List of music released posthumously

1900s-1950s

• "Cannibal Carnival", a dance barbarique, published in late May 1920, three months after composer Sol P. Levy's death on Valentine's Day earlier that year; Levy's composition was later popularized as thematic stock material in such films as Trader Horn and the Tarzan film series.
• Turandot, a three-act opera by Giacomo Puccini, was finished by fellow composer Franco Alfano and premiered, almost two years after Puccini's death, on April 25, 1926.
• Blues legend Robert Johnson's work was released after his death in 1938. Three albums were released King of the Delta Blues Singers (1961), King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II (1970) and The Complete Recordings (1990).
• All of Sonny Boy Williamson I's work was released after he was murdered in 1948.
• "Your Cheatin' Heart", "Kaw-Liga", and "Take These Chains from My Heart", three singles released after Hank Williams's death from a heart attack in January 1953, brought on by a fatal combination of alcohol, chloral hydrate, vitamin B12, and morphine.
• All of Johnny Ace's work was released after he died of an accidental gunshot in 1954.
• Most of Big Bill Broonzy's work was released after he died from throat cancer in 1958. Albums such as Trouble in mind (2000).
• "Peggy Sue Got Married" and other songs by Buddy Holly were released after his death in February 1959. Ritchie Valens, who died along with Holly, his three albums: a self-titled album, Ritchie and In Concert at Pacoima Jr. High were all released after his death as well.
• Last Recordings, released just days after Billie Holiday's death from heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver in July 1959.

1960s

• "Lonely" and "Weekend", two singles released after Eddie Cochran's death in a taxi accident in April 1960.
• Several of country singer Johnny Horton's albums and singles were released during the rest of the decade.
• Several of Patsy Cline's singles and albums were released after her death in a 1963 plane crash; most importantly the singles "Leavin' on Your Mind", "Sweet Dreams (Of You)", and "Faded Love" became hits, and the albums The Patsy Cline Story, A Portrait of Patsy Cline, That's How a Heartache Begins, and Patsy Cline's Greatest Hits were released.
• Many of Elmore James's singles and albums were released after his death in 1963. Notable singles were released with "Bleeding Heart", "One Way Out" and "Every Day I Have the Blues". Albums Whose Muddy Shoes (1969), Street Talkin' (1975), King of the Slide Guitar (1992) and The Classic Early Recordings: 1951–1956 (1993), etc.
• Sam Cooke's albums Shake and Try a Little Love
• Sonny Boy Williamson II's albums Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds (1966), The Real Folk Blues (1966) and other albums and singles were released after his death in 1965.
• Bobby Fuller had many albums after his mysterious death in 1966. Some of them include The Bobby Fuller Tapes Vol. 1 (1983) and The Bobby Fuller Tapes Vol. 2 (1984).
• Many of Woody Guthrie's recordings were released in albums after his death in 1967. See Woody Guthrie discography.
• The single "(Sittin' On) The Dock of the Bay" was released a month after the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding.
• "I'm Sorry" and "Seabreeze" by Frankie Lymon were released in 1969, a year after Lymon's untimely death from an accidental heroin overdose.
• With the sudden passing of Wes Montgomery, albums Road Song (1968), Willow Weep for Me (1969) and Eulogy (1970) were released.
• Fairport Convention's Martin Lamble was killed in a car accident just nearly two months before their album Unhalfbricking was released.
• After Brian Jones of The Rolling Stones drowned in a swimming pool, the album Let It Bleed was released at the end of 1969, the last album that he made with the Stones.

