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The following is a list of events and releases that have happened or are expected to happen in 2026 in music in the United States.
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 9 | Alter Bridge | Alter Bridge | |
| With Heaven on Top | Zach Bryan | ||
| Act III: This City Made Us | The Protomen | ||
| III | Pullman | Acoustic Rock, Alternative folk | |
| 16 | Don't Be Dumb | ASAP Rocky | Hip-hop |
| Locket | Madison Beer | ||
| Stand on My Shoulders | Nicholas Galanin | Electronic | |
| The Dreamin' Kind | Langhorne Slim | ||
| Eat Yourself | Together Pangea | ||
| 23 | Everywhere You Look | Currensy | Hip Hop, Rap |
| Boycott Heaven [74] | The Format | ||
| 20/20 | The Infamous Stringdusters | ||
| Melodrama | Lina | ||
| Megadeth | Megadeth | ||
| 30 | My Ghosts Go Ghost | By Storm | Hip-hop |
| Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? | Geologist | Electronic | |
| Closer to Happy | Joseph | ||
| I Used to Go to This Bar | Joyce Manor | ||
| Octane | Don Toliver | ||
| Backward | Jordan Ward | ||
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2 | Lost in the Wonder | Cory Wong | |
| 6 | The Space Between Us | Robert Deeble | Folk |
| Odyssey | Illenium | ||
| Under the Streetlights | Michael Marcagi | ||
| Normal Isn't | Puscifer | ||
| Tenterhooks | Silversun Pickups | ||
| 13 | Cold 2 The Touch | Angel Dust | |
| Love Is Not Enough | Converge | ||
| What a Time to Be Alive | The Lone Bellow | ||
| Mariachi El Bronx IV | Mariachi El Bronx | ||
| A.R.S.O.N. | Story of the Year | ||
| Up Above | Wrabel | ||
| 20 | Luck... or Something | Hilary Duff | |
| Dedication | Mirah | ||
| Cloud 9 | Megan Moroney | ||
| Somewhere In Between | Mothica | ||
| Listen Up! [9] | New Found Glory | ||
| 27 | My Days of 58 | Bill Callahan | |
| Heaven 2 | Lala Lala | Indie rock | |
| The Romantic | Bruno Mars | ||
| Glass Minds | A Thousand Horses | ||
| The Great Satan | Rob Zombie |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 6 | Hoppers | Mark Mothersbaugh | |
| Reality Star | Surfbort | ||
| Hellhound | Vial | Pop Punk, Punk Rock | |
| Thrashquake [10] | Whiplash |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 13 | A Pound of Feathers | The Black Crowes | |
| A Light That Waits | The Fray | ||
| Into Oblivion | Lamb of God | ||
| Still There's a Glow | Sweet Pill | ||
| 20 | The Way I Am | Luke Combs | Country |
| Goliath | Exodus | Thrash metal | |
| Peace in Place | Poison the Well | ||
| Closer to the Sun | Tyketto | ||
| 27 | Almost There [11] | The Academy Is... | |
| Whatever's Clever! | Charlie Puth | ||
| Engines of Demolition | Black Label Society | ||
| Everything Glows [75] | Cannons | ||
| Rise | Melissa Etheridge | ||
| Moo | King Tuff |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Good, Like It Should Be | Ber | Indie pop |
| Good God / Baad Man | Corrosion of Conformity | ||
| Sunn O))) | Sunn O))) | ||
| The Master Plan | Michael Sweet | ||
| 10 | Concrete Throne | Attila | |
| Nowhere at Last | Broadside | ||
| Joy Next Door | The Maine | ||
| Dead to Rights | Metal Church | ||
| 17 | Chasing the Hydra | Crimson Glory | |
| Reflections | From Ashes to New | ||
| Something Is a Shell | Sofia Isella | ||
| Sanctions | Souled American | ||
| The World Is to Dig | They Might Be Giants | ||
| 24 | The End Is Not the End [76] | Atreyu | |
| Chasing Crowns | The Cab | ||
| New Day | John Corabi | ||
| Location Lost [77] | Failure | ||
| Your Favorite Toy | Foo Fighters | ||
| Toy with Me | Meghan Trainor |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | American Football | American Football | |
| In Times of Dragons | Tori Amos | ||
| Long Wave Home | Jesca Hoop | ||
| The Charmer [13] | Toadies | ||
| Victory Garden [78] | Young the Giant | ||
| 8 | The Me That Remains | Amy Grant | |
| Barely Here | Koyo | ||
| Dancing on the Wall | Muna | ||
| Arcade | Deb Never | ||
| Born to Kill | Social Distortion | ||
| 15 | Change of Plains | 49 Winchester | |
| Sandbox | The All-American Rejects | ||
| Livin Proof | Robin Beck | Pop Rock, Pop, Rock | |
| Little Wide Open | Kevin Morby | ||
| Of Earth & Fires | Dua Saleh | ||
| 22 | The Anthology of Unamerican Folk Music | Marisa Anderson | Americana |
| Everyone for Ten Minutes | Bleachers | ||
| Who's Keeping Time? | Alela Diane | Indie Rock, Americana | |
| Ugly Duckling Union | Lowerton | Indie rock | |
| 29 | Undead Melody | Dark Divine | Metalcore, Post-hardcore |
| True South | Rodney Atkins | ||
| Eight | Shinedown |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
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| 5 | When Does This Place Become Our Scene | Hammock | Post-Rock, Shoegazing |
| Sunriser | Lee Brice | ||
| Louder Than Fate | Jared James Nichols | ||
| 12 | Dirty Blonde | Bebe Rexha | |
| Medusa | Stitched Up Heart | ||
| 19 | Dream Me A Dream | Tucker Zimmerman | Blues, Folk |
| 26 | Time Will Tell | Devon Gilfillian |
| Date | Album | Artist | Genre (s) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 3 | Livin' in the USA | Low Cut Connie | Rock and roll |