title: List of top 25 albums for 2016 in Australia
text: # List of top 25 albums for 2016 in Australia
  
  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.
  
  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.
  
  Keith Urban's Ripcord was the highest selling album by an Australian artist in 2016.
  
  ## Top 25
  
  | # | Title | Artist | Highest pos. reached |
  | - | - | - | - |
  | 1 | 25 | Adele | 1 |
  | 2 | Ripcord | Keith Urban | 1 |
  | 3 | Lemonade | Beyoncé | 1 |
  | 4 | Molly: Do Yourself a Favour | Various artists | 1 |
  | 5 | Christmas | Michael Bublé | 1 |
  | 6 | Friends for Christmas | John Farnham & Olivia Newton-John | 1 |
  | 7 | The Secret Daughter: Songs from the Original TV Series | 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 | Gimme Some Lovin': Jukebox Vol II | Human Nature | 1 |
  