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This is a list of albums that charted in the top ten on the ARIA Album Charts, an all-genre albums chart, in 2016.

Top-ten albums

An asterisk (*) represents that the album is in the top ten as of the week ending on 18 December 2017.

Key

(#) - 2016 Year-end top 10 album position and rank

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Top 10
Entry date		 Albums Peak Total weeks
in the top 10		 References
Title Artist(s) Position Date
Albums from 1993
20 September The Hits/The B-Sides [G] Prince 4 2 May (2016) 4 [1]
Albums from 2003
1 December Greatest Hits Red Hot Chili Peppers 2 1 December 17 [2]
Albums from 2011
7 November Christmas (#5) Michael Bublé 1 5 December 45* [3]
Albums from 2014
2 June In the Lonely Hour Sam Smith 1 27 April (2015) 52 [4]
30 June X Ed Sheeran 1 30 June 104 [3]
3 November 1989 Taylor Swift 1 3 November 70 [3]
Albums from 2015
31 August Immortalized Disturbed 1 31 August 7 [5]
7 September Beauty Behind the Madness The Weeknd 1 7 September 12 [3]
9 November If I Can Dream Elvis Presley and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra 1 9 November 12 [3]
23 November Purpose (#9) Justin Bieber 1 23 November 22 [3]
Made in the A.M. One Direction 2 23 November 5 [3]
30 November 25 (#1) Adele 1 30 November 71 [3]
14 December A Head Full of Dreams Coldplay 2 14 December 10 [3]
28 December Jess & Matt Jess & Matt 9 28 December 2 [3]
Albums from 2016
11 January Molly [S] (#4) Various Artists 1 15 February 16 [6]
18 January Blackstar (#8) David Bowie 1 18 January 7 [7]
Nothing Has Changed [G] 3 18 January 7 [7]
Adam Brand and the Outlaws Adam Brand and the Outlaws 6 18 January 1 [7]
Best of Bowie [G] David Bowie 6 25 January 2 [8]
25 January Death of a Bachelor Panic! at the Disco 3 25 January 1 [8]
1 February Bloom Rüfüs 1 1 February 5 [9]
Dystopia Megadeth 6 1 February 1 [9]
The Complete Greatest Hits [G] The Eagles 10 1 February 1 [9]
8 February This Is Acting Sia 1 8 February 5 [10]
Anti Rihanna 5 8 February 2 [10]
Nine Track Mind Charlie Puth 8 8 February 2 [10]
The Astonishing Dream Theater 10 8 February 1 [10]
22 February Synthia The Jezabels 4 22 February 1 [11]
Time of My Life Ronan Keating 6 22 February 1 [11]
29 February Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung Hilltop Hoods 1 29 February 9 [12]
Phase Jack Garratt 9 29 February 1 [12]
7 March I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It The 1975 1 7 March 1 [13]
Youth Revival Hillsong Young & Free 3 7 March 2 [13]
This Unruly Mess I've Made Macklemore & Ryan Lewis 6 7 March 6 [13]
Dissonants Hands Like Houses 7 7 March 1 [13]
Hills End DMA's 8 7 March 1 [13]
14 March Rising with the Sun The Cat Empire 1 14 March 2 [14]
Untitled Unmastered Kendrick Lamar 3 14 March 1 [14]
Limitless Tonight Alive 6 14 March 1 [14]
The Past Beats Inside Me Like a Second Heartbeat Urthboy 7 14 March 1 [14]
21 March Telluric Matt Corby 1 21 March 4 [15]
You and I Jeff Buckley 2 21 March 2 [15]
Incarnate Killswitch Engage 5 21 March 1 [15]
Have It All Bethel Music 8 21 March 1 [15]
28 March Waco Violent Soho 1 28 March 2 [16]
This Is What the Truth Feels Like Gwen Stefani 6 28 March 1 [16]
Post Pop Depression Iggy Pop 7 28 March 1 [16]
4 April Mind of Mine Zayn 1 4 April 2 [5]
The Black Asking Alexandria 4 4 April 1 [5]
Beautiful Lies Birdy 10 4 April 1 [5]
11 April Lukas Graham Lukas Graham 1 11 April 3 [5]
Metal Resistance Babymetal 7 11 April 1 [5]
Everything You've Come to Expect The Last Shadow Puppets 9 11 April 1 [5]
18 April Gore Deftones 1 18 April 1 [17]
