful Madness [49]
Ari Lennox Vacancy Interscope [50]
Callum Beattie Indi [51]
Crystal Lake The Weight of Sound Century Media [52]
The Damned Not Like Everybody Else earMUSIC [53]
The Format Boycott HeavenThe Vanity Label [54]
Goldfinger Nine Lives [55]
The Hara The Fallout Mascot [56]
IDK E.T.D.S. – Even the Devil Smiles [57]
Jamie MacDonald Jamie MacDonald Capitol CMG [58]
Jamie O'Neal Gypsum Audium, BFD Records [59]
Louis Tomlinson How Did I Get Here? BMG [60]
Lucinda Williams World's Gone Wrong Highway 20 Records [61]
Megadeth Megadeth BLKIIBLK, Frontiers [62]
Mika Hyperlove [63]
The Paper Kites If You Go There, I Hope You Find It Wonderlick, Sony Music [64]
Poppy Empty Hands Sumerian [65]
PVA No More Like ThisIt's All For Fun Records [66]
Searows Death in the Business of WhalingLast Recordings On Earth [67]
Textures Genotype [68]
Van Morrison Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge [69]
January
28
Hanabie. Hot Topic [70]
January
30
A. G. Cook The Moment (The Score) A24 Music [71]
Ailbhe Reddy Kiss Big [72]
Buzzcocks Attitude Adjustment Cherry Red [73]
By Storm My Ghosts Go GhostDeadAir [74]
Cast Yeah Yeah YeahScruff of the Neck Records [75]
DaBaby Be More Grateful [76] [77]
Demob Happy The Grown Ups Are TalkingMilk Parlour Records [78]
Francis Rossi The Accidental earMusic [79]
Geologist Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? Drag City [80]
James Walsh It's All Happening [81]
Jordan Ward Backward ARTium, Interscope [82]
Joseph Closer to Happy [83]
Joyce Manor I Used to Go to This Bar Epitaph [84]
Kula Shaker Wormslayer [85]
Labrinth Cosmic Opera: Act I Columbia [86]
Lande Hekt Lucky Now Tapete [87]
Sébastien Tellier Kiss the Beast Because [88]
Shackleton Euphoria BoundAD 93 [89]
Softcult When a Flower Doesn't GrowEasy Life Records [90]
The Soft Pink Truth Can Such Delightful Times Go on Forever? Thrill Jockey [91]
Whitelands Sunlight Echoes Sonic Cathedral [92]
Ye Bully YZY [93]
Yumi Zouma No Love Lost to Kindness Nettwerk [94]
TBA Lana Del Rey Stove Interscope, Polydor [95]

February

List of albums to be released in February 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
February
2
Cory Wong Lost in the Wonder [96]
February
5
Clawfinger Before We All Die Reigning Phoenix [97]
Eugene Mirman Here Comes the WhimsyPretty Good Friends Records [98]
February
6
Beverly Glenn-Copeland Laughter in Summer Transgressive [99]
Big Big Train Woodcut Inside Out [100]
Dream Nails You WishMarshall Records [101]
Ella Mai Do You Still Love Me?10Summers Records, Interscope [102]
J. Cole The Fall-Off Dreamville, Interscope [103]
Joji Piss in the Wind Palace Creek, VMG [104]
Karnivool In Verses Cymatic Records [105]
Keli Holiday Capital FictionKeli Holiday [106]
KMFDM Enemy Metropolis [107]
Mandy, Indiana Urgh Sacred Bones [108]
Mayhem Liturgy of Death Century Media [109]
Nick Jonas Sunday Best Republic [110]
Puscifer Normal Isn'tPuscifer Entertainment, Alchemy Recordings [111]
Rafael Anton Irisarri Points of InaccessibilityBlack Knoll Editions [112]
Ratboys Singin' to an Empty Chair New West [113]
Silversun Pickups TenterhooksNew Machine Recordings [114]
Ulrika Spacek Expo Full Time Hobby [115]
February
12
Ray Stevens Ray Stevens Favorites Old and New Curb [116]
February
13
Angel Dust Cold 2 the Touch Run for Cover [117]
Ásgeir Julia One Little Independent [118]
August Ponthier Everywhere Isn't TexasNowhereland Sounds [119]
Charli XCX Wuthering Heights Atlantic [120]
Converge Love Is Not Enough Deathwish, Epitaph [121]
Danny L Harle Cerulean XL [122]
Gogol Bordello We Mean It, Man!Casa Gogol Records [123]
Hemlocke Springs The Apple Tree Under the Sea AWAL [124]
Howling Bells Strange Life Nude [125]
Jill Scott To Whom This May Concern Blues Babe, Human Re Sources [126]
The Lone Bellow What a Time to Be Alive [127]
Mariachi El Bronx Mariachi El Bronx IV ATO [128]
Remember Sports The Refrigerator Get Better [129]
Sarah Kinsley Fleeting Verve Forecast, Fontana [130]
Stetson, Fox & Dunn NetheringEnvision Records, Invada [131]
Story of the Year A.R.S.O.N. SharpTone [132]
February
20
The Enemy Social Disguises [133]
Hilary Duff Luck... or Something Atlantic [134]
Leigh-Anne My Ego Told Me To Virgin Music [135]
May-a Goodbye (If You Call That Gone) Sony Australia [136]
Megan Moroney Cloud 9 Sony Music, Columbia [137]
Meg Mac It's My Party EMI Music Australia [138]
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis Deface the Currency Impulse! [139]
Michael Monroe OuterstellarSilver Lining Music [140]
Mirah Dedication Double Double Whammy [141]
Moby Future Quiet BMG [142]
Mumford & Sons Prizefighter Island [143]
New Found Glory Listen Up! Pure Noise [144]
Peaches No Lube So Rude Kill Rock Stars [145]
Stone Autonomy [146]
Sylosis The New Flesh Nuclear Blast [147]
February
27
Bill Callahan My Days of 58 Drag City [148]
Bill Frisell In My Dreams Blue Note [149]
Blackpink Deadline YG [150]
Bruno Mars The Romantic [151]
Buck Meek The Mirror 4AD [152]
Carpenter Brut Leather Temple [153]
Crooked Fingers Swet Deth [154]
Cryptic Shift Overspace & Supertime Metal Blade [155]
Deathcrash SomersaultsUntitled (recs) [156]
Geese Live at Third Man Records Third Man [157]
Gena (Liv.e and Karriem Riggins)The Pleasure Is Yours Lex [158]
Gorillaz The Mountain Kong Records [159]
Heavenly Highway To HeavenlyFletcher Records, Skep Wax Records [160]
Hey Colossus Heaven Was Wild [161]
Iron & Wine Hen's Teeth Sub Pop [162]
Lala Lala Heaven 2 Sub Pop [163]
Ludovico Einaudi Solo Piano Decca [164]
Maria BC Marathon Sacred Bones [165]
Mitski Nothing's About to Happen to Me [166]
Nothing A Short History of Decay Run for Cover [167]
Paul Gilbert WrocMusic Theories Records [168]
RJD2 and Supastition According To...Electrical Connections, Eavesdrop Music [169]
Rob Zombie The Great Satan Nuclear Blast [170]
Stephen O'Malley Spheres Collapser [171]
Telenova The Warning EMI Music Australia [172]
A Thousand Horses White Flag Down [173]
Voxtrot Dreamers in ExileCult Hero Records [174]
The Wave Pictures Gained / Lost [175]
A Wilhelm Scream Cheap HeatCreator-Destructor Records [176]
TBA Ringo Starr TBA Country [177]

