# List of 2006 albums

The following is a list of albums, EPs, and mixtapes released in 2006. 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 2006 in music.

## First quarter
### January

List of albums released in January 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| January 1 | Ayumi Hamasaki | (Miss)understood | J-pop, dance-pop, pop rock | Avex Trax | |
| January 10 | BR549 | Dog Days | | Dualtone | |
| January 10 | Jack Ingram | Live: Wherever You Are | Country | Big Machine | |
| January 10 | High School Musical cast | High School Musical | Pop, teen pop, dance-pop | Walt Disney | |
| January 10 | Kayo Dot | Dowsing Anemone with Copper Tongue | Experimental music, post-rock, avant-garde metal | Robotic Empire | |
| January 10 | Morningwood | Morningwood | Alternative rock, dance-rock, electropunk | Capitol | |
| January 13 | Eric Burdon | Soul of a Man | Blues rock | SPV | |
| January 19 | Mutemath | Mutemath | Alternative rock, post-rock | Teleprompt, Warner Bros. | |
| January 20 | Cat Power | The Greatest | Indie rock, soul, country | Matador | |
| January 20 | Edguy | Rocket Ride | Power metal, progressive metal, hard rock | Nuclear Blast | |
| January 23 | Arctic Monkeys | Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not | Indie rock, garage rock, post-punk revival | Domino | |
| January 23 | Clearlake | Amber | Indie rock | Domino | |
| January 23 | The Kooks | Inside In / Inside Out | Indie rock, post-punk revival, post-Britpop | Virgin | |
| January 23 | Richard Ashcroft | Keys to the World | Post-Britpop, folk rock | Parlophone | |
| January 23 | Rosanne Cash | Black Cadillac | Country folk, Americana | Capitol | |
| January 24 | Ace Frehley | Greatest Hits Live | Hard rock | Megaforce | |
| January 24 | Gossip | Standing in the Way of Control | Indie rock, garage rock, dance-rock | Back Yard, Kill Rock Stars | |
| January 24 | His Name Is Alive | Detrola | | Silver Mountain Media Group, Sony BMG | |
| January 24 | Jenny Lewis and The Watson Twins | Rabbit Fur Coat | Americana, country folk, gospel | Team Love | |
| January 24 | Josh Turner | Your Man | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| January 24 | P.O.D. | Testify | Nu metal, Christian metal, rap rock | Atlantic | |
| January 24 | Portugal. The Man | Waiter: "You Vultures!" | Math rock, emo, indie rock | Fearless | |
| January 24 | Robert Pollard | From a Compound Eye | Indie rock | Merge | |
| January 24 | Rocky Votolato | Makers | Indie | Barsuk | |
| January 24 | Yellowcard | Lights and Sounds | Alternative rock | Capitol | |
| January 26 | Duncan Sheik | White Limousine | | Zoë | |
| January 31 | Andrea Bocelli | Amore | Classical, pop | Sugar Records, Universal, Decca | |
| January 31 | Barry Manilow | The Greatest Songs of the Fifties | Easy listening, pop | Arista | |
| January 31 | The Devin Townsend Band | Synchestra | Progressive metal, hard rock, progressive rock | HevyDevy | |
| January 31 | Heather Headley | In My Mind | R&B | RCA | |
| January 31 | Lilys | Everything Wrong Is Imaginary | Alternative rock | Manifesto | |
| January 31 | P.O.S | Audition | Hip hop | Rhymesayers Entertainment | |
| January 31 | She Wants Revenge | She Wants Revenge | Post-punk revival, dark wave, gothic rock | Perfect Kiss, Geffen, Flawless | |
| January 31 | Train | For Me, It's You | Rock, roots rock, pop rock | Columbia | |
| January 31 | Vakill | Worst Fears Confirmed | Hip hop | Molemen Records | |

### February

List of albums released in February 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| February 3 | In Flames | Come Clarity | Melodic death metal, alternative metal, heavy metal | Ferret, Nuclear Blast, Toy's Factory | |
| February 4 | The Living End | State of Emergency | Punk rock, rock, punkabilly | EMI, Adeline | |
| February 6 | Belle and Sebastian | The Life Pursuit | Indie pop, R&B, glam rock | Rough Trade, Matador | |
| February 6 | Sparks | Hello Young Lovers | Art pop, art rock, chamber pop | In the Red, Gut | |
| February 7 | Aceyalone with RJD2 | Magnificent City | Hip hop | Decon, Project Blowed | |
| February 7 | Beth Orton | Comfort of Strangers | Folk | Astralwerks, EMI | |
| February 7 | Deadboy & the Elephantmen | We Are Night Sky | | Fat Possum | |
| February 7 | Decapitated | Organic Hallucinosis | Technical death metal | Earache, Teichiku, Soyuz Music | |
| February 7 | Dem Franchize Boyz | On Top of Our Game | Southern hip hop, crunk, snap | So So Def, Virgin | |
| February 7 | J Dilla | Donuts | Experimental hip hop, trip hop, plunderphonics | Stones Throw | |
| February 7 | Jack Johnson and Friends | Sing-A-Longs and Lullabies for the Film Curious George | Folk rock, soft rock, pop | Brushfire, Universal | |
| February 7 | Kelley Stoltz | Below the Branches | | Sub Pop | |
| February 7 | The Minus 5 | The Minus 5 | Rock | Yep Roc | |
| February 7 | Psychic Ills | Dins | | The Social Registry | |
| February 7 | Ray Davies | Other People's Lives | Rock | V2 | |
| February 13 | Jaheim | Ghetto Classics | R&B | Divine Mill Records, Warner Bros. | |
| February 13 | Sérgio Mendes | Timeless | Samba, hip hop, neo soul | Concord, will.i.am Music Group | |
| February 14 | Matchbook Romance | Voices | Emo, post-hardcore | Epitaph | |
| February 14 | The Sword | Age of Winters | Heavy metal, doom metal, stoner rock | Kemado | |
| February 14 | Toto | Falling in Between | Hard rock, pop rock, progressive rock | Frontiers | |
| February 15 | BoA | Outgrow | J-pop | Avex Trax | |
| February 17 | Danko Jones | Sleep Is the Enemy | Hard rock | Aquarius, Bad Taste, Razor & Tie | |
| February 17 | The Knife | Silent Shout | Synth-pop, techno, electronic | Rabid | |
| February 20 | Lee Harding | What's Wrong with This Picture? | Pop-punk, rock | Sony BMG Australia | |
| February 20 | Liars | Drum's Not Dead | Experimental rock, noise rock, post-punk revival | Mute | |
| February 20 | William Orbit | Hello Waveforms | Ambient, electronica | Sanctuary | |
| February 21 | The Derek Trucks Band | Songlines | Blues rock, Southern rock, world fusion | Columbia | |
| February 21 | Destroyer | Destroyer's Rubies | Indie rock, folk rock, jazz | Merge, Acuarela Discos, Rough Trade | |
| February 21 | Dilated Peoples | 20/20 | Hip hop | Capitol | |
| February 21 | Folly | Resist Convenience | Hardcore, punk, ska | Triple Crown | |
| February 21 | Janis Ian | Folk Is the New Black | Folk | Cooking Vinyl | |
| February 21 | The M's | Future Women | | Polyvinyl | |
| February 21 | Man Man | Six Demon Bag | Experimental rock | Ace Fu | |
| February 21 | The Product | One Hunid | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Koch, Underground Railroad | |
| February 21 | Shanice | Every Woman Dreams | | Imajah Records, PlayTyme Entertainment | |
| February 21 | Willie Nile | Streets of New York | Rock | Reincarnate Music | |
| February 24 | Corinne Bailey Rae | Corinne Bailey Rae | Pop-soul, neo soul, R&B | EMI | |
| February 27 | Darkthrone | The Cult Is Alive | Blackened crust | Peaceville | |
| February 28 | Alan Jackson | Precious Memories | Christian country, gospel | Arista Nashville | |
| February 28 | Bruce Springsteen | Hammersmith Odeon, London '75 | Rock | Columbia | |
| February 28 | Hank Williams III | Straight to Hell | Country, bluegrass, Western swing | Bruc | |
| February 28 | Hawthorne Heights | If Only You Were Lonely | Emo, post-hardcore | Victory | |
| February 28 | Jessi Colter | Out of the Ashes | Country | Shout! Factory | |
| February 28 | Kid Rock & The Twisted Brown Trucker Band | Live Trucker | Hard rock, rap rock | Top Dog Records, Atlantic | |
| February 28 | Ne-Yo | In My Own Words | R&B | Def Jam, Compound Entertainment | |
| February 28 | Plumb | Chaotic Resolve | Rock, pop, metal | Curb | |
| February 28 | Rhett Miller | The Believer | Pop rock, alternative country | Verve Forecast | |
| February 28 | Shannon Brown | Corn Fed | Country | Warner Bros. Nashville | |

