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Art Angels
Art Angels is the fourth studio album by Canadian musician Grimes (Claire Boucher), released November 6, 2015 on 4AD. Written and recorded solo in her Los Angeles home studio, it features Janelle Monáe and Aristophanes and was named NME's Album of the Year 2015.
Artificial Paradise (OneRepublic album)
Artificial Paradise is OneRepublic's sixth studio album, released July 12, 2024 on Mosley Music/Interscope; a roughly 38-minute, 16-song set including "I Ain't Worried" and media tie-in tracks, with Deluxe (18) and Super Deluxe (28) editions.
Artpop
ARTPOP (Artpop) is Lady Gaga's fourth studio album, released November 11, 2013 on Interscope; an EDM-driven, Jeff Koons-covered art-pop project whose singles underperformed but whose reputation has since been reassessed upward.
As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again
As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again is the ninth studio album by The Decemberists, released June 14, 2024 on YABB Records/Thirty Tigers. Their first double album, 13 songs in 1 hour 7 minutes, closing with the 19:20 "Joan in the Garden".
As Nasty as They Wanna Be
As Nasty as They Wanna Be is 2 Live Crew's 1989 Miami bass double album on Luke Records, the first recording declared obscene by a US court in 1990, a ruling the Eleventh Circuit reversed in 1992.
As You Were (Liam Gallagher album)
As You Were is Liam Gallagher's 2017 debut solo album on Warner Bros., produced by Dan Grech-Marguerat and Greg Kurstin. It hit UK Number 1 with 103,000 first-week sales, set a 20-year vinyl record, and scored 71 on Metacritic.
Ascension (Paradise Lost album)
Ascension is Paradise Lost's 17th studio album, released September 19, 2025 on Nuclear Blast, its first in five years after Obsidian, produced by Gregor Mackintosh, with UK chart peak No. 54 and Metal Hammer ranking it 12th of 2025.
Asia (Asia album)
Asia (1982) is the self-titled Geffen debut by the supergroup of John Wetton, Steve Howe, Geoff Downes, and Carl Palmer; produced by Mike Stone, it topped the Billboard 200 for nine weeks and was 1982's best-selling US album.
Ask That God
Ask That God is the fourth studio album by Australian electronic duo Empire of the Sun (Luke Steele, Nick Littlemore), released July 26, 2024 via EMI after eight years, following Two Vines; Metascore 82.
Aspiral (album)
Aspiral is the ninth studio album by Dutch symphonic metal band Epica, released April 11, 2025 on Nuclear Blast; 11 tracks, 1:01:12, titled after a 1965 Szukalski statue, recorded at Sandlane, produced by Joost van den Broek.
Asterisms (album)
Asterisms is a 2024 five-track instrumental album by Sean Ono Lennon on John Zorn's Tzadik label, blending jazz, rock, and electronic music; not to be confused with albums by Matthew Cardinal, Asterismyth, or I, Supernova.
Astral Weeks
Astral Weeks is Van Morrison's second album, a jazz-influenced acoustic song cycle released November 1968 on Warner Bros. Records. Recorded in New York with session jazz players under producer Lewis Merenstein, it initially failed but became a canonical classic.
Astronaut (Duran Duran album)
Astronaut (2004) is Duran Duran's eleventh studio album and the first recorded by the original five-member lineup since Seven and the Ragged Tiger (1983), released on Epic Records with the UK top five single (Reach Up For The) Sunrise.
Astroworld (album)
Astroworld (2018) is American rapper Travis Scott's third studio album, released via Cactus Jack/Grand Hustle and Epic. Named for Houston's closed Six Flags AstroWorld park, it topped the Billboard 200 with 537,000 units, went triple platinum, scored 85 on Metacritic, and spawned Sicko Mode.
At the Beach, in Every Life
At the Beach, in Every Life is Gigi Perez's self-produced debut album, released April 25, 2025 on Outtahere/Island Records; 12 tracks, 46:46, led by the UK number-one viral hit "Sailor Song" and themed on her sister Celene's death.