March

List of albums to be released in March 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
March
1
Twin Peaks Freezing in Chicago — Live at Thalia Hall, December 31st, 2017 [178]
March
3
John Pizzarelli Dear Mr. BennettGreen Hill Music [179]
March
5
Morrissey Make-Up Is a Lie Sire, Warner [180]
March
6
Aaron Hibell Synchronicity Astralwerks [181]
Bonnie "Prince" Billy We Are Together AgainNo Quarter Records [182]
Bosse-de-Nage Hidden Fires Burn Hottest The Flenser [183]
Charlie Puth Whatever's Clever! Atlantic [184]
Daniel Avery Tremor (Midnight Versions) Domino [185]
Harry Styles Kiss All the Time. Disco, Occasionally Columbia [186]
H.R and New Age DoomAngels Against Angels [187]
Hunter Hayes Evergreen [188]
Lost Society Hell Is a State of Mind Nuclear Blast [189]
Matt Corby Tragic Magic Island Records Australia [190]
Prong Live and Uncleansed Steamhammer [191]
Shabaka Of the EarthShabaka Records [192]
Squeeze Trixies BMG [193]
Status/Non-Status Big Changes You've Changed [194]
Surfbort Reality StarTODO Records [195]
Tanya Tagaq Saputjiji Six Shooter [196]
Teenage Bottlerocket Invisible Man Pirates Press [197]
Vial HellhoundTrout Hole [198]
March
13
Alexis Taylor Paris in the Spring Night Time Stories [199]
Anjimile You're Free to Go 4AD [200]
Art School Girlfriend Lean In Fiction [201]
The Black Crowes A Pound of Feathers [202]
Brigitte Calls Me Baby Irreversible ATO [203]
Crack Cloud Peace and PurposeMeat Machine [204]
Cut Worms Transmitter [205]
Daniel Romano's Outfit Preservers of the Pearl You've Changed [206]
Elucid and Sebb BashI Guess You Had to Be ThereBackwoodz Studioz [207]
Foy Vance The Wake Rounder [208]
Gotthard More Stereo Crush [209]
Kim Gordon Play Me Matador [210]
Lamb of God Into Oblivion Century Media, Epic [211]
The Notwist News from Planet Zombie Morr Music [212]
The Orielles Only You Left Heavenly [213]
The Scratch Pull Like a Dog Music for Nations, Sony Music Ireland [214]
Soft Machine ThirteenDyad Records [215]
Sweet Pill Still There's a Glow Hopeless [216]
Yonaka Hope You're SatisfiedDistiller Records [217]
March
20
Axel Rudi Pell Ghost Town SPV/Steamhammer [218]
BTS Arirang [219]
The Dandy Warhols Pin UpsBeat the World, Little Cloud Records [220]
Ego Ella May Good Intentions [221]
Gladie No Need to Be Lonely Get Better [222]
Haircut One Hundred Boxing the Compass [223]
Ladytron Paradises Nettwerk [224]
Luke Combs The Way I Am Sony Music Nashville [225]
Morgan Evans Steel Town Virgin Music [226]
Peach PRC Porcelain Island Records Australia, Republic [227]
Poison the Well Peace in Place SharpTone [228]
Son Little Cityfolk Anti- [229]
Tyketto Closer to the SunSilver Lining Music [230]
Zhu Black Midas [231]
March
27
The Academy Is... Almost ThereI Surrender Records [232]
Bernard Butler, Norman Blake, and James Grant Murmurs355 Recordings [233]
Black Label Society Engines of Demolition MNRK [234]
Charlotte Cornfield Hurts Like HellNext Door Records, Merge [235]
Cry Club High Voltage Anxiety [236]
Dälek Brilliance of a Falling Moon Ipecac [237]
Elmiene Sounds for Someone Def Jam [238]
Fcukers Ö Ninja Tune [239]
Flea Honora Nonesuch [240]
Hellripper Coronach Century Media [241]
Holy Fuck Event Beat AWAL [242]
José González Against the Dying of the Light Mute [243]
Mallavora What If Better Never Comes? Church Road [244]
Melissa Etheridge RiseSun Records [245]
Memorials (Verity Susman and Matthew Simms)All Clouds Bring Not Rain Fire [246]
Paula Kelley Blinking as the Starlight Burns OutWharf Cat Records [247]
Robyn Sexistential Young [248]
Seafret Fear of Emotion Nettwerk [249]
Slayyyter Wor$t Girl in AmericaRecords, Columbia [250]
Tigers Jaw Lost on You Hopeless [251]
The Twilight Sad It's the Long Goodbye Rock Action [252]
Ty Myers Heavy on the Soul [253]
TBA Yuna TBA JYP [254]

