List of music released posthumously

19th century and earlier

• Frédéric Chopin's opuses 66-74 contain more than twenty posthumous works.
• "Beautiful Dreamer", published in 1864, shortly after the death of songwriter Stephen Foster; at the time of publication of its first edition, it was promoted as "the last song ever written by Stephen C. Foster, composed but a few days prior to his death," though it actually may have been written as early as 1862.
• The phonautograms of Édouard-Léon Scott de Martinville were not able to be played back until long after his death in 1879, as they required digital technology

  20th century

1900s-1950s

• "Cannibal Carnival", a dance barbarique, was 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, King of the Delta Blues Singers, Vol. II and The Complete Recordings.
• All of Sonny Boy Williamson I's work was released after he was murdered in 1948.
• Fats Navarro's The Complete Blue Note and Capitol Recordings of Fats Navarro and Tadd Dameron released by Blue Note Records in 1995. Also is featured on Dizzy Gillespie's The Complete RCA Victor Recordings.
• "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.
• Charlie Parker only had two albums released after his death in 1955. The Genius Of Charlie Parker, #1 - night and day and Dizzy Gillespie's The Complete RCA Victor Recordings.
• Clifford Brown's work was released after his death in 1956. Two albums with Max Roach were Daahoud and Alone Together: The Best of the Mercury Years.
• Most of Big Bill Broonzy's work was released after he died from throat cancer in 1958. Albums such as Trouble in Mind.
• "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. The Big Bopper who also died in the accident had many albums and singles released. He wrote Johnny Preston's song Running Bear which was released a few months later after his death.
• Last Recordings, released just days after Billie Holiday's death from heart disease and cirrhosis of the liver in July 1959.

  1960s

• Jesse Belvin work Mr. Easy featuring Art Pepper and Marty Paich Orchestra, Yesterdays, Hang Your Tears out To Dry and others were released after he died in a car crash in February 1960.
• "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 ", 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, Street Talkin', King of the Slide Guitar and The Classic Early Recordings: 1951–1956, etc.
• Many of Johnny Burnette's work was released after his death in 1964 from a boating accident.
• Sam Cooke's albums Shake and Try a Little Love
• Many of Nat King Cole work was released after his death in 1965.
• Sonny Boy Williamson II's albums Sonny Boy Williamson and the Yardbirds, The Real Folk Blues 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 and The Bobby Fuller Tapes Vol. 2.
• Many of Woody Guthrie's recordings were released in albums after his death in 1967. See Woody Guthrie discography.
• Chilean singer Violeta Parra had released many albums since her death. Parra committed suicide in 1967.
• The single " The Dock of the Bay" was released a month after the plane crash that killed singer Otis Redding.
• Edith Piaf's last recording "L'homme de Berlin" was released five years after she died of liver cancer.
• "I'm Sorry" and "Seabreeze" by Frankie Lymon were released in 1969, a year after Lymon's untimely death from an accidental heroin overdose.
• Little Willie John's album Ninety Sixty Six was in released in 2008, 40 years after he died of a heart attack in jail.
• With the sudden passing of Wes Montgomery, albums Road Song, Willow Weep for Me and Eulogy were released.
• The Sheik of Shake by Dickie Pride was released in 1992.
• Fairport Convention's Martin Lamble was killed in a car accident just nearly two months before their album Unhalfbricking was released.
• The Prime of Shorty Long was released shortly after Shorty Long died.
• 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.
• Many of Magic Sam's work was released.

