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"&"

"&" (Ampersand) is Bastille's fifth studio album, released October 25, 2024 via Best Laid Plans Records/EMI; a Dan Smith storytelling project about historical figures, also the name of albums by Personnel, The Insomniac Collective, and others.

(What's the Story) Morning Glory?

(What's the Story) Morning Glory? is Oasis's second studio album, released 2 October 1995 on Creation Records. Recorded at Rockfield Studios and produced by Noel Gallagher and Owen Morris, it sold 347,000 UK copies in its first week and over 22 million worldwide, featuring Wonderwall and Don't Look Back in Anger.

÷ (album)

Ed Sheeran's third studio album ÷ (Divide), released 3 March 2017 on Asylum/Atlantic; best-selling album of 2017, Grammy-winning, most-streamed album in Spotify history, and title of the most-attended tour of all time.

12 Memories

12 Memories (2003) is the fourth studio album by Scottish band Travis, released on Independiente and Epic. A darker, self-produced post-9/11 record shaped by Neil Primrose's pool accident, with singles Re-Offender, The Beautiful Occupation, and Love Will Come Through.

13 (Blur album)

13 is the sixth studio album by English rock band Blur, released in March 1999. Written largely from Damon Albarn's heartbreak, it debuted at number 1 in the UK.

13 Ways to Bleed on Stage

13 Ways to Bleed on Stage, Cold's second studio album (September 12, 2000, Flip/Geffen), produced by Adam Kasper, Chris Vrenna, and Fred Durst; 13 dark alternative-metal/post-grunge tracks including "Just Got Wicked" and "She Said".

22, A Million

22, A Million is Bon Iver's third studio album, released September 30, 2016 on Jagjaguwar. Ten numerological track titles, Messina vocal processing, No. 2 Billboard 200 debut, Metacritic 87.

30 Seconds to Mars (album)

30 Seconds to Mars (2002) is the debut studio album by Thirty Seconds to Mars, produced by Bob Ezrin and Brian Virtue on Immortal/Virgin; a space-themed concept album with 11 tracks, Metascore 60, and 2 million copies sold.

48:13

48:13 is the fifth studio album by English rock band Kasabian, released 9 June 2014 on Columbia. Named for its 48:13 runtime, produced by Sergio Pizzorno, it became their fourth consecutive UK number-one album.

69 Love Songs

69 Love Songs is a 1999 triple album by The Magnetic Fields on Merge Records: 69 Stephin Merritt love songs across three CDs, about 2 hours 52 minutes, written in New York bars and critically acclaimed.

A Beautiful Lie

A Beautiful Lie is the second studio album by the American rock band Thirty Seconds to Mars, released August 30, 2005 through Virgin Records America.

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships

A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships is The 1975's third studio album, released 30 November 2018 on Dirty Hit; a 15-track record about love in the digital age, produced by Matty Healy and George Daniel, a UK Number 1 and 2019 BRIT Album of the Year winner.

A Crow Looked at Me

A Crow Looked at Me (2017) is Mount Eerie's ninth album, written and recorded by Phil Elverum in the room where his wife Geneviève Castrée died of pancreatic cancer, released March 24, 2017 on P.W. Elverum & Sun.

A Ghost Is Born

A Ghost Is Born is Wilco's fifth studio album, released June 22, 2004 on Nonesuch, produced with Jim O'Rourke at Sear Sound, NYC; Grammy-winning, gold-certified, Metacritic 81, with 2025 deluxe reissue.

A Head Full of Dreams

A Head Full of Dreams is Coldplay's seventh studio album, released 4 December 2015 on Parlophone. Produced by Stargate, with Beyoncé, Noel Gallagher, Tove Lo, and Barack Obama, it followed Ghost Stories and spawned a 2016–2017 stadium tour.

