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2026 in American music

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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.

Notable events

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January

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February

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March

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  • 6 – Charlie Puth will release his first studio album in four years, Whatever's Clever!.
    • Surfbort will release their first studio album in five years, Reality Star.
    • Vial will release their first studio album in five years, Hellhound.
    • Whiplash will release their first studio album in seventeen years, Thrashquake.[9]
  • 13 – Lamb of God will release their first studio album in four years, Into Oblivion.
    • The Fray will release their first studio album in twelve years, A Light That Waits.
    • Sweet Pill will release their first studio album in four years, Still There's a Glow.
  • 20 – Exodus will release their first studio album in five years, Goliath. It will be the band's first album in sixteen years to feature returning vocalist Rob Dukes, following Steve "Zetro" Souza's second departure in 2025.
    • Tyketto will release their first album in ten years, Closer to the Sun.
    • Gladie will release their first studio album in four years, No Need to Be Lonely.
    • Poison the Well will release their first studio album in seventeen years, Peace in Place.
  • 27 – Black Label Society will release their first studio album in five years, Engines of Demolition.
    • Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea will release his debut solo studio album, Honora.
    • The Academy Is... will release their first studio album in nearly eighteen years, Almost There.[10]
    • Melissa Etheridge will release her first studio album in five years, Rise.
    • Dälek will release their first studio album in four years, Brilliance of a Falling Moon.
    • Snail Mail will release her first studio album in nearly five years, Ricochet.
    • Paula Kelley will release her first solo studio album in twenty-three years, Blinking as the Starlight Burns Out.
    • Tigers Jaw will release their first studio album in five years, Lost on You.

April

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  • 3 – Thundercat will release his first studio album in six years, Distracted.
    • Sunn O))) will release their self-titled studio album, their first in seven years.
  • 8 – Attila will release their first studio album in five years, Concrete Throne.
  • 10 – Immolation will release their first studio album in four years, Descent.
  • 24 – Noah Kahan will release his first studio album in four years, The Great Divide.

May

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  • 1 – Tori Amos will release her first studio album in five years, In Times of Dragons.
    • Rita Wilson will release her first studio album in four years and her first of original material in seven years, Sound of a Woman.
    • Young the Giant will release their first studio album in four years, Victory Garden.
  • 15 – The All-American Rejects will release their first studio album in fourteen years, Sandbox.

First quarter

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Second quarter

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  • The Ataris will release their first studio album in nineteen years.[13]
  • Blondie will release their first studio album in nine years, High Noon. It will be their first since the 2025 death of longtime drummer Clem Burke, who contributed to the album prior to his death.[14]
  • Meliah Rage will release their first studio album in eight years, Slaves in the Afterlife.[15]
  • Social Distortion will release their first studio album in fifteen years.[16][17]

