⇦ 2005

2007 ⇨

The Best Music of 2006

Here is a selection of the best albums and songs from 2006. Hall of Famers are highlighted in orange.

For a list of the top artists who made their debut recording in 2006, check out this list.

Albums (?)		Wikipedia
AFI	Decemberunderground	☆
Ahab	The Call of the Wretched Sea	☆
Amy Winehouse	Back To Black	☆
Arctic Monkeys	Whatever People Say I Am, That's What I'm Not	☆
Audioslave	Revelations	☆
Beck	The Information	☆
Belle & Sebastian	The Life Pursuit	☆
Beyoncé	B'Day	☆
Bob Dylan	Modern Times	☆
Christina Aguilera	Back to Basics	☆
Dixie Chicks	Taking the Long Way	☆
DragonForce	Inhuman Rampage	☆
Eric Church	Sinners Like Me	☆
Ghostface Killah	Fishscale	☆
Gnarls Barkley	St. Elsewhere	☆
Gwen Stefani	The Sweet Escape	☆
J Dilla	Donuts	☆
John Mayer	Continuum	☆
Johnny Cash	American V: A Hundred Highways	☆
Justin Timberlake	FutureSex/LoveSounds	☆
Lupe Fiasco	Food & Liquor	☆
Mastodon	Blood Mountain	☆
Muse	Black Holes And Revelations	☆
My Chemical Romance	The Black Parade	☆
Nas	Hip-Hop is Dead	☆
Pearl Jam	Pearl Jam	☆
Peter Frampton	Fingerprints	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Stadium Arcadium	☆
Regina Spektor	Begin to Hope	☆
Rihanna	A Girl Like Me	☆
The Black Keys	Magic Potion	☆
The Decemberists	The Crane Wife	☆
The Killers	Sam's Town	☆
The Raconteurs	Broken Boy Soldiers	☆
The Roots	Game Theory	☆
Tool	10,000 Days	☆
TV on the Radio	Return to Cookie Mountain	☆
Vince Gill	These Days	☆
Weird Al Yankovic	Straight Outta Lynwood	☆
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Show Your Bones	☆

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Songs (?)		Wikipedia
"Weird Al" Yankovic	White and Nerdy	☆
AFI	Miss Murder	☆
Amy Winehouse	Rehab	☆
Amy Winehouse	You Know I'm No Good	☆
Amy Winehouse	Back To Black	☆
Amy Winehouse	Love is a Losing Game	☆
Arcade Fire	Intervention	☆
Arctic Monkeys	When the Sun Goes Down	☆
Audioslave	Revelations	☆
Band Of Horses	The Funeral	☆
Beyoncé	Irreplaceable	☆
Breaking Benjamin	The Diary of Jane	☆
Chamillionaire feat. Krayzie Bone	Ridin'	☆
Corinne Bailey Rae	Put Your Records On	☆
Dixie Chicks	Not Ready to Make Nice	☆
DragonForce	Through the Fire and Flames	☆
DragonForce	Operation Ground and Pound	☆
Eminem	When I'm Gone	☆
Fall Out Boy	This Ain't a Scene, It's an Arms Race	☆
Gnarls Barkley	Crazy	☆
Gossip	Standing in the Way of Control	☆
Gwen Stefani feat. Akon	The Sweet Escape	☆
I'm from Barcelona	The Painter	☆
Johnny Cash	God's Gonna Cut You Down	☆
Justin Timberlake	SexyBack	☆
Justin Timberlake	What Goes Around?Comes Around	☆
Lily Allen	Smile	☆
Mastodon	Colony of Birchmen	☆
Meat Loaf featuring Marion Raven	It's All Coming Back to Me Now	☆
Muse	Knights Of Cydonia	☆
Muse	Supermassive Black Hole	☆
Muse	Starlight	☆
Muse	Map of the Problematique	☆
My Chemical Romance	Welcome to the Black Parade	☆
My Chemical Romance	Teenagers	☆
Nelly Furtado	Say It Right	☆
Nelly Furtado feat. Timbaland	Promiscuous	☆
OK Go	Here It Goes Again	☆
Peter Bjorn and John	Young Folks	☆
Plain White T's	Hey There Delilah	☆
Rascal Flatts	Life Is a Highway	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Dani California	☆
Red Hot Chili Peppers	Snow (Hey Oh)	☆
Rise Against	Prayer of the Refugee	☆
Scissor Sisters	I Don't Feel Like Dancin'	☆
Shakira ft. Wyclef Jean	Hips Don't Lie	☆
Snow Patrol	Chasing Cars	☆
Snow Patrol	Run	☆
Stone Sour	Through Glass	☆
T.I.	What You Know	☆
Taking Back Sunday	MakeDamnSure	☆
The Decemberists	The Crane Wife 1 & 2	☆
The Fratellis	Chelsea Dagger	☆
The Fratellis	Flathead	☆
The Killers	When You Were Young	☆
The Raconteurs	Steady As She Goes	☆
Tool	Vicarious	☆
Tool	Rosetta Stoned	☆
TV on the Radio	Wolf Like Me	☆
TV on the Radio	Hours	☆
Wolfmother	Joker and the Thief	☆
Yeah Yeah Yeahs	Gold Lion	☆

⇦ 2005

2007 ⇨