Second quarter

April

List of albums to be released in April 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
April
2
Good Kid Can We Hang Out Sometime? [255]
April
3
Arlo Parks Ambiguous Desire Transgressive [256]
Ber Good, Like It Should Be [257]
The Bevis Frond Horrorful Heights Fire [258]
Joe Pernice Sunny, I Was Wrong New West [259]
Lantlôs Nowhere in Between Forever Prophecy Productions [260]
Sunn O))) Sunn O))) Sub Pop [261]
April
8
Attila Concrete Throne [262]
April
10
Archspire Too Fast to Die [263]
As Everything Unfolds Did You Ask to Be Set Free? Century Media [264]
Broadside Nowhere, At Last Thriller [265]
Immolation Descent Nuclear Blast [266]
Joe Jackson Hope and FurySharp Practice Records, earMusic [267]
The Pictish Trail Life Slime Fire [268]
April
17
The Last Ten Seconds of Life The Dead Ones Metal Blade [269]
LØLØ God Forbid a Girl Spits Out Her Feelings [270]
Skindred You Got This Earache [271]
Souled American SanctionsJealous Butcher Records [272]
Tiga HotLife Electronic, dance [273]
April
24
Jason Aldean Songs About Us [274]
John Corabi New Day Frontiers [275]
Meghan Trainor Toy with Me [276]
Reverend and the Makers Is This How Happiness Feels? [277]
TBA Bryan Adams Tough Town [278]

May

List of albums to be released in May 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
May
1
Melanie C Sweat Virgin Music [279]
May
22
Alt Blk Era Our World LAB [280]
TBA Social Distortion TBA [281]

June

List of albums released or to be released in June 2026
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Release dateArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
June
12
Stitched Up Heart Medusa [282]

Unscheduled and TBA

List of albums to be released sometime in 2026
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ArtistAlbumGenreLabelRef.
4 Non Blondes TBA670 Records, Kill Rock Stars [283]
Asia TBA Frontiers [284]
Björk TBA [285]
Bruce Springsteen TBA [286]
Cardi B TBA Atlantic [287]
Deep Purple TBA [288]
DJ Khaled Aalam of God [289]
Doechii TBA Top Dawg, Capitol [290]
Dropkick Murphys and HaywireNew England Forever [291]
Evanescence TBA [292]
Exodus TBA [293]
Fear Factory TBA [294]
Gojira TBA [295]
Gorguts TBA [296]
Linda Perry Let It Die Here670 Records, Kill Rock Stars [283]
Lita Ford TBA [297]
Madonna Confessions on a Dance Floor Part 2 Warner [298]
Martin Garrix TBA [299]
Ministry TBA [300]
Muse TBA [301]
Overkill TBA [302]
Papa Roach TBANew Noize Records, ADA [303]
Peter Gabriel O\I [304]
Raye TBA [305]
Saxon TBA [306]
Symphony X TBA [307]
They Might Be Giants TBA [20]
Tony Iommi TBA [308]
Tori Amos In Times of Dragons Fontana [309]
Trivium TBA [310]
Warning TBA Relapse [311]

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