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100 Greatest Albums of 2008

Criteria: These music albums from the year 2008 were chosen for their initial and lasting popularity and their influence and impact on rock music in general. Also considered is critical acclaim. The list includes rock and roll and related genres that were influential on rock music.
Top 100 Albums by Year:
Note: Yearly album lists go by earliest 'release date'.
Not necessarily the year an album peaked in the U.S. charts.
  1. The Fame - Lady Gaga
  2. Tha Carter III - Lil Wayne
  3. I Am...Sasha Fierce - Beyoncé
  4. Viva La Vida or, Death and All His Friends - Coldplay
  5. 808s & Heartbreak - Kanye West
  6. Vampire Weekend - Vampire Weekend
  7. Funhouse - Pink
  8. Paper Trail - T.I.
  9. 19 - Adele
10. Fleet Foxes - Fleet Foxes
11. One of the Boys - Katy Perry
12. Only by the Night - Kings of Leon
13. The Seldom Seen Kid - Elbow
14. Oracular Spectacular - MGMT
15. Third - Portishead
16. Death Magnetic - Metallica
17. The Way I See It - Raphael Saadiq
18. Dear Science - TV on the Radio
19. Year Of The Gentleman - Ne-Yo
20. The Renaissance - Q-Tip
21. The Chemistry of Common Life - Fucked Up
22. Folie à deux - Fall Out Boy
23. Attack & Release - The Black Keys
24. Everything That Happens Will Happen Today - David Byrne and Brian Eno
25. Here I Stand - Usher
26. Consolers of the Lonely - The Raconteurs
27. E=MC2 - Mariah Carey
28. New Amerykah Part One (4th World War) - Erykah Badu
29. Black Ice - AC/DC
30. Microcastle/Weird Era Continued - Deerhunter
31. Hard Candy - Madonna
32. Brighter Than Creation's Dark - Drive-By Truckers
33. Cardinology - Ryan Adams and the Cardinals
34. Hercules & Love Affair - Hercules & Love Affair
35. The '59 Sound - The Gaslight Anthem
36. Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams - Solange
37. Narrow Stairs - Death Cab for Cutie
38. The Odd Couple - Gnarls Barkley
39. Accelerate - R.E.M.
40. Santogold - Santigold
41. The Age Of The Understatement - The Last Shadow Puppets
42. Dig Out Your Soul - Oasis
43. Made In The Dark - Hot Chip
44. Crystal Castles - Crystal Castles
45. The Slip - Nine Inch Nails
46. Modern Guilt - Beck
47. Flight Of The Conchords - Flight of the Conchords
48. Nouns - No Age
49. Youth Novels - Lykke Li
50. Rockferry - Duffy
51. The Airing of Grievances - Titus Andronicus
52. Walking On A Dream - Empire of the Sun
53. Volume One - She & Him
54. Sleep Through the Static - Jack Johnson
55. Discipline - Janet Jackson
56. In Ghost Colours - Cut Copy
57. Stay Positive - The Hold Steady
58. Cage the Elephant - Cage the Elephant
59. A Hundred Million Suns - Snow Patrol
60. Forth - The Verve
61. Saturdays = Youth - M83
62. The Script - The Script
63. April - Sun Kil Moon
64. Midnight Boom - The Kills
65. Ego Trippin' - Snoop Dogg
66. Dig Lazarus Dig!!! - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
67. Songs in A&E - Spiritualized
68. Alas, I Cannot Swim - Laura Marling
69. Hold On Now, Youngster... - Los Campesinos!
70. Devotion - Beach House
71. Alpinisms - School of Seven Bells
72. Conor Oberst - Conor Oberst
73. Circus - Britney Spears
74. The Bedlam in Goliath - The Mars Volta
75. Meõ suõ í eyrum viõ spilum endalaust - Sigur Rós
76. Real Emotional Trash - Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks
77. The Stoop - Little Jackie
78. Heretic Pride - The Mountain Goats
79. The Midnight Organ Fight - Frightened Rabbit
80. Watershed - Opeth
81. Acid Tongue - Jenny Lewis
82. Seventh Tree - Goldfrapp
83. Los Angeles - Flying Lotus
84. Pretty. Odd. - Panic at the Disco
85. We Sing, We Dance, We Steal Things - Jason Mraz
86. Friendly Fires - Friendly Fires
87. Vivian Girls - Vivian Girls
88. The Rhumb Line - Ra Ra Riot
89. We Started Nothing - The Ting Tings
90. Evil Urges - My Morning Jacket
91. Untitled - Nas
92. Couples - The Long Blondes
93. Stop Drop And Roll!!! - Foxboro Hot Tubs
94. Antidotes - Foals
95. Alopecia - WHY?
96. When Life Gives You Lemons, You Paint That Shit Gold - Atmosphere
97. Imperial Wax Solvent - The Fall
98. Day & Age - The Killers
99. Visiter- The Dodos
100. The Sound Of Madness - Shinedowns
The Fame Lady Gaga album cover
Tha Carter III Lil Wayne album cover
I Am...Sasha Fierce Beyoncé album cover
Viva La Vida or, Death and All His Friends Coldplay album cover
808s & Heartbreak Kanye West album cover
Vampire Weekend album cover
Funhouse Pink album cover
 DigitalDreamDoor Editor Picks for 2008
  Ryan's choice - An unheralded great album from 2008
 •  We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed - Los Campesinos!
  Lew's choice:
 •  Ode to J. Smith - Travis




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