# List of 2021 albums (July–December)

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in the second half of 2021. These albums are (1) original, i.e. excluding reissues, remasters, and compilations of previously released recordings, and (2) notable, defined as having received significant coverage from reliable sources independent of the subject.
For additional information about bands formed, reformed, disbanded, or on hiatus, for deaths of musicians, and for links to musical awards, see 2021 in music.
For information on albums released in the first half of 2021, see List of 2021 albums (January–June).

## Third quarter
### July

List of albums released in July 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| July 1 | Antiguo Autómata Mexicano | 20+ Piano Improvisations | | Static Discos | |
| July 2 | At the Gates | The Nightmare of Being | | Century | |
| July 2 | Bobby Gillespie and Jehnny Beth | Utopian Ashes | | Third Man | |
| July 2 | Bomba Estéreo | Deja | | Sony Music Latin | |
| July 2 | Born of Osiris | Angel or Alien | | Sumerian | |
| July 2 | G Herbo | 25 | Trap | Republic | |
| July 2 | The Go! Team | Get Up Sequences Part One | Indie pop, funk | Memphis Industries | |
| July 2 | Jimmy Barnes | Flesh and Blood | | Bloodlines Records | |
| July 2 | Jonathan Wolff | Seinfeld (Original Television Soundtrack) | | | |
| July 2 | Jxdn | Tell Me About Tomorrow | Pop-punk | DTA Records, Elektra | |
| July 2 | Laura Mvula | Pink Noise | Electropop, R&B, synth-funk | Atlantic | |
| July 5 | SF9 | Turn Over | | FNC | |
| July 5 | Soyeon | Windy | K-pop, k-hip hop | Cube | |
| July 8 | Ashwarya | Nocturnal Hours | | Noize Recordings | |
| July 8 | Zelooperz | Van Gogh's Left Ear | | | |
| July 9 | Charlotte Day Wilson | Alpha | | Stone Woman Music | |
| July 9 | DZ Deathrays | Positive Rising: Part 2 | | I Oh You | |
| July 9 | Foodman | Yasuragi Land | | Hyperdub | |
| July 9 | Frances Forever | Paranoia Party | | Mom + Pop | |
| July 9 | The Goon Sax | Mirror II | | Matador | |
| July 9 | Half Waif | Mythopoetics | | Anti- | |
| July 9 | Hybrid | Black Halo | | Distinctive | |
| July 9 | IDK | USee4Yourself | Hip hop | Clue No Clue, Warner | |
| July 9 | Inhaler | It Won't Always Be Like This | Indie rock | Polydor | |
| July 9 | Jess & Matt | Wildflowers | | Jess & Matt | |
| July 9 | Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis | Jam & Lewis: Volume One | | Flyte Tyme, BMG | |
| July 9 | Koreless | Agor | | Young | |
| July 9 | Les Filles de Illighadad | At Pioneer Works | Tuareg blues | Sahel, Pioneer Works Press | |
| July 9 | The Maine | XOXO: From Love and Anxiety in Real Time | | 8123 | |
| July 9 | Mariah the Scientist | Ry Ry World | | RCA, One Umbrella | |
| July 9 | Mayhem | Atavistic Black Disorder / Kommando | | Century | |
| July 9 | Rejjie Snow | Baw Baw Black Sheep | | BMG | |
| July 9 | Snoh Aalegra | Temporary Highs in the Violet Skies | | ARTium, Roc Nation | |
| July 9 | Tkay Maidza | Last Year Was Weird (Vol. 3) | | 4AD, Dew Process | |
| July 9 | Twin Shadow | Twin Shadow | | Cheree Cheree | |
| July 9 | Various artists | Space Jam: A New Legacy (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | | Republic, WaterTower | |
| July 9 | Vince Staples | Vince Staples | Hip hop | Blacksmith Recordings, Capitol, Motown, EMI | |
| July 9 | The Wallflowers | Exit Wounds | Rock, Americana, power pop | New West | |
| July 10 | Nancy Ajram | Nancy 10 | Arabic pop, dance-pop | In2Musica | |
| July 13 | Aaron Dilloway and Lucrecia Dalt | Lucy & Aaron | | Hanson | |
| July 14 | Connan Mockasin and Ade | It's Just Wind | | Mexican Summer | |
| July 15 | Anna Meredith | Bumps Per Minute (18 Studies for Dodgems) | | Moshi Moshi | |
| July 15 | Jawny | The Story of Hugo | | | |
| July 15 | Suboi | No-Nê | | | |
| July 15 | Yonaka | Seize the Power | | | |
| July 15 | Yves Tumor | The Asymptotical World | | Warp | |
| July 16 | Barbie Almalbis | Scenes from Inside | | Sony Music Philippines | |
| July 16 | Barenaked Ladies | Detour de Force | Pop rock | Raisin' Records | |
| July 16 | Blondie | Blondie: Vivir En La Habana | | | |
| July 16 | Cakes da Killa | Muvaland Vol. 2 | | He.She.They | |
| July 16 | Chet Faker | Hotel Surrender | | Detail Records, BMG | |
| July 16 | Chloe Flower | Chloe Flower | | Sony Classical | |
| July 16 | Clairo | Sling | | Fader Label, Republic | |
| July 16 | Drakeo the Ruler | Ain't That the Truth | | Stinc Team, Empire | |
| July 16 | Enny | Under 25 | | FAMM | |
| July 16 | Gang of Youths | Total Serene | | Warner Music UK, Mosy Music | |
| July 16 | Illenium | Fallen Embers | | 12Tone Music | |
| July 16 | John Mayer | Sob Rock | | Columbia | |
| July 16 | K.D.A.P. | Influences | | Arts and Crafts | |
| July 16 | KSI | All Over the Place | | RBC, BMG | |
| July 16 | Linn da Quebrada | Trava línguas | | | |
| July 16 | Midland | The Last Resort | | Big Machine | |
| July 16 | A Place to Bury Strangers | Hologram | | Dedstrange | |
| July 16 | Pop Smoke | Faith | Drill, trap, hip hop | Victor Victor, Republic | |
| July 16 | Powerwolf | Call of the Wild | | Napalm | |
| July 16 | Rodrigo Amarante | Drama | | Polyvinyl | |
| July 16 | Stephen Fretwell | Busy Guy | | Speedy Wunderground | |
| July 16 | Tedeschi Trucks Band | Layla Revisited (Live at Lockn') | | Fantasy | |
| July 16 | Times of Grace | Songs of Loss and Separation | | Roadrunner | |
| July 16 | Tones and I | Welcome to the Madhouse | | Bad Batch Records | |
| July 16 | U-Roy | Solid Gold U-Roy | | Trojan Jamaica, BMG | |
| July 16 | Wavves | Hideaway | | Fat Possum | |
| July 16 | Willow | Lately I Feel Everything | | Roc Nation | |
| July 17 | Dee Gees | Hail Satin | Disco, rock | RCA | |
| July 17 | Various artists | May the Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute to Roky Erickson | Psychedelic rock | Light in the Attic | |
| July 18 | Luísa Sonza | Doce 22 | Pop | Universal | |
| July 22 | SB19 | Pagsibol | | Sony Music | |
| July 23 | Alexis Marshall | House of Lull. House of When | | Sargent House | |
| July 23 | Alice Skye | I Feel Better but I Don't Feel Good | | Bad Apples | |
| July 23 | Altın Gün | Âlem | | ATO | |
| July 23 | Anika | Change | | Sacred Bones | |
| July 23 | Anne-Marie | Therapy | | Major Tom's, Asylum | |
| July 23 | Attila | Closure | | | |
| July 23 | Beatriz Ferreyra | Canto+ | | Room40 | |
| July 23 | Brittany Howard | Jaime (Reimagined) | | ATO | |
| July 23 | Christone "Kingfish" Ingram | 662 | Blues | Alligator | |
| July 23 | Darkside | Spiral | Electronic | Matador | |
| July 23 | Dave | We're All Alone in This Together | | Neighbourhood Recordings | |
| July 23 | David Crosby | For Free | Rock | BMG | |
| July 23 | Descendents | 9th & Walnut | | Epitaph | |
| July 23 | Gavin Turek | Madame Gold | | | |
| July 23 | DPR Live | Iite Cool | | | |
| July 23 | Joel Culpepper | Sgt Culpepper | | | |
| July 23 | Joshua Radin | The Ghost and the Wall | | Nettwerk | |
| July 23 | Jackson Browne | Downhill from Everywhere | Rock | Inside | |
| July 23 | The Jungle Giants | Love Signs | | Amplifire Music | |
| July 23 | Leon Bridges | Gold-Diggers Sound | Alternative R&B | Columbia | |
| July 23 | Mega Bog | Life, and Another | Folk-pop | Paradise of Bachelors | |
| July 23 | Molly Burch | Romantic Images | | Captured Tracks | |
| July 23 | Nothing but Thieves | Moral Panic II | | | |
| July 23 | Obongjayar and Sarz | Sweetness | | | |
| July 23 | Rodney Crowell | Triage | | RC1, Thirty Tigers | |
| July 23 | Samia | Scout | | | |
| July 23 | Tommy Torres | El Playlist de Anoche | | Rimas Entertainment | |
| July 23 | Yes/And (Meg Duffy and Joel Ford) | Yes/And | | Driftless Recordings | |
| July 23 | Yngwie Malmsteen | Parabellum | | Mascot | |
