The following lists the top 25 albums of 2016 in Australia from the Australian Recording Industry Association (ARIA) end-of-year albums chart.
Adele’s album 25 was the most popular album in 2016 in Australia, for the second year in a row. The album spent 45 weeks in the top 10.[1]
For the 6th year in a row, Michael Bublé's Christmas made the end of year top ten. In December 2016, the album surpassed one million copies in Australia, making it the 12th biggest selling album of all-time in Australia.[2]
Keith Urban's Ripcord was the highest selling album by an Australian artist in 2016.
| Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 25 | Adele | 1 | |
| 2 | Ripcord | 1 | ||
| 3 | Lemonade | 1 | ||
| 4 | Various artists | 1 | ||
| 5 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 1 | |
| 6 | Friends for Christmas | 1 | ||
| 7 | Jessica Mauboy | 1 | ||
| 8 | ★ | David Bowie | 1 | |
| 9 | Purpose | Justin Bieber | 1 | |
| 10 | Suicide Squad | Various artists | 1 | |
| 11 | A Head Full Of Dreams | Coldplay | 2 | |
| 12 | Hardwired...To Self-Destruct | Metallica | 1 | |
| 13 | Drinking from the Sun, Walking Under Stars Restrung | Hilltop Hoods | 1 | |
| 14 | Views | Drake | 1 | |
| 15 | Nothing Has Changed | David Bowie | 3 | |
| 16 | Skin | Flume | 1 | |
| 17 | 1989 | Taylor Swift | 1 | |
| 18 | This Is Acting | Sia | 1 | |
| 19 | The Very Best of Prince | Prince | 2 | |
| 20 | x | Ed Sheeran | 1 | |
| 21 | Immortalized | Disturbed | 1 | |
| 22 | Blue & Lonesome | The Rolling Stones | 1 | |
| 23 | Blurryface | Twenty One Pilots | 7 | |
| 24 | Bloom | Rüfüs | 1 | |
| 25 | Human Nature | 1 |