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

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				310,000	[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

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

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