List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996

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Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette was the best-selling album of 1996. AlanisMorissettepraha.jpg
Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette was the best-selling album of 1996.
Daydream by Mariah Carey had the biggest sales week of 1996. Mariah Carey 1999.jpg
Daydream by Mariah Carey had the biggest sales week of 1996.

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

Contents

Chart history

Key
†Indicates best performing album of 1996
Issue dateAlbumArtist(s)LabelSalesRef.
January 6 Daydream Mariah Carey Columbia 759,959 [1] [2]
January 13414,000 [3] [4]
January 20 Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack Arista 231,000 [5] [6]
January 27174,000 [7] [8]
February 3159,000 [9] [10]
February 10131,000 [11] [12]
February 17118,000 [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 9297,000 [19] [20]
March 16Jagged Little Pill†Alanis MorissetteMaverick241,000 [21] [22]
March 23251,000 [23] [24]
March 30233,000 [25] [26]
April 6 Anthology 2 The Beatles Apple 441,000 [27] [28]
April 13Jagged Little Pill†Alanis MorissetteMaverick213,000 [29] [30]
April 20254,000 [31] [32]
April 27200,000 [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 18259,000 [39] [40]
May 25 The Score Fugees Ruffhouse 206,000 [41] [42]
June 1189,000 [43] [44]
June 8180,000 [45] [46]
June 15179,000 [47] [48]
June 22 Load Metallica Elektra 680,000 [49] [50]
June 29302,000 [51] [52]
July 6219,000 [53] [54]
July 13172,000 [55] [56]
July 20 It Was Written Nas Columbia269,000 [57] [58]
July 27161,000 [59] [60]
August 3144,000 [61] [62]
August 10132,000 [63] [64]
August 17 Beats, Rhymes and Life A Tribe Called Quest Jive 173,000 [65] [66]
August 24Jagged Little Pill†Alanis MorissetteMaverick121,000 [67] [68]
August 31120,000 [69] [70]
September 7115,000 [71] [72]
September 14 No Code Pearl Jam Epic366,500 [73] [74]
September 21146,000 [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 12131,000 [81] [82]
October 19 From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Nirvana DGC 158,000 [83] [84]
October 26Falling into YouCeline Dion550 Music136,000 [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 BeatlesApple236,000 [91] [92]
November 23 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Makaveli Death Row664,000 [93] [94]
November 30 Tha Doggfather Snoop Doggy Dogg Death Row478,971 [95]
December 7 Razorblade Suitcase Bush Trauma 295,000 [96] [97]
December 14200,000 [98] [99]
December 21 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma229,000 [100] [101]
December 28329,000 [102] [103]

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