Cleopatra The Lumineers 2 18 April 1 [17]
25 April The Hope Six Demolition Project PJ Harvey 7 25 April 1 [18]
Together Marina Prior and Mark Vincent 5 9 May 3 [19]
2 May Lemonade (#3) Beyoncé 1 2 May 16 [1]
The Very Best of Prince [G] Prince 2 2 May 5 [1]
Classic Carpenters Dami Im 3 2 May 6 [1]
Purple Rain Prince and The Revolution 5 2 May 1 [1]
Ultimate Prince [G] Prince 6 2 May 1 [1]
Seven Sonnets & a Song Paul Kelly 9 2 May 1 [1]
9 May Views Drake 1 9 May 10 [19]
The Electric Warlock Acid Witch Satanic Orgy Celebration Dispenser Rob Zombie 8 9 May 1 [19]
Prayers for the Damned Sixx:A.M. 9 9 May 1 [19]
Stages Live Josh Groban 10 9 May 1 [19]
16 May Ripcord (#2) Keith Urban 1 16 May 26 [20]
A Moon Shaped Pool Radiohead 2 16 May 5 [20]
Anthology Kate Ceberano 9 16 May 1 [20]
23 May Thank You Meghan Trainor 3 23 May 8 [21]
Shift The Living End 4 23 May 1 [21]
Strange Loop Paul Dempsey 5 23 May 1 [21]
Eurovision Song Contest 2016 [S] Various Artists 9 23 May 1 [21]
30 May Dangerous Woman Ariana Grande 1 30 May 2 [22]
I Still Do Eric Clapton 10 30 May 1 [22]
6 June Skin Flume 1 6 June 6 [23]
All Our Gods Have Abandoned Us Architects 2 6 June 1 [23]
The Ride Catfish and the Bottlemen 6 6 June 1 [23]
7/27 Fifth Harmony 8 6 June 1 [23]
13 June Soul Searchin' Jimmy Barnes 1 13 June 3 [24]
This Crazy Life The Wolfe Brothers 10 13 June 1 [24]
20 June Thick as Thieves The Temper Trap 1 20 June 1 [2]
Strange Little Birds Garbage 9 20 June 1 [2]
27 June The Getaway Red Hot Chili Peppers 1 27 June 6 [25]
4 July Conscious Broods 2 4 July 1 [26]
11 July Wings of the Wild Delta Goodrem 1 11 July 6 [27]
California Blink-182 2 11 July 5 [27]
The Speed of Sound In Stereo 3 11 July 1 [27]
Christine and the Queens Christine and the Queens 8 11 July 1 [27]
18 July Wildflower The Avalanches 1 18 July 4 [28]
Of Dirt and Grace: Live from the Land Hillsong Worship 8 18 July 2 [28]
Blank Face LP Schoolboy Q 9 18 July 1 [28]
25 July Youth Authority Good Charlotte 1 25 July 1 [29]
A Version of Now Peter Garrett 3 25 July 1 [29]
1 August Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II Human Nature 1 1 August 9 [30]
Periphery III: Select Difficulty Periphery 8 1 August 1 [30]
8 August Let Me Be Clear Gang of Youths 2 8 August 1 [31]
Opera Oblivia Hellions 4 8 August 1 [31]
Zenith Alfie Arcuri 5 8 August 1 [31]
Major Key DJ Khaled 6 8 August 1 [31]
15 August Suicide Squad (#10) [S] Various Artists 1 15 August 14 [32]
Civil Dusk Bernard Fanning 2 15 August 3 [32]
Glorious Heights Montaigne 4 15 August 1 [32]
Unleashed Skillet 7 15 August 1 [32]
Way Down in the Jungle Room Elvis Presley 9 15 August 1 [32]
Encore DJ Snake 10 15 August 1 [32]
22 August This Could Be Heartbreak The Amity Affliction 1 22 August 2 [33]
Blurryface Twenty One Pilots 7 22 August 1 [33]
29 August Blonde Frank Ocean 1 29 August 3 [34]
Every Night the Same Dream Ball Park Music 3 29 August 1 [34]
Seven Mirrors Drapht 4 29 August 1 [34]
This Sporting Life Roy and HG 6 29 August 3 [34]
Pure & Simple Dolly Parton 9 29 August 1 [34]
5 September Encore: Movie Partners Sing Broadway Barbra Streisand 1 5 September 5 [35]
Glory Britney Spears 4 5 September 1 [35]
Things I Carry Around Troy Cassar-Daley 5 5 September 1 [35]
Outlier Twelve Foot Ninja 6 5 September 1 [35]
Dig Your Roots Florida Georgia Line 7 5 September 1 [35]
12 September Bad Vibrations A Day to Remember 1 12 September 1 [36]
Animal Big Scary 5 12 September 1 [36]
His Favourite Collection [G] John Williamson 9 12 September 1 [36]
Birds in the Trap Sing McKnight Travis Scott 10 12 September 1 [36]