| July 23 | Yung Bleu | Moon Boy | Hip hop, R&B, trap | Empire | |
| July 25 | BbyMutha | Cherrytape | | | |
| July 26 | AKMU | Next Episode | Synth-pop, retrowave, downtempo | YG | |
| July 26 | D.O. | Empathy | K-pop | SM | |
| July 28 | Sam Mehran | Cold Brew | | Weird World | |
| July 28 | Twice | Perfect World | | Warner Music Japan | |
| July 29 | Jon Batiste | Live at Electric Lady | | | |
| July 30 | Billie Eilish | Happier Than Ever | | Darkroom, Interscope | |
| July 30 | Bleachers | Take the Sadness Out of Saturday Night | | RCA | |
| July 30 | Blues Traveler | Traveler's Blues | | Round Hill | |
| July 30 | Chunk! No, Captain Chunk! | Gone Are the Good Days | Pop-punk, easycore | Fearless | |
| July 30 | Creeper | American Noir | gothic rock, glam rock, art rock | Roadrunner | |
| July 30 | Curtismith | Museo | | Pool Records | |
| July 30 | Dave East and Harry Fraud | Hoffa | | | |
| July 30 | Dee Snider | Leave a Scar | | Napalm | |
| July 30 | Dot Allison | Heart-Shaped Scars | | SA Recordings | |
| July 30 | Dreamcatcher | Summer Holiday | | Dreamcatcher Company | |
| July 30 | Durand Jones & The Indications | Private Space | | Dead Oceans | |
| July 30 | Isaiah Rashad | The House Is Burning | Hip hop | Top Dawg | |
| July 30 | Kasper Bjørke | Sprinkles | | | |
| July 30 | King Woman | Celestial Blues | Doom metal, grunge, post-rock | Relapse | |
| July 30 | L Devine | Near Life Experience: Part 1 | | Warner | |
| July 30 | Logic | Bobby Tarantino III | Hip hop | Def Jam, Visionary | |
| July 30 | Los Lobos | Native Sons | | New West | |
| July 30 | Lump (Laura Marling and Mike Lindsay) | Animal | | Partisan, Chrysalis | |
| July 30 | Parker McCollum | Gold Chain Cowboy | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| July 30 | Parmalee | For You | Country | Stoney Creek | |
| July 30 | Peppa Pig | Peppa's Adventures: The Album | | eOne | |
| July 30 | Prince | Welcome 2 America | Funk, soul, rock | NPG | |
| July 30 | Ryuichi Sakamoto | Minamata (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | | Milan | |
| July 30 | Sarkodie | No Pressure | Hip-hop, Afrobeats | Sarkcess Music, Ziiki Media | |
| July 30 | Shirley Collins | Crowlink | | Domino | |
| July 30 | Son Volt | Electro Melodier | | Transmit Sound, Thirty Tigers | |
| July 30 | Sycco | Sycco's First EP | | Future Classic | |
| July 30 | Tink | Heat of the Moment | | | |
| July 30 | Torres | Thirstier | Rock, synth-pop | Merge | |
| July 30 | Underdark | Our Bodies Burned Bright Upon Re-Entry | | Surviving Sounds, Through Love Records, Tridroid Records | |
| July 30 | Voices | An Audience of Mannequins | | Church Road Records | |
| July 30 | Yola | Stand for Myself | | Easy Eye Sound | |
| July 30 | Young Dolph and various artists | Paper Route Illuminati | | Paper Route Empire | |

### August

List of albums released in August 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| August 1 | Jóhann Jóhannsson | Gold Dust | | 3221466 Records | |
| August 2 | Astro | Switch On | K-pop | Fantagio | |
| August 2 | Naked Raygun | Over the Overlords | | Wax Trax! | |
| August 3 | Ty Segall | Harmonizer | | Drag City | |
| August 3 | Voice of Baceprot | The Other Side of Metalism | | 12Wired | |
| August 4 | Bish | Going to Destruction | | Avex Trax | |
| August 4 | Young Nudy | Rich Shooter | | RCA | |
| August 6 | Anne Wilson | My Jesus (Live in Nashville) | CCM, Christian country | Sparrow, Capitol CMG | |
| August 6 | Foxing | Draw Down the Moon | | Hopeless | |
| August 6 | Fredo | Independence Day | | Since 93, RCA | |
| August 6 | Geoffrey O'Connor | For as Long as I Can Remember | | Chapter | |
| August 6 | Glaive | All Dogs Go to Heaven | | Interscope | |
| August 6 | Ider | Shame | | Ider | |
| August 6 | Kississippi | Mood Ring | | Triple Crown | |
| August 6 | Laura Stevenson | Laura Stevenson | | Don Giovanni | |
| August 6 | Liars | The Apple Drop | | Mute | |
| August 6 | Lingua Ignota | Sinner Get Ready | | Sargent House | |
| August 6 | Lion Babe | Rainbow Child | | | |
| August 6 | Moritz von Oswald Trio | Dissent | | Modern Recordings | |
| August 6 | Mr Jukes & Barney Artist | The Locket | | Locket Records | |
| August 6 | Nas | King's Disease II | | Mass Appeal | |
| August 6 | Night Ranger | ATBPO | | Frontiers | |
| August 6 | Rick Price | Soulville | | Sony Music Australia | |
| August 6 | Spice | 10 | | VP | |
| August 6 | Sponge | Lavatorium | | Cleopatra | |
| August 6 | Sunmi | 1/6 | Pop | Abyss Company | |
| August 6 | Tinashe | 333 | | Tinashe Music Inc. | |
| August 6 | Willy Mason | Already Dead | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| August 9 | The Boyz | Thrill-ing | Hip hop | Cre.Ker Entertainment | |
| August 10 | Jeff Ament | I Should Be Outside | | Monkeywrench | |
| August 10 | Mike and the Moonpies | One to Grow On | | | |
| August 13 | Ben Platt | Reverie | | Atlantic | |
| August 13 | Benny the Butcher | Pyrex Picasso | | Rare Scrilla, BSF | |
| August 13 | Blacktop Mojo | Blacktop Mojo | | Sand Hill | |
| August 13 | Brandee Younger | Somewhere Different | Classical, R&B, hip hop | Impulse! | |
| August 13 | Boldy James and The Alchemist | Bo Jackson | | | |
| August 13 | Dan + Shay | Good Things | Country | Warner Nashville | |
| August 13 | Desiigner | 3 the Hard Way | | LOD Records | |
| August 13 | Devendra Banhart and Noah Georgeson | Refuge | | Dead Oceans | |
| August 13 | Iggy Azalea | The End of an Era | | Bad Dreams, Empire | |
| August 13 | Ka | A Martyr's Reward | | Iron Works Records | |
| August 13 | The Killers | Pressure Machine | | Island | |
| August 13 | Jade Bird | Different Kinds of Light | | Glassnote | |
| August 13 | Joey Cape | A Good Year to Forget | | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| August 13 | Jungle | Loving in Stereo | | Caiola | |
| August 13 | Luke Hemmings | When Facing the Things We Turn Away From | | Sony Australia | |
| August 13 | Meet Me at the Altar | Model Citizen | | Fueled by Ramen | |
| August 13 | Polish Club | Now We're Cookin' | | Polish Club Music, Island Australia, Universal Australia | |
| August 13 | Quicksand | Distant Populations | | Epitaph | |
| August 13 | Slaughter to Prevail | Kostolom | | Sumerian | |
| August 13 | Still Woozy | If This Isn't Nice, I Don't Know What Is | | Interscope | |
| August 13 | Suicideboys | Long Term Effects of Suffering | | G*59 | |
| August 13 | Trash Boat | Don't You Feel Amazing? | | Hopeless | |
| August 13 | Watchhouse | Watchhouse | | Tiptoe Tiger Music, Thirty Tigers | |
| August 13 | YNW Melly | Just a Matter of Slime | | 300, Atlantic | |
| August 15 | Adoy | Her | | Angel House | |
| August 16 | Red Velvet | Queendom | Dance-pop | SM | |
| August 17 | CIX | Ok Prologue: Be Ok | K-pop | C9 | |
| August 18 | Official Hige Dandism | Editorial | | Irori Records | |
| August 19 | Cravity | The Awakening: Written in the Stars | K-pop | Starship | |
| August 19 | Marina Sena | De Primeira | Música popular brasileira | | |
| August 20 | Anderson East | Maybe We Never Die | | Low Country Sound | |
| August 20 | Angel Olsen | Aisles | | somethingscosmic | |
| August 20 | Angus & Julia Stone | Life Is Strange | | | |
| August 20 | Between the Buried and Me | Colors II | | Sumerian | |
| August 20 | Bnny | Everything | | Fire Talk Records | |
| August 20 | Damon & Naomi | A Sky Record | | 20 20 20 | |
| August 20 | Deafheaven | Infinite Granite | | Sargent House | |
| August 20 | Debbie Gibson | The Body Remembers | Pop | StarGirl Records | |
| August 20 | Del Barber | Stray Dogs (Collected B-Sides / Vol. 1) | | Acronym Records | |
| August 20 | Disclosure | Never Enough | | | |
| August 20 | Dvsn and Ty Dolla Sign | Cheers to the Best Memories | R&B | OVO Sound, Warner | |