1970s

• Several of Otis Spann`s work was released after his death. Last Call: Live at Boston Tea Party was released in 2000 as it was recorded shortly before his passing.
• The last album of Alan Wilson with Canned Heat was Hooker 'n Heat in collaboration with John Lee Hooker was released in 1971.
• Most of the extensive catalog of American guitarist Jimi Hendrix; in his lifetime, Hendrix only saw the release of three albums by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, a compilation by the same group, and a live album by the Band of Gypsys. The Cry of Love was released in 1971.
• Janis Joplin's Pearl was released in February 1971, four months after her death. Joplin had recorded all the vocals for all the songs (except "Buried Alive In The Blues") before she died. Her band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, recorded the music.<sup>[2]</sup>
• Baby Huey's only album The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend was released in 1971 after a drug overdose in late 1970.
• The Doors have released many live albums since Jim Morrison's death. His poetry album An American Prayer was released in 1978, seven years after his death.
• Duane Allman had many albums released after his death in 1971 in a motorcycle accident such as An Anthology and Eat A Peach with The Allman Brothers Band.
• Berry Oakley also with the Allman Brothers Band died in a motorcycle crash near where Duane Allman was killed a year earlier. He is featured in Brothers and Sisters in 1973.
• A few of Rory Storm`s albums were released after his death in 1972
• The only album that New York Dolls`s Billy Murcia is played on is Lipstick Killers – The Mercer Street Sessions 1972 (1981)
• Many of Gram Parsons work was released after his death in 1973 due to a drug overdsoe with Grievous Angel, Sleepless Nights, and many others.
• Several of Jim Croce's singles and albums were released after his 1973 death in a plane crash with Maury Muehleisen. Together their work was released posthumously.
• Various home recordings by Nick Drake have been released since his death in 1974 to satisfy growing interest in his work.
• Various solo albums by Pete Ham who was leader singer for Badfinger, 7 Park Avenue (1997), Golders Green (1999) and The Keywhole Street Demos 1966-67 (2013) were released several after his death in 1975.
• Various live recordings and studio outtakes by Tim Buckley have been released posthumously 1975 from an accidental overdose of heroin and alcohol.
• Blues legend Howlin' Wolf had various albums released after his death in 1976. Featuring His Best (1997).
• Paul Kossoff's 2nd Street and Koss were released after he died from a sudden drug overdose.
• Jimmy Reed's I'm Going to Upside Your Head (1980) and I'm the Man Down There (1985) were released after he suddenly died of respiratory failure.
• Many of Tommy Bolin`s work was released after a 1976 drug overdose. The albums feature his solo work and well as albums with Deep Purple.
• Several albums were released after Marc Bolan`s death in 1977. Featuring his solo albums, work he did with John`s Children and concert albums he did with T.Rex.
• The only solo album recorded by Steve Gaines of Lynyrd Skynyrd, One in the Sun, was released in 1988.
• Ronnie Van Zandt of Lynyrd Skynyrd was featured on Skynyrd's First and... Last (1978) recorded during their early years.
• Lowell George appears on Little Feat's Down on the Farm (album) released after the band broke up that same year and Hoy-Hoy! (1981) and other Little Feat albums. He did an album with Bonnie Raitt "Ultrasonic Studios 1972 (Live)" (2014). He also appears on Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol 1. (1988), Vol.4 (1991), Vol 5. (1992), Mystery Disc (1998) and other Zappa albums.
• Many of Chris Bell's solo album were released. Bell was the lead singer for Big Star. The first album was not released until 1992 I Am the Cosmos
• Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious has been the subject of a plethora of posthumous solo albums in the years following his death of a heroin overdose in 1979.