  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. He is also featured on Live at Topanga Corral, Woodstock 2, and Uncanned! The Best of Canned Heat.
• 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 before she died. Her band, the Full Tilt Boogie Band, recorded the music. She has had other work released since then.
• Baby Huey's only album ' was released in 1971 after a drug overdose in late 1970.
• Arlester "Dyke" Christian of Dyke and the Blazers had three compilations released after his death in 1971. So Sharp, The Funky Broadway, and We Got More Soul.
• 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, An Anthology Volume II, 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.
• Lee Morgan is featured on Charles Earland's Intensity, Charles III, and Funk Fantastique. All of this was recorded just days before Morgan was shot to death.
• Linda Jones's Soul Talkin was released in 2008. She died in 1972 due to diabetes.
• Leslie Harvey is featured on Stone the Crows's live albums The BBC Sessions Vol 1. and 2., Live Montreux 1972, Radio Sessions 1969-1972, and BBC Sessions 1969-1972. All the band's albums were recorded between 1969 and 1972. He died in 1972 at being electrocuted.
• 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
• Danny Whitten who was the guitarist for Neil Young and Crazy Horse appears on Young's Tonight's the Night, ', ', and Live at the Fillmore East.
• Ron "Pigpen" McKernan founding member of the Grateful Dead is featured in many albums since his death in 1973. He died from gastrointestinal bleeding from years of alcoholism.
• Many of Clarence White work was released after his death in 1973 after being hit by a drunk driver. He is featured on Kentucky Colonels, his solo albums and The Byrds's Live at the Fillmore – February 1969, Live at Royal Albert Hall 1971 and The Lost Broadcasts.
• Many of Gram Parsons work was released after his death in 1973 due to a drug overdose with Grievous Angel, Sleepless Nights, and many others. Also he is featured on many albums with The Flying Burrito Brothers and The Byrds.
• Several of Jim Croce's singles and albums were released after his 1973 death in a plane crash along with Maury Muehleisen. Together their work was released posthumously.
• Maury Muehleisen's album Before the Ever Since: Early Recordings 1969-1970 and a reissue of 1970's Gingerbreadd edition was released after he died in a plane crash in 1973 along with Jim Croce.
• Bobby Darin's Live at the Desert Inn was recorded in 1971. Darin died following heart surgery in 1973.
• Many of Duke Ellington's work has been released since his death. Eastbourne Performance was released in 1975.
• Graham Bond's Live at Klooks Kleek was released. The album was recorded in 1964 with the Graham Bond Organisation.
• Mama Cass of The Mamas & the Papas is featured on The Mamas & the Papas Complete Anthology with previously unreleased tracks. Cass died in 1974
• 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, Golders Green and The Keywhole Street Demos 1966-67 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.
• Many of Cannonball Adderley's work was released after his death.
• Blues legend Howlin' Wolf had various albums released after his death in 1976. Featuring His Best.
• Many of Vince Guaraldi's work was released after his in death in 1976 due to a sudden heart attack. Featuring Jazz Casual: Paul Winter / Bola Sete & Vince Guaraldi, A Charlie Brown Christmas editions, The Definitive Vince Guaraldi, and Vince Guaraldi and the Lost Cues from the Charlie Brown Television Specials Vol 1. and Vol 2..
• Florence Ballard only album The Supreme Florence "Flo" Ballard. Originally the album was supposed to be released by ABC Records in 1968 under the proposed title, "...You Don't Have To".
• Paul Kossoff's 2nd Street and Koss were released after he died from a pulmonary embolism whilst on a flight from Los Angeles to New York in 1976.
• Many of Phil Ochs work was released after his death. Ochs committed suicide in 1976.
• The Yardbirds's Keith Relf is featured many live Yardbirds albums like BBC Sessions and Live! Blueswailing July '64. Also his singles "Together Now" and "All the Fallen Angels" were both released in 1989. "All the Fallen Angels" was recorded in 1976 just 12 days before his death.
• Jimmy Reed's I'm Going to Upside Your Head and I'm the Man Down There was 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.
• Many of Peter Laughner's work was released after his death in 1977. Albums Peter Laughner, Take The Guitar Player for a Ride, and The Day the Earth Met the Rocket from the Tombs by Rocket from the Tombs. Also appears in Pere Ubu's The Shape of Things.
• Several of Elvis Presley albums have been released since his death in 1977. In October 1977 Elvis in Concert was released two months after his death.
• 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. Featuring You Scare Me to Death which was released in 1981.
• Bing Crosby's Seasons was released after he died. Singles "Peace on Earth/Little Drummer Boy" with David Bowie was released in 1982 and "True Love" with Grace Kelly was released in 1983. Many other albums have been released since 1977.
• 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 recorded during their early years.
• Many of Rahsaan Roland Kirk's work was released after his death in 1977. Featuring ', Dog Years in the Fourth Ring, and Brotherman in the Fatherland.
• Chicago's Terry Kath is featured on Chicago Presents The Innovative Guitar of Terry Kath and . He accidentally shot himself in 1978.
• Sandy Denny has released many albums since her death. Includes Who Knows Where the Time Goes?, The BBC Sessions 1971–1973, Gold Dust, and Sandy Denny.
• Keith Moon of The Who is featured in many live albums which were released after his death in 1978 of a drug overdose.
• 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
• Many of Grant Green's work has been released.
• 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.
• Lowell George appears on Little Feat's Down on the Farm released after the band broke up that same year and Hoy-Hoy! and other Little Feat albums. He did an album with Bonnie Raitt Ultrasonic Studios 1972 . He also appears on Frank Zappa's You Can't Do That on Stage Anymore Vol 1., Vol.4, Vol 5., Mystery Disc and other Zappa albums.
• Jimmy McCulloch of Paul McCartney and Wings is featured on Thunderclap Newman's Beyond Hollywood.
• John Glascock is featured in many of Jethro Tull's albums like 20 Years of Jethro Tull and The Best of Jethro Tull – The Anniversary Collection. He is also featured in other bands Carmen's and Toe Fat's albums.