| August 20 | Holy Holy | Hello My Beautiful World | | Wonderlick, Sony Music Australia | |
| August 20 | Jake Bugg | Saturday Night, Sunday Morning | | RCA | |
| August 20 | James McMurtry | The Horses and the Hounds | | New West | |
| August 20 | The Joy Formidable | Into the Blue | | Hassle | |
| August 20 | Lil Lotus | Errør Bøy | | Epitaph | |
| August 20 | Lorde | Solar Power | | Universal Music New Zealand | |
| August 20 | Maarja Nuut | Hinged | | | |
| August 20 | Maggie Rose | Have a Seat | | | |
| August 20 | Martha Wainwright | Love Will Be Reborn | | Pheromone, Cooking Vinyl | |
| August 20 | Necronautical | Slain in the Spirit | Black metal | Candlelight | |
| August 20 | Orla Gartland | Woman on the Internet | | New Friends Music | |
| August 20 | Pile | Songs Known Together, Alone | | Exploding in Sound | |
| August 20 | Sam Williams | Glasshouse Children | Country, folk, rock | Universal Nashville | |
| August 20 | Shane Nicholson | Living in Colour | | Lost Highway Australia | |
| August 20 | Shannon and the Clams | Year of the Spider | | Easy Eye Sound | |
| August 20 | Shaun Ryder | Visits from Future Technology | | SWRX Recordings | |
| August 20 | Sturgill Simpson | The Ballad of Dood and Juanita | | | |
| August 20 | Switchfoot | Interrobang | | Fantasy | |
| August 20 | Trippie Redd | Trip at Knight | Trap, emo rap, hyperpop | 1400 Entertainment, 10K Projects | |
| August 20 | Tropical Fuck Storm | Deep States | | Joyful Noise, TFS Records | |
| August 20 | Villagers | Fever Dreams | | | |
| August 20 | Vistas | What Were You Hoping to Find? | | Retrospect Records | |
| August 20 | Wanda Jackson | Encore | | Big Machine, Blackheart | |
| August 20 | Westside Gunn | Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf | | | |
| August 20 | Wolves in the Throne Room | Primordial Arcana | | Century Media | |
| August 23 | Stray Kids | Noeasy | Hip hop | JYP | |
| August 25 | Men I Trust | Untourable Album | | | |
| August 26 | Gorillaz | Meanwhile | | Parlophone | |
| August 26 | Jay B | SOMO:Fume | | H1ghr | |
| August 26 | María Becerra | Animal | | 300 | |
| August 26 | Patti Smith | Live at Electric Lady | | Kundudo, Columbia | |
| August 27 | ((( O ))) | ((( 3 ))) | | The Sundrop Garden | |
| August 27 | Belly | See You Next Wednesday | | XO, Roc Nation | |
| August 27 | Big Red Machine | How Long Do You Think It's Gonna Last? | | Jagjaguwar, 37d03d | |
| August 27 | Bliss n Eso | The Sun | | Flight Deck, Mushroom | |
| August 27 | Botanist & Thief | Cicatrix/Diamond Brush | | | |
| August 27 | The Bronx | Bronx VI | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| August 27 | The Bug | Fire | | Ninja Tune | |
| August 27 | Chubby and the Gang | The Mutt's Nuts | | Partisan | |
| August 27 | Chvrches | Screen Violence | Pop, synth-pop | Glassnote | |
| August 27 | Emma Blackery | Girl in a Box | | AntiFragile Music | |
| August 27 | E*vax | E*vax | | Because | |
| August 27 | Goat | Headsoup | | Rocket Recordings | |
| August 27 | Graham Coxon | Superstate | | Z2 Comics | |
| August 27 | Grayscale | Umbra | | Fearless | |
| August 27 | Gretta Ray | Begin to Look Around | | EMI Australia | |
| August 27 | Grip | I Died for This!? | Hip hop | Stray Society, Shady, Interscope | |
| August 27 | Halsey | If I Can't Have Love, I Want Power | | Capitol | |
| August 27 | Indigo De Souza | Any Shape You Take | Grunge, indie rock, synth-pop | Saddle Creek | |
| August 27 | Jason Eady | To the Passage of Time | | Old Guitar Records | |
| August 27 | Jinjer | Wallflowers | | Napalm | |
| August 27 | Leprous | Aphelion | | Inside Out | |
| August 27 | Madi Diaz | History of a Feeling | | Anti- | |
| August 27 | Maisie Peters | You Signed Up for This | | Gingerbread Man | |
| August 27 | Marisa Anderson and William Tyler | Lost Futures | Ambient, blues, Americana | Thrill Jockey | |
| August 27 | Mouse Rat | Awesome Album | | Dualtone | |
| August 27 | Ngaiire | 3 | | Dot Dash | |
| August 27 | Niko Moon | Good Time | Country | RCA Nashville | |
| August 27 | Nite Jewel | No Sun | | Gloriette | |
| August 27 | NMB | Innocence & Danger | Progressive rock | Inside Out | |
| August 27 | OneRepublic | Human | | Mosley, Interscope | |
| August 27 | Steve Gunn | Other You | | | |
| August 27 | Teenage Bottlerocket | Sick Sesh! | | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| August 27 | Toad the Wet Sprocket | Starting Now | | | |
| August 27 | Turnstile | Glow On | | Roadrunner | |
| August 27 | With Confidence | With Confidence | | Hopeless | |
| August 27 | Yann Tiersen | Kerber | | Mute | |
| August 29 | Ben&Ben | Pebble House, Vol. 1: Kuwaderno | | Sindikato, Sony Music Philippines | |
| August 29 | Kanye West | Donda | | GOOD Music, Def Jam | |

### September

List of albums released in September 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| September 1 | B.O.L.T | Attitude | | King | |
| September 1 | Dialogue | Dialogue+1 | | | |
| September 1 | Julien Baker | Little Oblivion Remixes | | Matador | |
| September 1 | Sard Underground | Orange Iro ni Kanpai | | Giza Studio | |
| September 2 | J Balvin | Jose | Reggaeton | Universal Latin | |
| September 2 | Monogem | Gardenia | Latin R&B | Monogem | |
| September 3 | Auri | II: Those We Don't Speak Of | | Nuclear Blast | |
| September 3 | Bokassa | Molotov Rocktail | | Napalm | |
| September 3 | Carnifex | Graveside Confessions | | Nuclear Blast | |
| September 3 | Chris de Burgh | The Legend of Robin Hood | | Justin Time | |
| September 3 | Cory Wong and Dirty Loops | Turbo | | Roundwound Media | |
| September 3 | Drake | Certified Lover Boy | Hip hop | OVO Sound, Republic | |
| September 3 | F.S. Blumm and Nils Frahm | 2X1=4 | | Leiter | |
| September 3 | Imagine Dragons | Mercury – Act 1 | | Kidinakorner, Interscope | |
| September 3 | Iron Maiden | Senjutsu | Heavy metal | Parlophone, BMG | |
| September 3 | Iwan Fals | Pun Aku | | Musica | |
| September 3 | Jhay Cortez | Timelezz | | Universal Music Latino | |
| September 3 | Lady Gaga | Dawn of Chromatica | Pop, hyperpop | Streamline, Interscope | |
| September 3 | LANY | Gg bb xx | Pop, electropop | Polydor | |
| September 3 | Lauren Alaina | Sitting Pretty on Top of the World | Country | Mercury Nashville | |
| September 3 | Lawrence English | A Mirror Holds the Sky | | Room40 | |
| September 3 | Little Simz | Sometimes I Might Be Introvert | Hip hop, soul, R&B | Age 101 Music, AWAL | |
| September 3 | Laura Nyro | American Dreamer | | Madfish | |
| September 3 | Priya Ragu | Damnshestamil | | Warner | |
| September 3 | Ronnie Wood | Mr. Luck – A Tribute to Jimmy Reed: Live at the Royal Albert Hall | | | |
| September 3 | Suuns | The Witness | Post-punk, post-rock, Krautrock | Joyful Noise, Secret City | |
| September 3 | Usain Bolt | Country Yutes | | | |
| September 3 | Various artists | Cinderella (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) | Pop rock | Epic, Columbia | |
| September 3 | The Wildhearts | 21st Century Love Songs | Rock | Graphite Records | |
| September 6 | STAYC | Stereotype | | High Up Entertainment, Kakao | |
| September 6 | Young K | Eternal | | JYP | |
| September 7 | Baek A-yeon | Observe | | Eden Entertainment | |
| September 9 | Brymo | 9: Èsan | Alternative rock, afro-soul, sentimental ballad | Brymo | |
| September 9 | Brymo | 9: Harmattan & Winter | Alternative rock, folk music, sentimental ballad | Brymo | |
| September 9 | Lee Hi | 4 Only | R&B, synth-pop, jazz | AOMG | |
| September 9 | Lorde | Te Ao Mārama | | Universal Music New Zealand | |
| September 10 | Amyl and the Sniffers | Comfort to Me | | B2B Records | |
| September 10 | Andrew W.K. | God Is Partying | Hard rock | Napalm | |