1980s

• Two songs performed by Donny Hathaway (in collaboration with Roberta Flack) - "Back Together Again" and "You Are My Heaven" - were released in 1980, one year following his death.
• Two singles and Love Lives Forever were released in 1980 after Minnie Riperton died a year earlier.
• The non-album single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and its companion album Closer, in June and August of 1980, respectively, after the suicide of Joy Division lead singer Ian Curtis on May 18 of that year. The remaining members of Joy Division later went on to form New Order.
• Soviet singer Vladimir Vysotsky's work was released in various European countries after his death in 1980.
• John Lennon's hit singles "Woman" and "Watching the Wheels" were released shortly after his murder. The album Milk and Honey, which includes the song "Nobody Told Me", came out two years later.
• Many of Tim Hardin's albums Unforgiven and The Homecoming Concert were both less than a year after his death. Other sogns were released on other albums compilations album years later.
• Many of Mike Bloomfield's albums Living in the Fast Lane (1981), Bloomfield: A Retrospective (1983) and I'm with You Always (2008), etc. were released.
• Coda (1982) by Led Zeppelin was released two years after the death of John Bonham.
• Soldier on the Wall by Punk legend Alex Harvey was released months after his death in 1982.
• Confrontation (1983) by Bob Marley and the Wailers was released two years after Marley's death from metastatic melanoma.
• Four albums by The Carpenters have been released since the death of Karen Carpenter: Voice of the Heart, An Old-Fashioned Christmas, Lovelines and As Time Goes By. Her aborted solo album has also been released, simply titled Karen Carpenter.
• Muddy Waters's albums Rollin' Stone: The Golden Anniversary Collection (2000), The Anthology: 1947–1972 (2001), Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down (2007) and Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981 (2012), etc.
• Stukas Over Disneyland by The Dickies was released in 1983 two years after Chuck Wagon's death.
• The album Dancin' wid da Blues Brothers by The Blues Brothers was released a year after John Belushi's death in 1982.
• The Marvin Gaye albums Dream of a Lifetime (1985, Columbia), Romantically Yours (1985, Columbia) (the single "Sanctified Lady" became a modest international hit when it was released in 1985 reaching number two on the American R&B charts and number fifty-seven in the UK.) and Vulnerable (1997, Motown) (which was the aborted The Ballads album) were released after he was killed by his father in 1984.
• My Place, a solo album by Australian guitarist Guy McDonough (Australian Crawl), was released in 1985 after his death.
• The live album Ballot Result by the punk band The Minutemen was released two years after the death of lead singer/guitarist D. Boon in a van accident.
• Randy Rhoads is featured in Ozzy Osbourne's album Tribute which was a tribute album to Rhoads who died in 1982 was released five years after. The album was work done by Rhoads. Also Quiet Riot released the album The Randy Rhoads Years in 1993 during Rhoads time with the band in the late 1970s.
• The song "To Live Is to Die" on heavy metal band Metallica's fourth studio album ...And Justice for All (1988) was written by Cliff Burton, the late bass player whose untimely death occurred in Sweden while he was on tour with Metallica in 1986.
• Six years after Harry Chapin's death the album Remember When the Music was released in 1987, The Last Protest Singer in 1988 and many others.
• Divine died in 1988, followed by the release of The Best Of and the Rest Of (1989) (compilation), 12 Inch Collection (1993) (compilation), Born To Be Cheap (1995) (live), Shoot Your Shot (1995), The Originals and the Remixes (1996) (2-CD compilation), and The Best of Divine (1997) (compilation).
• Red Hot Chili Peppers guitarist Hillel Slovak died in 1988 of a drug overdose. He appears in Mother's Milk with the song Fire.
• Many of Roy Buchanan's albums Early Years (1989, Krazy Kat), Sweet Dreams: The Anthology (1992, Polydor) and many others were released after Buchanan committed suicide in a prison in 1988.
• Mystery Girl by Roy Orbison; it spawned a hit single in "You Got It".
• I Wonder Do You Think of Me (1989), Kentucky Bluebird (1991), Keith Whitley: A Tribute Album (1994), and Wherever You Are Tonight (1995) were all released following Keith Whitley's death from an alcohol overdose in 1989.