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  • 4 Non Blondes will release their first studio album in thirty-four years. Vocalist Linda Perry will also release her first solo studio album in eleven years, Let It Die Here.[18]
  • Abysmal Dawn will release their first studio album in six years.[19]
  • Adema will release their first studio album in nineteen years, Cruel Machine.[20]
  • Anthrax will release their first studio album in ten years.[21]
  • Bad Religion will release their first studio album in seven years.[22]
  • Lindsey Buckingham will release his first solo studio album in five years.[23]
  • Cake will release their first studio album in fifteen years.[22]
  • Cartel will release their first studio album in thirteen years.[24]
  • Chiodos will release their first studio album in twelve years.[25]
  • Clutch will release their first studio album in four years.[26]
  • Cold will release their first studio album in seven years.[27]
  • Corrosion of Conformity will release their first studio album in eight years. It will be their first album in more than three decades without original bassist Mike Dean, who was replaced by Bobby Landgraf, and their first in more than two decades with drummer Stanton Moore, who replaced Reed Mullin after his death in 2020.[28]
  • Cro-Mags will release their first studio album in six years.[29]
  • Dangerous Toys will release their first studio album in thirty-one years.[30]
  • Death Angel will release their first studio album in seven years.[31]
  • DJ Khaled will release his first studio album in four years, Aalam of God.[32]
  • Down will release their first studio album in nineteen years.[33]
  • Drowning Pool will release their first studio album in four years. It will be the band's first album in sixteen years to feature returning vocalist Ryan McCombs, following Jasen Moreno's departure in 2023.[34]
  • Evanescence will release their first studio album in five years.[35]
  • Everclear will release their first studio album in eleven years.[36]
  • Excel will release their first studio album in thirty-one years.[37]
  • Fear Factory will release their first studio album in five years. It will be the band's first album with current lead vocalist Milo Silvestro and current drummer Pete Webber, both of whom joined in 2023.[38]
  • Five Finger Death Punch will release their first studio album in four years.[39]
  • Forbidden will release their first studio album in sixteen years. It will be the band's first album to feature their new lead vocalist Norman Skinner as the replacement of original vocalist Russ Anderson, who is retired.[40]
  • Lita Ford will release her first studio album in ten years and her first of all-new material in fourteen years.[41]
  • Guns N' Roses will release their first studio album in eighteen years. It will be the band's first album in thirty-three years, and their first of all-new material in thirty-five years, to feature guitarist Slash and bassist Duff McKagan.[23]
  • Hatebreed will release their first studio album in six years.[42]
  • Heathen will release their first studio album in six years.[43]
  • Icon will release their first studio album in thirty-seven years.[44]
  • Incubus will release their first studio album in nine years, Something in the Water.[23] It will be their first studio album to feature Nicole Row on bass following the departure of longtime bassist Ben Kenney in 2023.
  • The Interrupters will release their first studio album in four years.[45]
  • Korn will release their first studio album in four years.[46]
  • Limp Bizkit will release their first studio album in five years. It will be their first since the 2025 death of original bassist Sam Rivers, who had contributed to new music with the band by the time he died.[47][48]
  • Living Colour will release their first studio album in nine years.[23]
  • Madonna will release her first studio album in seven years.[49]
  • Motionless in White will release their first studio album in four years.[39]
  • Mudvayne will release their first studio album in seventeen years.[50]
  • Murphy's Law will release their first studio album in twenty-five years.[51]
  • Stevie Nicks will release her first solo studio album in twelve years, and her first of all-new material in fifteen years.[23]
  • Papa Roach will release their first studio album in four years.[52]
  • Power Trip will release their first studio album in nine years. It will be their first album recorded since the death of original frontman Riley Gale in 2020, and also their first to feature lead vocals by his replacement, Seth Gilmore.[53]
  • Queensrÿche will release their first studio album in four years.[54]
  • Red Hot Chili Peppers will release their first studio album in four years. It will be their third album together with guitarist John Frusciante since his second return to the band in 2019.[55]
  • Russian Circles will release their first studio album in four years.[56]
  • Sacred Reich will release their first studio album in seven years, Into the Abyss.[57]
  • Savatage will release their first studio album in twenty-five years, Curtain Call.[58]
  • Snot will release their first studio album in twenty-six years. It will be the band's first album to feature their new lead vocalist Andy Knapp as the replacement of original vocalist Lynn Strait, who died in 1998.[59]
  • Soil will release their first studio album in thirteen years.[60]
  • Soundgarden will release their first studio album in fourteen years. Intended as their final studio album, it will include the final recordings of frontman Chris Cornell, who died in 2017.[61][62][63]
  • Spineshank will release their first studio album in fourteen years.[64]
  • Bruce Springsteen will release his first studio album in four years and his first of original material in six years.[65]
  • The Strokes will release their first studio album in six years.[22]
  • Sublime will release their first studio album in thirty years. It will be their first album recorded since the death of original frontman Bradley Nowell in 1996, and also their first to feature lead vocals by his son, Jakob.[66]
  • Suicidal Tendencies will release their first studio album in eight years, and their first of all-new material in ten years. It will be their first release with guitarist Ben Weinman and bassist Tye Trujillo (son of former Suicidal Tendencies bassist Robert Trujillo).[67]
  • Symphony X will release their first studio album in eleven years.[68]
  • Toadies will release their first studio album in nine years, The Charmer.[22]
  • Trivium will release their first studio album in five years.[69]
  • Ugly Kid Joe will release their first studio album in four years.[70]
  • Vinnie Vincent Invasion will release their first studio album in thirty-eight years, Judgment Day Guitarmageddon.[71]
  • Vio-lence will release their first studio album in thirty-three years.[72]
  • Joe Walsh will release his first solo studio album in fourteen years.[23]
  • ZZ Top will release their first studio album in fourteen years.[23] It will be their first since the 2021 death of original bassist Dusty Hill, and will include unreleased tracks recorded with him.[73]

List of albums released

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January

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
9 Alter Bridge Alter Bridge
With Heaven on Top Zach Bryan
Act III: This City Made Us The Protomen
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 Boycott Heaven[74] The Format
20/20 The Infamous Stringdusters
Melodrama Lina
Megadeth Megadeth
30 Can I Get a Pack of Camel Lights? Geologist Electronic
Closer to Happy Joseph
I Used to Go to This Bar Joyce Manor

February

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
2 Lost in the Wonder Cory Wong
6 The Space Between Us Robert Deeble Folk
Normal Isn't Puscifer
Tenterhooks Silversun Pickups

List of albums to be released

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February

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
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
Cloud 9 Megan Moroney
Listen Up![8] New Found Glory
27 My Days of 58 Bill Callahan
Heaven 2 Lala Lala Indie rock
Glass Minds A Thousand Horses
The Great Satan Rob Zombie

March

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
6 Hoppers Mark Mothersbaugh
Whatever's Clever! Charlie Puth
Reality Star Surfbort
Thrashquake[9] Whiplash
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[10] The Academy Is...
Engines of Demolition Black Label Society
Rise Melissa Etheridge
Moo King Tuff

April

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Good, Like It Should Be Ber Indie pop
Sunn O))) Sunn O)))
The Master Plan Michael Sweet
10 Concrete Throne Attila
Nowhere At Last Broadside
Dead to Rights Metal Church
17 Reflections From Ashes to New
Sanctions Souled American
24 New Day John Corabi
Toy with Me Meghan Trainor

May

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
1 In Times of Dragons Tori Amos
Long Wave Home Jesca Hoop
Victory Garden[75] Young the Giant
8 Barely Here Koyo
15 Of Earth & Fires Dua Saleh

June

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
5 Louder Than Fate Jared James Nichols
12 Medusa Stitched Up Heart

July

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Date Album Artist Genre (s)
3 Livin' in the USA Low Cut Connie Rock and roll

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First quarter

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Second quarter

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TBA

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Top songs on record

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Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 Songs

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Billboard Hot 100 Top 20 Hits

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All songs that reached the Top 20 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart during the year, complete with peak chart placement.

Deaths

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