| September 10 | Anette Olzon | Strong | Symphonic metal | Frontiers | |
| September 10 | AZ | Doe or Die II | Hip hop | Quiet Money Records | |
| September 10 | Baby Keem | The Melodic Blue | Hip hop, trap | pgLang, Columbia | |
| September 10 | The Band Camino | The Band Camino | | Elektra | |
| September 10 | Béla Fleck | My Bluegrass Heart | Bluegrass | Renew Records | |
| September 10 | Colleen Green | Cool | | Hardly Art | |
| September 10 | Common | A Beautiful Revolution, Pt. 2 | | Loma Vista | |
| September 10 | Don Diablo | Forever | | Hexagon | |
| September 10 | Dori Freeman | Ten Thousand Roses | | Blue Hens Music | |
| September 10 | Drapht | Shadows and Shinings | | The Ayems | |
| September 10 | Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu | The Gurrumul Story | | Decca Australia | |
| September 10 | Gift of Gab | Finding Inspiration Somehow | | | |
| September 10 | Hawthorne Heights | The Rain Just Follows Me | | Pure Noise | |
| September 10 | Heartless Bastards | A Beautiful Life | | Sweet Unknown Records, Thirty Tigers | |
| September 10 | Jazz Cartier | The Fleur Print | | | |
| September 10 | Kacey Musgraves | Star-Crossed | Pop, country pop | MCA Nashville, Interscope | |
| September 10 | King Krule | You Heat Me Up, You Cool Me Down | | | |
| September 10 | Low | Hey What | | Sub Pop | |
| September 10 | Manic Street Preachers | The Ultra Vivid Lament | Pop rock | Columbia | |
| September 10 | Martina Topley-Bird | Forever I Wait | | | |
| September 10 | Masked Wolf | Astronomical | | Teamwrk Records, ADA, Warner | |
| September 10 | Matthew E. White | K Bay | | Domino | |
| September 10 | Nessa Barrett | Pretty Poison | | Warner | |
| September 10 | Pat Metheny | Side-Eye NYC (V1.IV) | | BMG | |
| September 10 | Saint Etienne | I've Been Trying to Tell You | Pop, ambient pop | Heavenly | |
| September 10 | Samantha Fish | Faster | Hard rock, blues rock, country rock | Rounder | |
| September 10 | Sarah Davachi | Antiphonals | | Late Music | |
| September 10 | Sleigh Bells | Texis | Noise pop, electropop, industrial rock | Mom + Pop | |
| September 10 | Slothrust | Parallel Timeline | | Dangerbird | |
| September 10 | Sneaker Pimps | Squaring the Circle | | Unfall Productions | |
| September 10 | Steps | What the Future Holds Pt. 2 | | BMG | |
| September 10 | The Stranglers | Dark Matters | | Coursegood | |
| September 10 | Tigress | Pura Vida | | Humble Angel Records | |
| September 10 | Tim Hecker | The North Water Original Series Score | | Invada, Lakeshore | |
| September 10 | Tommy Genesis | Goldilocks X | | Downtown | |
| September 10 | Trophy Scars | Astral Pariah | | | |
| September 10 | The Vaccines | Back in Love City | | AWAL, Sony Music | |
| September 10 | Various artists | The Metallica Blacklist | | Blackened Recordings | |
| September 10 | Virtual Riot | Simulation | | Disciple Recordings | |
| September 10 | Yebba | Dawn | Pop, R&B | RCA | |
| September 12 | Abhi the Nomad | Abhi vs the Universe | Alternative hip hop, jazz rap | UnderCurrent Entertainment | |
| September 15 | Cancer Bats | You'll Never Break Us // Separation Sessions, Vol. 2 | | | |
| September 15 | Hubert Lenoir | Pictura De Ipse : Musique Directe | | Worse Records, Terrible | |
| September 15 | Injury Reserve | By the Time I Get to Phoenix | Experimental hip hop, glitch hop | | |
| September 17 | Adia Victoria | A Southern Gothic | | | |
| September 17 | Alexis Taylor | Silence | | AWAL | |
| September 17 | Alien Weaponry | Tangaroa | Groove metal, thrash metal, alternative metal | Napalm | |
| September 17 | Billy Idol | The Roadside | Rock | Dark Horse | |
| September 17 | Candlebox | Wolves | | Pavement Music | |
| September 17 | Carcass | Torn Arteries | Melodic death metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| September 17 | Carly Pearce | 29: Written in Stone | Country | Big Machine | |
| September 17 | Charlotte Wessels | Tales from Six Feet Under | | Napalm | |
| September 17 | Cynthia Erivo | Ch. 1 vs. 1 | | Verve | |
| September 17 | Daughtry | Dearly Beloved | | Dogtree Records, Alternative Distribution Alliance | |
| September 17 | Eidola | The Architect | | Rise | |
| September 17 | Enrique Iglesias | Final (Vol. 1) | | Sony Music | |
| September 17 | The Felice Brothers | From Dreams to Dust | | Yep Roc | |
| September 17 | HTRK | Rhinestones | | Heavy Machinery Records | |
| September 17 | James Vincent McMorrow | Grapefruit Season | | Sony Music UK | |
| September 17 | Jordan Rakei | What We Call Life | | | |
| September 17 | José González | Local Valley | Folk, indie folk | Mute, City Slang | |
| September 17 | Lil Huddy | Teenage Heartbreak | | Geffen | |
| September 17 | Lil Nas X | Montero | Pop rap | Columbia | |
| September 17 | Lindsey Buckingham | Lindsey Buckingham | Rock | Rhino | |
| September 17 | M1llionz | Provisional License | | Ten Percent Music Elite Group | |
| September 17 | Mannarino | V | | | |
| September 17 | Melissa Etheridge | One Way Out | | | |
| September 17 | Mild High Club | Going Going Gone | | Stones Throw | |
| September 17 | Mono | Pilgrimage of the Soul | | Temporary Residence | |
| September 17 | Moor Mother | Black Encyclopedia of the Air | | Epitaph | |
| September 17 | NCT 127 | Sticker | Hip hop, R&B, pop | SM, Dreamus, Virgin | |
| September 17 | The Plot in You | Swan Song | Metalcore, post-hardcore | Fearless | |
| September 17 | Rage | Resurrection Day | | | |
| September 17 | Scotty McCreery | Same Truck | | Triple Tigers | |
| September 17 | Spiritbox | Eternal Blue | Metalcore, post-metal, djent | Pale Chord Records, Rise | |
| September 17 | St. Vincent | The Nowhere Inn | | Loma Vista | |
| September 17 | Thrice | Horizons/East | Post-hardcore, alternative rock, hard rock | Epitaph | |
| September 22 | Midwxst | Back in Action | | Simple Stupid Records, Geffen | |
| September 24 | 99 Neighbors | Wherever You're Going I Hope It's Great | | Nice Work Inc., Warner | |
| September 24 | Abraskadabra | Make Yourself at Home | | Bad Time Records | |
| September 24 | Alessia Cara | In the Meantime | | Def Jam | |
| September 24 | Alina Baraz | Sunbeam | | UnitedMasters | |
| September 24 | Amon Tobin | How Do You Live | | Nomark Records | |
| September 24 | Andy Shauf | Wilds | | Anti- | |
| September 24 | Angels & Airwaves | Lifeforms | | Rise | |
| September 24 | Anthony Hamilton | Love Is the New Black | | My Music Box, BMG | |
| September 24 | Badflower | This Is How the World Ends | | Big Machine | |
| September 24 | Bethel Music | Homecoming | Contemporary worship music | Bethel Music | |
| September 24 | Billy Strings | Renewal | | Rounder | |
| September 24 | Blu | The Color Blu(e) | | | |
| September 24 | Cold War Kids | New Age Norms 3 | | | |
| September 24 | Darlinghurst | Darlinghurst | Country | | |
| September 24 | Esperanza Spalding | Songwrights Apothecary Lab | Jazz, pop, rock | Concord | |
| September 24 | Etherwood | Neon Dust | | Hospital | |
| September 24 | G-Eazy | These Things Happen Too | | RCA, BPG, RVG | |
| September 24 | Itzy | Crazy in Love | K-pop | JYP, Dreamus | |
| September 24 | Japanese Breakfast | Sable (Original Video Game Soundtrack) | Ambient pop | Sony Masterworks, Dead Oceans | |
| September 24 | Jesse Malin | Sad and Beautiful World | | Wicked Cool | |
| September 24 | Joey Purp | UpLate | | | |
| September 24 | Mac McCaughan | The Sound of Yourself | | Merge | |
| September 24 | Mickey Guyton | Remember Her Name | Country, country pop | Capitol Nashville | |
| September 24 | Nao | And Then Life Was Beautiful | | | |
| September 24 | Natalie Imbruglia | Firebird | Pop | BMG | |
| September 24 | Pop. 1280 | Museum on the Horizon | | Profound Lore | |
