| Rank | Artist | Recording | Label | |
| 1 | DINOSAUR JR. | Give A Glimpse Of What Yer Not | Jagjaguwar | |
| 2 | BLOOD ORANGE | Freetown Sound | Domino | |
| 3 | THEE OH SEES | A Weird Exits | Castle Face | |
| 4 | AVALANCHES | Wildflower | Astralwerks | |
| 5 | HEATERS | Baptistina | Beyond Beyond Is Beyond | |
| 6 | GOGGS | GOGGS | In The Red | |
| 7 | JAPANESE BREAKFAST | Psychopomp | Dead Oceans-yellow k | |
| 8 | MITSKI | Puberty 2 | Dead Oceans | |
| 9 | HAPPY DIVING | Electric Soul Unity | Topshelf | |
| 10 | KWEKU COLLINS | Nat Love | Closed Sessions | |
| 11 | JULIE RUIN | Hit Reset | Hardly Art | |
| 12 | SMOKING TREES | The Archer And The Bull | ||
| 13 | RYLEY WALKER | “The Roundabout” [Single] | Dead Oceans | |
| 14 | AT/ALL | Sun Dogs | Self-Released | |
| 15 | EROS AND THE ESCHATON | Weight Of Matter | Bar None | |
| 16 | DJ SHADOW | The Mountain Will Fall | Mass Appeal | |
| 17 | WHITNEY | Light Upon The Lake | Secretly Canadian | |
| 18 | OLSSON | Hold On [EP] | Universal | |
| 19 | PI JA MA | Radio Girl [EP] | Bleepmachine | |
| 20 | SOFI TUKKER | Soft Animals | HeavyRoc | |
| 21 | RIVER TIBER | Indigo | Self-Released | |
| 22 | KLANGSTOFF | We Are Your Receiver [EP] | Mind Of A Genius | |
| 23 | CHESHIRES | “I Love This Feeling” [Single] | ||
| 24 | ANTHONY D’AMATO | Cold Snap | New West | |
| 25 | JHEREK BISCHOFF | Cistern | Leaf | |
| 26 | MARTHA | Blisters In The Pit Of My Heart | Dirtnap | |
| 27 | HOT PANDA | Bad Pop | Bandwagon | |
| 28 | FIELD MOUSE | Episodic | Topshelf | |
| 29 | JAMES BLAKE | The Colour In Anything | Republic | |
| 30 | LOTUS | Eat The Light | Self-Released |
CMJ Charts Aug. 23, 2016
August 23, 2016
Dinosaur Jr.- Give a Glimpse of What Yer Not
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