1990s

• Apple, the sole album by grunge band Mother Love Bone, was released days after lead singer Andrew Wood's death in 1990.
• Grateful Dead's keyboardist Brent Mydland was featured in many of the Dead's albums after his death in 1990. He was featured on Without a Net (1990), Infrared Roses (1991), and many other live albums.
• Soviet-Korean singer, Viktor Tsoi who was the co-founder of the band Kino, was featured in the band's final album Kino after his death in 1990.
• Many of Stevie Ray Vaughan's albums, Family Style (1990), The Sky Is Crying (1991), In the Beginning (1992), and many others were released after his death in a plane crash in 1990.
• Rock On! was released seven months after Del Shannon's suicide.
• Steve Clark wrote songs and did demos for Def Leppard's Adrenalize a year later after his death.
• The last studio album by Miles Davis Doo-Bop (1992) was released nine months after his death. Many live albums have been released since his death.
• Kiss's Eric Carr appears on backing vocals on "God Gave Rock 'N' Roll to You II", and drums on "Carr Jam 1981" on Revenge (1992).
• Toto releases Kingdom of Desire (1992) just weeks after Jeff Porcaro died. The album is a tribute to him.
• 7 Year Bitch released their first album Sick 'Em after co-founder and guitarist Stefanie Sargent died of a drug overdose.
• Since Albert King's death many albums have been released with Blues at Sunset (1993), In Session (1999) with Stevie Ray Vaughan and many others.
• Conway Twitty's album Final Touches (1993) was released two months after his death from an aneurysm.
• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was released posthumously after the murder of Mayhem's guitarist, Euronymous, and posthumously the after the suicide of vocalist Dead.
• Mia Zapata who was a member of The Gits, Enter: The Conquering Chicken (1994) was released a one-year alter after Zapata was murdered.
• Many of Frank Zappa's solo work and his work with The Mothers Of Invention was released after his deaths with albums like Civilization Phaze III (1994), The MOFO Project/Object (2006) and many others.
• Keep the Fire Burnin' (1994) by Dan Hartman was released nine months after his death.
• MTV Unplugged in New York, on November 1, 1994 after singer/songwriter/guitarist Kurt Cobain's death on April 5 of the same year; also From the Muddy Banks of the Wishkah, With the Lights Out and Sliver: The Best of the Box. There was also a single, "You Know You're Right", recorded on January 30, 1994 at Bob Lang Studios during Nirvana's final studio session; it was finally released on the band's compilation album, Nirvana, eight years after Cobain's death.
• Hole's Kristen Pfaff was featured on one track My Body, the Hand Grenade three years after her death.
• The self-titled album Sun Red Sun was released in 1995 nearly two years after lead singer Ray Gillen died.
• Dreaming of You (1995), the only English album by Selena, was released four months after her murder by Yolanda Saldívar.
• Queen album Made in Heaven was released four years after the death of frontman Freddie Mercury from AIDS-related bronchopneumonia in 1991.
• Eazy-E's album Str8 off tha Streetz of Muthaphukkin Compton (1995) was released eight months after his death from AIDS.
• Many of Jerry Garcia's albums were released with The Grateful Dead and Jerry Garcia Band's How Sweet It Is (1997) and many others.
• Antonio Brasileiro and Tom Jobim were both released after Antonio Carlos Jobim's death from cardiac arrest on December 8, 1994.
• The Beatles' songs "Free as a Bird" and "Real Love", wherein the three surviving Beatles overdubbed onto home recordings by John Lennon.
• Nico (1996) by Blind Melon, released one year after Shannon Hoon's death from a cocaine overdose, The Best of Blind Melon (2005) featuring three live tracks and Live at the Palace (2006).
• The self-titled album from California ska group Sublime was released after singer/songwriter/guitarist Bradley Nowell's 1996 heroin overdose death. Also many singles were released in 1997.
• British drummer Mathew Fletcher was featured on Heavenly's Operation Heavenly a few months after he committed in 1996. He is also featured on Talulah Gosh's single "Demos EP" (2011) and the album Was It Just a Dream? (2013).
• Jason Thirsk appears in Humble Gods' album No Heroes (1996) a few months after his 1996 accidental suicide while he was drunk. He also appears on Pennywise's Full Circle (1997), and Yesterdays (2014).
• The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory (1996), R U Still Down? (Remember Me) (1997), Still I Rise (1999), Until the End of Time (2001), Better Dayz (2002), Tupac: Resurrection (2003), Loyal to the Game (2004), and Pac's Life (2006) were all released after Tupac Shakur's death on September 13, 1996.
• Eva by Heart (1997), Time After Time (2000), Imagine (2002), American Tune (2003), Somewhere (2008), and Simply Eva (2011), all after Eva Cassidy's death from melanoma in 1996.
• Mystery White Boy and Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk were released after the death of Jeff Buckley in 1997.
• The Notorious B.I.G.'s albums Life After Death, Born Again and Duets: The Final Chapter were released after his murder in 1997.
• AC/DC's released their boxset Bonfire in 1997 tributing to Bon Scott who died in 1980. The boxset features five CD's of songs that were previously unreleased.
• Michael Hutchence, a self-titled album by the original frontman of INXS, was released after his 1997 death of suicide by hanging.
• Austrian pop star Falco's last album, Out of the Dark (Into the Light), was released in February, 1998 in Europe and March, 1998 worldwide. Falco died on 2 February 1998 in a car accident.
• All of rapper Fat Pat's works were released after his 1998 murder.
• Linda McCartney's only album Wide Prairie was released in October 1998 after she died to cancer on April 17, 1998 .
• California session singer Warren Wiebe has been featured on various compilation albums following his suicide in October, 1998 as well as several demo recordings.
• LB IV Life was the last album to have Freaky Tah. It was released six months after his death.
• Rapper Big L's album The Big Picture was released in 2000, a year after he was shot to death in his own neighborhood; the murder is still unsolved.
• Kevin Gilbert's concept album, The Shaming of the True, released in 2000, four years after his death from autoerotic asphyxiation.