### March

List of albums released in March 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| March 3 | Lordi | The Arockalypse | Hard rock, heavy metal, shock rock | Sony BMG, Drakkar, The End | |
| March 4 | Pretty Girls Make Graves | Élan Vital | Emo, math rock, punk rock | Matador | |
| March 5 | Cascada | Everytime We Touch | Europop, dance-pop, trance | Zooland Records, Robbins | |
| March 6 | David Gilmour | On an Island | Post-progressive, art rock, baroque pop | EMI, Columbia | |
| March 6 | Mogwai | Mr Beast | Post-rock | PIAS, Matador | |
| March 6 | Van Morrison | Pay the Devil | Country | Lost Highway | |
| March 6 | White Rose Movement | Kick | Indie, Art rock | Independiente | |
| March 7 | Buzzcocks | Flat-Pack Philosophy | Pop-punk | Cooking Vinyl | |
| March 7 | Donald Fagen | Morph the Cat | Jazz rock, jazz-funk | Reprise | |
| March 7 | I Love You but I've Chosen Darkness | Fear Is on Our Side | | Secretly Canadian | |
| March 7 | James Hunter | People Gonna Talk | Blue-eyed soul, jazz, blues | Go, Rounder | |
| March 7 | Juvenile | Reality Check | Hip hop | UTP Records, Atlantic | |
| March 7 | Kris Kristofferson | This Old Road | Country | New West | |
| March 7 | Matisyahu | Youth | Reggae, reggae fusion, hip hop | JDub, Epic | |
| March 7 | The Little Willies | The Little Willies | Rock, country | Milking Bull, Parlophone | |
| March 7 | Mudhoney | Under a Billion Suns | Alternative rock | Sub Pop | |
| March 7 | Neko Case | Fox Confessor Brings the Flood | Alternative country | Anti- | |
| March 7 | Public Enemy with Paris | Rebirth of a Nation | East Coast hip hop, political hip hop | Guerrilla Funk Recordings | |
| March 7 | Ralph Tresvant | Rizz-Wa-Faire | R&B | Xzault | |
| March 7 | Trent Tomlinson | Country Is My Rock | Country | Lyric Street | |
| March 10 | Bal-Sagoth | The Chthonic Chronicles | Symphonic black metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| March 11 | Augie March | Moo, You Bloody Choir | Indie rock, indie pop, indie folk | Sony BMG Australia, Jive | |
| March 13 | Fightstar | Grand Unification | Post-hardcore, alternative rock, alternative metal | Island, Trustkill | |
| March 13 | Gary Numan | Jagged | Industrial rock, dark wave | Cooking Vinyl, Metropolis | |
| March 13 | Graham Coxon | Love Travels at Illegal Speeds | Alternative rock | Parlophone | |
| March 13 | Katatonia | The Great Cold Distance | Doom metal, alternative rock, hard rock | Peaceville | |
| March 13 | Placebo | Meds | Alternative rock | Virgin | |
| March 14 | Capone | Menace 2 Society | Hip hop | Central Station | |
| March 14 | D.M.C. | Checks Thugs and Rock n Roll | Pop rap, rap rock | Romen Mpire Records, Rags 2 Riches Records | |
| March 14 | E-40 | My Ghetto Report Card | Hip hop, crunk, hyphy | BME, Sick Wid It, Reprise | |
| March 14 | Joe Satriani | Super Colossal | Instrumental rock | Epic | |
| March 14 | NOFX | Never Trust a Hippy | Punk rock | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| March 14 | Sepultura | Dante XXI | Groove metal, thrash metal | SPV, BMG | |
| March 14 | SHeDAISY | Fortuneteller's Melody | Country | Lyric Street | |
| March 14 | Suzi Quatro | Back to the Drive | Rock, folk rock, raga rock | EMI, Liberty, Caroline | |
| March 14 | Various artists | Dave Chappelle's Block Party OST | Progressive hip hop, neo soul | Geffen | |
| March 14 | Willie Nelson | You Don't Know Me: The Songs of Cindy Walker | Country | Lost Highway | |
| March 20 | The Church | Uninvited, Like the Clouds | Alternative rock, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic rock | Liberation, Cooking Vinyl | |
| March 20 | The Whitlams | Little Cloud | Pop | Black Yak, Warner Bros. | |
| March 21 | The Appleseed Cast | Peregrine | Emo, indie rock, post-rock | The Militia Group | |
| March 21 | Anti-Flag | For Blood and Empire | Punk rock | RCA | |
| March 21 | Army of the Pharaohs | The Torture Papers | Hip hop, horrorcore | Babygrande | |
| March 21 | Band of Horses | Everything All the Time | Indie rock | Sub Pop | |
| March 21 | Ben Harper | Both Sides of the Gun | | Virgin | |
| March 21 | B.G. | The Heart of tha Streetz, Vol. 2 (I Am What I Am) | Gangsta rap, Southern hip hop | Chopper City, Koch | |
| March 21 | BoySetsFire | The Misery Index: Notes from the Plague Years | | Equal Vision | |
| March 21 | Cannibal Corpse | Kill | Death metal | Metal Blade | |
| March 21 | Chicago | Chicago XXX | Rock | Rhino | |
| March 21 | From First to Last | Heroine | Post-hardcore, emo, industrial rock | Epitaph | |
| March 21 | Kenny Rogers | Water & Bridges | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| March 21 | Kutless | Hearts of the Innocent | Christian rock, alternative metal, hard rock | BEC | |
| March 21 | Loose Fur | Born Again in the USA | | Drag City | |
| March 21 | Mates of State | Bring It Back | Indie pop | Barsuk | |
| March 21 | MC Lars | The Graduate | Alternative hip hop, nerdcore | Horris, Nettwerk | |
| March 21 | Murs & 9th Wonder | Murray's Revenge | Hip hop | Record Collection | |
| March 21 | Prince | 3121 | R&B, funk, rock | NPG, Universal | |
| March 21 | Quasi | When the Going Gets Dark | Indie rock | Touch and Go, Domino Records | |
| March 21 | Teddy Geiger | Underage Thinking | Pop rock, alternative rock | Columbia | |
| March 22 | Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Show Your Bones | Indie rock, alternative rock, garage punk | Dress Up, Interscope | |
| March 24 | Doro | Warrior Soul | Heavy metal | AFM | |
| March 24 | Oomph! | GlaubeLiebeTod | Neue Deutsche Härte, industrial rock, industrial metal | GUN | |
| March 27 | Be Your Own Pet | Be Your Own Pet | Noise pop, garage punk | XL, Ecstatic Peace! | |
| March 27 | Embrace | This New Day | Alternative rock | Independiente | |
| March 27 | Michael Schenker Group | Tales of Rock'n'Roll | Hard rock, heavy metal | Armageddon Music | |
| March 27 | Venom | Metal Black | Thrash metal, black metal | Castle Communications, Sanctuary | |
| March 28 | Atreyu | A Death-Grip on Yesterday | Metalcore | Victory | |
| March 28 | Ghostface Killah | Fishscale | Hip hop | Def Jam | |
| March 28 | Margot & the Nuclear So and So's | The Dust of Retreat | | | |
| March 28 | Rob Zombie | Educated Horses | Industrial metal, alternative metal | Geffen | |
| March 28 | T.I. | King | Southern hip hop | Grand Hustle, Atlantic | |
| March 29 | The Futureheads | News and Tributes | Post-punk revival | 679, Vagrant, StarTime International | |
| March 29 | Marie Serneholt | Enjoy the Ride | Pop, Europop | Sony BMG | |
| March 31 | Chino XL | Poison Pen | Hip hop | Activate Entertainment | |
| March 31 | Lacuna Coil | Karmacode | Gothic metal, alternative metal, nu metal | Century Media | |
| March 31 | Queensrÿche | Operation: Mindcrime II | Heavy metal, progressive metal | Rhino | |

## Second quarter
### April

List of albums released in April 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| April 1 | Hilltop Hoods | The Hard Road | Australian hip hop | Obese | |
| April 1 | The Vines | Vision Valley | Alternative rock, garage rock revival, post-grunge | EMI, Capitol | |
| April 3 | Erasure | Union Street | Acoustic, country | Mute | |
| April 3 | The Flaming Lips | At War with the Mystics | Dream pop, neo-psychedelia, psychedelic pop | Warner Bros. | |
| April 3 | Killing Joke | Hosannas from the Basements of Hell | Industrial metal, post-punk | Cooking Vinyl | |
| April 3 | Morrissey | Ringleader of the Tormentors | Alternative rock | Sanctuary, Attack | |
| April 4 | Blackmore's Night | The Village Lanterne | Folk rock, neo-Medieval | SPV | |
| April 4 | Blue October | Foiled | Alternative rock | Universal | |
| April 4 | Bubba Sparxxx | The Charm | Hip hop | Purple Ribbon, Virgin, Capitol, EMI | |
| April 4 | Cassandra Wilson | Cassandra Wilson | Jazz | Blue Note | |
| April 4 | Dead to Fall | The Phoenix Throne | Metalcore | Victory | |
| April 4 | Dog Fashion Disco | Adultery | | Rotten Records | |
| April 4 | Jorn | The Duke | Hard rock, heavy metal | AFM, Candlelight | |
| April 4 | Magneta Lane | Dancing with Daggers | Indie rock, pop-punk | Paper Bag | |
| April 4 | Needtobreathe | Daylight | Alternative rock, Christian rock, Southern rock | Atlantic, Sparrow, Lava | |
| April 4 | Pink | I'm Not Dead | Pop | LaFace | |
| April 4 | Rascal Flatts | Me and My Gang | Country | Lyric Street | |
| April 10 | AFX | Chosen Lords | Acid techno, IDM | Rephlex | |
| April 10 | Live | Songs from Black Mountain | Alternative rock, post-grunge, hard rock | Epic | |
| April 10 | El Perro del Mar | El Perro del Mar | Pop | Hybris Records, Memphis Industries, The Control Group | |
| April 10 | Rihanna | A Girl like Me | Pop, reggae, R&B | Def Jam | |
| April 10 | The Streets | The Hardest Way to Make an Easy Living | Alternative hip hop, electronica | Locked On | |
| April 11 | The Black Angels | Passover | Psychedelic rock | Light in the Attic | |
| April 11 | Built to Spill | You in Reverse | Indie rock | Warner Bros. | |
| April 11 | Eagles of Death Metal | Death by Sexy | Garage rock, alternative rock, blues rock | Downtown | |
| April 11 | Edwin McCain | Lost in America | Alternative rock | Vanguard | |
| April 11 | Hit the Lights | This Is a Stick Up... Don't Make It a Murder | Pop-punk | Triple Crown | |
| April 11 | Josephine Foster | A Wolf in Sheep's Clothing | Folk, psychedelic folk | Locust | |
| April 11 | LL Cool J | Todd Smith | | Def Jam | |
| April 11 | Punchline | 37 Everywhere | Pop-punk | Fueled by Ramen | |
| April 11 | Rookie of the Year | The Goodnight Moon | Emo, indie rock | One Eleven | |
| April 11 | Sam Roberts | Chemical City | Rock, roots rock | Universal | |
| April 11 | Saves the Day | Sound the Alarm | Emo, pop-punk, power pop | Vagrant | |
| April 11 | Shonen Knife | Genki Shock! | Pop-punk | Glue Factory | |
| April 11 | Toby Keith | White Trash with Money | Country | Show Dog Nashville | |
| April 12 | Poets of the Fall | Carnival of Rust | Alternative rock, post-grunge | Insomniac | |
| April 17 | The Charlatans | Simpatico | Alternative rock, reggae rock | Sanctuary | |
| April 17 | Miss Kittin | A Bugged Out Mix | Dance | Rough Trade, Resist Music, System Recordings | |
| April 17 | The Zutons | Tired of Hanging Around | Northern soul, rock, indie pop | Deltasonic | |
| April 18 | Adrian Belew | Side Three | Rock | Sanctuary | |
| April 18 | Da BackWudz | Wood Work | Southern hip hop | Rowdy | |
| April 18 | Crime in Stereo | The Troubled Stateside | Melodic hardcore | Nitro | |
| April 18 | The Dresden Dolls | Yes, Virginia... | Dark cabaret | Roadrunner | |
| April 18 | Drive-By Truckers | A Blessing and a Curse | | New West | |
| April 18 | The Fiery Furnaces | Bitter Tea | Indie rock, experimental rock, electronic | Fat Possum, Rough Trade | |
| April 18 | Gram Rabbit | Cultivation | Indie rock, shoegaze, space rock | Stinky Records | |
| April 18 | Ian Gillan | Gillan's Inn | Hard rock, heavy metal | Immergent | |
| April 18 | The Lovely Feathers | Hind Hind Legs | Indie rock | Equator | |
| April 18 | Mat Kearney | Nothing Left to Lose | Rock, hip hop, acoustic | Aware, Columbia | |
| April 18 | Matthew Sweet and Susanna Hoffs | Under the Covers, Vol. 1 | Rock | Shout! Factory | |
| April 18 | NOFX | Wolves in Wolves' Clothing | Punk rock, melodic hardcore | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| April 18 | Richard Butler | Richard Butler | Indie rock | Koch | |
| April 18 | Spank Rock | YoYoYoYoYo | Hip hop, electronic | Big Dada | |
| April 19 | Christina Milian | So Amazin' | R&B, hip hop | Island, Mercury | |
| April 21 | OSI | Free | Progressive rock | Inside Out | |
| April 21 | Scar Symmetry | Pitch Black Progress | Melodic death metal | Nuclear Blast, Dream On Music | |
| April 24 | Arctic Monkeys | Who the Fuck Are Arctic Monkeys? | | Domino | |
| April 24 | Cult of Luna | Somewhere Along the Highway | Post-metal, sludge metal | Earache | |
| April 24 | Gnarls Barkley | St. Elsewhere | Neo soul, psychedelic rock, psychedelic soul | Downtown, Atlantic, Warner Bros. | |
| April 24 | Mark Knopfler and Emmylou Harris | All the Roadrunning | Country rock, Americana, country folk | Mercury, Universal, Warner Bros. | |
| April 24 | Therapy? | One Cure Fits All | Alternative rock, alternative metal | Spitfire | |
| April 25 | Bruce Springsteen | We Shall Overcome: The Seeger Sessions | Americana, folk | Columbia | |
| April 25 | The Coup | Pick a Bigger Weapon | Hip hop, rap rock, funk | Epitaph | |
| April 25 | Godsmack | IV | Alternative metal, hard rock, heavy metal | Universal Republic | |
| April 25 | Goo Goo Dolls | Let Love In | Alternative rock, pop rock | Warner Bros. | |
| April 25 | Rock Kills Kid | Are You Nervous? | Alternative rock, indie rock, electronic rock | Reprise, Fearless | |
| April 25 | Secret Machines | Ten Silver Drops | New prog, space rock | Reprise | |
| April 25 | Survivor | Reach | Rock | Frontiers | |
| April 25 | Taking Back Sunday | Louder Now | Alternative rock, emo pop, pop-punk | Warner Bros. | |
| April 25 | Tokyo Police Club | A Lesson in Crime | Indie rock | Paper Bag | |
| April 25 | Tommy Bolin | Whips and Roses | Rock | Steamhammer/SPV | |
| April 28 | Tool | 10,000 Days | Progressive metal, alternative metal | Tool Dissectional, Volcano | |