| September 24 | Poppy | Flux | Alternative rock, grunge, pop-punk | Sumerian | |
| September 24 | Public Service Broadcasting | Bright Magic | | Play It Again Sam | |
| September 24 | Ringo Starr | Change the World | | Universal Music Enterprises | |
| September 24 | Rivers of Nihil | The Work | | Metal Blade | |
| September 24 | Skepticism | Companion | | Svart | |
| September 24 | Sleep Token | This Place Will Become Your Tomb | | Spinefarm | |
| September 24 | Sufjan Stevens and Angelo De Augustine | A Beginner's Mind | Indie folk, chamber folk | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| September 24 | Third Eye Blind | Our Bande Apart | | Mega Collider Records | |
| September 24 | Tremonti | Marching in Time | Thrash metal, alternative metal, hard rock | Napalm | |
| September 24 | Various artists | I'll Be Your Mirror: A Tribute to The Velvet Underground & Nico | | UMG, Verve | |
| September 24 | Westside Gunn | Hitler Wears Hermes 8: Sincerely Adolf Side B | | | |
| September 24 | X Ambassadors | The Beautiful Liar | | Kidinakorner, Interscope, Polydor | |
| September 24 | YoungBoy Never Broke Again | Sincerely, Kentrell | Hip hop | Never Broke Again, Atlantic | |
| September 25 | Christine and the Queens | Joseph | | Because Music | |
| September 27 | AB6IX | Mo' Complete | | Brand New | |
| September 29 | Chō Tokimeki Sendenbu | Suki Suki Suki Suki Suki Suki! | | Avex | |
| September 29 | Mary's Blood | Mary's Blood | | Tokuma Japan | |
| September 29 | Okamoto's | Kno Where | | Ariola Japan | |
| September 30 | Lady Gaga and Tony Bennett | Love for Sale | Jazz | Streamline, Columbia, Interscope | |

## Fourth quarter
### October

List of albums released in October 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| October 1 | Asking Alexandria | See What's on the Inside | Hard rock | Better Noise | |
| October 1 | Asleep at the Wheel | Half a Hundred Years | | Home Records | |
| October 1 | Black Dice | Mod Prog Sic | | FourFour Records | |
| October 1 | The Body and Big Brave | Leaving None but Small Birds | | Thrill Jockey | |
| October 1 | Boy Scouts | Wayfinder | | Anti- | |
| October 1 | Brandi Carlile | In These Silent Days | Americana, country, folk | Low Country, Elektra | |
| October 1 | The Doobie Brothers | Liberté | | | |
| October 1 | Explosions in the Sky | Big Bend (An Original Soundtrack for Public Television) | | | |
| October 1 | Felix Jaehn | Breathe | | Virgin | |
| October 1 | Full of Hell | Garden of Burning Apparitions | Grindcore, death metal, noise rock | Relapse | |
| October 1 | Grateful Dead | Fox Theatre, St. Louis, MO 12-10-71 | Psychedelic rock | Rhino | |
| October 1 | Headie One | Too Loyal... For My Own Good | | | |
| October 1 | Heiress | Distant Fires | | Satanik Royalty Records | |
| October 1 | Hovvdy | True Love | | Grand Jury Music | |
| October 1 | Illuminati Hotties | Let Me Do One More | Indie rock, punk rock | Snack Shack Tracks | |
| October 1 | JoJo | Trying Not to Think About It | | Warner, Clover Music | |
| October 1 | Kedr Livanskiy | Liminal Soul | | 2MR | |
| October 1 | KK's Priest | Sermons of the Sinner | | EX1 Records | |
| October 1 | Lil Wayne and Rich the Kid | Trust Fund Babies | | Young Money, Republic | |
| October 1 | Meek Mill | Expensive Pain | | Atlantic, Maybach Music | |
| October 1 | Ministry | Moral Hygiene | | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 1 | Neil Young | Carnegie Hall 1970 | | Shakey Pictures Records, Reprise | |
| October 1 | Pocket Palma | Atomi | Retrowave | Aquarius | |
| October 1 | Pond | 9 | Psychedelic rock | Spinning Top Records | |
| October 1 | Princess Century | Surrender | | | |
| October 1 | Ray BLK | Access Denied | Hip hop, Afropop | Island | |
| October 1 | The Script | Tales from the Script: Greatest Hits | | Phonogenic, Sony Music | |
| October 1 | Shad | Tao | | Secret City | |
| October 1 | Strand of Oaks | In Heaven | | | |
| October 1 | Sylvan Esso | Soundtrack for MASS MoCA | | | |
| October 1 | The The | The Comeback Special | | earMUSIC | |
| October 1 | Tirzah | Colourgrade | | Domino | |
| October 1 | Wage War | Manic | Metalcore | Fearless | |
| October 1 | Wiki | Half God | | Wikset Enterprise | |
| October 1 | Yes | The Quest | Progressive rock | Inside Out, Sony Music | |
| October 4 | Lute | Gold Mouf | | Dreamville | |
| October 5 | Aespa | Savage | Pop, electropop, hyperpop | SM | |
| October 6 | Glaive and Ericdoa | Then I'll Be Happy | | Interscope | |
| October 7 | BGYO | The Light | Hip hop, R&B, Synth-pop | Star | |
| October 8 | AJ Mitchell | Skyview | | Epic | |
| October 8 | The Alchemist | This Thing of Ours 2 | | Alc Records | |
| October 8 | BadBadNotGood | Talk Memory | | XL | |
| October 8 | bbno$ | Eat Ya Veggies | | bbno$ | |
| October 8 | Billy Bragg | The Million Things That Never Happened | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| October 8 | Carolyn Wonderland | Tempting Fate | | Alligator | |
| October 8 | Don Toliver | Life of a Don | | Cactus Jack, Atlantic | |
| October 8 | Efterklang | Windflowers | | | |
| October 8 | Gus G | Quantum Leap | | AFM | |
| October 8 | James Blake | Friends That Break Your Heart | | Republic, Polydor | |
| October 8 | Jerusalem in My Heart | Qalaq | | Constellation | |
| October 8 | John Coltrane | A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle | | Impulse!, UMe | |
| October 8 | Lala Lala | I Want the Door to Open | | Hardly Art | |
| October 8 | Madonna | Madame X – Music from the Theater Xperience | | Warner | |
| October 8 | Magdalena Bay | Mercurial World | | Luminelle Recordings | |
| October 8 | Matt Maltese | Good Morning It's Now Tomorrow | | Nettwerk | |
| October 8 | Natalie Hemby | Pins and Needles | | Fantasy | |
| October 8 | Nick Zanca | Cacerolazo | | Full Spectrum Records | |
| October 8 | Noah Gundersen | A Pillar of Salt | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| October 8 | Old Dominion | Time, Tequila & Therapy | | RCA Nashville | |
| October 8 | Porches | All Day Gentle Hold ! | | Domino | |
| October 8 | The Record Company | Play Loud | | Concord | |
| October 8 | Sam Fender | Seventeen Going Under | | Polydor | |
| October 8 | Sam Teskey | Cycles | | | |
| October 8 | Shannon Lay | Geist | | Sub Pop | |
| October 8 | Susana Baca | Palabras Urgentes | | Real World | |
| October 8 | Tech N9ne | Asin9ne | | Strange Music | |
| October 8 | Trivium | In the Court of the Dragon | Thrash metal, progressive metal, heavy metal | Roadrunner | |
| October 8 | Upsahl | Lady Jesus | | Arista | |
| October 8 | The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die | Illusory Walls | Post-rock, emo, progressive rock | Epitaph | |
| October 12 | Lil Ugly Mane | Volcanic Bird Enemy and the Voiced Concern | | | |
| October 13 | Knocked Loose | A Tear in the Fabric of Life | | | |
| October 13 | Pasocom Music Club | See-Voice | | | |
| October 14 | Bini | Born to Win | Pop, EDM, hip hop | Star | |
| October 14 | Lovejoy | Pebble Brain | Indie rock, post-punk revival | Anvil Cat Records | |
| October 15 | Alice Caymmi | Imaculada | Pop, alternative pop | Rainha dos Raios, Brabo Music | |
| October 15 | Baker Boy | Gela | | Island Australia, Universal Australia | |
| October 15 | The Charlatans | A Head Full of Ideas | | | |
| October 15 | Cœur de pirate | Impossible à aimer | | Bravo Musique | |
| October 15 | Coldplay | Music of the Spheres | Pop, pop rock, space rock | Parlophone | |
| October 15 | Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe (Mark Lanegan and Joe Cardamone) | Dark Mark vs. Skeleton Joe | | Rare Bird, Kitten Robot | |
| October 15 | The Darkness | Motorheart | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| October 15 | Dean Wareham | I Have Nothing to Say to the Mayor of L.A. | | Double Feature Records | |