2000s

• Raymond Scott's album Manhattan Research Inc. (2000), which contained selected samples of Scott's work from the 1950s and 1960s for film soundtracks, commercials, and for his own technical and musical experiments, was released six years after Scott's death in 1994.
• The Whitlams released two singles after the death of bassist Andy Lewis in early 2000: Blow Up the Pokies (2000) and Made Me Hard (2001).
• Aaliyah's music video for her song "Rock the Boat" was completed the morning of her death. Her album I Care 4 U was released posthumously, with six previously unreleased tracks.
• Don't Worry About Me, the only solo album by Joey Ramone, was released a year after Joey's death in 2001. A year later Dee Dee Ramone died featuring both men on NYC 1978 (2003).
• Brainwashed by George Harrison, completed by producer Jeff Lynne and son Dhani Harrison.
• The Essential Alice in Chains, was released in 2006 four years after Layne Staley's death. This is the only album of his work with Alice In Chains after his death.
• 3D (2002), TLC's studio album, was released just seven months after Lisa Lopes' death from a car accident. Lopes' own second studio album, Eye Legacy was released in January 2009, almost seven years after her death.
• Alive! (Snot album) was released in 2002 after Lynn Strait's death in 1998.
• A video album by Drowning Pool Sinema (2002) was released three months after Dave Williams suddenly died of heart failure.
• Home and Away was released sixteen years after Del Shannon's suicide in 1990.
• Live at Montreux 2001 by Run-DMC featuring Jam Master Jay was released in 2007.
• Streetcore, the third and final album by Joe Strummer & The Mescaleros, was released a little less than a year after Strummer's death.
• The Shining, by J Dilla.
• Jeremy Michael Ward was featured on Omar Rodríguez-López albums A Manual Dexterity: Soundtrack Volume One (2004), Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward (2008) and Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead (2008) were all recorded in 2001.
• From a Basement on the Hill and New Moon were released after Elliott Smith's death.
• Ray Charles's album Genius Loves Company (2004) was released two months after his death. Also albums Genius & Friends (2005), Genius & Friends (2006), and Rare Genius (2010) were released was well.
• Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration album by David Allan Coe and Pantera, released over a year after Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was murdered.
• Two albums, Katorz (2006) and Infini (2009), by thrash metal band Voivod were released after the death of lead guitarist Denis D'Amour in 2005.
• American V: A Hundred Highways (2006), American VI: Ain't No Grave (2010) and Forever Words were released after Johnny Cash's death in 2003. Also many live and collaboration albums have been released as well.
• Maynard Ferguson's last album, The One and Only recorded a few weeks prior to his death in 2006, was released several months later in 2007.
• Korean singer U;Nee's last album, Habit, was released five days after her in 2007.
• Gerald Levert's In My Songs was released after his death.
• Since James Brown's death many albums have been released like Live at the Apollo, Volume IV: September 13–14, 1972 (2016) and other compilations.
• Toše Proeski's album The Hardest Thing was released posthumously in 2009, two years after his death in a car accident.
• Grégory Lemarchal's La Voix d'un ange was released a month and half later after his death.
• LeRoi Moore, founding member of Dave Matthews Band, died of complications from an ATV accident while Big Whiskey and the Groogrux King was still in production. The album was released approximately 9 months after his passing.
• Mess of Blues by Jeff Healey was released a week alter after his death.
• Michael Jackson's song "This Is It" was released after his death in 2009.
• Michael, a collection of formerly unreleased tracks by Michael Jackson, was released on December 14, 2010.
• Black Beauty, an unreleased album by the group Love shelved 38 years ago, was finally released in 2011 — five years after the death of its frontman, Arthur Lee.
• Luther Vandross's single Shine was released in 2006, the year following his death.
• Several albums by Stevie Ray Vaughan were released after his death in 1990.
• Brother by Boyzone was released on March 8, 2010, months after member Stephen Gately's death from natural causes on October 10, 2009.
• Nightmare, the fifth album by metal band Avenged Sevenfold, was released on July 27, 2010, almost 7 months after the death of drummer The Rev on December 28, 2009.

