Editing 1996 in music (section)

===January–March===
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! colspan="2"|Date
!Album
!Artist
!Notes
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| rowspan="34" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#FFA07A; textcolor:#000;" | '''J<br />A<br />N<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| rowspan="3" align="center"|1
| ''[[Cut in Half and Also Double]]'' || [[Emily Haines]] ||-
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| ''[[Inquilaab (album)|Inquilaab]]'' || [[Junoon (band)|Junoon]] ||-
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| ''[[Splay (Shiner album)|Splay]]'' || [[Shiner (band)|Shiner]] ||-
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| align="center"|2
| ''[[Grom (album)|Grom]]'' || [[Behemoth (band)|Behemoth]] ||-
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| rowspan="4" align="center"|9
| ''[[Victor (Alex Lifeson album)|Victor]]'' || [[Alex Lifeson]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Early Mornin' Stoned Pimp]]'' || [[Kid Rock]] ||-
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| ''[[Right in the Middle of It]]'' || [[Chely Wright]] ||-
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| ''[[Young, Rich & Dangerous]]'' || [[Kris Kross]] ||-
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| align="center"|12
| ''[[Music of My Life (Jo Stafford album)|Music of My Life]]'' || [[Jo Stafford]] ||-
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| rowspan="3" align="center"|15
| ''[[Loops of Fury]]'' || [[The Chemical Brothers]] || EP
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| ''[[Predator (album)|Predator]]'' || [[Accept (band)|Accept]] ||-
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| ''[[Total Death]]'' || [[Darkthrone]] ||-
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| rowspan="2" align="center"|16
| ''[[Viva! La Woman]]'' || [[Cibo Matto]] ||-
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| ''[[Words (Tony Rich album)|Words]]'' || [[Tony Rich]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|19
| ''[[Painting on Glass]]'' || [[The Third and the Mortal|The 3rd and the Mortal]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="1" align="center"|22
| ''[[The Cult of Ray]]'' || [[Frank Black]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="5" align="center"|23
| ''[[Boys for Pele]]'' || [[Tori Amos]] ||-
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| ''[[Wither Blister Burn & Peel]]'' || [[Stabbing Westward]] ||-
|-
| ''[[10 Speed (album)|10 Speed]]'' || [[Mystery Machine (band)|Mystery Machine]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Helter Skelter (The D.O.C. album)|Helter Skelter]]'' || [[The D.O.C.]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Trouble with the Truth (album)|The Trouble with the Truth]]'' || [[Patty Loveless]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="2" align="center"|25
| ''[[Hey Man]]'' || [[Mr. Big (American band)|Mr. Big]] ||Japan
|-
| ''[[Stormblåst]]'' || [[Dimmu Borgir]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|26
| ''[[Maniacal Laughter]]'' || [[The Bouncing Souls]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|29
| ''[[Advance (album)|Advance]]'' || [[LFO (British band)|LFO]] ||<ref name="advance-lfo-warp">{{cite web|url=http://warp.net/records/releases/lfo/advance|work=[[Warp Records]]|title=LFO:Advance|access-date=August 18, 2014|archive-date=August 12, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812082731/http://warp.net/records/releases/lfo/advance|url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="7" align="center"|30
| ''[[Millions Now Living Will Never Die]]'' || [[Tortoise (band)|Tortoise]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Beautiful Girls (film)|Beautiful Girls]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Diatribes (album)|Diatribes]]'' || [[Napalm Death]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood (soundtrack)|Don't Be a Menace to South Central While Drinking Your Juice in the Hood]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[Filth Pig]]'' || [[Ministry (band)|Ministry]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton]]'' || [[Eazy-E]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Total (Total album)|Total]]'' || [[Total (band)|Total]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|31
| ''[[Heavy Petting Zoo]]'' || [[NOFX]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|?