| October 15 | Disclosure | DJ-Kicks: Disclosure | | Studio !K7 | |
| October 15 | Dos Santos | City of Mirrors | | International Anthem | |
| October 15 | Finneas | Optimist | | Interscope | |
| October 15 | Fluxion | Parallel Moves | | Vibrant Music | |
| October 15 | Frank Carter and the Rattlesnakes | Sticky | Punk rock | International Death Cult | |
| October 15 | Gemini Syndrome | 3rd Degree – The Raising | | Century Media | |
| October 15 | Glok | Pattern Recognition | | Bytes | |
| October 15 | Hania Rani and Dobrawa Czocher | Inner Symphonies | | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| October 15 | Hate | Rugia | | Metal Blade | |
| October 15 | Hayden Thorpe | Moondust for My Diamond | | Domino | |
| October 15 | Ice Nine Kills | The Silver Scream 2: Welcome to Horrorwood | Metalcore, deathcore, emo pop | Fearless | |
| October 15 | Jason Isbell & the 400 Unit | Georgia Blue | | Southeastern Records | |
| October 15 | Joy Crookes | Skin | Soul jazz, R&B, neo soul | Insanity Records | |
| October 15 | Kacy Hill | Simple, Sweet, and Smiling | | | |
| October 15 | Kelly Clarkson | When Christmas Comes Around... | Christmas | Atlantic | |
| October 15 | Lilly Hiatt | Lately | | | |
| October 15 | The Lucid | The Lucid | Hard rock, alternative rock | SpoilerHead Records | |
| October 15 | Melvins | Five Legged Dog | | Ipecac | |
| October 15 | Norah Jones | I Dream of Christmas | Christmas | Blue Note | |
| October 15 | PinkPantheress | To Hell with It | Dance-pop, liquid drum and bass, UK garage | Parlophone | |
| October 15 | Pokey LaFarge | In the Blossom of Their Shade | | New West | |
| October 15 | Remi Wolf | Juno | | EMI, Island | |
| October 15 | Santana | Blessings and Miracles | Latin rock | BMG Rights Management | |
| October 15 | Tom Morello | The Atlas Underground Fire | | Mom + Pop | |
| October 15 | Twelve Foot Ninja | Vengeance | | Volkanik Music | |
| October 15 | Toby Keith | Peso in My Pocket | | Show Dog LLC, Thirty Tigers | |
| October 15 | Vanishing Twin | Ookii Gekko | | Fire | |
| October 15 | Vildhjarta | Måsstaden under vatten | | Century Media | |
| October 15 | We Are Messengers | Wholehearted | CCM, worship | Word Entertainment | |
| October 15 | Xenia Rubinos | Una Rosa | | Anti- | |
| October 15 | Young Thug | Punk | | YSL, 300, Atlantic | |
| October 15 | Zac Brown Band | The Comeback | | Warner Music Nashville, Home Grown Music | |
| October 15 | Zack Fox | Shut the Fuck Up Talking to Me | | | |
| October 15 | Zack Tabudlo | Episode | | | |
| October 18 | Maxo Kream | Weight of the World | | Big Persona, 88 Classic, RCA | |
| October 20 | CL | Alpha | | Very Cherry, Sony Music | |
| October 20 | The Peggies | The Garden | | Epic Japan | |
| October 21 | Francisco, el Hombre | Casa Francisco | Latin music, MPB, punk rock | ONErpm | |
| October 22 | Agnes | Magic Still Exists | | Universal | |
| October 22 | Angel Dust | Yak: A Collection of Truck Songs | | Roadrunner | |
| October 22 | Bedouine | Waysides | | The Orchard | |
| October 22 | Biffy Clyro | The Myth of the Happily Ever After | Alternative rock, progressive rock, experimental rock | Warner, 14th Floor | |
| October 22 | Black Marble | Fast Idol | | Sacred Bones | |
| October 22 | Can't Swim | Change of Plans | | Pure Noise | |
| October 22 | Circa Survive | A Dream About Love | | Rise | |
| October 22 | Circuit Des Yeux | -io | | Matador | |
| October 22 | Clinic | Fantasy Island | | Domino | |
| October 22 | Comethazine | Comethazine the Album | | Alamo | |
| October 22 | Cradle of Filth | Existence Is Futile | Extreme metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 22 | Dave Hause | Blood Harmony | | | |
| October 22 | Deerhoof | Actually, You Can | | Joyful Noise | |
| October 22 | Demarco | Melody | | Ineffable Records | |
| October 22 | Don Broco | Amazing Things | | SharpTone | |
| October 22 | Dream Theater | A View from the Top of the World | | Inside Out | |
| October 22 | Dua Saleh | Crossover | | Against Giants | |
| October 22 | Duran Duran | Future Past | | BMG | |
| October 22 | Elton John | The Lockdown Sessions | | EMI, Mercury | |
| October 22 | Every Time I Die | Radical | | Epitaph | |
| October 22 | Fetty Wap | The Butterfly Effect | | 300, RGF Productions | |
| October 22 | Fuel | Anomaly | | Moon Chair Media, ONErpm | |
| October 22 | Good Morning | Barnyard | | Good Morning Music Company Worldwide, Polyvinyl | |
| October 22 | Grouper | Shade | | Kranky | |
| October 22 | Guided by Voices | It's Not Them. It Couldn't Be Them. It Is Them! | | GBV Inc Records | |
| October 22 | Hand Habits | Fun House | | Saddle Creek | |
| October 22 | Helado Negro | Far In | | 4AD | |
| October 22 | Herbert | Musca | | Accidental | |
| October 22 | Honne | Let's Just Say the World Ended a Week From Now, What Would You Do? | | | |
| October 22 | Jarvis Cocker | Chansons d'Ennui Tip-Top | | ABKCO | |
| October 22 | Jessica Pavone | Lull | | Chaikin Records | |
| October 22 | JPEGMafia | LP! | | Republic, EQT Recordings | |
| October 22 | Kraus | View No Country | | Terrible | |
| October 22 | La Luz | La Luz | | Hardly Art | |
| October 22 | Lana Del Rey | Blue Banisters | Folk, pop, jazz | Interscope | |
| October 22 | Majid Jordan | Wildest Dreams | | OVO | |
| October 22 | Massacre | Resurgence | | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 22 | Ms Banks | Bank Statement | | | |
| October 22 | My Morning Jacket | My Morning Jacket | | ATO | |
| October 22 | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds | B-Sides & Rarities Part II | | Mute | |
| October 22 | Nubya Garcia | Source ⧺ We Move | | | |
| October 22 | Okay Kaya | The Incompatible Okay Kaya | | Jagjaguwar | |
| October 22 | Oscar and the Wolf | The Shimmer | | PIAS | |
| October 22 | Parannoul / Asian Glow / sonhos tomam conta | Downfall of the Neon Youth | | Longinus Recording | |
| October 22 | Parquet Courts | Sympathy for Life | Garage rock, dance-punk, post-punk | Rough Trade | |
| October 22 | Phew | New Decade | | Mute | |
| October 22 | The Pineapple Thief | Nothing but the Truth | | Kscope | |
| October 22 | Ross from Friends | Tread | | Brainfeeder | |
| October 22 | Rüfüs Du Sol | Surrender | | Rose Avenue, Reprise, Warner Australia | |
| October 22 | Self Esteem | Prioritise Pleasure | | Fiction | |
| October 22 | Seventeen | Attacca | K-pop | Pledis | |
| October 22 | Starset | Horizons | | Fearless | |
| October 22 | Together Pangea | Dye | | | |
| October 22 | Tonstartssbandht | Petunia | | Mexican Summer | |
| October 22 | Trace Mountains | House of Confusion | | Lame-O Records | |
| October 22 | Tricky | Lonely Guest | | False Idols | |
| October 22 | U.D.O. | Game Over | | AFM | |
| October 22 | Wale | Folarin II | | Maybach, Warner | |
| October 22 | Wet | Letter Blue | | AWAL | |
| October 22 | Yung Raja | Mike | | Def Jam | |
| October 26 | Amerado | Patience | | | |
| October 27 | Ailee | Amy | | The L1ve | |
| October 27 | Kyary Pamyu Pamyu | Candy Racer | | Nippon Columbia | |
| October 28 | Grant Kirkhope | Banjo Kazooie: Re-Jiggyed | | | |
| October 28 | Lili | Sunchild | | Sony Music Philippines | |
| October 28 | Namasenda | Unlimited Ammo | | PC Music | |
| October 28 | Park Ji-hoon | Hot&Cold | | Maroo | |
| October 29 | Alina Baraz | Moongate | | Memo Blue, United Masters | |
| October 29 | Archspire | Bleed the Future | | Season of Mist | |
| October 29 | Attack Attack! | Long Time, No Sea | | Oxide Records | |
| October 29 | Bad Wolves | Dear Monsters | | Better Noise | |
| October 29 | Beast in Black | Dark Connection | | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 29 | Be'lakor | Coherence | | Napalm | |
