List of Billboard number-one R&B albums of 1996

These are the Billboard magazine R&B albums that have reached number-one in 1996.

Chart history

Issue date	Album	Artist
January 6	Waiting to Exhale	Soundtrack / Various artists
January 13
January 20
January 27
February 3
February 10	Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton	Eazy-E
February 17
February 24	All Eyez on Me	2Pac
March 2
March 9
March 16
March 23
March 30
April 6
April 13	The Coming	Busta Rhymes
April 20	The Resurrection	Geto Boys
April 27	The Score	Fugees
May 4
May 11	Sunset Park	Soundtrack / Various artists
May 18	The Score	Fugees
May 25
June 1
June 8	Gettin' It (Album Number Ten)	Too Short
June 15
June 22	All Eyez on Me	2Pac
June 29
July 6	Secrets	Toni Braxton
July 13	All Eyez on Me	2Pac
July 20	It Was Written	Nas
July 27
August 3
August 10
August 17	Beats, Rhymes and Life	A Tribe Called Quest
August 24	It Was Written	Nas
August 31
September 7
September 14	ATLiens	Outkast
September 21
September 28	Home Again	New Edition
October 5	Another Level	Blackstreet
October 12
October 19
October 26
November 2
November 9	Bow Down	Westside Connection
November 16	Hell On Earth	Mobb Deep
November 23	Tha Doggfather	Snoop Dogg
November 30	The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	Makaveli
December 7
December 14
December 21	Muddy Waters	Redman
December 28	The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory	Makaveli

See also

• 1996 in music
• R&B number-one hits of 1996 (USA)