List of Billboard 200 number-one albums of 1996
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These are the Billboard magazine number-one albums of 1996, per the Billboard 200.
Chart history
| † | Indicates best performing album of 1996 |
| Issue date | Album | Artist(s) | Label | Sales | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| January 6 | Daydream | Mariah Carey | Columbia | 760,000 | [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 | 315,000 | [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] | |||