2026’s Most Anticipated Albums

At Hi Fi Way HQ we have been thinking long and hard about what will be some of the most highly anticipated albums in 2026. Looking at the clues in the Twitter-sphere, Instagram and fan forums so from what we know is coming here’s a little list to wet the appetite…

January

• 2/1 Paleface Swiss – The Wilted (Blood Blast Distribution)
• 9/1 Alter Bridge – Alter Bridge (Napalm)
• 9/1 Beyond the Black – Break the Silence (Nuclear Blast)
• 9/1 The Cribs – Selling a Vibe (PIAS)
• 9/1 Dry Cleaning – Secret Love (4AD)
• 9/1 The Kid Laroi – Before I Forget (Columbia)
• 16/1 ASAP Rocky – Don’t Be Dumb
• 16/1 Cavetown – Running with Scissors (Futures Music Group)
• 16/1 DZ Deathrays – Easing Out of Control (DZ Worldwide)
• 16/1 Kreator – Krushers of the World (Nuclear Blast)
• 16/1 Sleaford Mods – The Demise of Planet X (Rough Trade)
• 23/1 Agnes – Beautiful Madness
• 23/1 Crystal Lake – The Weight of Sound (Century Media)
• 23/1 The Damned – Not Like Everybody Else (earMUSIC)
• 23/1 Louis Tomlinson – How Did I Get Here? (BMG)
• 23/1 Lucinda Williams – World’s Gone Wrong (Highway 20 Records)
• 23/1 Megadeth – Megadeth (BLKIIBLK, Frontiers)
• 23/1 Mika – Hyperlove
• 23/1 The Paper Kites – If You Go There, I Hope You Find It (Wonderlick, Sony Music)
• 23/1 Poppy – Empty Hands (Sumerian)
• 23/1 Van Morrison – Somebody Tried to Sell Me a Bridge
• 30/1 Buzzcocks – Attitude Adjustment (Cherry Red)
• 30/1 Joyce Manor – I Used to Go to This Bar (Epitaph)
• 30/1 Kula Shaker – Wormslayer

February

• 6/2 Joji – Piss in the Wind
• 6/2 Karnivool – In Verses (Cymatic Records)
• 6/2 Keli Holiday – Capital Fiction (Keli Holiday)
• 6/2 Mayhem – Liturgy of Death (Century Media)
• 6/2 Nick Jonas – Sunday Best (Republic)
• 6/2 Puscifer – Normal Isn’t (Puscifer Entertainment, Alchemy Recordings)
• 6/2 Robbie Williams – Britpop (Columbia)
• 6/2 Silversun Pickups – Tenterhooks (New Machine Recordings)
• 13/2 Angel Dust – Cold 2 the Touch (Run for Cover)
• 13/2 Ásgeir – Julia (One Little Independent)
• 13/2 Charli XCX – Wuthering Heights (Atlantic)
• 13/2 Converge – Love Is Not Enough (Deathwish, Epitaph)
• 13/2 Mariachi El Bronx – Mariachi El Bronx IV (ATO)
• 13/2 Story of the Year – A.R.S.O.N. (SharpTone)
• 20/2 The Enemy – Social Disguises
• 20/2 Hilary Duff – Luck… or Something (Atlantic)
• 20/2 May‑a – Goodbye (If You Call That Gone) (Sony Australia)
• 20/2 Mumford & Sons – Prizefighter (Island)
• 20/2 New Found Glory – Listen Up! (Pure Noise)
• 20/2 Peaches – No Lube So Rude (Kill Rock Stars)
• 20/2 Sylosis – The New Flesh (Nuclear Blast)
• 27/2 Bill Callahan – My Days of 58 (Drag City)
• 27/2 Crooked Fingers – Swet Deth
• 27/2 Gorillaz – The Mountain (Kong Records)
• 27/2 Nothing – A Short History of Decay (Run for Cover)
• 27/2 Rob Zombie – The Great Satan (Nuclear Blast)
• 27/2 Telenova – The Warning (EMI Music Australia)

March

• 6/3 Charlie Puth – Whatever’s Clever! (Atlantic)
• 6/3 Matt Corby – Tragic Magic (Island Records Australia)
• 6/3 Squeeze – Trixies (BMG)
• 13/3 Soft Machine – Thirteen (Dyad Records)
• 13/3 Sweet Pill – Still There’s a Glow (Hopeless)
• 20/3 The Dandy Warhols – Pin Ups (Beat the World, Little Cloud Records)
• 20/3 Ladytron – Paradises (Nettwerk)
• 20/3 Morgan Evans – Steel Town (Virgin Records)
• 20/3 Peach PRC – Porcelain (Island Records Australia, Republic)
• 27/3 Melissa Etheridge – Rise (Sun Records)
• 27/3 Tigers Jaw – Lost on You

April

• 10/4 Archspire – Too Fast to Die
• 10/4 Joe Jackson – Hope and Fury (Sharp Practice Records, earMusic)
• 17/4 Skindred – You Got This (Earache)
• 17/4 Tiga – HotLife
• 24/4 John Corabi – New Day (Frontiers)
• 24/4 Meghan Trainor – Toy with Me
• 24/4 Reverend and the Makers – Is This How Happiness Feels?

May

• 1/5 Melanie C – Sweat (Virgin Music)

Fingers crossed for a release date soon on these:

4 Non Blondes – TBA (670 Records, Kill Rock Stars)

• Asia
• Björk
• Bruce Springsteen
• BTS
• Cardi B
• Deep Purple
• DJ Khaled – Aalam of God
• Evanescence
• Exodus
• Fear Factory
• Flea
• Gojira
• Lita Ford
• Luke Combs
• Madonna – Confessions on a Dance Floor Part 2 (Warner)
• Ministry
• Muse
• Overkill
• Papa Roach – TBA (New Noize Records, ADA)
• Raye
• Tori Amos – In Times of Dragons (Fontana)
• Trivium