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Hypersonic Missiles (album)

Hypersonic Missiles is Sam Fender's debut studio album, released 13 September 2019 on Polydor. Recorded in his North Shields studio with Bramwell Bronte, it debuted at UK Number 1 with 41,000 chart sales.

Hypnotic Eye

Hypnotic Eye (2014, Reprise) is the 13th and final Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers studio album; recorded over three years with Ryan Ulyate, it became Petty's first US number-one album and earned a Best Rock Album Grammy nomination.

I Barely Know Her

I Barely Know Her is the 2025 debut album by sombr (Shane Michael Boose), released 22 August on Warner Records; 10 tracks co-produced with Tony Berg, Billboard 200 and UK top-10, AMA and iHeartRadio winner.

I Built You a Tower

I Built You a Tower is Death Cab for Cutie's eleventh studio album, released June 5, 2026 on Anti-, produced by John Congleton. The divorce-inspired, 11-track, 38-minute record earned a Metacritic score of 82 and is seen as a return to the band's early-2000s sound.

I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It

I Like It When You Sleep, for You Are So Beautiful yet So Unaware of It is The 1975's second studio album, released 26 February 2016 on Dirty Hit/Interscope; 17 tracks, 74 minutes, seven singles, number one in the UK, US, and Canada, NME's 2016 Album of the Year.

I Love You So F***ing Much

I Love You So F*ing Much (ILYSFM) is the fourth studio album by British band Glass Animals, released July 19, 2024 on Polydor. Written by Dave Bayley during a 2023 LA storm, it explores love and post-Heat Waves detachment, peaking at UK No. 5.

I Quit (album)

I quit is HAIM's fourth studio album, released June 20, 2025 on Columbia (Polydor in the UK). Produced by Danielle Haim, Rostam Batmanglij, and Buddy Ross, it is a 15-track breakup album following Danielle Haim's split from producer Ariel Rechtshaid.

I See You (The xx album)

I See You is the third studio album by English trio the xx, released 13 January 2017 on Young Turks, co-produced by Jamie xx and Rodaidh McDonald, recorded outside London, sample-driven, Metascore 85.

I Should Coco

I Should Coco is Supergrass's 1995 debut album, recorded at Sawmills Studio in Cornwall; it topped the UK Albums Chart for three weeks, sold over a million copies, and was Parlophone's biggest-selling debut since Please Please Me.

I Think I Spoke Too Soon

I think I spoke too soon is Rachel Chinouriri's second studio album, released October 16, 2026 on Atlas Artists/Parlophone; a 12-track synth-pop concept record framed as one long night out, following her 2024 debut What A Devastating Turn Of Events.

I, I

i,i (I, I) is Bon Iver's fourth studio album, released August 30, 2019 on Jagjaguwar. Recorded at Sonic Ranch, Texas with 50-plus collaborators, it completes Vernon's seasonal album cycle and earned 2020 Grammy nominations for Album of the Year and Best Alternative Music Album.

I'm with You (album)

I'm with You (2011) is the Red Hot Chili Peppers' tenth studio album, their first with guitarist Josh Klinghoffer after John Frusciante's departure, produced by Rick Rubin and released on Warner Bros. to a Metacritic score of 63.

Idols (album)

Idols is the fourth studio album by English musician YUNGBLUD (Dominic Harrison), released 20 June 2025 on Capitol Records; the 12-track first half of a double-album project recorded over four years in Leeds, it topped the UK Albums Chart and was nominated for the 2026 Grammy for Best Alternative Music Album.

Illinois (Sufjan Stevens album)

Illinois, full title Sufjan Stevens Invites You To: Come On Feel The Illinoise, is Sufjan Stevens' 2005 chamber-folk concept album for the state of Illinois, the second entry in his Fifty States Project after Michigan, known for Chicago, Casimir Pulaski Day, and John Wayne Gacy, Jr.

Imaginal Disk

Imaginal Disk is the second studio album by Magdalena Bay (Mica Tenenbaum, Matthew Lewin), released August 23, 2024 on Mom+Pop; a 15-track, 53:35 concept album about character True's forehead disk upgrade, scoring 85 on Metacritic.

Imagine (John Lennon album)

Imagine (1971) is John Lennon's second solo album, produced with Yoko Ono and Phil Spector at Ascot Sound Studios, Tittenhurst Park. It topped charts in seven countries, contains Jealous Guy and How Do You Sleep?, and its title song became Lennon's best-selling single.

Imperfect Circle

Imperfect Circle is Hootie & the Blowfish's sixth studio album, released November 1, 2019 on Capitol Nashville after a nearly 15-year gap, produced by Jeff Trott and Frank Rogers with guests Chris Stapleton, Ed Sheeran, and Sheryl Crow.

In It for the Money

In It for the Money is Supergrass's 1997 second album, follow-up to I Should Coco. Peaked at UK #2, sold over a million worldwide, spawned four top-20 singles, and was reissued remastered in 2021.

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea

In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, Neutral Milk Hotel's second album (Merge, February 10, 1998), produced by Robert Schneider and inspired by Anne Frank's diary, became a cult classic after a lukewarm 1998 reception.

In Times of Dragons

In Times of Dragons, also styled In Times Of Dragons, is Tori Amos's 18th studio album, a May 1, 2026 Fontana/Universal concept record about a woman fleeing a Lizard Demon billionaire and becoming a dragon.

Indie Cindy

Indie Cindy is the fifth studio album by the American alternative rock band Pixies, released in April 2014, compiled from three self-released EPs and their first new album in 23 years.

Instant Holograms on Metal Film

Instant Holograms on Metal Film is Stereolab's 2025 studio album on Duophonic UHF Disks/Warp, their first in 15 years since Not Music: 13 tracks by Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane with new producer Cooper Crain and added male vocals.

Introducing... The Beatles

Introducing... The Beatles (Vee-Jay VJLP 1062/SR 1062), also titled Introducing The Beatles, was the first Beatles album released in America, January 10, 1964, a 12-track abridgment of Please Please Me whose sales, injunctions, and October 1964 Capitol settlement make it unique among US Beatles LPs.

Is This Desire?

Is This Desire? is PJ Harvey's fourth studio album, released September 1998 on Island Records, produced with Flood and Head. An electronic-infused set of 12 character-study songs influenced by Flannery O'Connor, with singles "A Perfect Day Elise" and "The Wind" and a 1999 Grammy nomination.

Is This It

Is This It (2001) is the debut album by New York rock band The Strokes, produced by Gordon Raphael. Released July 30, 2001 (Australia) and October 9, 2001 (US) on RCA; "New York City Cops" was removed from the US edition after 9/11.

It Goes On

It Goes On names several music releases: Storm Queen's 2011 house single by Morgan Geist with singer Damon C. Scott on Environ; Avalon Emerson's 2025 rework "On It Goes"; Westside Cowboy's 2026 Island debut album; and The Magic Es' 2017 album.

Jagged Little Pill

Jagged Little Pill (1995), Alanis Morissette's third studio album and first international release, co-written with Glen Ballard; 33 million copies sold, 1996 Grammys including Album of the Year, and a 15-Tony-nomination Broadway musical adaptation.

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band

John Lennon/Plastic Ono Band is John Lennon's debut solo studio album, released in 1970, and is widely regarded as one of the most confessional albums in rock.

Kansas Anymore

Kansas Anymore is the second studio album by the American singer-songwriter Role Model, released on July 19, 2024, and inspired by a breakup and homesickness for Maine.

Keepin' the Summer Alive

Keepin' the Summer Alive is the twenty-fourth studio album by the Beach Boys, released in March 1980 and the band's first album of the 1980s.