  1980s

• Two songs performed by Donny Hathaway - "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.
• Bon Scott is featured in many AC/DC albums. He died of alcohol poisoning in 1980.
• The non-album single "Love Will Tear Us Apart" and its companion album Closer, in June and August 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.
• Keith Godchaux of the Grateful Dead is featured in live albums. He died in 1980 after injuries form a car accident.
• Carl Radle appears on Derek and the Dominos' Live at the Filmore.
• Soviet singer Vladimir Vysotsky's work was released in various European countries after his death in 1980.
• Steve Peregrin Took's albums were released after his death in 1980. he died of a drug overdose.
• Punk musician Darby Crash is featured on the Germs's What We Do Is Secret and Germicide both released in 1981. Crash committed suicide 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 three years later.
• Many of Tim Hardin's albums Unforgiven and The Homecoming Concert were both less than a year after his death. Other songs were released on other albums compilations album years later.
• Many of Mike Bloomfield's albums Living in the Fast Lane, Bloomfield: A Retrospective and I'm with You Always, etc. were released.
• Coda 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 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.
• The Pretenders's Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott were both featured on the 2006 remaster editions of Pretenders and Pretenders II with previously unreleased material and demos. Honeyman-Scott died in 1982 and Fandon in 1983, both of drug overdoses.
• Muddy Waters's albums ', ', Breakin' It Up, Breakin' It Down and Live at the Checkerboard Lounge, Chicago 1981, etc.
• Chris Wood's only album Vulcan was released in 2008. It was recorded the same year he died.
• 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.
• Dennis Wilson of The Beach Boys appears on many albums. he drowned in the ocean in 1983.
• The Marvin Gaye albums Dream of a Lifetime, Romantically Yours and Vulnerable were released after he was killed by his father in 1984.
• Jackie Wilson's single "Reet Petite" was re-released in 1986 two years after he died. It went into international charts throughout 1987.
• My Place, a solo album by Australian guitarist Guy McDonough, was released in 1985 after his death.
• Ricky Wilson appears on The B-52's Bouncing Off the Satellites released in 1986 a year after his death. Also he is featured on ', and Live! 8-24-1979.
• 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.
• Gary Thain and David Byron of Uriah Heep are both featured on Live at Shepperton '74. Both Thain died in 1975 and Byron died in 1985.
• Also David Byron is also featured on The Lansdowne Tapes early recordings of Uriah Heep, Lost and Found by the David Byron Band and his solo album That Was Only Yesterday – The Last EP.
• 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.
• Many of Phil Lynott's work has been released. With albums Live in Sweden 1983, The Lost Recording 1970 and Yellow Pearl.
• Richard Manuel's solo work ', Live at O'Tooles Tavern and Live at the Lone Star. He is also featured the many of The Band's albums. He did two last songs with the band, "Country Boy," on Jericho, and "She Knows," on High on the Hog.
• The song "To Live Is to Die" on heavy metal band Metallica's fourth studio album ...And Justice for All was written by Cliff Burton, the late bass player whose untimely death occurred in Sweden while he was on tour with Metallica in 1986.
• Many of Hollywood Fats work has been released since he died 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.
• Many of Paul Butterfield's work has been released. He died of an accidental drug overdose.
• Hip hop disc jockey and producer Scott La Rock was murdered in 1987. His singles and EPs with KRS-One have been released.
• Peter Tosh's live albums and compilations have been released. He was murdered in 1987.
• Many of Jaco Pastorius's work with various artists and Weather Report have been released since his death in 1987. His notable album The Birthday Concert was recorded live in 1981.
• All of Alexander Bashlachev's work was released after he committed suicide in 1988. His first album, Time of Bells was released in 1989.
• Divine died in 1988, followed by the release of The Best Of and the Rest Of , 12 Inch Collection , Born To Be Cheap , Shoot Your Shot, The Originals and the Remixes , and The Best of Divine .
• Many of Chet Baker's work with various musicians was released after he died of a drug overdose in 1988.
• 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, ' 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".
• Some of Nico's work was released since she died in 1988.