### May

List of albums released in May 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| May 1 | Snow Patrol | Eyes Open | Alternative rock, power pop, post-Britpop | Fiction, Polydor, A&M | |
| May 2 | Alejandro Escovedo | The Boxing Mirror | Alternative rock, avant-rock, chicano rock | Back Porch | |
| May 2 | Brian Littrell | Welcome Home | Pop, pop rock, Christian pop | Sony BMG, Reunion | |
| May 2 | Dysrhythmia | Barriers and Passages | Progressive rock, math rock | Relapse | |
| May 2 | Enslaved | Ruun | Progressive metal, black metal, Viking metal | Candlelight | |
| May 2 | Gary Moore | Old New Ballads Blues | Blues rock, hard rock | Eagle | |
| May 2 | Gomez | How We Operate | Rock | ATO | |
| May 2 | Jewel | Goodbye Alice in Wonderland | Pop, pop rock, folk | Atlantic, Warner Bros. | |
| May 2 | Ministry | Rio Grande Blood | Industrial metal, thrash metal | 13th Planet, Megaforce | |
| May 2 | Mobb Deep | Blood Money | Hip hop | Infamous, G-Unit, Interscope | |
| May 2 | Neil Young | Living with War | Folk metal | Reprise | |
| May 2 | Pearl Jam | Pearl Jam | Alternative rock, grunge, hard rock | J | |
| May 2 | Silent Civilian | Rebirth of the Temple | Metalcore | Mediaskare | |
| May 2 | Sunset Rubdown | Shut Up I Am Dreaming | Alternative rock | Absolutely Kosher | |
| May 2 | Thursday | A City by the Light Divided | Post-hardcore | Island | |
| May 5 | Red Hot Chili Peppers | Stadium Arcadium | Funk rock, alternative rock | Warner Bros. | |
| May 8 | Dirty Pretty Things | Waterloo to Anywhere | Garage rock revival, post-punk revival | Mercury, Vertigo | |
| May 8 | Hoobastank | Every Man for Himself | Post-grunge, alternative rock | Island | |
| May 8 | Jolie Holland | Springtime Can Kill You | Alternative country, folk | Anti- | |
| May 8 | Scott Walker | The Drift | Avant-garde, experimental, gothic rock | 4AD | |
| May 9 | The Black Heart Procession | The Spell | Indie rock | Touch and Go | |
| May 9 | Girl Talk | Night Ripper | Mashup | Illegal Art | |
| May 9 | The Isley Brothers | Baby Makin' Music | R&B | Def Soul Classics | |
| May 9 | Matmos | The Rose Has Teeth in the Mouth of a Beast | Electronic, musique concrète | Matador | |
| May 9 | Nick Lachey | What's Left of Me | Pop rock | Jive, Zomba | |
| May 9 | Paul Simon | Surprise | Soft rock | Warner Bros. | |
| May 9 | The Stills | Without Feathers | Indie rock | Vice | |
| May 10 | The Poodles | Metal Will Stand Tall | Hard rock, glam metal | Lionheart International | |
| May 11 | Venetian Snares | Cavalcade of Glee and Dadaist Happy Hardcore Pom Poms | | Planet Mu | |
| May 12 | Jolin Tsai | Dancing Diva | Pop | EMI, Mars | |
| May 13 | You Am I | Convicts | Rock | Virgin | |
| May 15 | Burial | Burial | Dubstep, UK garage, ambient | Hyperdub | |
| May 15 | Phoenix | It's Never Been Like That | Indie pop, garage rock, yacht rock | EMI, Astralwerks, Arts & Crafts | |
| May 16 | Booka Shade | Movements | Electronic, tech house, downtempo | Get Physical Music | |
| May 16 | Cam'ron | Killa Season | Hip hop | Diplomat, Asylum, Atlantic | |
| May 16 | E.S.G. | Screwed Up Movement | Southern rap | Sure Shot Recordings | |
| May 16 | Ignite | Our Darkest Days | Melodic hardcore | Abacus | |
| May 16 | Mason Jennings | Boneclouds | Folk | Glacial Pace | |
| May 16 | The Raconteurs | Broken Boy Soldiers | Alternative rock, garage rock, power pop | Third Man, XL, V2 | |
| May 16 | The Twilight Singers | Powder Burns | Indie rock, alternative rock | One Little Indian | |
| May 19 | Anjani | Blue Alert | Jazz | Columbia | |
| May 19 | Vetiver | To Find Me Gone | Folk rock | Dicristina Stair Builders, FatCat | |
| May 21 | Gotye | Like Drawing Blood | Art pop, indie rock, downtempo | Creative Vibes | |
| May 22 | Hot Chip | The Warning | Electropop, synth-pop | EMI, Astralwerks, DFA | |
| May 22 | Pet Shop Boys | Fundamental | Synth-pop, electronica, disco | Parlophone, Rhino | |
| May 23 | Angels & Airwaves | We Don't Need to Whisper | Stadium rock, pop rock | Geffen | |
| May 23 | Astronautalis | The Mighty Ocean & Nine Dark Theaters | Hip hop | Fighting Records | |
| May 23 | The Classic Crime | Albatross | Alternative rock, pop-punk, indie rock | Tooth & Nail | |
| May 23 | Current 93 | Black Ships Ate the Sky | Neofolk | Durtro | |
| May 23 | Damone | Out Here All Night | Pop-punk, power pop, hard rock | Island | |
| May 23 | Def Leppard | Yeah! | Hard rock | Mercury, Island | |
| May 23 | Dixie Chicks | Taking the Long Way | Country, Americana | Open Wide, Columbia Nashville | |
| May 23 | House of Lords | World Upside Down | Hard rock, glam metal | Frontiers | |
| May 23 | Less Than Jake | In with the Out Crowd | Pop-punk, ska punk, pop rock | Sire | |
| May 23 | Michael Bolton | Bolton Swings Sinatra: The Second Time Around | Pop | Concord | |
| May 23 | Mission of Burma | The Obliterati | Post-punk, indie rock | Matador | |
| May 23 | Murder by Death | In Bocca al Lupo | | Tent Show | |
| May 23 | Osaka Popstar | Osaka Popstar and the American Legends of Punk | Punk rock | Misfits, Rykodisc | |
| May 23 | Rhonda Vincent | All American Bluegrass Girl | Country, bluegrass | Rounder | |
| May 23 | The Wreckers | Stand Still, Look Pretty | Country | Maverick, Warner Bros. Nashville | |
| May 23 | Yo Gotti | Back 2 da Basics | Hip hop | TVT | |
| May 26 | Luca Turilli | The Infinite Wonders of Creation | Symphonic power metal | Magic Circle Music, SPV | |
| May 29 | Boards of Canada | Trans Canada Highway | Electronic, ambient, IDM | Warp, music70 | |
| May 29 | Celtic Frost | Monotheist | Extreme metal, black metal, doom metal | Century Media | |
| May 29 | Herbert | Scale | Electronic | Studio !K7 | |
| May 29 | Orson | Bright Idea | Pop rock, indie rock | Mercury | |
| May 30 | Alien Ant Farm | Up in the Attic | Alternative metal, alternative rock, post-grunge | Universal | |
| May 30 | Amy Millan | Honey from the Tombs | Indie pop, alternative country, bluegrass | Arts & Crafts | |
| May 30 | George Thorogood & The Destroyers | The Hard Stuff | Boogie rock, blues rock | Eagle | |
| May 30 | Les Claypool | Of Whales and Woe | Experimental rock, progressive rock | Prawn Song | |
| May 30 | Peeping Tom | Peeping Tom | Rock, experimental pop, trip hop | Ipecac | |
| May 30 | The Sound of Animals Fighting | Lover, the Lord Has Left Us... | Experimental rock, art rock, ambient | Equal Vision | |