A Moon Shaped Pool

A Moon Shaped Pool is Radiohead's ninth studio album, released digitally on XL Recordings on 8 May 2016, produced by Nigel Godrich, with eleven alphabetically ordered tracks and a Metacritic Metascore of 88.

A Pagan Place

A Pagan Place is the second studio album by the folk rock band The Waterboys, released in 1984 and named after Edna O'Brien's 1970 novel.

A Rush of Blood to the Head

A Rush of Blood to the Head is Coldplay's second studio album, released 26 August 2002 on Parlophone; a louder, piano-driven follow-up to Parachutes featuring In My Place, The Scientist, and Clocks, with a Metacritic score of 80.

A Thousand Suns

A Thousand Suns is Linkin Park's fourth studio album, released September 14, 2010 on Machine Shop/Warner Bros. A nuclear-war concept album co-produced by Rick Rubin and Mike Shinoda, it debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 with 241,000 first-week US copies.

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus

Abattoir Blues / The Lyre of Orpheus is Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds' thirteenth studio album, a 2004 Mute double album recorded in Paris with Nick Launay, their first without Blixa Bargeld, featuring the London Community Gospel Choir and a UK chart peak of number 11.

Absolution (album)

Absolution is Muse's third studio album (2003), produced by Rich Costey, their first UK number 1 with 86 Top 100 weeks, an apocalyptic symphonic rock record, reissued as the XX Anniversary edition in 2023.

Achtung Baby

Achtung Baby is U2's seventh studio album, released November 18, 1991 on Island Records. Recorded from October 1990 at Berlin's Hansa Studios and in Dublin with Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, it reinvented the band's sound with electronic beats and sold about 18 million copies.

Act III (Kasabian album)

Act III (ACT III) is Kasabian's ninth studio album, released 4 September 2026 on Columbia/Sony UK, produced by Serge Pizzorno and Mark Ralph; 13 tracks in 32:52, eighth UK No. 1 album, closing the trilogy with The Alchemist's Euphoria and Happenings.

Act III: This City Made Us

Act III: This City Made Us is The Protomen's 2026 rock opera album on Sound Machine Records, concluding their Mega Man-inspired trilogy 17 years after Act II, released track by track on Bandcamp from October 2025.

After the Astronaut

After the Astronaut, Butthole Surfers' ninth studio album, recorded 1998, shelved by Capitol, reworked into Weird Revolution (2001), released June 26, 2026 via Sunset Blvd Records in Paul Leary's remix.

Aghori Mhori Mei

Aghori Mhori Mei is The Smashing Pumpkins' 13th studio album, released August 2, 2024 on Martha's Music/Thirty Tigers. A guitar-driven return to their 1990s sound by Corgan, Iha, and Chamberlin, it scored 78/100 on Metacritic and topped a Billboard fan poll.

Alienation (ΛLIENΛTIØN) (album)

ΛLIENΛTIØN (Alienation) is Three Days Grace's eighth studio album, released August 22, 2025 on RCA. It is the band's first dual-vocalist album, reuniting Adam Gontier with Matt Walst, and produced four Canadian Mainstream Rock number-one singles.

All Born Screaming

All Born Screaming, also Todos Nacen Gritando, is St. Vincent's (Annie Clark's) seventh studio album, self-produced, released April 26, 2024 on Total Pleasure; 10 tracks, 41 minutes, Metascore 89, guests Dave Grohl, Stella Mozgawa, Cate Le Bon.

All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade

All Is Love and Pain in the Mouse Parade is the fourth studio album by Icelandic band Of Monsters and Men, released October 17, 2025 on Skarkali/Virgin Music Group; 13 tracks, self-produced in Iceland, titled after a song about mice sheltering in their studio.

All That You Can't Leave Behind

All That You Can't Leave Behind is U2's tenth studio album, released 30 October 2000 on Island Records. Produced by Daniel Lanois and Brian Eno, it returned the band to classic rock after Pop, hit number one in 32 countries, sold about 12 million copies, and won seven Grammy Awards.