• Echo & the Bunnymen's drummer Pete de Freitas who died in 1989 after motorcycle accident. Appears on BBC Radio 1 Live in Concert, and '.
• B. W. Stevenson's Rainbow Down The Road was released two years after Stevenson died during heart surgery.
• I Wonder Do You Think of Me, Kentucky Bluebird, , and Wherever You Are Tonight 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, Infrared Roses, 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.
• Brazilian singer Cazuza's album Por aí was released in 1991. He died of AIDS in 1990.
• Tom Fogerty's Sidekicks with Randy Oda, Merl Saunders's Fire Up Plus, The Very Best of Tom Fogerty and Creedence Clearwater Revival albums were released after he died in 1990 from tuberculosis.
• Steve Marriott's work was released. Also albums he did with Small Faces and Humble Pie.
• Many of Stevie Ray Vaughan's albums, Family Style, The Sky Is Crying, In the Beginning, 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, which was released a year later after his death.
• Many of Stan Getz's work was released
• The last studio album by Miles Davis, Doo-Bop, 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.
• Freddie Mercury solo albums The Freddie Mercury Album and The Great Pretender were both released in 1992 a year after his death from AIDS. Mercury also had other albums released later on.
• Paul Hackman of Helix is featured on Half-Alive, ', B-Sides, and Live! in Buffalo. Hackman died in a car accident in 1992.
• Toto released Kingdom of Desire 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, including with Blues at Sunset and In Session with Stevie Ray Vaughan.
• Conway Twitty's album Final Touches was released two months after his death from an aneurysm.
• Just Like This, Showtime, Indian Summer by Mick Ronson were released after his death in 1993. He is also featured on albums by David Bowie, Bob Dylan, Ian Hunter and Elton John.
• De Mysteriis Dom Sathanas was released posthumously after the murder of Mayhem's guitarist, Euronymous, and posthumously the after the suicide of vocalist Dead.
• More of Ritchie Valens albums The Ritchie Valens Story, Rockin' All Night - The Very Best of Ritchie Valens, and Come On, Let's Go! were released. Valens died in 1959 in a plane crash with Buddy Holly and the Big Bopper.
• GG Allin's Brutality and Bloodshed for All was released three after he died in 1993 after a drug overdose.
• Mia Zapata who was a member of The Gits, ' was released a one-year alter after Zapata was murdered.
• Rob "The Bass Thing" Jones of The Wonder Stuff appeared on Construction for the Modern Idiot released a month after he died of a sudden heart attack. The album reached No. 4 in the UK.
• Many of Frank Zappa's solo work and his work with The Mothers Of Invention was released after his death with albums like Civilization Phaze III, The MOFO Project/Object and many others.
• Keep the Fire Burnin 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 '. 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 of My Body, the Hand Grenade three years after her death.
• ' by Joe Walsh and various artists features Nicky Hopkins who died a few months before its release.
• Vivian Stanshall who died in 1995. His singles "Blind Date", "11 Moustachioed Daughters" b/w "The Strain", and "Cyborg Signal" were released in 2016.
• The self-titled album of Sun Red Sun was released in 1995 nearly two years after lead singer Ray Gillen died.
• Dreaming of You, the only English album by Selena, was released four months after her murder by Yolanda Saldívar.
• Rory Gallagher albums Meeting with the G-Man, Live at Montreux, and Notes from San Francisco were all released after he died of an infection in 1995.
• Dwayne Goettel of Skinny Puppy appeared in many of their albums like The Process and Puppy Gristle. Goettel died of a drug overdose.
• Velvet Underground's Sterling Morrison is on Peel Slowly and See a month after he died, ', and The Complete Matrix Tapes. Also he appeared on bandmate's John Cale's Antártida and Stainless Gamelan.
• Harry Nilsson's album Losst and Founnd was released 25 years after his death from heart attack in 1994.
• 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 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 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.
• Also The Beatles fifth member Stuart Sutcliffe is on Anthology 1 released in 1995. The songs were recorded in 1960 and Sutcliffe passed away in 1962 before the Beatles became famous with the Fab Four.
• Chic's Bernard Edwards appeared on the band's Live at the Budokan and The Power Station's Living in Fear just seven months after died of pneumonia.
