Best Albums of 2008

Listed below are the best albums of 2008 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 53,000 greatest album charts.

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2008 year summaryThe best artists of 2008 were Fleet Foxes, Vampire Weekend, Coldplay, Portishead, Have A Nice Life, Elbow, Kanye West, TV On The Radio, Deerhunter and Kings Of Leon.
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Buy album United States
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2008
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58
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Buy album United States
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Total albums: 1,000. Page 35 of 100

Best Albums of 2008 composition

Country Albums %


United States 448 45%
United Kingdom 166 17%
Canada 47 5%
Germany 37 4%
Australia 36 4%
Sweden 32 3%
Mixed Nationality 30 3%
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Compilation? Albums %
No 957 96%
Yes 43 4%
Live? Albums %
No 973 97%
Yes 27 3%
Soundtrack? Albums %
No 991 99%
Yes 9 1%
Best Artists of 2001
1. The Strokes
2. Radiohead
3. Daft Punk
4. Björk
5. Tool
6. The Microphones
7. Phil Elverum
8. Muse
9. The White Stripes
10. System Of A Down
11. Jay-Z
12. The Shins
13. Gorillaz
14. Opeth
15. Unwound
16. Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
17. Nick Cave
18. Converge
19. Aphex Twin
20. Richard David James
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