Atlanta (Gnarls Barkley album)
Atlanta (2026) is the third and final album by Gnarls Barkley, the duo of CeeLo Green and Danger Mouse, released March 6, 2026 on 10K Projects, 18 years after The Odd Couple, led by the single "Pictures."
ATLiens
ATLiens (1996) is the second studio album by Atlanta hip hop duo OutKast on LaFace Records; its space-themed Afrofuturist sound, duo self-production, and double platinum certification made it a founding statement of Southern hip hop.
Atom Heart Mother
Atom Heart Mother: Pink Floyd's fifth studio album, released 2 October 1970 on Harvest; first UK No. 1, featuring the 23-minute Ron Geesin co-written title suite and the cow cover Lulubelle III.
Atonement (Killswitch Engage album)
Atonement is Killswitch Engage's eighth studio album, released August 16, 2019 on Metal Blade Records, the first after Jesse Leach's vocal cord surgery, with guests Howard Jones and Chuck Billy and a Grammy nomination for Unleashed.
Atrocity Exhibition (album)
Atrocity Exhibition is Danny Brown's fourth studio album (Warp, September 27, 2016), named for a Joy Division song and J.G. Ballard novel, mostly produced by Paul White, 15 tracks, Metacritic 85, guests include Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Earl Sweatshirt.
Audioslave (album)
Audioslave (2002) is the self-titled debut album by the supergroup of Chris Cornell with Rage Against the Machine's Morello, Commerford, and Wilk, produced by Rick Rubin; 14 tracks, Billboard 200 number seven, 3x Platinum in the US.
August and Everything After
August and Everything After: Counting Crows' debut studio album, released September 14, 1993 on Geffen, produced by T Bone Burnett. Eleven folk-rock tracks incl. "Mr. Jones"; 7x Platinum in the US.
Aurora (Yes album)
Aurora is the 24th studio album by English progressive rock band Yes, released 12 June 2026 on InsideOutMusic/Sony Music. Third of a trilogy with The Quest and Mirror to the Sky, produced by Steve Howe, featuring the Czech National Symphony Orchestra on the title track.
Autoamerican
Autoamerican is Blondie's fifth studio album, released November 1980 on Chrysalis and produced by Mike Chapman. Recorded partly in Los Angeles, it yielded the number-one singles "The Tide Is High" and "Rapture", the first Billboard chart-topper incorporating rap.
Autobiography (Ashlee Simpson album)
Autobiography is Ashlee Simpson's debut studio album, released July 20, 2004 on Geffen. Produced by John Shanks, it debuted at number one, spawned "Pieces of Me" and "La La," and tied to her MTV show.
Automatic for the People
Automatic for the People is R.E.M.'s eighth studio album, released October 5, 1992 on Warner Bros. A quiet, mortality-themed record with John Paul Jones string arrangements, it sold 18 million copies and is regarded as the band's finest album.
Avalon (Roxy Music album)
Avalon is Roxy Music's eighth and final studio album, released May 1982. A UK No. 1 for three weeks and the band's biggest US success, it spawned More Than This, Take a Chance With Me, and the title track.
Avenged Sevenfold (album)
Avenged Sevenfold (2007) is the American metal band's self-titled fourth album, also called the White Album: self-produced, last with drummer The Rev, debuted at No. 4 on the Billboard 200, known for A Little Piece of Heaven and Dear God.
Avril Lavigne (album)
Avril Lavigne (2013, Epic) is the Canadian singer's self-titled fifth studio album, co-written largely with husband Chad Kroeger of Nickelback, featuring "Here's to Never Growing Up," "Rock N Roll," the Kroeger duet "Let Me Go," and "Bad Girl" with Marilyn Manson; Metascore 65.
Awake (Dream Theater album)
Awake is Dream Theater's third studio album, released October 4, 1994 on East West Records; last with keyboardist Kevin Moore, first with Petrucci's seven-string guitar, darker and heavier than Images and Words.