• Nico by Blind Melon, released one year after Shannon Hoon's death from a cocaine overdose, The Best of Blind Melon featuring three live tracks and Live at the Palace.
• 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.
• Kevin Gilbert's concept album, The Shaming of the True, released in 2000, four years after his death from autoerotic asphyxiation.
• 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" and the album Was It Just a Dream?.
• Jason Thirsk appears in Humble Gods' album No Heroes a few months after his 1996 accidental suicide while he was drunk. He also appears on Pennywise's Full Circle, and Yesterdays.
• ', R U Still Down? , Still I Rise, Until the End of Time, Better Dayz, ', Loyal to the Game, and Pac's Life were all released after Tupac Shakur's death on September 13, 1996.
• Colleen Peterson's Postcards from California was released in 2004 eight years after she died of cancer.
• Eva by Heart, Time After Time, Imagine, American Tune, Somewhere, and Simply Eva, all after Eva Cassidy's death from melanoma in 1996.
• Many albums of Tiny Tim have been released.
• Billy MacKenzie of The Associates appears on The Glamour Chase. Many solo albums like Beyond The Sun, Eurocentric and Transmission Impossible were all released. He died in 1997 after he committed suicide.
• Mystery White Boy and Sketches for My Sweetheart the Drunk was released after the death of Jeff Buckley in 1997.
• The Notorious B.I.G.'s albums Life After Death, Born Again and ' were released after his murder in 1997.
• Much of Pakistani musician Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan's work was released after his death in 1997. His remix album Star Rise was released a year later.
• Nigeria's Fela Kuti work was released after he died form AIDS in 1997. Albums The Underground Spiritual Game, Live in Detroit, 1986 and many others were released.
• Nick Traina appears on Knowledge's A Gift Before I Go.
• The Doors released their box set, ' 26 years after Jim Morrison's death. This box set featured many unreleased tracks and live songs.
• AC/DC's released their box set Bonfire in 1997 tributing to Bon Scott who died in 1980. The box set features five CDs of songs that were previously unreleased.
• Epic Soundtracks has albums released since he died in 1997.
• 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 , was released in February 1998 in Europe and March 1998 worldwide. Falco died on 2 February 1998 in a car accident.
• All of the rapper Fat Pat's works were released after his 1998 murder.
• Rozz Williams with Christian Death and Shadow Project's albums. His first live album Live in Berlin was released in 2000.
• Drummer Cozy Powell has appeared on many albums for various artists such as Brian May, Rainbow and many others. His album Especially For You was released in 1999.
• John Denver's Forever, John was released in September 1998 a year after he died and Christmas in Concert in 2001. Many live albums have been released.
• Linda McCartney's only album Wide Prairie was released in October 1998 after she died to cancer on April 17, 1998.
• zilch's debut album, 3.2.1., was released 2 months after vocalist hide's death on May 2nd, 1998. A remix album, Bastard Eyes, was released the following year.
• Ja, Zoo by Japanese musician hide was released 6 months after his death.
• California session singer Warren Wiebe has been featured on various compilation albums following his suicide in October 1998 as well as several demo recordings.
• Björn Afzelius albums Elsinore, Björn Afzelius & Mikael Wiehe 1993 – Malmöinspelningarna , and Tusen bitar – Sånger om kärlek & rättvisa.
• LB IV Life was the last album to have Freaky Tah. It was released six months after his death.
• Founder of Moby Grape Skip Spence single "Land of the Sun" was released the year he died. Also he is featured on two albums by Moby Grape The Place and the Time and Moby Grape Live.
• Rapper Big L's album The Big Picture was released in 2000, a year after he was shot to death in his own neighbourhood; the murder is still unsolved.
• Reggae musician Dennis Brown had many albums released after his death in 1999.
• Stéphane Sirkis, member of French band Indochine, died of Hepatitis C while Dancetaria was still in production. The album was released nearly six months after his passing.
• Tripping Daisy member Wes Berggren is on the band's last self titled album was released in 2000 just months after Berggren died of an overdose.
• Janis Joplin Box of Pearls was released in 1999 featuring her 4 albums plus Rare Pearls. She died in 1970.
• Rick Danko is featured on many of The Band's live albums since his death in 1999. His solo albums Times Like These, Cryin' Heart Blues and many others. He is also featured on Richard Manuel's albums and Danko/Fjeld/Andersen's One More Shot'' with Jonas Fjeld and Eric Andersen.