### June

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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| June 5 | The Feeling | Twelve Stops and Home | Power pop, soft rock | Island, Cherrytree Records | |
| June 5 | Frightened Rabbit | Sing the Greys | Indie rock | Hits the Fan, FatCat | |
| June 5 | Oakenfold | A Lively Mind | Electronica, house, trance | Maverick, Perfecto | |
| June 5 | Primal Scream | Riot City Blues | Garage rock, blues rock, roots rock | Columbia | |
| June 6 | AFI | Decemberunderground | Alternative rock, post-hardcore, emo | Interscope | |
| June 6 | Alexi Murdoch | Time Without Consequence | Indie folk, folk rock, contemporary folk | Zero Summer Records | |
| June 6 | As Blood Runs Black | Allegiance | Deathcore, melodic death metal | Mediaskare | |
| June 6 | The Bouncing Souls | The Gold Record | Punk rock, pop-punk, melodic hardcore | Epitaph | |
| June 6 | Camera Obscura | Let's Get Out of This Country | Indie pop, twee pop, baroque pop | Elefant, Merge | |
| June 6 | Cheap Trick | Rockford | Rock, hard rock, power pop | Big3 Records | |
| June 6 | Cracker | Greenland | Alternative rock | Cooking Vinyl | |
| June 6 | Decyfer Down | End of Grey | Christian rock, hard rock, alternative metal | INO | |
| June 6 | Donavon Frankenreiter | Move by Yourself | Rock | Lost Highway | |
| June 6 | Elvis Costello & Allen Toussaint | The River in Reverse | R&B, jazz, soul | Verve Forecast | |
| June 6 | Frank Sinatra Jr. | That Face! | Jazz | Rhino | |
| June 6 | Head Automatica | Popaganda | Power pop | Warner Bros. | |
| June 6 | Hed PE | Back 2 Base X | Nu metal, rap metal, punk rock | Suburban Noize | |
| June 6 | The Hush Sound | Like Vines | Alternative rock, indie rock | Decaydance, Fueled by Ramen | |
| June 6 | Ice Cube | Laugh Now, Cry Later | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, political hip hop | Lench Mob, Virgin, EMI | |
| June 6 | LeAnn Rimes | Whatever We Wanna | Pop rock, rock | Asylum-Curb, London | |
| June 6 | The New Cars | It's Alive! | New wave, pop rock | Eleven Seven | |
| June 6 | Patent Pending | Save Each Other, the Whales Are Doing Fine | Pop-punk | We Put Out | |
| June 6 | Psapp | The Only Thing I Ever Wanted | Electronica | Domino | |
| June 6 | Red | End of Silence | Christian rock | Essential, Sony BMG | |
| June 6 | Shawnna | Block Music | Dirty rap, R&B | Disturbing tha Peace, Def Jam | |
| June 6 | Smoosh | Free to Stay | Indie rock, pop | Barsuk | |
| June 6 | Various artists | Cars: The Soundtrack | Pop, blues, country | Walt Disney | |
| June 6 | Various artists | Strummin' with the Devil: The Southern Side of Van Halen | Bluegrass, country rock, blues rock | CMH | |
| June 6 | The Wailin' Jennys | Firecracker | Folk | Festival | |
| June 6 | Yung Joc | New Joc City | Southern hip hop | Bad Boy South, Block, Atlantic | |
| June 7 | Nelly Furtado | Loose | Pop | Interscope, Mosley | |
| June 9 | Glenn Hughes | Music for the Divine | Funk rock, blue-eyed soul, hard rock | Frontiers Music | |
| June 9 | Luca Turilli's Dreamquest | Lost Horizons | | | |
| June 10 | 36 Crazyfists | Rest Inside the Flames | Metalcore, post-hardcore, alternative metal | DRT, Roadrunner | |
| June 12 | Keane | Under the Iron Sea | Alternative rock, pop rock, synth-pop | Island | |
| June 12 | Sucioperro | Random Acts of Intimacy | | Captains of Industry | |
| June 13 | Allison Moorer | Getting Somewhere | Country, pop | Sugar Hill | |
| June 13 | Between the Buried and Me | The Anatomy Of | | Victory | |
| June 13 | Billy Joel | 12 Gardens Live | Rock | Columbia | |
| June 13 | Blaine Larsen | Rockin' You Tonight | Country | BNA, Giantslayer Records | |
| June 13 | Bomb the Music Industry! | Goodbye Cool World! | Ska punk | Quote Unquote | |
| June 13 | Busta Rhymes | The Big Bang | East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop | Aftermath, Flipmode, Interscope | |
| June 13 | Dave Burrell and Billy Martin | Consequences | Jazz, avant-garde | Amulet Records | |
| June 13 | David Bazan | Fewer Moving Parts | Indie rock | Barsuk | |
| June 13 | Joan Jett & the Blackhearts | Sinner | Hard rock, alternative rock | Blackheart | |
| June 13 | Joshua Radin | We Were Here | Acoustic, folk rock | Columbia | |
| June 13 | The Reyes Brothers (Mellow Man Ace and Sen Dog) | Ghetto Therapy | Hip hop | Latin Thug Entertainment | |
| June 13 | Regina Spektor | Begin to Hope | Anti-folk, indie pop, chamber pop | Sire | |
| June 13 | Sonic Youth | Rather Ripped | Alternative rock | Geffen | |
| June 13 | Three Days Grace | One-X | Alternative rock, alternative metal, post-grunge | Jive | |
| June 14 | Nouvelle Vague | Bande à Part | Easy listening, lounge, bossa nova | Peacefrog | |
| June 14 | Hikaru Utada | Ultra Blue | J-pop, art pop, electronica | EMI Music Japan | |
| June 16 | Metal Church | A Light in the Dark | Heavy metal, thrash metal | SPV/Steamhammer | |
| June 17 | The Butterfly Effect | Imago | Progressive rock, post-grunge, hard rock | Modern Records, Village Roadshow | |
| June 19 | The Automatic | Not Accepted Anywhere | Indie rock, post-punk revival, alternative rock | B-Unique, Polydor, Columbia | |
| June 19 | The Divine Comedy | Victory for the Comic Muse | Orchestral pop | Parlophone | |
| June 19 | Gorgoroth | Ad Majorem Sathanas Gloriam | Black metal | Regain, Candlelight | |
| June 20 | Brightblack Morning Light | Brightblack Morning Light | Dream pop | Matador | |
| June 20 | Cute Is What We Aim For | The Same Old Blood Rush with a New Touch | Pop-punk, power pop, emo pop | Fueled by Ramen | |
| June 20 | Donell Jones | Journey of a Gemini | | LaFace | |
| June 20 | Field Mob | Light Poles and Pine Trees | Hip hop | Disturbing tha Peace, Geffen | |
| June 20 | Frank Black | Fast Man Raider Man | Americana, alternative country, country soul | Back Porch, Cooking Vinyl | |
| June 20 | Front Line Assembly | Artificial Soldier | Industrial music, electro-industrial, drum and bass | Metropolis | |
| June 20 | Guster | Ganging Up on the Sun | Alternative rock | Reprise | |
| June 20 | Smokey Robinson | Timeless Love | Funk, soul, pop | New Door Records | |
| June 20 | Underoath | Define the Great Line | Metalcore, post-hardcore, emo | Tooth & Nail | |
| June 26 | Hammers of Misfortune | The Locust Years | Progressive metal | Cruz del Sur Music | |
| June 26 | Lostprophets | Liberation Transmission | Alternative rock, pop-punk, emo | Visible Noise, Columbia | |
| June 27 | Billy Talent | Billy Talent II | Alternative rock, punk rock, post-hardcore | Atlantic | |
| June 27 | Catch 22 | Permanent Revolution | Ska punk, third-wave ska, melodic hardcore | Victory | |
| June 27 | Cellador | Enter Deception | Power metal | Metal Blade | |
| June 27 | Dashboard Confessional | Dusk and Summer | Arena rock, pop rock, emo | Vagrant | |
| June 27 | Tha Dogg Pound | Cali Iz Active | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, G-funk | Doggy Style, Koch | |
| June 27 | Dr. Octagon | The Return of Dr. Octagon | Alternative hip hop, underground hip hop | OCD International | |
| June 27 | India Arie | Testimony: Vol. 1, Life & Relationship | R&B | Motown | |
| June 27 | Julie Roberts | Men & Mascara | Country | Mercury Nashville | |
| June 27 | Michael Franks | Rendezvous in Rio | Smooth jazz | Koch | |
| June 27 | Warrant | Born Again | Hard rock, glam metal | Deadline, Cleopatra | |
| June 28 | Puffy AmiYumi | Splurge | Pop, rock | Ki/oon, Tofu | |

## Third quarter
### July

List of albums released in July 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| July 2 | Ziggy Marley | Love Is My Religion | Reggae | Tuff Gong Worldwide, Cooking Vinyl | |
| July 3 | Muse | Black Holes and Revelations | Alternative rock, progressive rock, space rock | Warner Bros., Helium-3 | |
| July 4 | Johnny Cash | American V: A Hundred Highways | Folk, folk blues, country | American | |
| July 4 | Rise Against | The Sufferer & the Witness | Melodic hardcore, punk rock | Geffen | |
| July 5 | Andrew W.K. | Close Calls with Brick Walls | Hard rock | Universal | |
| July 6 | TV on the Radio | Return to Cookie Mountain | Art rock, electropunk, experimental | 4AD, Interscope, Touch and Go | |
| July 7 | Peaches | Impeach My Bush | Electronic, glam rock | XL | |
| July 10 | Thom Yorke | The Eraser | Indie electronic, experimental rock | XL | |
| July 11 | All That Remains | The Fall of Ideals | Melodic metalcore | Prosthetic, Razor & Tie | |
| July 11 | Benevento/Russo Duo | Play Pause Stop | Acid jazz, rock | Butter Problems | |
| July 11 | Butch Walker | The Rise and Fall of Butch Walker and the Let's-Go-Out-Tonites | Alternative rock, pop rock | Epic | |
| July 11 | Cattle Decapitation | Karma.Bloody.Karma | Deathgrind | Metal Blade | |
| July 11 | The Early November | The Mother, the Mechanic, and the Path | Emo, indie rock, acoustic | Drive-Thru | |
| July 11 | The Format | Dog Problems | Indie pop, indie rock, power pop | The Vanity Label | |
| July 11 | Phish | Phish: Live in Brooklyn | Rock | JEMP | |
| July 11 | Pimp C | Pimpalation | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Rap-A-Lot, Asylum, Atlantic | |
| July 11 | Rhymefest | Blue Collar | Hip hop | J, Allido | |
| July 11 | Seether | One Cold Night | Post-grunge, acoustic, alternative rock | Wind-up | |
| July 11 | Soul Asylum | The Silver Lining | Alternative rock | Legacy | |
| July 11 | Strapping Young Lad | The New Black | Extreme metal, industrial metal, progressive metal | Century Media | |
| July 11 | Valient Thorr | Legend of the World | Psychedelic rock, stoner rock, hard rock | Volcom | |
| July 13 | Lily Allen | Alright, Still | Pop, reggae, R&B | Regal | |
| July 15 | Youth Group | Casino Twilight Dogs | Indie rock | Ivy League | |
| July 17 | Billy Ray Cyrus | Wanna Be Your Joe | Country | New Door Records, UM$^e$ | |
| July 17 | Funkoars | The Greatest Hits | Hip hop | Obese | |
| July 17 | Paolo Nutini | These Streets | Pop rock | Atlantic | |
| July 17 | The Pipettes | We Are the Pipettes | Indie pop | Memphis Industries, Cherrytree Records | |
| July 17 | Razorlight | Razorlight | Indie rock, post-punk revival | Mercury, Vertigo | |
| July 18 | Black Stone Cherry | Black Stone Cherry | Hard rock, heavy metal, Southern rock | Roadrunner | |
| July 18 | Boot Camp Clik | The Last Stand | East Coast hip hop, hardcore hip hop, underground hip hop | Duck Down Music | |
| July 18 | Eighteen Visions | Eighteen Visions | Heavy metal, hardcore punk | Epic, Trustkill | |
| July 18 | Eric Church | Sinners Like Me | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| July 18 | Helmet | Monochrome | Alternative metal | Warcon | |
| July 18 | Los Lonely Boys | Sacred | Chicano rock, roots rock, Tex-Mex | Epic | |
| July 18 | N.O.R.E. | N.O.R.E. y la Familia...Ya Tú Sabe | Reggaeton, East Coast hip hop | Roc-La-Familia, Island Def Jam | |
| July 18 | The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus | Don't You Fake It | Post-hardcore, emo, pop-punk | Virgin | |
| July 18 | Rodney Atkins | If You're Going Through Hell | Country | Curb | |
| July 20 | Lemon Demon | Dinosaurchestra | Pop | Needlejuice | |
| July 21 | Bearfoot | Follow Me | Bluegrass, Americana | Glacier Records | |
| July 21 | Chrome Division | Doomsday Rock 'n Roll | Biker metal, Hard rock | Nuclear Blast | |
| July 24 | James Dean Bradfield | The Great Western | Rock, power pop | Columbia | |
| July 24 | Venus Hum | The Colors in the Wheel | Electronic, pop | Nettwerk, Mono-Fi Records | |
| July 25 | Edie Brickell & New Bohemians | Stranger Things | Alternative rock, folk rock, Southern rock | Fantasy, Brick Elephant Music | |
| July 25 | Gym Class Heroes | As Cruel as School Children | Alternative rock, alternative hip hop, rap rock | Fueled by Ramen, Atlantic | |
| July 25 | Jurassic 5 | Feedback | Hip hop | Interscope | |
| July 25 | Landon Pigg | LP | Rock, Indie pop | RCA | |
| July 25 | LeToya | LeToya | | Capitol | |
| July 25 | Linda Ronstadt with Ann Savoy | Adieu False Heart | Folk rock, Cajun, acoustic | Vanguard | |
| July 25 | The Long Winters | Putting the Days to Bed | Indie rock | Barsuk | |
| July 25 | Midlake | The Trials of Van Occupanther | Progressive folk | Bella Union | |
| July 25 | New York Dolls | One Day It Will Please Us to Remember Even This | Rock, rock and roll | Roadrunner | |
| July 25 | Pharrell | In My Mind | Hip hop, R&B | Star Trak, Interscope, Virgin | |
| July 25 | Sammy Hagar & The Waboritas | Livin' It Up! | Rock | Cabo Wabo Music | |
| July 25 | Silversun Pickups | Carnavas | Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk revival | Dangerbird | |
| July 25 | Tom Petty | Highway Companion | Heartland rock | Warner Bros., American | |
| July 25 | Voivod | Katorz | Heavy metal | The End, Nuclear Blast, Victor | |
| July 28 | Obie Trice | Second Round's on Me | Hip hop | Shady, Interscope | |
| July 31 | Duels | The Bright Lights and What I Should Have Learned | Glam pop | Nude | |