| ''[[The Secrets of the Black Arts]]'' || [[Dark Funeral]] || Debut
|-
| rowspan="33" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#D8BFD8; textcolor:#000;" | '''F<br />E<br />B<br />R<br />U<br />A<br />R<br />Y'''
| rowspan="3" align="center"|5
| ''[[Purpendicular]]'' || [[Deep Purple]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Don't Stop (Status Quo album)|Don't Stop]]'' || [[Status Quo (band)|Status Quo]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Free Spirit (Bonnie Tyler album)|Free Spirit]]'' || [[Bonnie Tyler]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="3" align="center"|6
| ''[[Kids on the Street]]'' || [[Cherry Poppin' Daddies]] ||-
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| ''[[Sackcloth 'n' Ashes]]'' || [[16 Horsepower]] ||-
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| ''[[Tennessee Moon]]'' || [[Neil Diamond]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|7
|''[[Beat Out!]]''
|[[Glay]]
| -
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| rowspan="4" align="center"|13
| ''[[All Eyez on Me]]'' || [[Tupac Shakur|2Pac]] || 2x CD
|-
| ''[[Congratulations I'm Sorry]]'' || [[Gin Blossoms]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Looking East]]'' || [[Jackson Browne]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Score (Fugees album)|The Score]]'' || [[Fugees]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|19
| ''[[Skunkworks (album)|Skunkworks]]'' || [[Bruce Dickinson]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="10" align="center"|20
| ''[[Affliction (album)|Affliction]]'' || [[Econoline Crush]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Bloom (Audio Adrenaline album)|Bloom]]'' || [[Audio Adrenaline]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Come Find Yourself]]'' || [[Fun Lovin' Criminals]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Firewater (Silkworm album)|Firewater]]'' || [[Silkworm (band)|Silkworm]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Jester Race]]'' || [[In Flames]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Murder Ballads]]'' || [[Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Pies Descalzos]]'' || [[Shakira]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Roots (Sepultura album)|Roots]]'' || [[Sepultura]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Set the Twilight Reeling]]'' || [[Lou Reed]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Take Me to Your Leader (Newsboys album)|Take Me to Your Leader]]'' || [[Newsboys]] ||-
|-
| align="center"|23
| ''[[Our Band Could Be Your Life: A Tribute to D Boon and the Minutemen]]'' || Various Artists || Tribute to [[Minutemen (band)|Minutemen]]
|-
| rowspan="1" align="center"|26
| ''[[The Mission (Captain Jack album)|The Mission]]'' || [[Captain Jack (group)|Captain Jack]] || -
|-
| rowspan="9" align="center"|27
| ''[[Fizzy Fuzzy Big & Buzzy]]'' || [[The Refreshments (US band)|The Refreshments]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Goldfinger (album)|Goldfinger]]'' || [[Goldfinger (band)|Goldfinger]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Gray Race]]'' || [[Bad Religion]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Heartbreak Town (album)|Heartbreak Town]]'' || [[Steve Azar]] ||-
|-
| ''[[High on the Hog (The Band album)|High on the Hog]]'' || [[The Band]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Lay It Down (Cowboy Junkies album)|Lay It Down]]'' || [[Cowboy Junkies]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Peach Fuzz (album)|Peach Fuzz]]'' || [[Enuff Z'Nuff]] || US
|-
| ''[[Pogue Mahone]]'' || [[The Pogues]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Process (Skinny Puppy album)|The Process]]'' || [[Skinny Puppy]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="52" valign="center" align="center" style="background:#98FB98; textcolor:#000;" |'''M<br />A<br />R<br />C<br />H'''
| rowspan="4" align="center"|4
| ''[[Hits (Mike + The Mechanics album)|Hits]]'' || [[Mike and the Mechanics|Mike + The Mechanics]] || Compilation
|-
| ''[[Arena (Asia album)|Arena]]'' || [[Asia (band)|Asia]] ||-
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| ''[[After Murder Park]]'' || [[The Auteurs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Myra Lee]]'' || [[Cat Power]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" align="center"|5
| ''[[Gravity Kills (album)|Gravity Kills]]'' || [[Gravity Kills]] ||-