19 September Skeleton Tree Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds 1 19 September 3 [37]
Internal Safia 2 19 September 1 [37]
The Complete Trio Collection Dolly Parton, Emmylou Harris and Linda Ronstadt 3 19 September 4 [37]
They Don't Know Jason Aldean 5 19 September 1 [37]
Wild World Bastille 7 19 September 1 [37]
The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl The Beatles 8 19 September 1 [37]
Transcendence Devin Townsend Project 10 19 September 1 [37]
26 September Backbone Anthony Callea 1 26 September 2 [38]
Hard II Love Usher 5 26 September 1 [38]
Bridget Jones's Baby [S] Various Artists 7 26 September 1 [38]
Mount Ninji and da Nice Time Kid Die Antwoord 9 26 September 1 [38]
Divas and Demons Remi 10 26 September 1 [38]
3 October Young as the Morning, Old as the Sea Passenger 1 3 October 2 [39]
Chapter and Verse Bruce Springsteen 2 3 October 2 [39]
Illuminate Shawn Mendes 3 3 October 2 [39]
Dream Lover: The Bobby Darin Musical David Campbell 9 3 October 1 [39]
10 October Westway (The Glitter & the Slums) Sticky Fingers 1 10 October 2 [40]
22, A Million Bon Iver 2 10 October 1 [40]
Sorceress Opeth 7 10 October 1 [40]
The Altar Banks 8 10 October 1 [40]
17 October Triple J Like a Version 12 Various Artists 1 17 October 5 [41]
Revolution Radio Green Day 2 17 October 2 [41]
In the Now Barry Gibb 3 17 October 4 [41]
Day Breaks Norah Jones 4 17 October 2 [41]
The Last Hero Alter Bridge 6 17 October 1 [41]
Oh My My OneRepublic 8 17 October 1 [41]
The Violent Sleep of Reason Meshuggah 9 17 October 1 [41]
24 October The Secret Daughter (#7) [S] Jessica Mauboy 1 24 October 11 [42]
Let There Be Light Hillsong Worship 2 24 October 1 [42]
Walls Kings of Leon 3 24 October 2 [42]
Chemical Miracle Trophy Eyes 8 24 October 1 [42]
Warriors Lisa Mitchell 9 24 October 1 [42]
31 October Joanne Lady Gaga 2 31 October 2 [43]
Nobody but Me Michael Bublé 2 7 November 4 [44]
The Wonder of You Elvis Presley 3 7 November 5 [44]
The Serenity of Suffering Korn 5 31 October 1 [43]
You Want It Darker Leonard Cohen 2 21 November 4 [45]
Lifelines I Prevail 8 31 October 1 [43]
7 November The Stage Avenged Sevenfold 4 7 November 1 [44]
Two Vines Empire of the Sun 7 7 November 1 [44]
Back from the Edge James Arthur 8 7 November 1 [44]
14 November This House Is Not for Sale Bon Jovi 1 14 November 2 [46]
Brace Birds of Tokyo 3 14 November 1 [46]
The Heavy Entertainment Show Robbie Williams 4 14 November 4 [46]
Don't Look Down Pez 7 14 November 1 [46]
21 November Two Degrees Illy 1 21 November 1 [45]
Friends for Christmas (#6) [C] John Farnham and Olivia Newton-John 1 19 December 11* [47]
The Singles [G] Phil Collins 6 21 November 1 [45]
57th & 9th Sting 9 21 November 1 [45]
28 November Hardwired... to Self-Destruct Metallica 1 28 November 6 [48]
Glory Days Little Mix 2 28 November 1 [48]
24K Magic Bruno Mars 3 28 November 9 [48]
Tradition Kerser 4 28 November 1 [48]
5 December Starboy The Weeknd 1 5 December 5 [49]
The Very Very Best of Crowded House [G] Crowded House 5 5 December 1 [49]
Reclaim Australia A.B. Original 10 5 December 1 [49]
12 December Blue & Lonesome The Rolling Stones 1 12 December 8 [50]
"Awaken, My Love!" Childish Gambino 9 12 December 1 [50]
19 December 4 Your Eyez Only J. Cole 6 19 December 1 [47]
Trolls [S] Various Artists 1 9 January (2017) 19 [51]
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Notes

C It is a Christmas album
G It is a greatest hits album.
S It is a soundtrack of a film/TV series/etc.

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