| October 29 | Big Sean and Hit-Boy | What You Expect | | FF to Def Entertainment, Def Jam | |
| October 29 | Boston Manor | Desperate Times Desperate Pleasures | | SharpTone | |
| October 29 | Black Veil Brides | The Phantom Tomorrow | Hard rock, gothic metal | Sumerian | |
| October 29 | Charlotte Cornfield | Highs in the Minuses | | Next Door Records | |
| October 29 | Dami Im | My Reality | | ABC Music | |
| October 29 | Dinosaur Jr. | Emptiness at the Sinclair | | Jagjaguwar | |
| October 29 | Ed Sheeran | = | Pop | Asylum, Atlantic | |
| October 29 | Ghost Bath | Self Loather | | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 29 | Helheim | Woduridar | | Dark Essence Records | |
| October 29 | Jerry Cantrell | Brighten | Alternative rock, country rock | | |
| October 29 | Jeon Somi | XOXO | | The Black Label | |
| October 29 | Joe Bonamassa | Time Clocks | | J&R Adventures, Provogue | |
| October 29 | John 5 | Sinner | | Big Machine | |
| October 29 | Johnny Cash | Bear's Sonic Journals: At the Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968 | Country | Owsley Stanley Foundation, Renew Records, BMG | |
| October 29 | Kayo Dot | Moss Grew on the Swords and Plowshares Alike | | Prophecy Productions | |
| October 29 | Lone | Always Inside Your Head | | Greco-Roman | |
| October 29 | Lotic | Water | | Houndstooth Records | |
| October 29 | Lucifer | Lucifer IV | | | |
| October 29 | Marissa Nadler | The Path of the Clouds | | Sacred Bones, Bella Union | |
| October 29 | Mastodon | Hushed and Grim | | Reprise | |
| October 29 | Megan Thee Stallion | Something for Thee Hotties | | 1501 Certified, 300 | |
| October 29 | Our Lady Peace | Spiritual Machines 2 | | | |
| October 29 | Reason | No More, No Less: Demo 1 | | TDE | |
| October 29 | ROMderful | Please Reconnect Controller | | EMA, The Orchard | |
| October 29 | Running Wild | Blood on Blood | | Steamhammer | |
| October 29 | Sam Evian | Time to Melt | | Fat Possum | |
| October 29 | Save Face | Another Kill for the Highlight Reel | | Epitaph | |
| October 29 | Susto | Time in the Sun | | New West | |
| October 29 | Theon Cross | Intra-I | | New Soil | |
| October 29 | Tori Amos | Ocean to Ocean | Alternative rock, chamber pop, pop rock | Decca | |
| October 29 | The War on Drugs | I Don't Live Here Anymore | | Atlantic | |
| October 29 | Wave Racer | To Stop from Falling Off the Earth | | PIAS | |
| October 29 | Whitechapel | Kin | | Metal Blade | |
| October 30 | Jónsi | Obsidian | | Krunk | |
| October 31 | Insane Clown Posse | Yum Yum Bedlam | | Psychopathic | |
| October 31 | Limp Bizkit | Still Sucks | Nu metal, rap rock, alternative metal | Suretone | |

### November

List of albums released in November 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| November 1 | 2AM | Ballad 21 F/W | | | |
| November 1 | Im Chang-jung | Nothing Special with the Day | | | |
| November 2 | Diablo Swing Orchestra | Swagger & Stroll Down the Rabbit Hole | Avant-garde metal | Candlelight | |
| November 2 | Super Junior-D&E | Countdown | | SM | |
| November 3 | Laboum | Blossom | K-pop | Interpark Music Plus | |
| November 4 | Duda Brack | Caco de Vidro | Pop, cumbia, folk | Matogrosso, Alá Comunicação e Cultura, Altafonte | |
| November 5 | ABBA | Voyage | | Polar, Universal | |
| November 5 | Aimee Mann | Queens of the Summer Hotel | | SuperEgo | |
| November 5 | Barry Adamson | Steal Away | | Mute | |
| November 5 | Bent Knee | Frosting | | Take This to Heart Records | |
| November 5 | Bullet for My Valentine | Bullet for My Valentine | | Spinefarm | |
| November 5 | Colin James | Open Road | | Stony Plain | |
| November 5 | Connan Mockasin | Jassbusters Two | | | |
| November 5 | Crazy Lixx | Street Lethal | | Frontiers | |
| November 5 | Curtis Harding | If Words Were Flowers | | | |
| November 5 | Diana Ross | Thank You | | Decca | |
| November 5 | Dijon | Absolutely | | | |
| November 5 | Dion | Stomping Ground | | Keeping the Blues Alive Records | |
| November 5 | DJ Lag | Meeting With the King | | Black Major | |
| November 5 | Emigrate | The Persistence of Memory | | Sony Music | |
| November 5 | Emma Ruth Rundle | Engine of Hell | | Sargent House | |
| November 5 | Finn Askew | Tokyo | | Capitol | |
| November 5 | Gold & Youth | Dream Baby | | Paper Bag | |
| November 5 | Gregory Porter | Still Rising | | Decca, Blue Note | |
| November 5 | HalfNoise | Motif | | Congrats Records | |
| November 5 | Hana Vu | Public Storage | | Ghostly International | |
| November 5 | Heart Attack Man | Thoughtz & Prayerz | | Triple Crown | |
| November 5 | The Horrors | Against the Blade | | | |
| November 5 | Hyd | Hyd | | PC Music | |
| November 5 | James Arthur | It'll All Make Sense in the End | | Columbia | |
| November 5 | J. D. Simo | Mind Control | | Crows Feet Records | |
| November 5 | J. D. Wilkes and the Legendary Shack Shakers | Cockadoodledeux | | Alternative Tentacles | |
| November 5 | Jennifer O'Connor | Born at the Disco | | Kiam Records | |
| November 5 | Joan As Police Woman | The Solution Is Restless | | PIAS | |
| November 5 | John DeNicola | She Said | | | |
| November 5 | Katy B | Peace and Offerings | | Rinse | |
| November 5 | Key Glock | Yellow Tape 2 | Hip hop | Paper Route Empire | |
| November 5 | Kito | Blossom | | Astralwerks | |
| November 5 | Lauren Jauregui | Prelude | | Attunement Records | |
| November 5 | Nashville Pussy | Eaten Alive | | Slinging Pig Records, MVD | |
| November 5 | Nathaniel Rateliff and the Night Sweats | The Future | Soul, rock, blues | Stax | |
| November 5 | Nation of Language | A Way Forward | | PIAS | |
| November 5 | Parcels | Day/Night | | Because | |
| November 5 | Portico Quartet | Monument | | Gondwana | |
| November 5 | Portrayal of Guilt | Christfucker | | Run for Cover | |
| November 5 | Radiohead | Kid Amnesiae | | XL | |
| November 5 | Richard Fearless | Future Rave Memory | | | |
| November 5 | SeeYouSpaceCowboy | The Romance of Affliction | | Pure Noise | |
| November 5 | Serpentwithfeet | Deacon's Grove | | Secretly Canadian | |
| November 5 | Snail Mail | Valentine | | Matador | |
| November 5 | Starlite Campbell Band | The Language of Curiosity | | Supertone | |
| November 5 | The Steel Wheels | Everyone a Song, Vol. 2 | | | |
| November 5 | Steffany Gretzinger | Faith of My Father | Contemporary worship music | TIM Records | |
| November 5 | Steve Conte | Bronx Cheer | | Wicked Cool | |
| November 5 | Steve Perry | The Season | Christmas | Fantasy | |
| November 5 | Summer Walker | Still Over It | | Love Renaissance, Interscope | |
| November 5 | Tasha | Tell Me What You Miss the Most | | Father/Daughter | |
| November 5 | Tusks | Change | | One Little Independent | |
| November 5 | The Verve Pipe | Threads | | | |
| November 9 | Oneus | Blood Moon | K-pop | RBW | |
| November 10 | Empire | Bright Future | J-pop | WACK, Avex Trax | |
| November 10 | Tomorrow X Together | Chaotic Wonderland | Pop rock | Big Hit, Republic | |
| November 11 | B.I | Cosmos | | IOK M | |
| November 12 | Aesop Rock and Blockhead | Garbology | | Rhymesayers | |
| November 12 | All Hail the Yeti | Within the Hollow Earth | | Minus Head Records | |
| November 12 | Courtney Barnett | Things Take Time, Take Time | | Milk! | |
| November 12 | Damon Albarn | The Nearer the Fountain, More Pure the Stream Flows | | Transgressive | |
| November 12 | Dave Gahan and Soulsavers | Imposter | | Columbia | |
| November 12 | Duval Timothy and Rosie Lowe | Son | | Carrying Colour | |
| November 12 | Enuff Z'Nuff | Hardrock Nite | | Frontiers | |
| November 12 | Eric Clapton | The Lady in the Balcony: Lockdown Sessions | | | |
| November 12 | Flight Facilities | Forever | | Future Classic | |
