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Jagged Little Pill by Alanis Morissette was the best-selling album of 1996.
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.

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
January 13 414,000
January 20 Waiting to Exhale Soundtrack Arista 231,000
January 27 174,000
February 3 159,000
February 10 131,000
February 17 118,000
February 24 Jagged Little Pill † Alanis Morissette Maverick 132,000
March 2 All Eyez on Me 2Pac Death Row 566,500
March 9 310,000
March 16 Jagged Little Pill † Alanis Morissette Maverick 241,000
March 23 251,000
March 30 233,000
April 6 Anthology 2 The Beatles Apple 441,000
April 13 Jagged Little Pill † Alanis Morissette Maverick 213,000
April 20 254,000
April 27 200,000
May 4 Evil Empire Rage Against the Machine Epic 249,000
May 11 Fairweather Johnson Hootie & the Blowfish Atlantic 411,000
May 18 259,000
May 25 The Score Fugees Ruffhouse 206,000
June 1 189,000
June 8 180,000
June 15 179,000
June 22 Load Metallica Elektra 680,000
June 29 302,000
July 6 219,000
July 13 172,000
July 20 It Was Written Nas Columbia 269,000
July 27 161,000
August 3 144,000
August 10 132,000
August 17 Beats, Rhymes and Life A Tribe Called Quest Jive 173,000
August 24 Jagged Little Pill † Alanis Morissette Maverick 121,000
August 31 120,000
September 7 115,000
September 14 No Code Pearl Jam Epic 366,500
September 21 146,000
September 28 Home Again New Edition MCA 227,000
October 5 Falling into You Celine Dion 550 Music 132,000
October 12 131,000
October 19 From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah Nirvana DGC 158,000
October 26 Falling into You Celine Dion 550 Music 136,000
November 2 Recovering the Satellites Counting Crows Geffen 160,000
November 9 Best Of Volume I Van Halen Warner Bros 233,000
November 16 Anthology 3 The Beatles Apple 236,000
November 23 The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory Makaveli Death Row 664,000
November 30 Tha Doggfather Snoop Doggy Dogg Death Row 478,971
December 7 Razorblade Suitcase Bush Trauma 295,000
December 14 200,000
December 21 Tragic Kingdom No Doubt Trauma 229,000
December 28 329,000

See also

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