### August

List of albums released in August 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| August 1 | DMX | Year of the Dog... Again | Hardcore hip hop, East Coast hip hop, gangsta rap | Ruff Ryders, Sony Urban, Columbia | |
| August 1 | Five for Fighting | Two Lights | Alternative rock, soft rock | Aware | |
| August 1 | G. Love | Lemonade | | Brushfire | |
| August 1 | Jeannie Ortega | No Place Like BKLYN | Hip hop, R&B, pop | Hollywood | |
| August 1 | The Pink Spiders | Teenage Graffiti | Pop-punk, dance-punk, indie rock | Geffen | |
| August 1 | Powerman 5000 | Destroy What You Enjoy | Punk rock | DRT | |
| August 1 | Showbread | Age of Reptiles | Electronic rock, hard rock, pop rock | Tooth & Nail | |
| August 1 | Stone Sour | Come What(ever) May | Alternative metal, post-grunge, hard rock | Roadrunner | |
| August 8 | Agalloch | Ashes Against the Grain | Post-metal, folk metal, black metal | The End | |
| August 8 | Ani DiFranco | Reprieve | Indie rock, folk rock | Righteous Babe | |
| August 8 | Breaking Benjamin | Phobia | Alternative metal, post-grunge, hard rock | Hollywood | |
| August 8 | Cassie | Cassie | R&B, pop, hip hop | NextSelection, Bad Boy, Atlantic | |
| August 8 | Comets on Fire | Avatar | Psychedelic rock, indie rock | Sub Pop | |
| August 8 | Daughters | Hell Songs | Mathcore, noise rock | Hydra Head | |
| August 8 | Gatsbys American Dream | Gatsbys American Dream | Progressive rock, indie rock, pop-punk | Fearless | |
| August 8 | Gin Blossoms | Major Lodge Victory | Alternative rock, power pop | Hybrid Recordings | |
| August 8 | Have Heart | The Things We Carry | Hardcore punk, youth crew | Bridge 9 | |
| August 8 | Heartless Bastards | All This Time | Blues rock | Fat Possum | |
| August 8 | hellogoodbye | Zombies! Aliens! Vampires! Dinosaurs! | Emo pop, pop-punk, pop | Drive-Thru | |
| August 8 | Jonas Brothers | It's About Time | Pop rock, pop-punk | Columbia, INO, Daylight | |
| August 8 | Matthew Friedberger | Winter Women and Holy Ghost Language School | Indie rock | 859 Recordings, Thrill Jockey | |
| August 8 | Meg & Dia | Something Real | Indie rock, emo pop | Doghouse Records, Warner Bros. | |
| August 8 | Nina Gordon | Bleeding Heart Graffiti | Rock | Warner Bros. | |
| August 8 | Rick Ross | Port of Miami | Hip hop | Slip-n-Slide, Def Jam, Poe Boy | |
| August 8 | Slayer | Christ Illusion | Thrash metal | American | |
| August 8 | Todd Snider | The Devil You Know | | New Door Records | |
| August 8 | Steve Holy | Brand New Girlfriend | Country | Curb | |
| August 8 | Unearth | III: In the Eyes of Fire | Metalcore | Metal Blade | |
| August 9 | Christina Aguilera | Back to Basics | Pop, R&B | RCA | |
| August 14 | Paris Hilton | Paris | Pop | Warner Bros. | |
| August 14 | Peter Bjorn and John | Writer's Block | Indie pop, indie rock | Wichita, V2, Startime | |
| August 14 | Stacie Orrico | Beautiful Awakening | R&B, pop | Virgin | |
| August 15 | Cham | Ghetto Story | Dancehall, reggae fusion | Roadhouse, Asylum, Atlantic | |
| August 15 | Cherish | Unappreciated | R&B | Sho'nuff Records, Capitol | |
| August 15 | Leigh Nash | Blue on Blue | Pop | One Son | |
| August 15 | Lyfe Jennings | The Phoenix | R&B, soul, gospel | Sony Urban Music, Columbia | |
| August 15 | The Panic Channel | One | Alternative rock, post-hardcore | Capitol | |
| August 15 | Trace Adkins | Dangerous Man | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| August 21 | The Mountain Goats | Get Lonely | Folk rock, indie rock | 4AD | |
| August 21 | Walls of Jericho | With Devils Amongst Us All | Metalcore, thrash metal | Trustkill | |
| August 22 | Against Me! | Americans Abroad!!! Against Me!!! Live in London!!! | Punk rock | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| August 22 | Alexisonfire | Crisis | Post-hardcore, melodic hardcore | Distort Entertainment, Vagrant | |
| August 22 | Boys Like Girls | Boys Like Girls | Pop-punk, pop rock, power pop | Columbia, Red | |
| August 22 | Cursive | Happy Hollow | Indie rock | Saddle Creek | |
| August 22 | Danity Kane | Danity Kane | | Bad Boy, Atlantic | |
| August 22 | Deicide | The Stench of Redemption | Death metal | Earache | |
| August 22 | The Devil Wears Prada | Dear Love: A Beautiful Discord | Metalcore, Christian metal | Rise | |
| August 22 | Gov't Mule | High & Mighty | | ATO | |
| August 22 | J Dilla | The Shining | Hip hop | BBE | |
| August 22 | Junior Boys | So This Is Goodbye | Synth-pop | Domino | |
| August 22 | Kelis | Kelis Was Here | R&B | Jive | |
| August 22 | Lamb of God | Sacrament | Groove metal, thrash metal, melodic death metal | Epic, Prosthetic | |
| August 22 | Layzie Bone | The New Revolution | | B-Dub Records | |
| August 22 | Maná | Amar es Combatir | Latin rock, pop rock, dub | WEA Latina | |
| August 22 | Nomeansno | All Roads Lead to Ausfahrt | Punk rock | Wrong Records, AntAcidAudio, Southern | |
| August 22 | Outkast | Idlewild | Hip hop, swing, Delta blues | LaFace, Jive | |
| August 22 | Pat Green | Cannonball | Country | BNA | |
| August 22 | The Thermals | The Body, the Blood, the Machine | Indie rock, post-punk revival | Sub Pop | |
| August 25 | Iron Maiden | A Matter of Life and Death | Heavy metal | EMI | |
| August 26 | Jessica Simpson | A Public Affair | Pop, R&B | Epic | |
| August 28 | Charlotte Gainsbourg | 5:55 | Indie pop, dream pop | Because Music, Atlantic, Vice | |
| August 28 | Kasabian | Empire | Psychedelic rock, electronic rock, glam rock | RCA | |
| August 29 | 5th Projekt | Circadian | Neo-classical romanticism, nu gaze, progressive rock | Organik Rekords | |
| August 29 | Beenie Man | Undisputed | Dancehall, reggae fusion | Virgin | |
| August 29 | Bob Dylan | Modern Times | Folk rock, blues, rockabilly | Columbia | |
| August 29 | BT | This Binary Universe | Ambient, electronica, glitch | Binary Acoustics, DTS Entertainment | |
| August 29 | Chantal Kreviazuk | Ghost Stories | | Sony BMG Canada | |
| August 29 | Dream Theater | Score – 20th Anniversary World Tour | Symphonic metal, progressive metal, progressive rock | Rhino Entertainment | |
| August 29 | Gwar | Beyond Hell | Thrash metal, comedy rock | DRT | |
| August 29 | Hatebreed | Supremacy | Metalcore | Roadrunner | |
| August 29 | Jin | 100 Grand Jin | | Draft Records | |
| August 29 | Kenn Starr | Starr Status | Hip hop | Halftooth Records | |
| August 29 | Motörhead | Kiss of Death | Heavy metal | Steamhammer | |
| August 29 | Pete Yorn | Nightcrawler | Rock | Columbia | |
| August 29 | Ray LaMontagne | Till the Sun Turns Black | Folk, folk rock | RCA, 14th Floor | |
| August 29 | The Roots | Game Theory | Alternative hip hop, experimental hip hop | Def Jam | |
| August 29 | Tanya Stephens | Rebelution | Dancehall, reggae, pop rock | VP, Tarantula | |
| August 29 | Too $hort | Blow the Whistle | Hip hop, crunk, hyphy | Jive | |
| August 29 | Young Dro | Best Thang Smokin' | Hip hop | Grand Hustle, Atlantic | |
| August 31 | Beyoncé | B'Day | R&B, funk | Columbia, Music World Entertainment, Sony Urban | |