  21st century

2000s

• Raymond Scott's album Manhattan Research Inc., 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.
• Israeli musician Ofra Haza's albums Manginat Halev Vol 1. and 2. and remix album Forever were released after her death in 2000 from AIDS related pneumonia.
• Big Pun's Yeeeah Baby was released two months after he died of a heart attack. The album hit #3 in the Billboard 200 and #1 in the Top R&B/Hip Hop Albums at the end of the year. Endangered Species was released in 2001 and featured the single "How We Roll" featuring Ashanti.
• The Whitlams released two singles after the death of bassist Andy Lewis in early 2000: "Blow Up the Pokies" and "Made Me Hard".
• Freddie Mercury's The Solo Collection was released in 2000. It was nine years after his death in 1991 from AIDS.
• Ian Dury's Ten More Turnips from the Tip was released in 2002.
• A few of John Lee Hooker's albums were released after his death.
• The Essential Collection and The Complete Duets with Marvin Gaye by Tammi Terrell were both released in 2001. Gaye was murdered in 1984.
• 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 first solo album by Joey Ramone, was released a year after Joey's death in 2001. A year later Dee Dee Ramone died. Both were featured on NYC 1978.
• Creedence Clearwater Revival released their box set ' after Tom Fogerty died in 1990. The box set features tracks when CCR was known as The Blue Velvets and The Golliwogs.
• George Harrison was featured in the song "Horse to the Water" on the album Small World, Big Band by Jools Holland's Rhythm and Blues Orchestra. He died from lung cancer in 2001.
• Brainwashed by George Harrison, completed by producer Jeff Lynne and son Dhani Harrison.
• 3D, 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.
• John Entwistle of The Who is featured on many of the band's live albums.
• Waylon Jennings has released many albums since his death in 2002.
• Snot album Alive! was released in 2002 after Lynn Strait's death in 1998.
• David Ruffin's album David was released in 2004, thirteen years after his death in 1991.
• Paul Baloff wrote songs for the album Let There Be Blood by Exodus.
• Sinema, a video album by Drowning Pool, 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.
• Deeper Still was released three years after Rick James's death in 2004.
• 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 ', Omar Rodriguez Lopez & Jeremy Michael Ward and Minor Cuts and Scrapes in the Bushes Ahead were all recorded in 2001.
• From a Basement on the Hill and New Moon were released after Elliott Smith's death.
• 22nd Century Lifestyle Thing was released after former member of Crazy Town and leader singer of pre)Thing Rust Epique died of a sudden heart attack a month before its release.
• Cuban singer Celia Cruz's Regalo del Alma and Dios Disfrute a la Reina were released after her death in 2003. Dios Disfrute a la Reina was recorded between 1998 and 1999.
• Warren Zevon's ' and ' were released after his death in 2003. Preludes was recorded before 1976.
• Buzz Gardner appears on Frank Zappa`s Beat the Boots! III and Ant-Bee`s Electronic Church Muzik.
• The Ape of Naples and The New Backwards were released after member of Coil John Balance died in 2004.
• Ray Charles's album Genius Loves Company was released two months after his death. Also albums Genius & Friends, Ray Sings, Basie Swings, and Rare Genius were released was well.
• Jan & Dean's Carnival of Sound was released in 2010 after Jan Berry died in 2004. It was the duo's last album and was recorded between 1966 and 1968.
• Robert Palmer's Live at the BBC was released in 2010.
• Terje Bakken's Valfar, ein Windir was released in November 2004 just nearly a year after he died.
• Rebel Meets Rebel, a collaboration album by David Allan Coe and Pantera, released over a year after Pantera guitarist Dimebag Darrell was murdered.
• A Son Unique by Ol' Dirty Bastard was released seven months after his death in 2004. Also many albums have been released since and his work with Wu-Tang Clan.
• Long John Baldry's Looking At Long John Baldry: The UA Years 1964-1966, Live – Iowa State University, and The Best of the Stony Plain Years were all released after he died in 2005.