|-
| ''[[House of GVSB]]'' || [[Girls Against Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[I Feel Alright]]'' || [[Steve Earle]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Naughty Little Doggie]]'' || [[Iggy Pop]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Offbeat: A Red Hot Soundtrip]]'' || Various Artists || [[Red Hot Organization|Red Hot]] AIDS benefit
|-
| ''[[The Time of the Oath]]'' || [[Helloween]] || US
|-
| rowspan="1" align="center"|8
| ''[[Mercury Falling]]'' || [[Sting (musician)|Sting]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" align="center"|11
| ''[[Beat the Bastards]]'' || [[The Exploited]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Refresh the Demon]]'' || [[Annihilator (band)|Annihilator]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Regular Urban Survivors]]'' || [[Terrorvision]] ||-
|-
| ''Thomas Wade & Wayward'' || [[Thomas Wade (singer)|Thomas Wade & Wayward]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="6" align="center"|12
| ''[[Bad Hair Day]]'' || [["Weird Al" Yankovic]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Black Love (The Afghan Whigs album)|Black Love]]'' || [[The Afghan Whigs]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Falling into You]]'' || [[Celine Dion]] || US
|-
| ''[[Gato Negro]]'' || [[7 Year Bitch]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Kiss Unplugged]]'' || [[Kiss (band)|Kiss]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Roots (Sepultura album)|Roots]]'' || [[Sepultura]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="4" align="center"|18
| ''[[Emperor Tomato Ketchup (album)|Emperor Tomato Ketchup]]'' || [[Stereolab]] ||-
|-
| ''Another Way to Shine'' || [[Spiritual Beggars]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Beatles Anthology]], [[Anthology 2|Volume 2]]'' || [[The Beatles]] || Compilation +1 new track
|-
| ''[[Karate (Karate album)|Karate]]'' || [[Karate (band)|Karate]] ||-
|-
| rowspan="9" align="center"|19
| ''[[Born on a Pirate Ship]]'' || [[Barenaked Ladies]] ||-
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| ''[[The Burdens of Being Upright]]'' || [[Tracy Bonham]] || Debut
|-
| ''[[Colossal Head]]'' || [[Los Lobos]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Girl 6 (album)|Girl 6]]'' || [[Prince (musician)|Prince]] || Soundtrack
|-
| ''[[No. 2 Live Dinner]]'' || [[Robert Earl Keen]] || Live
|-
| ''[[Off Parole]]'' || [[Rappin' 4-Tay]] ||-
|-
| ''[[The Resurrection (Geto Boys album)|The Resurrection]]'' || [[Geto Boys]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Second Toughest in the Infants]]'' || [[Underworld (band)|Underworld]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Songs in the Key of X: Music from and Inspired by the X-Files]]'' || Various Artists || Soundtrack to [[The X-Files]] TV series
|-
| align="center"|23
| ''[[Holy Land (album)|Holy Land]]'' || [[Angra (band)|Angra]] || –
|-
| rowspan="5" align="center"|25
| ''[[Greatest Hits (Take That album)|Greatest Hits]]'' || [[Take That]] ||Compilation 
|-
| ''[[Golden Heart]]'' || [[Mark Knopfler]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Made Again (album)|Made Again]]'' || [[Marillion]] || 2x CD; Live
|-
| ''[[Call the Doctor]]'' || [[Sleater-Kinney]] ||-
|-
| ''Now That's What I Call Music! 33'' (UK series) || Various Artists || Compilation
|-
| rowspan="19" align="center"|26
| ''[[40 More Reasons to Hate Us]]'' || [[Anal Cunt]] ||-
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| ''[[The Coming]]'' || [[Busta Rhymes]] || Solo Debut
|-
| ''[[Deathshead Extermination]]'' || [[Crisis (metal band)|Crisis]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Hissing Prigs in Static Couture]]'' || [[Brainiac (band)|Brainiac]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Jo Dee Messina (album)|Jo Dee Messina]]'' || [[Jo Dee Messina]] ||-
|-
| ''[[On Avery Island]]'' || [[Neutral Milk Hotel]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Regretfully Yours]]'' || [[Superdrag]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Tiny Music... Songs from the Vatican Gift Shop]]'' || [[Stone Temple Pilots]] ||-
|-
| ''[[Under the Bushes Under the Stars]]'' || [[Guided by Voices]] ||-
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| ''[[Villains (The Verve Pipe album)|Villains]]'' || [[The Verve Pipe]] ||-
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