2010s

• Three of Jimi Hendrix's albums were released during the decade with Valleys of Neptune (2010), West Coast Seattle Boy: The Jimi Hendrix Anthology (2010) and People, Hell and Angels (2013) more than 40 years after his death.
• In Love And War (aka ILAW, originally The Sickos Project) by Francis M. and Ely Buendia was released in May 2010, months after master rapper Francis Magalona died on March 6, 2009 cause diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia.
• Manic Street Preachers released an album, Journal for Plague Lovers using lyrics constructed by Richey Edwards before his disappearance in 1995.
• Lioness: Hidden Treasures, an album of lost recordings (from 2002 to 2011) by British singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse, was released on December 5, 2011; four months after her death on July 23. Two singles were also released: "Our Day Will Come", on December 5; and "Body & Soul", which is a duet with the legendary Tony Bennett, on the day that would have been her 28th birthday.
• La Misma Gran Señora by Jenni Rivera was released on December 11, 2012, two days after Rivera had died in a plane crash.
• Lost My Way by Tim Ryan was released on October 8, 2013, approximately two years following a fatal car crash.^[3]
• Xscape by Michael Jackson was released on May 9, 2014, almost five years after his death in 2009.
• "Let Me in Your Heart Again" and "There Must Be More to Life Than This (with Michael Jackson)" were released after the death of Queen frontman, Freddie Mercury's death in 1991, and Michael Jackson's death in 2009. They were both released for the album Queen Forever.
• Alan Wilson, leader singer of Canned Heat released his only solo album Alan Wilson : The Blind Owl (2013) after 43 years of his untimely death in 1970.
• Pink Floyd's 2014 album The Endless River was released six years after keyboardist Richard Wright's death; the album consists almost entirely of leftover instrumentals featuring Wright from the recording sessions for 1994's The Division Bell.
• Montage of Heck: The Home Recordings by Kurt Cobain was the first solo album released since his death in 1994. Also this was the first album without Nirvana.
• It`s All Over Now Baby Blue recorded by the SIMS Foundation was a tribute album to Sims Ellison of Pariah, celebrating 20 years after his death. Ellison committed suicide in 1995 and is the first album after his death.
• Blind Melon's Screamin' at the Sun was released on ITunes in 2015, 20 years after Shannon Hoon's death. The live album was recorded in New York in 1993.
• Chinx Drugz's album Welcome To JFK was released one month after his death.
• Frank Zappa's Project/Object Series features Meat Light (2016) was released 23 years after Zappa's death. This album is a 3CD compilation featuring members of The Mothers of Invention who half of them have passed on when the album was released.
• Pantelis Pantelidis' album Thimame was released 4 months after his death.
• Live Facelift by Alice In Chains released on vinyl in 2016. Featured both Layne Staley who died in 2002 and Mike Starr who died in 2011.
• You and I, a compilation of early studio recordings in 1993 by Jeff Buckley was released 19 years after his death.
• Just two days short of the one year anniversary of David Bowie's 2016 death from liver cancer, the EP No Plan was released, featuring three studio recordings of Bowie performing songs from his musical Lazarus, which had previously only been recorded by the musical's cast. The songs on No Plan are stated to be the last three songs Bowie had ever recorded in his lifetime.
• Prince's 4ever album was released seven months after his death of a fentanyl overdose. The album features the unreleased track "Moonbeam Levels" which was recorded in 1982.
• A week after Gord Downie's death, the solo album Introduce Yerself was released.
• Viola Beach's eponymous album was released after all the band members (and their manager) died in a car crash.
• Poet | Artist, Jonghyun's second solo album, was released in January 2018, a month after his death.
• Here's to You, the ninth studio album by country music duo Montgomery Gentry, was released following member Troy Gentry's death in a helicopter crash. The accident took place on September 8, 2017 in Medford, New Jersey, where the duo was scheduled to perform that evening.
• Chris Cornell former lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave is featured on an album track of "You Never Knew My Mind" on Johnny Cash's Forever Words (2018). Cash passed away in 2003. Cornell committed suicide on May 18, 2017.
• "Falling Down", a collaboration between rappers XXXTentacion and Lil Peep was released on September 19, 2018. It is Lil Peep's third posthumous single as a lead artist and XXX's first.

Note: Records released after the split of a band are also sometimes referred as "posthumous", even if all members are still alive.