• Two albums, Katorz and Infini, by thrash metal band Voivod were released after the death of lead guitarist Denis D'Amour in 2005.
• Krzysztof Raczkowski is featured on Sweet Noise - The Triptic, Atrocious Filth - Atrocious Filth, and Dies Irae - The Art Of An Endless Creation.
• Chris Whitley albums Reiter In, Dislocation Blues and On Air were released after he died from lung cancer in 2005.
• Many of Link Wray's work has been released.
• Shortly after Lou Rawls died three albums were released Live in Concert 1992/95, Merry Christmas, Baby and Christmas all released in 2006.
• Wilson Pickett's Wilson Pickett Show: Live in Germany 1968 and Live and Burnin' – Stockholm '69 were both released in 2009. Also compilation albums have been released since then.
• Lynden David Hall's single "Promise" released in 2013 and recorded in 2005 was released with the album re-released of In Between Jobs after Hall died of cancer in 2006.
• Nikki Sudden solo albums The Truth Doesn't Matter and Golden Vanity with Phil Shoenfelt were released. Many live albums have been released as well as stuff with Jaocbites and Swell Maps.
• ', ' and Forever Words were released after Johnny Cash's death in 2003. Also, many live and collaboration albums have been released as well.
• Many of Gene Pitney's work has been released.
• 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.
• 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 a 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 nine months after his passing.
• 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.
• Billy Preston appeared on a few albums before he passed away. Eric Clapton and J.J. Cale's The Road to Escondido, Sam Moore's Overnight Sensational, and Is'real Benton's Reach and Howard Hewett's Imagine.
• Luther Vandross's single "Shine" was released in 2006, the year following his death.
• Brad Delp of Boston appears on Rockin Away with Barry Goudreau, Mark Miller's Whatcha Gonna Do and Bruce Arnold's Orpheus Again.
• George McCorkle appeared on The Marshall Tucker Band's Live albums.
• Since Ike Turner's death many albums have been released such as and other early work.
• Dan Fogelberg's Love in Time was released nearly two years after his death. Also Live at Carnegie Hall was released in 2017.
• Jeff Healey's album Mess of Blues was released on March 11, 2008 nine days after his death from sarcoma. Also Songs from the Road, Last Call and others were released.
• Sean Costello material has seen release since he died form a drug overdose a day before his 29th birthday in 2008.
• Michelle Meldrum appears on Meldrum's Lifer.
• Bo Diddley is on Little Walter`s The Complete Chess Masters: 1950–1967. Appears as a guitarist on the previously unreleased songs "Feel So Bad" and "Make It Alright".
• Isaac Hayes wrote Maverick Sabre`s song "Let Me Go" in 2011.
• Janis Joplin's The Lost Tapes with Big Brother and the Holding Company released in 2008. Also the 9- disc set Blow All My Blues Away and The Pearl Sessions.
• Jimmy Carl Black released four studio and live albums in 2009. He appears on Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention`s The Lumpy Money Project/Object, Beat the Boots! III, Road Tapes, Venue 1 and Meat Light. Also he appears on Ant-Bee`s Electronic Church Muzik.
• 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.
• Marcel Jacob appears on Last Autumn's Dream's A Touch of Heaven.
• Willy DeVille's live albums were released in 2011 and 2013.
• Brother by Boyzone was released on March 8, 2010, months after member Stephen Gately's death from natural causes on October 10, 2009.
• Mike Alexander of Evile wrote a couple of songs for Five Serpent's Teeth in 2011.
• Al Martino's album Thank You was released in 2011 two years after his death.
• Jerry Fuchs appears on Masterati's Pyramid of the Sun released in 2010.
• SOULmate by Jacksoul was released on December 1, 2009, 10 days after Haydain Neale died of lung cancer.
• Jack Rose released three albums in 2010 after a sudden heart attack on December 5, 2009.
• Manic Street Preachers released an album, Journal for Plague Lovers using lyrics constructed by Richey Edwards before his disappearance in 1995.
• Nightmare, the fifth album by metal band Avenged Sevenfold, was released on July 27, 2010, almost seven months after the death of drummer The Rev on December 28, 2009.