### September

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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| September 1 | Blind Guardian | A Twist in the Myth | Power metal, progressive metal, symphonic metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| September 1 | Jon Oliva's Pain | Maniacal Renderings | Heavy metal | AFM | |
| September 4 | Audioslave | Revelations | Hard rock, alternative rock, alternative metal | Epic, Interscope | |
| September 4 | Basement Jaxx | Crazy Itch Radio | House | XL, Astralwerks, Interscope | |
| September 4 | Hybrid | I Choose Noise | Electronic, trip hop, breakbeat | Distinct'ive Breaks | |
| September 5 | C-Murder | The Tru Story: Continued | Gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | Koch | |
| September 5 | Grizzly Bear | Yellow House | Indie folk, psychedelic folk | Warp | |
| September 5 | Jars of Clay | Good Monsters | Alternative rock | Essential | |
| September 5 | Wiz Khalifa | Show and Prove | East Coast hip hop | Rostrum | |
| September 8 | Justin Timberlake | FutureSex/LoveSounds | R&B, dance, art pop | Jive, Zomba | |
| September 8 | Kim Wilde | Never Say Never | Pop rock | EMI | |
| September 11 | The Fratellis | Costello Music | Indie rock, garage rock revival | Fallout, Drop the Gun Recordings | |
| September 11 | Jakob | Solace | Post-rock, post-metal | Midium Records, Graveface Records | |
| September 11 | The Matches | Decomposer | Art punk, indie rock, pop-punk | Epitaph | |
| September 11 | Stephanie McIntosh | Tightrope | Pop | Universal | |
| September 12 | Barenaked Ladies | Barenaked Ladies Are Me | Alternative rock | Desperation Records | |
| September 12 | The Black Keys | Magic Potion | Garage rock, blues rock | Nonesuch | |
| September 12 | Black Label Society | Shot to Hell | Heavy metal, Southern metal, hard rock | Roadrunner | |
| September 12 | Bob Seger | Face the Promise | Country rock | Capitol | |
| September 12 | Chris Thile | How to Grow a Woman from the Ground | Bluegrass, progressive bluegrass | Sugar Hill | |
| September 12 | Daz Dillinger | So So Gangsta | West Coast hip hop | So So Def, Virgin | |
| September 12 | Destroy the Runner | Saints | Metalcore | Solid State | |
| September 12 | Dr. Dog | Takers and Leavers | Psychedelic rock, indie rock | Park the Van | |
| September 12 | Electric Six | Switzerland | Rock | Metropolis | |
| September 12 | Everclear | Welcome to the Drama Club | Rock | Eleven Seven Music | |
| September 12 | Ike Turner | Risin' with the Blues | Blues | Zoho Roots | |
| September 12 | John Mayer | Continuum | Pop rock, blue-eyed soul, soft rock | Aware, Columbia | |
| September 12 | Lionel Richie | Coming Home | R&B | Island Def Jam | |
| September 12 | Madeleine Peyroux | Half the Perfect World | Vocal jazz | Rounder, Universal | |
| September 12 | The Mars Volta | Amputechture | Progressive rock, experimental rock, psychedelic rock | Gold Standard Laboratories, Universal | |
| September 12 | Mastodon | Blood Mountain | Progressive metal, sludge metal | Warner Bros., Reprise | |
| September 12 | Norma Jean | Redeemer | Metalcore, post-hardcore | Solid State, Century, Abacus | |
| September 12 | Ornette Coleman | Sound Grammar | Free jazz | Sound Grammar | |
| September 12 | Papa Roach | The Paramour Sessions | Nu metal, glam metal, rap metal | Geffen | |
| September 12 | Peter Frampton | Fingerprints | Instrumental rock, blues rock, jazz rock | A&M, Polydor | |
| September 12 | Plain White T's | Every Second Counts | Pop-punk, pop rock, alternative rock | Hollywood, Fearless | |
| September 12 | The Rapture | Pieces of the People We Love | Dance-punk, post-punk revival, alternative dance | Universal Motown, Vertigo | |
| September 12 | Robert Cray | Live from Across the Pond | Blues | Vanguard | |
| September 12 | Shawn Colvin | These Four Walls | | Nonesuch | |
| September 12 | Sugarcult | Lights Out | Alternative rock, pop-punk | Fearless, V2 | |
| September 12 | Swollen Members | Black Magic | Hip hop | Battleaxe | |
| September 12 | Teddybears | Soft Machine | Electronic rock, alternative rock, electropop | Big Beat, Columbia | |
| September 12 | Veruca Salt | IV | Alternative rock, indie rock | Sympathy for the Record Industry | |
| September 12 | Xasthur | Subliminal Genocide | Black metal | Hydra Head, Battle Kommand Records | |
| September 12 | Yo La Tengo | I Am Not Afraid of You and I Will Beat Your Ass | Indie rock, avant-pop | Matador | |
| September 13 | Fergie | The Dutchess | Pop, hip hop, R&B | A&M | |
| September 15 | Krokus | Hellraiser | | AFM | |
| September 15 | Napalm Death | Smear Campaign | Grindcore, death metal | Century Media | |
| September 15 | Scissor Sisters | Ta-Dah | Glam rock, pop rock | Polydor, Universal Motown | |
| September 18 | Elton John | The Captain & the Kid | Rock | Interscope, Mercury | |
| September 18 | Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly | The Chronicles of a Bohemian Teenager | Folktronica, folk rock, indie | Atlantic | |
| September 18 | Level 42 | Retroglide | Rock | W14 Music | |
| September 18 | Paulina Rubio | Ananda | Latin, pop rock, dance | Universal Latino | |
| September 18 | WarCry | La Quinta Esencia | Power metal | Jaus, Avispa Music | |
| September 19 | Ben Kweller | Ben Kweller | Indie rock | ATO | |
| September 19 | Bone Thugs-n-Harmony | Thug Stories | Hip hop, gangsta rap, R&B | Mo Thugs Records, ThugLine, Koch | |
| September 19 | Bonnie 'Prince' Billy | The Letting Go | Alternative country, folk rock, indie rock | Drag City | |
| September 19 | Chingy | Hoodstar | Hip hop | Capitol | |
| September 19 | Clay Aiken | A Thousand Different Ways | Pop | RCA, 19 | |
| September 19 | Diana Krall | From This Moment On | Jazz | Verve | |
| September 19 | DJ Shadow | The Outsider | | Universal Motown, Island | |
| September 19 | Emily Haines & The Soft Skeleton | Knives Don't Have Your Back | Indie pop | Last Gang | |
| September 19 | Fear Before the March of Flames | The Always Open Mouth | Post-hardcore, experimental rock | Equal Vision | |
| September 19 | Indigo Girls | Despite Our Differences | Folk rock | Hollywood | |
| September 19 | Jedi Mind Tricks | Servants in Heaven, Kings in Hell | Underground hip hop | Babygrande | |
| September 19 | Jesse McCartney | Right Where You Want Me | Pop rock, pop | Hollywood | |
| September 19 | Jonny Lang | Turn Around | Gospel, blue-eyed soul, R&B | A&M | |
| September 19 | Joseph Arthur | Nuclear Daydream | Alternative rock | Lonely Astronaut | |
| September 19 | Kenny Chesney | Live: Live Those Songs Again | Country | BNA | |
| September 19 | Lupe Fiasco | Lupe Fiasco's Food & Liquor | Hip hop, conscious hip hop | 1st & 15th, Atlantic | |
| September 19 | Mushroomhead | Savior Sorrow | Alternative metal, industrial metal, nu metal | Megaforce | |
| September 19 | New Found Glory | Coming Home | Soft rock, pop-punk, indie pop | Geffen | |
| September 19 | Sloan | Never Hear the End of It | Rock, power pop | Sony BMG Canada, Yep Roc, Murderecords | |
| September 19 | Smash Mouth | Summer Girl | | Beautiful Bomb | |
| September 19 | Suffocation | Suffocation | Technical death metal | Relapse | |
| September 20 | Janet Jackson | 20 Y.O. | R&B, dance, hip hop | Virgin | |
| September 22 | Falconer | Northwind | Power metal | Metal Blade | |
| September 25 | Evanescence | The Open Door | Gothic rock, symphonic metal, industrial rock | Wind-up | |
| September 25 | John Lennon | The U.S. vs. John Lennon | Rock | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| September 25 | Larrikin Love | The Freedom Spark | Indie rock | Infectious Music | |
| September 25 | Paul McCartney | Ecce Cor Meum | Classical | EMI Classics | |
| September 25 | Rhapsody of Fire | Triumph or Agony | Symphonic power metal, neoclassical metal | SPV GmbH | |
| September 25 | Sparklehorse | Dreamt for Light Years in the Belly of a Mountain | Indie rock, alternative rock | Astralwerks, Caroline, Virgin | |
| September 25 | UFO | The Monkey Puzzle | Hard rock, heavy metal | SPV/Steamhammer | |
| September 25 | Wolf | The Black Flame | Heavy metal | Century Media | |
| September 26 | Alan Jackson | Like Red on a Rose | Country, soft rock | Arista Nashville | |
| September 26 | Aly & AJ | Acoustic Hearts of Winter | Christmas, folk-pop, pop rock | Hollywood | |
| September 26 | Amy Grant | Time Again... Amy Grant Live | Gospel | Word | |
| September 26 | Brian & Jenn Johnson | We Believe | Worship | contemporary Christian music | Bethel Music, Found Records, EMI, Kingsway Music | |
| September 26 | Chris Tomlin | See the Morning | Contemporary Christian music, worship | Sparrow, sixsteps | |
| September 26 | The Dear Hunter | Act I: The Lake South, the River North | Progressive rock, experimental rock, indie rock | Triple Crown | |
| September 26 | Escape the Fate | Dying Is Your Latest Fashion | Emo, post-hardcore, metalcore | Epitaph | |
| September 26 | Jerry Lee Lewis | Last Man Standing | Rock and roll, country, blues | Artists First, Shangri-La Music | |
| September 26 | The Lemonheads | The Lemonheads | Punk rock | Vagrant | |
| September 26 | Ludacris | Release Therapy | Hip hop | Disturbing tha Peace, Def Jam South | |
| September 26 | Mario Vazquez | Mario Vazquez | | Arista | |
| September 26 | mewithoutYou | Brother, Sister | Indie rock, experimental rock | Tooth & Nail, Burnt Toast | |
| September 26 | My Morning Jacket | Okonokos | Rock, psychedelic rock, country | ATO | |
| September 26 | Samiam | Whatever's Got You Down | Punk rock | Hopeless, Burning Heart | |
| September 26 | Saosin | Saosin | Post-hardcore, emo, alternative rock | Capitol | |
| September 26 | Tony Bennett | Duets: An American Classic | Traditional pop | Columbia | |
| September 26 | Vanessa Hudgens | V | Pop, R&B | Hollywood | |
| September 26 | "Weird Al" Yankovic | Straight Outta Lynwood | Comedy, parody | Volcano | |
| September 27 | The Killers | Sam's Town | Alternative rock, indie rock, post-punk revival | Island | |
| September 30 | Jet | Shine On | Hard rock, alternative rock | Atlantic | |

