Best Albums of 2018

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Listed below are the best albums of 2018 as calculated from their overall rankings in over 56,000 greatest album charts.

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summaryThe best artists of 2018 were Car Seat Headrest, Kids See Ghosts, Idles, Beach House, Daughters, Parquet Courts, MGMT, Kacey Musgraves, Arctic Monkeys and Earl Sweatshirt.

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Room Inside The World

Ought

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2018

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40 charts

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All Ashore

Punch Brothers

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2018

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5 charts

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Vaxis – Act I: The Unheavenly Creatures

Coheed And Cambria

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2018

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11 charts

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Loto

Rufus T. Firefly

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2018

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5 charts

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Evening Machines

Gregory Alan Isakov

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2018

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15 charts

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A Dying Machine

Tremonti

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2018

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7 charts

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Lamp Lit Prose

Dirty Projectors

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2018

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31 charts

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Resurrection Letters, Volume I

Andrew Peterson

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2018

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3 charts

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Ringos Desert

Zhu

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2018

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2 charts

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In The Blue Light

Paul Simon

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2018

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36 charts

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Best Albums of 2018 composition

Artist	Albums	%

Various Artists	7	1%
Neil Young	2	0%
Logic	2	0%
Bladee	2	0%
Between The Buried And Me	2	0%
McCafferty	2	0%
Clutch	2	0%
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Country	Albums	%

	475	48%
	179	18%
	41	4%
	38	4%
	35	4%
	30	3%
	21	2%
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Compilation?	Albums	%
No	983	98%
Yes	17	2%

Live?	Albums	%
No	977	98%
Yes	23	2%

Soundtrack?	Albums	%
No	986	99%
Yes	14	1%

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