2016

In 2016, Frank Ocean emerged from his years-long disappearance from the public eye and released his albums Endless and Blonde.

Albums

 * Endless (August 19)
 * Blonde (August 20)

Singles

 * Nikes (August 19)

Music videos

 * Nikes (August 19)

January

 * 7: Pitchfork reports that Frank may have worked with Rich the Kid.
 * 28: Rich the Kid discusses his conversations with Frank in a XXL interview.

February

 * 29: Snippets of then-unreleased Frank Ocean tracks emerge, which were recorded from a listening party for Endless the night before. The songs are later identified as "Higgs" and "Sideways."

August

 * 19: The music video for "Nikes" is released as an Apple Music exclusive. 
 * 19: In an Instagram post, artist Wolfgang Tillmans shares how his song "Device Control" came to be in Frank's visual album Endless as both its opening track and its closing track.
 * 19: In an interview with Pitchfork, Wolfgang Tillmans shares more info about working with Frank and taking photos for Fantastic Man.
 * 20: Frank Ocean releases his second studio album Blonde.
 * 20: Pop-up locations are erected for distributing Blonde's accompanying magazine Boys Don't Cry, which contains a disc of the album itself in each copy. The locations are in Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, and London.
 * 23: Wolfgang Tillmans shares more info about working with Frank in an interview with i-D magazine.
 * 25: DAZED magazine publishes an interview with London-based Zak Group, a group of designers who contributed to the Boys Don't Cry magazine.
 * 30: Buddy Ross discusses his collaborative history with Frank in an interview with Pitchfork.