  2010s

• Gregory Slay, founder of Remy Zero died on New Year's Day 2010. Slay appears on Horsethief Beats' The Sound Will Find You.
• Many of Jimi Hendrix's albums were released during the decade with Valleys of Neptune, ', People, Hell and Angels, Both Sides of the Sky and many others, more than 40 years after his death.
• In Love And War 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.
• Jay Reatard had many singles released after he died of a drug overdose in early 2010. He appears on In Utero, in Tribute, in Entirety tribute to Nirvana.
• Mark Linkous is on Dark Night of the Soul with Danger Mouse. Released four months after Linkous committed suicide.
• Ronnie James Dio live alums have been released since he died in 2010. Many like Heaven & Hell's , , Finding the Sacred Heart - Live in Philly 1986, and Live in London, Hammersmith Apollo 1993 have all been released.
• Bee Gees's Mythology features Andy Gibb on "Arrow Through the Heart" was recorded in 1987 a year before Andy died.
• Paul Gray bassist of Slipknot is featured on Antennas to Hell released two years after his death.
• Ou Est le Swimming Pool released their first and only album Golden Year after leader singer Charles Haddon committed suicide two months before.
• Steve Lee of Gotthard is featured on Homegrown - Live in Lugano in 2011 a year after he died.
• Many of Solomon Burke's albums have been released since he died on October 10, 2010.
• Mick Karn of Dalis Car is featured on InGladAloneness. It was released in 2012 a year after Karn died of cancer.
• Trish Keenan is featured on Scott Herren's The Only She Chapters and Broadcast's Berberian Sound Studio. She suddenly died from Pneumonia on January 14, 2011.
• Cold Chisel's Steve Prestwich is featured on No Plans. Prestwich died of a brain tumor on January 16, 2011.
• Nate Dogg is featured in singles "Party We Will Throw Now!", My House , Gangsta walk, and I Got Love.
• Andrew Gold released The Late Show - Live 1978 four years after he died.
• ', an album of lost recordings 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.
• Dear Mr Fantasy: The Jim Capaldi Story was released after Jim Capaldi died in 2005. This was a four-disc boxed set.
• Newark 1953 by Hank Mobley was released in 2012, 27 years after Mobley died.
• ...Ya Know? was released 11 years after Joey Ramone's death from lymphoma.
• Captain Beefheart's Bat Chain Puller was released on February 22, 2012. It was recorded in 1976. Also Sun Zoom Spark: 1970 to 1972 was released in 2014. Beefheart died in 2010 from Multiple sclerosis.
• Christmas Party was released six years after Davy Jones's death from a heart attack in 2012.
• La Misma Gran Señora by Jenni Rivera was released on December 11, 2012, two days after Rivera had died in a plane crash.
• Beautiful was released on January 15, 2013, approximately two years after Teena Marie's death in December 2010.
• Lost My Way by Tim Ryan was released on October 8, 2013, approximately two years following a fatal car crash.
• 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 " 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 ' after 43 years of his untimely death in 1970.
• Sublime's 3 Ring Circus - Live at The Palace was released after Bradley Nowell who died in 1996. The album was recorded in 1995.
• 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.
• Step Back by Johnny Winter was released on September 2, 2014, almost two months after his death.
• ' by Midnight was released in 2014 five years after Midnight died of a stomach aneurysm.
• Johnny Ramone is featured on Morrissey Curates The Ramones. Johnny died in 2004.
• 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.
• Curtis Knight's featuring Jimi Hendrix was released after Knight died in 1999 and Hendrix died in 1970. This was recorded when Hendrix was backing up for Knight in 1965 to 1967 before Hendrix's fame.
• Dusty Springfield's Faithful was released in 2015. It was recorded in 1971.
• Frank Zappa's Project/Object Series features Meat Light was released 23 years after Zappa's death. This album is a 3 CD compilation featuring members of The Mothers of Invention who half of them have passed away when the album was released.
• Pantelis Pantelidis' album Thimame was released four 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. Only 5000 copies were issued.
• 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.
• Christina Grimmie's EP, Side B, was released ten months after her death. On the day before her first anniversary of her death, her album All Is Vanity was released.
• 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 died in a car crash.
• Poet Artist|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.
• Johnny Cash's Forever Words features Chris Cornell, former lead singer of Soundgarden and Audioslave on "You Never Knew My Mind". Cash died in 2003 and Cornell died on May 18, 2017 after he committed suicide.
• "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.
• "Cry Alone" a single was released posthumously by Lil Peep at 8:47 AM October 18, 2018. It is Lil Peep's fourth posthumous single as a lead artist.
• 10x10 by Ronnie Montrose was released on September 29, 2017. Montrose died in 2012.
• Jackson C. Frank's 1968 track "Golden Mirror" was released in late 2017.
• Jeff and Mike Porcaro appear on Toto's 40 Trips Around the Sun.
• Mark Morton released his album Anesthetic in 2019. The album features "Cross Off", which featured Chester Bennington of Linkin Park, who committed suicide approximately 2 years prior to the album's release.
• XXXTentacion released a two posthumous track with Lil Pump, Swae Lee, Maluma called "Arms Around You" and "BAD" which is a part of the album Skins which was released on December 7, 2018.
• Piano and a Microphone 1983 by Prince, was released on September 21, 2018, two years after his death.
• The song "Where is Love" by Mel and Kim was released in 2018. Mel Appleby died in 1990 from pneumonia while battling cancer.
• Johnny Hallyday's posthumous album Mon pays c'est l'amour was released on October 19, 2018. He died of cancer on 5 December 2017.
• Chris Cornell's self-titled album was released on November 16, 2018, a year and half after his death.
• The Cranberries' final album, In the End, was released following the death of lead singer Dolores O'Riordan.
• Lil Peep’ song titled “Star Shopping” released in April of 2019.
• Avicii's song "SOS" was released on April 10, 2019, almost a year after his death. His posthumous album TIM was released on June 6, 2019.
• Cassius's final album, Dreems was released on June 21, 2019, 2 days after Philippe Zdar died after falling from a 19 storey building in Paris.
• Freddie Mercury's Never Boring was released on October 11, 2019, nearly 28 years after his death.
• Yes mini-album From a Page was released on October 25, 2019, 4 years after Chris Squire's death.
• Leonard Cohen's posthumous album Thanks for the Dance was released on November 22, 2019, three years after his death.
• Argentine singer Gustavo Cerati's live album En Vivo en Monterrey was released on November 20, 2019, five years after his death.
• Buddy Miles the drummer for Jimi Hendrix appears on released on November 22, 2019 nearly 50 years after the concert on New years 1969-1970. Hendrix died in 1970 and Miles died in 2008.
• XXXTentacion‘s final album Bad Vibes Forever was released on December 6, 2019.

  2020s

• Mac Miller's album Circles was released on January 17, 2020, about a year after his death.
• Argentine singer Luis Alberto Spinetta released Los Amigo on 27 November 2015 with a group project "Spinetta Los Amigo". He also released Ya No Mires Atrás on 23 January 2020. Spinetta died of lung cancer on February 8, 2012.
• Pop Smoke's album Shoot For The Stars Aim For The Moon was released on July 3, 2020, five months after his death.
• Juice WRLD's album Legends Never Die was released on July 10, 2020, seven months after his death.
• Haruma Miura's second single, "Night Diver", will be released posthumously on August 26, 2020, one month and eight days after his death.