## Fourth quarter
### October

List of albums released in October 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| October 2 | Clark | Body Riddle | IDM | Warp | |
| October 2 | The Datsuns | Smoke & Mirrors | Hard rock, garage rock revival | V2 | |
| October 2 | Diana Ross | I Love You | R&B | EMI, Angel | |
| October 2 | Dover | Follow the City Lights | Electropop | Capitol-EMI | |
| October 2 | Panda | Amantes Sunt Amentes | Alternative rock, pop-punk, emo | Movic Records, Warner | |
| October 2 | Sean Lennon | Friendly Fire | Alternative rock | Parlophone, Capitol, EMI | |
| October 3 | Amos Lee | Supply and Demand | Folk rock, neo soul | Blue Note | |
| October 3 | Beach House | Beach House | Dream pop, indie pop, lo-fi | Carpark | |
| October 3 | Beck | The Information | Art pop, alternative rock, trip hop | Interscope | |
| October 3 | Brazil | The Philosophy of Velocity | | Immortal | |
| October 3 | Chris Young | Chris Young | Neotraditional country | Arista Nashville | |
| October 3 | The Decemberists | The Crane Wife | Indie rock, folk rock, progressive rock | Capitol, Rough Trade | |
| October 3 | George Strait | It Just Comes Natural | Honky-tonk | MCA Nashville | |
| October 3 | Hall & Oates | Home for Christmas | Rock, Christmas | U-Watch | |
| October 3 | He Is Legend | Suck Out the Poison | Hard rock, alternative metal, metalcore | Solid State, Century Media | |
| October 3 | The Hold Steady | Boys and Girls in America | Indie rock, rock | Vagrant | |
| October 3 | Lindsey Buckingham | Under the Skin | Rock | Reprise | |
| October 3 | Monica | The Makings of Me | R&B | J | |
| October 3 | Pillar | The Reckoning | Alternative metal, hard rock | Flicker | |
| October 3 | Planes Mistaken for Stars | Mercy | Post-hardcore, heavy metal, emo | Abacus | |
| October 3 | Robin Thicke | The Evolution of Robin Thicke | R&B, soul, funktronica | Star Trak, Interscope | |
| October 3 | Robyn Hitchcock & the Venus 3 | Olé! Tarantula | Alternative rock | Yep Roc | |
| October 3 | Skillet | Comatose | Alternative metal, Christian metal, Christian rock | Lava, Ardent, Atlantic | |
| October 3 | Sleepy Brown | Mr. Brown | Hip hop, R&B | Purple Ribbon, Virgin | |
| October 3 | South Park Mexican | When Devils Strike | Chicano rap, gangsta rap, chopped and screwed | Dope House | |
| October 3 | Spitalfield | Better than Knowing Where You Are | Alternative rock | Victory | |
| October 3 | Unk | Beat'n Down Yo Block! | Southern hip hop | Koch | |
| October 3 | The Visionaries | We Are the Ones (We've Been Waiting For) | | Up Above Records | |
| October 6 | Tim Finn | Imaginary Kingdom | Pop | Capitol | |
| October 9 | Albert Hammond Jr. | Yours to Keep | Indie rock, post-punk revival, garage rock | Rough Trade | |
| October 10 | 120 Days | 120 Days | | Smalltown Supersound, Vice | |
| October 10 | Bette Midler | Cool Yule | Christmas | Columbia | |
| October 10 | The Blood Brothers | Young Machetes | Post-hardcore | V2 | |
| October 10 | Califone | Roots & Crowns | Post-rock, folk, experimental | Thrill Jockey | |
| October 10 | Cobra Starship | While the City Sleeps, We Rule the Streets | Pop punk, electropunk, power pop | Fueled by Ramen, Decaydance | |
| October 10 | Cold War Kids | Robbers & Cowards | Indie rock, blues rock | Downtown, V2 | |
| October 10 | The Gothic Archies | The Tragic Treasury: Songs from A Series of Unfortunate Events | Indie pop, goth | Nonesuch | |
| October 10 | Heartland | I Loved Her First | Country | Lofton Creek | |
| October 10 | James Taylor | James Taylor at Christmas | Christmas | Columbia | |
| October 10 | Jay Reatard | Blood Visions | Garage rock, punk rock, garage punk | In the Red, Fat Possum | |
| October 10 | Jimmy Buffett | Take the Weather with You | Country | Mailboat, RCA | |
| October 10 | k-os | Atlantis: Hymns for Disco | Alternative hip hop, indie rock | EMI | |
| October 10 | Kenny Lattimore and Chanté Moore | Uncovered/Covered | R&B | LaFace, Verity, Sony BMG | |
| October 10 | Lloyd Banks | Rotten Apple | Hip hop, East Coast hip hop | G-Unit, Interscope | |
| October 10 | Melvins | (A) Senile Animal | Sludge metal, stoner rock | Ipecac | |
| October 10 | Rod Stewart | Still the Same... Great Rock Classics of Our Time | Rock | J | |
| October 10 | Rx Bandits | ...And the Battle Begun | Alternative rock, post-hardcore, experimental rock | Mash Down Babylon Records | |
| October 10 | Sammie | Sammie | Pop-rap, R&B | Rowdy | |
| October 10 | Senses Fail | Still Searching | Post-hardcore, emo, screamo | Vagrant | |
| October 10 | Sister Hazel | Absolutely | Southern rock | Adrenaline Records, Wandering Hazel Records | |
| October 10 | Sting | Songs from the Labyrinth | Classical, Renaissance | Deutsche Grammophon | |
| October 10 | Trivium | The Crusade | Thrash metal, progressive metal, speed metal | Roadrunner | |
| October 16 | Badly Drawn Boy | Born in the U.K. | | EMI, Twisted Nerve, Astralwerks | |
| October 16 | Fishbone | Still Stuck in Your Throat | Ska, punk rock, funk | Ter a Terre, Sound in Color | |
| October 16 | Tim Hecker | Harmony in Ultraviolet | Ambient, noise, drone | Kranky | |
| October 17 | Cradle of Filth | Thornography | Extreme metal | Roadrunner | |
| October 17 | Dierks Bentley | Long Trip Alone | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| October 17 | Glenn Danzig | Black Aria II | Classical, dark ambient | Evilive Records | |
| October 17 | Hi-Tek | Hi-Teknology²: The Chip | Hip hop | Babygrande | |
| October 17 | JoJo | The High Road | Pop, R&B | Da Family Entertainment, Blackground, Universal | |
| October 17 | Kevin Devine | Put Your Ghost to Rest | Indie rock, indie folk | Capitol, Procrastinate! Music Traitors | |
| October 17 | LCD Soundsystem | 45:33 | Progressive electronic, disco, funk | Nike+ Sport Music | |
| October 17 | Me First and the Gimme Gimmes | Love Their Country | Punk rock | Fat Wreck Chords | |
| October 17 | P. Diddy | Press Play | | Bad Boy, Atlantic | |
| October 17 | Ruben Studdard | The Return | R&B | J, 19 | |
| October 17 | Sarah McLachlan | Wintersong | Christmas | Nettwerk, Arista | |
| October 17 | The Tragically Hip | World Container | Alternative rock | Universal | |
| October 17 | Twisted Sister | A Twisted Christmas | Christmas, hard rock, heavy metal | Razor & Tie | |
| October 17 | Various artists | God's Country: George Jones and Friends | Country | Category 5 | |
| October 17 | Vince Gill | These Days | Country | MCA Nashville | |
| October 17 | Xzibit | Full Circle | Hip hop | Open Bar, Koch | |
| October 18 | HammerFall | Threshold | Power metal, heavy metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| October 20 | Eisbrecher | Antikörper | Industrial metal, Neue Deutsche Härte | AFM Records, Dancing Ferret Discs | |
| October 20 | Lucie Silvas | The Same Side | Pop | Mercury | |
| October 20 | Meat Loaf | Bat Out of Hell III: The Monster Is Loose | Hard rock, heavy metal, symphonic rock | Mercury, Virgin | |
| October 20 | Winger | IV | Hard rock, heavy metal, progressive metal | Frontiers | |
| October 21 | Sarah Blasko | What the Sea Wants, the Sea Will Have | Alternative | Dew Process | |
| October 23 | My Chemical Romance | The Black Parade | Alternative rock, emo, pop-punk | Reprise | |
| October 23 | Isobel Campbell | Milkwhite Sheets | Folk | V2 | |
| October 23 | The Ordinary Boys | How to Get Everything You Ever Wanted in Ten Easy Steps | | B-Unique, Polydor | |
| October 23 | Pet Shop Boys | Concrete | Pop | Parlophone | |
| October 23 | Robbie Williams | Rudebox | Dance | Chrysalis | |
| October 24 | The Blow | Paper Television | | K | |
| October 24 | Brian Setzer | 13 | | Surfdog | |
| October 24 | Converge | No Heroes | Metalcore, hardcore punk, post-hardcore | Epitaph | |
| October 24 | George Jones and Merle Haggard | Kickin' Out the Footlights...Again | Country | Bandit | |
| October 24 | Jibbs | Jibbs Featuring Jibbs | Hip hop | Geffen, Interscope | |
| October 24 | John Legend | Once Again | R&B, neo soul | GOOD, Sony Music | |
| October 24 | Johnny and the Moon | Johnny and the Moon | Folk | Kill Devil Hills Records | |
| October 24 | Montgomery Gentry | Some People Change | Country | Columbia Nashville | |
| October 24 | Paul Stanley | Live to Win | Hard rock, alternative metal | New Door | |
| October 24 | Shareefa | Point of No Return | R&B, hip hop | Disturbing tha Peace, Def Jam | |
| October 24 | Skid Row | Revolutions per Minute | Heavy metal | SPV/Steamhammer, Victor | |
| October 24 | Smile Empty Soul | Vultures | Alternative metal, post-grunge | Bieler Bros. | |
| October 24 | Sparta | Threes | Alternative rock, post-hardcore, indie rock | Hollywood, Anti- | |
| October 24 | Taylor Swift | Taylor Swift | Country | Big Machine | |
| October 24 | Various artists | Hannah Montana Soundtrack | Pop rock, teen pop, country pop | Walt Disney | |
| October 24 | The Walkmen | "Pussy Cats" Starring the Walkmen | Indie rock | Record Collection | |
| October 25 | Cornelius | Sensuous | Experimental pop | Warner Music Japan | |
| October 25 | Europe | Secret Society | Hard rock | Sanctuary | |
| October 27 | Amy Winehouse | Back to Black | Soul, rhythm and blues, R&B | Island | |
| October 27 | Tarot | Crows Fly Black | Heavy metal | King Foo Entertainment | |
| October 30 | Bring Me the Horizon | Count Your Blessings | Deathcore, melodic death metal, metalcore | Visible Noise, Earache | |
| October 30 | The Haunted | The Dead Eye | Thrash metal, melodic death metal, groove metal | Century Media | |
| October 30 | Thunder | Robert Johnson's Tombstone | Hard rock, heavy metal | STC Recordings | |
| October 30 | The Who | Endless Wire | Rock | Polydor, Universal Republic | |
| October 31 | Aimee Mann | One More Drifter in the Snow | Rock, Christmas | SuperEgo | |
| October 31 | Bad Brains | Live at CBGB 1982 | Hardcore punk, reggae | Reggae Lounge | |
| October 31 | Barry Manilow | The Greatest Songs of the Sixties | Easy listening, pop | Arista | |
| October 31 | Birdman & Lil Wayne | Like Father, Like Son | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Cash Money, Universal | |
| October 31 | Burden Brothers | Mercy | Hard rock | Kirtland | |
| October 31 | Copeland | Eat, Sleep, Repeat | Indie rock, alternative rock | The Militia Group, Columbia | |
| October 31 | Craig Morgan | Little Bit of Life | Country | Broken Bow | |
| October 31 | Cross Canadian Ragweed | Back to Tulsa – Live and Loud at Cain's Ballroom | Americana, alternative country, country rock | Universal South | |
| October 31 | Dead Poetic | Vices | Alternative rock, hard rock | Tooth & Nail | |
| October 31 | Deftones | Saturday Night Wrist | | Maverick | |
| October 31 | Flashlight Brown | Blue | Bubblegum, pop-punk, pop rock | Union 2112, Warner Canada, Hollywood | |
| October 31 | Flavor Flav | Flavor Flav | Hip hop | Draytown Records | |
| October 31 | Isis | In the Absence of Truth | Post-metal, progressive rock, experimental rock | Ipecac | |
| October 31 | Jeremy Camp | Beyond Measure | Contemporary Christian music | BEC | |
| October 31 | John Fogerty | The Long Road Home – In Concert | Roots rock, swamp rock, heartland rock | Fantasy | |
| October 31 | Kellie Pickler | Small Town Girl | Country | BNA, 19 | |
| October 31 | Kevin Federline | Playing with Fire | Hip hop | Federline Records, Reincarnate Music | |
| October 31 | Lady Sovereign | Public Warning | Grime, hip hop, electronica | Def Jam | |
| October 31 | Mickey Avalon | Mickey Avalon | Hip hop | MySpace | |
| October 31 | Nellie McKay | Pretty Little Head | Pop, rock | Hungry Mouse, SpinART, Rykodisc | |
| October 31 | Newsboys | Go | Christian rock, pop rock | Inpop | |
| October 31 | Pitbull | El Mariel | Hip hop, crunk, reggaeton | TVT | |
| October 31 | The Prize Fighter Inferno | My Brother's Blood Machine | Folktronica, folk, electronica | Equal Vision | |
| October 31 | Sunn O))) & Boris | Altar | Drone metal, experimental | Southern Lord, Inoxia | |
| October 31 | Willie Nelson | Songbird | Alternative country | Lost Highway | |

