Draft:List of simultaneous releases of albums

Some musical performers have released two or more distinct but related albums simultaneously (or near-simultaneously), which are sometimes seen together as a double album.

This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources.

• Shakira's Fijación Oral, Vol. 1 and Oral Fixation, Vol. 2 (2005) (Recorded in the same sessions but released months apart)
• Guns N' Roses' Use Your Illusion I and II (1991) (Both albums were double albums in and of themselves)
• Donovan's A Gift from a Flower to a Garden (1967), one of rock's earliest box set releases, comprising two albums, Wear Your Love Like Heaven and For Little Ones.
• Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage, Acts I, II & III (1979) (Act I was released in September 1979, Act II & Act III were released as one double album in November of the same year, all three acts were later reissued as a triple album in 1987)
• Basement Jaxx's Planet 1, Planet 2 (2008) and Planet 3 (2009) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Basement Jaxx's Scars and Zephyr (2009) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Genesis' The Way We Walk, Volume One: The Shorts (1992) and The Way We Walk, Volume Two: The Longs (1993) (Recorded on their 1992 We Can't Dance Tour. Disc one features live versions of their hit singles; Disc two features live versions of their longer album pieces)
• Green Day's ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! trilogy (2012) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Stone Sour's House of Gold & Bones – Part 1 (2012) and House of Gold & Bones – Part 2 (2013) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Bruce Springsteen's Human Touch and Lucky Town (1992)
• System of a Down's Mezmerize and Hypnotize (2005) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Justin Timberlake's The 20/20 Experience and The 20/20 Experience – 2 of 2 (2013) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Tom Waits' Blood Money and Alice (2002)
• Bright Eyes' I'm Wide Awake, It's Morning and Digital Ash in a Digital Urn (2005)
• Metallica's Load and ReLoad (1996/1997) (Originally conceived as a double album, before being released separately)
• Mudvayne's The New Game (2008) and self-titled album (2009) (Originally conceived as a double album at one point prior to being released as separate albums years apart, though they were recorded at the same time)
• Nelly's Sweat and Suit (2004)
• Radiohead's Kid A and Amnesiac (2000/2001) (Recorded in same sessions and considered for release as a double album at one point)
• Sabrina Carpenter's Singular: Act I and Singular: Act II (2018/2019) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Archive's Controlling Crowds and Controlling Crowds Part IV were both released in 2009. The latter album serves as an expansion to the parts I–III, which the former album's tracks are divided into. A bundle containing both albums has also been sold.
• Coheed and Cambria's The Afterman: Ascension and The Afterman: Descension (2012/2013) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Deerhunter's Microcastle and Weird Era Cont. (2008) (Weird Era Cont. was recorded in response to Microcastle being leaked online months in advance; the two albums were released as a double CD; Microcastle was also a separate releases)
• Death Grips' Niggas on the Moon (2014) and Jenny Death (2015) (Both were recorded in the same year but released simultaneously nine months after the release of Niggas on the Moon on their double album, The Powers That B)
• Future's Future and Hndrxx (2017) (Released one week apart)
• Hurd's The Best Collection I and II (1997) (Recorded in same sessions)
• Insane Clown Posse's Bizaar and Bizzar (2000)
• DJ Magic Mike's This Is How It Should Be Done and Bass: The Final Frontier (1993)
• Maudlin of the Well's Bath and Leaving Your Body Map (2001) (Both albums were reissued together in a vinyl box set on Blood Music in 2012.)
• Opeth's Deliverance and Damnation (2002/2003) (Recorded in same sessions but released months apart)
• Periphery's Juggernaut: Alpha and Juggernaut: Omega (2015)
• Simple Minds' Sons and Fascination/Sister Feelings Call (1981) (Originally conceived as two separate albums, before being released as one)
• Both eponymous Red House Painters albums from 1993 (often named Rollercoaster and Bridge respectively) were initially created with the intent of releasing a double album, but were released separately about five months apart.
• Sixx:A.M.'s Prayers For The Damned, Vol. 1 and Prayers For The Blessed, Vol. 2 (Recorded in the same sessions but released months apart)
• Taylor Swift's Folklore and Evermore (Both written and recorded during the 2020 COVID-19 lockdown and released months apart)
• King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard's K.G. and L.W. (2020/2021)
• Nine Inch Nails' Ghosts V: Together and Ghosts VI: Locusts (2020)
• Weezer's SZNZ project, consisting of four EPs: Spring, Summer, Autumn, and Winter, each released on the first day of the respective season (2022)