| November 12 | Gov't Mule | Heavy Load Blues | | Fantasy | |
| November 12 | Gracie Abrams | This Is What It Feels Like | | Interscope | |
| November 12 | Holly Humberstone | The Walls Are Way Too Thin | | Polydor, Darkroom, Interscope | |
| November 12 | Idles | Crawler | | Partisan | |
| November 12 | Jade Eagleson | Honkytonk Revival | Neotraditional country | Starseed Records | |
| November 12 | Jane Remover | Frailty | | DeadAir Records | |
| November 12 | Jason Aldean | Macon | | Broken Bow | |
| November 12 | Jon Hopkins | Music for Psychedelic Therapy | Electronic, ambient | Domino | |
| November 12 | L.A. Guns | Checkered Past | | Frontiers | |
| November 12 | Little Mix | Between Us | | RCA UK | |
| November 12 | Rise Against | Nowhere Sessions | | | |
| November 12 | Rod Stewart | The Tears of Hercules | | Warner, Rhino | |
| November 12 | Sega Bodega | Romeo | | NUXXE | |
| November 12 | Show-Ya | Showdown | | Metalville Records | |
| November 12 | Silent Planet | Iridescent | | Solid State, UNFD | |
| November 12 | Silk Sonic | An Evening with Silk Sonic | | Aftermath, Atlantic | |
| November 12 | Taylor Swift | Red (Taylor's Version) | | Republic | |
| November 12 | They Might Be Giants | Book | | Idlewild Recordings | |
| November 12 | Twice | Formula of Love: O+T=<3 | K-pop | JYP, Republic | |
| November 12 | Unleashed | No Sign of Life | | Napalm | |
| November 12 | Walk the Moon | Heights | | RCA | |
| November 12 | The Wanted | Most Wanted: The Greatest Hits | | Island | |
| November 12 | Yoasobi | E-Side | | Sony Music Japan | |
| November 19 | Adele | 30 | | Columbia | |
| November 19 | Angel Haze | Girl with a Gun | | Long Flight Home | |
| November 19 | Body/Dilloway/Head (Body/Head and Aaron Dilloway) | Body/Dilloway/Head | | Three Lobed Recordings | |
| November 19 | Brian Wilson | At My Piano | | Decca | |
| November 19 | Chris Liebing | Another Day | | Mute | |
| November 19 | Converge & Chelsea Wolfe | Bloodmoon: I | | Epitaph | |
| November 19 | Deap Vally | Marriage | | Cooking Vinyl | |
| November 19 | Elbow | Flying Dream 1 | | Polydor | |
| November 19 | Exodus | Persona Non Grata | | Nuclear Blast | |
| November 19 | Fred Again | Actual Life 2 (February 2 – October 15 2021) | | Again.. Records | |
| November 19 | James Blunt | The Stars Beneath My Feet (2004–2021) | | Atlantic | |
| November 19 | Jessy Lanza | DJ-Kicks | | !K7 | |
| November 19 | Kaytranada | Intimidated | | | |
| November 19 | Khemmis | Deceiver | | 20 Buck Spin, Nuclear Blast | |
| November 19 | Klein | Harmattan | | Pentatone | |
| November 19 | Ladyhawke | Time Flies | | BMG | |
| November 19 | Me and that Man | New Man, New Songs, Same Shit, Vol. 2 | | Napalm | |
| November 19 | Monsta X | No Limit | K-pop | Starship | |
| November 19 | Mr Twin Sister | Al Mundo Azul | | | |
| November 19 | Paul Kelly | Paul Kelly's Christmas Train | Christmas | | |
| November 19 | Peter Capaldi | St Christopher | | | |
| November 19 | Rezz | Spiral | | RCA | |
| November 19 | Robert Plant and Alison Krauss | Raise the Roof | | Rounder, Concord | |
| November 19 | Snoop Dogg | The Algorithm | | Def Jam | |
| November 19 | Theatres des Vampires | In Nomine Sanguinis | | Scarlet | |
| November 19 | Twenty One Pilots | Scaled and Icy (Livestream Version) | | Fueled by Ramen | |
| November 19 | Willie Nelson | The Willie Nelson Family | | Legacy | |
| November 23 | Radwimps | Forever Daze | | EMI | |
| November 24 | Aina the End | The Zombie | | Avex Trax | |
| November 24 | NiziU | U | J-pop | JYP, Epic Japan | |
| November 25 | Ghost9 | Now: Who We Are Facing | | Maroo | |
| November 26 | Alan Walker | World of Walker | | MER, Sony | |
| November 26 | Black Label Society | Doom Crew Inc. | | eOne | |
| November 26 | Cynic | Ascension Codes | | Season of Mist | |
| November 26 | Dan Sartain | Arise, Dan Sartain, Arise | | One Little Independent | |
| November 26 | David Bowie | Toy | | ISO, Parlophone | |
| November 26 | Deep Purple | Turning to Crime | | earMusic | |
| November 26 | Hypocrisy | Worship | | Nuclear Blast | |
| November 26 | Imminence | Heaven in Hiding | | Arising Empire | |
| November 26 | Lordi | Lordiversity | | AFM | |
| November 26 | Richard Dawson and Circle | Henki | | Weird World | |
| November 26 | Rufus Wainwright and Amsterdam Sinfonietta | Rufus Wainwright and Amsterdam Sinfonietta Live | | BMG, Modern Recordings | |
| November 26 | Sunn O))) | Metta, Benevolence. BBC 6Music: Live on the Invitation of Mary Anne Hobbs | | Southern Lord | |
| November 26 | Westlife | Wild Dreams | | Warner Music UK | |
| November 30 | Arca | Kick II | | XL | |

### December

List of albums released in December 2021 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| December 1 | Arca | Kick III | | XL | |
| December 1 | Dillom | Post Mortem | | Bohemian Groove | |
| December 1 | Yoasobi | The Book 2 | | Sony Music Japan | |
| December 2 | Arca | Kick IIII | | XL | |
| December 3 | Angèle | Nonante-Cinq | Dance-pop, disco-pop, synth-pop | Angèle VL Records, Initial Artist Services | |
| December 3 | Arca | Kick IIIII | | XL | |
| December 3 | Devin Townsend | The Puzzle | | | |
| December 3 | Devin Townsend | Snuggles | | | |
| December 3 | Khalid | Scenic Drive | | RCA | |
| December 3 | LP | Churches | Pop, rock, indie rock | SOTA Records, Dine Alone Music | |
| December 3 | Marissa Paternoster | Peace Meter | | Don Giovanni | |
| December 3 | ONF | Goosebumps | | WM | |
| December 3 | Nardo Wick | Who Is Nardo Wick? | | Flawless Entertainment, RCA | |
| December 3 | Of Mice & Men | Echo | | SharpTone | |
| December 3 | Paul Weller with Jules Buckley & the BBC Symphony Orchestra | An Orchestrated Songbook | | | |
| December 3 | Polo G | Hall of Fame 2.0 | | Columbia | |
| December 3 | The Teskey Brothers with Orchestra Victoria | Live at Hamer Hall | | Ivy League | |
| December 3 | Volbeat | Servant of the Mind | | Vertigo, Republic, Universal | |
| December 7 | Mino | To Infinity. | | YG | |
| December 9 | Bad Gyal | Sound System: The Final Releases | | Universal Music Latino, Interscope | |
| December 10 | Alicia Keys | Keys | | RCA | |
| December 10 | Bonnie "Prince" Billy and Bill Callahan | Blind Date Party | Folk, country, rock | Drag City | |
| December 10 | Birdman and YoungBoy Never Broke Again | From the Bayou | | | |
| December 10 | Dead Best (Adam Goren and Brian Sokel) | Dead Best | | Don Giovanni | |
| December 10 | Eskimo Joe | The World Repeats Itself Somehow | | | |
| December 10 | Green Day | The BBC Sessions | | Reprise | |
| December 10 | Jlin | Embryo | | Planet Mu | |
| December 10 | Juice Wrld | Fighting Demons | | Interscope | |
| December 10 | Marie Osmond | Unexpected | | | |
| December 10 | Monsta X | The Dreaming | Pop | Intertwine | |
| December 10 | Moses Sumney | Live from Blackalachia | | | |
| December 10 | Neil Young and Crazy Horse | Barn | | Reprise | |
| December 10 | Rick Ross | Richer Than I Ever Been | | Maybach, Epic | |
| December 10 | Tory Lanez | Alone at Prom | Synth-pop | One Umbrella | |
| December 14 | NCT | Universe | | SM | |
| December 15 | Nemophila | Revive | | Master Works | |
| December 15 | Nogizaka46 | Time Flies | | N46Div., Sony Music Japan | |
| December 15 | Tricot | Jodeki | | | |
| December 17 | Hed PE | Califas Worldwide | | Suburban Noize | |
| December 17 | Nick Cave and Warren Ellis | La Panthére Des Neiges | | Invada Records, Lakeshore | |
| December 17 | Roddy Ricch | Live Life Fast | | Atlantic | |
| December 22 | Itzy | It'z Itzy | | Warner Music Japan | |
| December 22 | Piggs | Juicyy | | PourPourLand | |
| December 24 | Nas | Magic | | Mass Appeal | |
| December 27 | Kim Jae-hwan | The Letter | | Swing | |