### November

List of albums released in November 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| November 1 | Jin | I Promise | East Coast hip hop | Crafty Plugz | |
| November 3 | Damien Rice | 9 | Folk rock | 14th Floor, Warner Bros. | |
| November 3 | I | Between Two Worlds | Heavy metal, black metal | Nuclear Blast | |
| November 6 | The Long Blondes | Someone to Drive You Home | Indie rock | Rough Trade | |
| November 6 | McFly | Motion in the Ocean | Pop-punk, sunshine pop | Island | |
| November 6 | yourcodenameis:milo | Print Is Dead Vol 1 | Rock | V2 | |
| November 7 | Bowling for Soup | The Great Burrito Extortion Case | Pop-punk, alternative rock | Jive, Zomba | |
| November 7 | Foo Fighters | Skin and Bones | Alternative rock, acoustic rock | RCA | |
| November 7 | Frank Sinatra | Sinatra: Vegas | Vocal jazz, traditional pop | Reprise | |
| November 7 | Jim Jones | Hustler's P.O.M.E. (Product of My Environment) | Hip hop | Diplomat, Koch | |
| November 7 | J. J. Cale & Eric Clapton | The Road to Escondido | Blues, blues rock, Tulsa sound | Duck Records, Reprise | |
| November 7 | Josh Groban | Awake | Operatic pop, classical, classical crossover | 143, Reprise | |
| November 7 | Keith Urban | Love, Pain & the Whole Crazy Thing | Country | Capitol Nashville | |
| November 7 | Michael W. Smith | Stand | | Reunion | |
| November 7 | Ricky Martin | MTV Unplugged | Latin, pop rock, Latin pop | Columbia, Sony BMG Norte | |
| November 7 | The Slip | Eisenhower | Indie rock, jazz fusion | Bar/None | |
| November 7 | Sugarland | Enjoy the Ride | Country | Mercury Nashville | |
| November 7 | Z-Ro | I'm Still Livin' | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Rap-A-Lot, Atlantic, Asylum | |
| November 10 | All Saints | Studio 1 | Pop, R&B | Parlophone | |
| November 13 | +44 | When Your Heart Stops Beating | Pop-punk, emo pop, alternative rock | Interscope | |
| November 13 | ...And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead | So Divided | Alternative rock, progressive rock, baroque pop | Interscope | |
| November 13 | Jarvis Cocker | Jarvis | Alternative rock | Rough Trade | |
| November 13 | Joan Osborne | Pretty Little Stranger | Country, pop | Vanguard, Capitol | |
| November 14 | Akon | Konvicted | R&B, hip hop, reggae | Konvict Muzik, UpFront, SRC | |
| November 14 | Army of Anyone | Army of Anyone | Rock, hard rock, post-grunge | The Firm Music | |
| November 14 | Dave Burrell | Momentum | Jazz, avant-garde, post-bop | High Two | |
| November 14 | Fat Joe | Me, Myself & I | Hip hop | Terror Squad, Virgin, Imperial | |
| November 14 | The Game | Doctor's Advocate | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, hardcore hip hop | Geffen | |
| November 14 | Joanna Newsom | Ys | Progressive folk, indie folk, baroque pop | Drag City | |
| November 14 | Kenny G | I'm in the Mood for Love...The Most Romantic Melodies of All Time | Jazz | Arista | |
| November 14 | Kamelot | One Cold Winter's Night | Symphonic metal, power metal, progressive metal | SPV/Steamhammer | |
| November 14 | Styx | One with Everything: Styx and the Contemporary Youth Orchestra | Rock, pop | Frontiers | |
| November 14 | Tenacious D | The Pick of Destiny | Comedy rock, hard rock, heavy metal | Epic | |
| November 14 | Yusuf | An Other Cup | Folk rock | Ya, Polydor, Atlantic | |
| November 15 | Devin Townsend | The Hummer | Ambient, noise | HevyDevy | |
| November 20 | The Beatles and George Martin | Love | Rock, mashup, sound collage | Apple, Capitol, Parlophone | |
| November 20 | Loreena McKennitt | An Ancient Muse | World music, folk | Quinlan Road | |
| November 20 | Matt Willis | Don't Let It Go to Waste | Pop rock | Mercury | |
| November 21 | 2Pac | Pac's Life | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, R&B | Amaru, Interscope | |
| November 21 | Brand New | The Devil and God Are Raging Inside Me | Emo, alternative rock, art rock | Interscope, Tiny Evil | |
| November 21 | Daughtry | Daughtry | Post-grunge | RCA, 19 | |
| November 21 | Il Divo | Siempre | Classical crossover | Syco Music, Columbia | |
| November 21 | Hammock | Raising Your Voice...Trying to Stop an Echo | Ambient, post-rock | Darla | |
| November 21 | Inhale Exhale | The Lost. The Sick. The Sacred. | Christian metalcore | Solid State | |
| November 21 | Jay-Z | Kingdom Come | Hip hop | Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam | |
| November 21 | Killer Mike | I Pledge Allegiance to the Grind | Hip hop | Grind Time Official | |
| November 21 | Killswitch Engage | As Daylight Dies | Metalcore, melodic metalcore | Roadrunner | |
| November 21 | Snoop Dogg | Tha Blue Carpet Treatment | West Coast hip hop, gangsta rap, G-funk | Doggy Style, Geffen | |
| November 21 | Sufjan Stevens | Songs for Christmas | Christmas | Asthmatic Kitty | |
| November 21 | Swan Lake | Beast Moans | Indie rock | Jagjaguwar | |
| November 23 | RBD | Celestial | Latin pop, pop rock, dance-pop | EMI | |
| November 24 | Take That | Beautiful World | Pop rock | Polydor | |
| November 24 | Whitesnake | Live... in the Shadow of the Blues | Hard rock | SPV/Steamhammer, WEA | |
| November 28 | Clipse | Hell Hath No Fury | Hip hop | Re-Up, Star Trak, Jive | |
| November 28 | Incubus | Light Grenades | Alternative rock | Epic, Immortal | |
| November 28 | Ying Yang Twins | Chemically Imbalanced | Southern hip hop, crunk | TVT | |
| November 29 | Ayumi Hamasaki | Secret | J-pop, pop rock | Avex Trax | |

### December

List of albums released in December 2006 :
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| Release date | Artist | Album | Genre | Label | Ref. |
| December 1 | Gwen Stefani | The Sweet Escape | Dance-pop, electropop, hip hop | Interscope | |
| December 4 | Billy Idol | Happy Holidays | Rock, Christmas | Bodog Music | |
| December 4 | Brooke Fraser | Albertine | Pop, folk | Columbia | |
| December 4 | Emma Bunton | Life in Mono | | Universal | |
| December 4 | Mylène Farmer | Avant que l'ombre... à Bercy | Pop, rock | Polydor | |
| December 4 | Various artists | Eminem Presents: The Re-Up | Hardcore hip hop, gangsta rap, horrorcore | Shady, Interscope | |
| December 5 | Brian McKnight | Ten | R&B, soul | Warner Bros. | |
| December 5 | Ciara | Ciara: The Evolution | R&B | LaFace, Zomba, Sony BMG | |
| December 5 | Drake Bell | It's Only Time | Alternative rock, pop rock | Universal Motown | |
| December 5 | Kutless | Live from Portland | Christian rock, post-grunge, contemporary worship music | BEC | |
| December 5 | Lil Scrappy | Bred 2 Die, Born 2 Live | Hip hop | Warner Bros., G-Unit South, Reprise | |
| December 5 | Various artists | Dreamgirls: Music from the Motion Picture | Soul, R&B, disco | Music World Entertainment, Columbia | |
| December 12 | Fantasia | Fantasia | R&B | J, 19 | |
| December 12 | Ghostface Killah | More Fish | Hip hop | Def Jam | |
| December 12 | Omarion | 21 | R&B | Epic, Sony Urban Music | |
| December 12 | Taylor Hicks | Taylor Hicks | Pop, blues rock | Arista | |
| December 12 | Tyrese | Alter Ego | R&B, hip hop | J | |
| December 12 | Young Jeezy | Thug Motivation 102: The Inspiration | Hip hop | CTE, Def Jam | |
| December 18 | Trick Daddy | Back by Thug Demand | Southern hip hop, gangsta rap | Slip-n-Slide, Atlantic | |
| December 19 | Bow Wow | The Price of Fame | Hip hop | LBW Entertainment, Columbia | |
| December 19 | DJ Clue | The Professional 3 | Hip hop | Desert Storm, Roc-A-Fella, Def Jam | |
| December 19 | Nas | Hip Hop Is Dead | Hip hop | The Jones Experience, Def Jam, Columbia | |
| December 19 | RBD | Rebels | Teen pop | EMI Music, Virgin | |
| December 19 | Styles P | Time Is Money | Hip hop | Ruff Ryders, Interscope | |
| December 19 | Various artists | Grand Hustle Presents: In da Streetz Volume 4 | Hip hop | Grand Hustle, Atlantic | |
| December 26 | Matt Redman | Beautiful News | Worship, contemporary Christian music | Sixsteps | |
| December 26 | Switchfoot | Oh! Gravity. | Art rock, post-punk, power pop | Columbia, Sony BMG | |
| December 29 | Mos Def | True Magic | Alternative hip hop | Geffen | |